Once again, I got a craving for coconut, which is on the top of the Controversial Ingredient list. I decided that I would give the Cherry Macaroon Tart from 101 Cookbooks a try – mostly because macaroons are the one coconut-based dessert that I can usually be trusted to like.
And because there’s something very soothing [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 31, 2008
Success!
July 30, 2008
July Daring Bakers Challenge!
So this month’s Daring Baker challenge was…let me get this correct…a Filbert Gateau With Praline Buttercream. My first question was ‘What the hell is a filbert?’ Unfortunately, the recipe was not much help at all, calling, as it did, for not a single filbert. It did call for hazelnuts, so…maybe filberts are hazelnuts when they’ve [...]
July 27, 2008
Summer blockbuster tally, part 8
I haven’t seen an episode of The X-Files in absolutely ages, but I was still looking forward to seeing the new movie. It was fun to catch up with Agents Mulder and Scully (though they’re no longer agents, I think), but I felt like there were a lot of things that I missed – most [...]
July 27, 2008
Look who’s back!
It’s not the drones – I haven’t seen them since the wasps showed up (don’t worry, I…took care of them) – I think it must be a female since it’s not all black like the drones are and doesn’t have the white spot in its forehead like the drones do.
It was really enjoying the meyer [...]
July 25, 2008
Boldly gardening what no one has gardened before…
I opened the door to my balcony this afternoon to go out and water everybody and promptly stopped and said ‘Holy fuck!’
Apparently, I have discovered a new species of cucumber: Stealth cucumber. I’ve been repeatedly checking on this little fellow:
and was concerned that no progress was being made. What made me stop and swear today [...]
July 24, 2008
Talk about a weird craving…
I have no idea where this is coming from, but I keep feeling like I want to read a book about Shackleton and, yet, that is perhaps the one thing I don’t have any books about…
July 24, 2008
My new addiction…
So when you’ve had enough of reading books, head over to Hulu.com.
IT’S AWESOME! You can watch streaming video of TONS of TV shows (and some movies, too, apparently, but TV!) FOR FREE! Last weekend, I spent, like, all of Saturday watching WKRP in Cincinnati. And then when I woke up at 3 in the morning [...]
July 24, 2008
Nonfiction
Ghost Ship: The Mysterious True Story of the Mary Celeste and Her Missing Crew by Brian Hicks
So after finishing Artemis Fowl, I decided that I wanted to read a ghost story. Though not a real ghost story, Ghost Ship definitely satisfied my craving for something spooky. It tells the story (and history) of perhaps the [...]
July 23, 2008
Guess what I did today!
I GAVE BLOOD TODAY!
I know this is not a big deal to many of you, but I’ve always been too scared to do it. Today, though, the blood drive at work was in memory of one of the other editor’s mother who recently passed away and it was that extra guilt which, along with my [...]
July 20, 2008
IR Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox by Eoin Colfer
I LOVE Artemis Fowl. I may even love him better than Harry Potter. MAYBE. I can’t believe I just typed that, but it MAY be true. Maybe. At any rate, I’m always happy to see a new Artemis Fowl book come out – especially after the fiasco that [...]
July 20, 2008
It’s not only sweets ’round here…
At the same time that I noticed I had three lemons roaming about the fridge, I realised I had a half-full carton of ricotta cheese that desperately needed to be used (I may have had to scoop out a few bits that were a funny color…but the rest of it was fine!). Although a Google [...]
July 20, 2008
Summer blockbuster tally, part 7
I’ll keep it short and sweet:
Yes, it lives up to the hype. Yes, Heath Ledger is amazing. No, I still don’t much like Christian Bale. Yes, I miss the sleek Batmobile. Yes, you should go see it.
Summer blockbuster tally: 4-2-1
July 20, 2008
Fiction: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Victory of Eagles by Naomi Novik
This is the fifth Temeraire book and a welcome return to the more action-packed adventures of the first two books. Not that the others weren’t fun and enjoyable, by any means, but I did sort of feel like they had a tendency to get a bit bogged down in politico-speak [...]
July 20, 2008
Better than the orange cake!
I discovered three lemons in the fridge yesterday and, since I didn’t know how long they’d been there, decided the best plan of action was to use them immediately. So I made this Lemon Frosted Lemon Cake – oh, so very tasty! Apparently it’s a poundcake, but it’s a little bit lighter, I think – [...]
