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09.29.08International House of Cheap Ass MondayAlternate Title: I'll dutch your baby anytime, hot stuff.* *Because a dutch baby is a kind of big, fluffy baked pancake often filled with apples. Not because I'm trying to come on to you. Although if I knew you, I'm sure I TOTALLY would. Continue Reading...
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09.14.08Yeast Unleashed in the EastThe Moon has one-third less gravity than your Earth. I don't know if you can understand that, but our vertical leap is beyond all measurement. Although the weather has still been largely gorgeous this week, there's been a slight dip in temperatures that heralds the beginning of fall. The brisker evenings prompted an urge to do something warm and homey, like bake bread. I'm slowly overcoming my fear of yeast, and want to start trying different styles of yeast dough. Of course, after I decided to do that and got to work the temperature abruptly shot into the 80s, and ...
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05.12.08The day went downhill from here.NOTE: THE PICS IN THIS POST ARE NOT WHAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE AND WILL BE FIXED SHORTLY Brunch price: $17 Some years I pre-gird my loins in preparation for Mothers' Day; some days it sneaks up on me. Either way, Mothers' Day sucks the fat one when you've got no mom.* Don't get me wrong - I utterly adore my mother-in-law** and feel incredibly fortunate to have married into a family that I love as much as my own. But Mothers' Day still has the power to make me pretty cranky, and in more than 4 of ...
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04.22.08And this quiche did my taxes.Actually, it didn't. This quiche had no fucking initiative. Work is busy this week and Brian is out of town at a conference for work*, and that usually adds up to one thing: cereal for dinner every night. On top of that, part of me doesn't want to move on to a new post because the feedback from the last one was so lovely and it sparked memories for so many of you; I especially appreciated the universal disdain for pink kitchenware. But eventually you have to move on from the schmaltzy shit and make a damn ...
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04.19.08The Pancakes that Cured CancerAnd they are available to you for a co-pay of only $3475 per pancake. Toppings are extra. I know the title of this post may come off as just a tad flip. As someone who lost both parents to cancer (breast and colon) by age 26, who had cancer herself (Hodgkin's Lymphona) in her teens, and who expects a second helping to hit any day now, I feel entitled to whip out my "Get-Out-of-Being Flippant About Cancer Jail Free" card for this occasion. Despite the impact that breast cancer has had on my life, I despise the whole "buy this ...
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03.26.08Les frigging oignons de printemps avec des oeufs poches.The above-mentioned frigging spring onions. Usually, Wednesday nights are fajita nights. Except this Wednesday, when I totally forgot because I'd been thinking all day about the best way to have poached eggs for dinner. It's just been so sunny for the last few days and even though it hasn't been terribly warm, immanent springtime put me in the mood for a lighter meal. When I stopped by Whole Foods after work to pick up some Smackdown ingredients for tomorrow, I saw a big pile of spring onions and immediately thought: spring onion and mushroom saute topped with poached ...
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03.08.08weekend breakfast blogging: now 65% more beige!Have you met Lidia, Lidia the tattooed lady? The leftover sausage and spinach gnocchi filling has been sitting in the fridge since Thursday night, and it hasn't been waiting patiently. HEY YOU, it's been yelling. YOU WITH THE COOKIE CRUMBS ON YOUR SHIRT. EAT ME. I assume it will only become more abusive as time goes on, so I had no choice but to use it in some eggs en cocotte this morning. Eggs en cocotte are also called shirred eggs, or, as they are now known around here, "the best fucking eggs in the whole ...
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03.02.08Eating Out: Marco & PepeFrench Fries: They're what's for breakfast. I woke up this morning sick as an old hound dog with the mange. I had brunch scheduled with some childhood friends, but had to call between hacking coughs to beg off because I knew that if I went I would probably drink too many bellinis in an attempt to forget about my various aches and pains. You're probably thinking, "Shocking! I always thought bellinis were indicated for upper-respiratory infections. Why wouldn't she go?" but I feel the responsibility to alert you to the fact that heavy drinking* does not, ...
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- 2008, Over and Out
- Weekend Frig: Yes, I am 12 Years Old
- Waiting for Santa
- Waterloo du patisserie, deuxieme
- Waterloo du patisserie, le premiere part.
- Cheap Ass Monday: Cuddle up with a big bowl of Cheerios
- I didn’t have a single drink, ocifer.
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