1. The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. Seeing as how it’s the school year again, my reading brain has returned to a state of near collapse. To counter this effect I am rereading The Great Gatsby, which is beautiful but does not force me inexorably toward the end, because I already know the [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘cooking’
6 November 2007
poor, neglected blog . . .
. . . poor, neglected life.
Things I’ve been digging:
1. Tuna Bouchons.
2. Veronica Mars is coming close to filling the void Buffy left in my heart. Godamn TV for always canceling good shows. RIP: Carnivale, Dead Like Me, Gilmore Girls. Updated: HOLY CRAP! Alyson Hannigan is Logan the jerkwad’s sister!
3. A Long way Gone, by Ishmael [...]
28 August 2007
I’ve been remembering how to read.
And let me tell you, it’s taken a couple days. I finished up The Silver Chair, yet another Chronicle of Narnia that involves, blessedly, no giant battles. Ole Clive Staples is really pulling through for me, here. Unfortunately, all I have left to read is The Last Battle, which I think is going [...]
6 June 2007
Housekeeping
Currently cooking: hot dog in a cast iron skillet.
I come to you from the once-again clean and tidy Willoughby Chase. Jeff and I are finally on top of our shizit post-graduation and vacation. I am currently taking a two week vacation, myself, and Jeff is taking a week starting next Tuesday–that’s two weeks [...]
17 April 2007
The New York Times’ Supernatural Brownies
Currently watching: Buffy, Season Two: Lie to Me
One of the most emailed articles from The New York Times the past couple days has been the recipe for Supernatural Brownies. Having made them, I can assure you they are quite tasty. As much as I adore the fact that the Times–that very venerable paper [...]
10 February 2007
Fairy Cakes
I adore Nigella Lawson–she is glamorous and practical and uses words like “blitz” and “shriekingly” in her recipes. But I was a little skeptical of her directions to mix cupcake batter in a food processor. I swallowed my snobbiness for a second in hopes of finding a quick way to make cupcakes without [...]
23 January 2007
Cupcakes, hooray!
Twin Cupcakes
What better way to put off doing important poem-writing than by relating to you the lovely cupcakes I baked this weekend. When Chockylit at Cupcake Bakeshop posted about a cupcake round-up, I just couldn’t resist and immediately busted out my Marcel Desaulniers’ Death by Chocolate Cakes. If [...]
