I ordered a batch of succulent cuttings from an Etsy shop. I’ll be planting them in vintage and thrift store glassware as centerpieces for muh wedding next summer.
Not sure what this is, but it looks like a giant sprig of rosemary.
I haven’t been reading nearly as much as I’d like to since starting my internship this year. Hopefully this list will be the kick in the butt that I need.
I don’t have the full list of books I wish to read, but I’ll continue to update this post until I’ve gathered fifty titles.
1. The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger
2. Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
3. A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
4. A Wind in the Door by Madeleine L’Engle
5. A Swiftly Tilting Planet by Madeleine L’Engle
6. Brightly Woven by Alexandra Bracken
7. Fairest by Gail Carson Levine
8. Book of a Thousand Days by Shannon Hale
9. Chalice by Robin McKinley
10. Finding Calvin and Hobbes by Nevin Martell
11. Thirteenth Child by Patricia C. Wrede
12. The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer
13. The Surgeon by Kate Bridges
14. Mail-Order Man by Martha Hix
15. A Garden Folly by Candace Hern
16. A Match for Mary Bennet by Eucharista Ward (a book by a nun? irresistable!)
17. The Help by Kathryn Stockett
18. The Postmistress by Sarah Blake
19. The Love Dare by Stephen Kendrick (for curiosity’s sake)
20. The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes
21. Little Bee by Chris Cleave
22. The Ascent of Ge0rge Washington by John Ferling
23. Unlikely Allies by Joel Richard Paul
24. When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead
25. Pink Brain, Blue Brain by Lise Eliot
26. Going Bovine by Libba Bray
27. Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
28. Look Again by Lisa Scottoline
29. Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
30. Born to Run by Christopher McDougall
31. Under the Dome by Stephen King
32. Dracula by Bram Stoker
33. Living Biblically by AJ Jacobs
This guy hasn’t seen enough love lately, so I thought I’d start posting some of my slightly-less-boring lunches fo’ work.
6/29/10: Sammich and fruitish things
Sammich: turkey, Muenster, cucumber and green ranch dressing on 1/3 of a wheat hoagie
Fresh strawburries and some old skool black olives. MMMMMMMMMMM.
Fresh pears and peaches with ginger, cinnamon, dark brown sugar and whipped cream.
Another post?
:D
I’m currently living in a new city for my engineering internship. I have my own kitchen, a bathroom all to myself AND plenty of free time to make things.
Things like…food?
It was hella hard taking photos of this stuff.
Four Layer Dessert, or Ghetto Chocolate Cream Pie
- Layer One: Le Crust
*1.5 cups of flour
*1/2 cup of butter
Melt ze butter (completely!) and stir in the flour; it’ll be thick and firm, like a dry pie crust dough. Pat this crumbly mess into an ungreased 9″x13″ pan and bake for 10 minutes at 350F (176C). This time may vary depending on your oven, so watch closely! You want the crust to be very light, but slightly firm to the touch. When it cools it should be slightly crumbly.
Let the crust cool completely. Do not pass “Go” until this occurs.
- Layer Two: The Creamy Goo
*8 oz. room temperature cream cheese
*1 cup of confectioner’s sugar
*an 8 oz. container of Coo’ Whip
Use an electric mixer, preferably handheld and from the 80′s, to whip the cream cheese and sugar together. Add in about half a container of Coo’ Whip, maybe more if you’re feeling frisky. Spread this on top of the cooled crust. Proceed to the next step; don’t bother washing the equipment, there aren’t any hygienic concerns ’round these here parts.
- Layer Three: The proof of the pudding
*2 boxes of instant pudding (I used 1 chocolate and 1 vanilla, but I’d recommend using chocolate for both)
*3 cups of milk (any milk will work, I don’t care what you prefer)
Pour the milk into a large bowl. Dump the pudding mixes on top of the milk and mix like crazy with the electric mixer. The pudding will be slightly set, but pourable, after about two minutes. Dump it on top of the cream cheese business and put it in the fridge, covered, for about six hours (or overnight) to make sure that sucker’s good and set.
Layer Four: Coo’ Whip
*an 8 oz. container of Coo’ Whip
Spread some creamy goodness all over that pudding. Spread it nice and thick. Mmmmm.
I love this ‘recipe’ because you can do what you like to change it. Don’t like chocolate? Use butterscotch or cheesecake or banana pudding, or make some old-school homemade-stove-top pudding. You’d rather use a graham cracka crust? Be my guest, that sounds friggin delicious. You like REAL whipped cream instead of Coo’ Whip? Go for it, I’ll try not to judge you.
Packing up is very frustrating. I’ve never realized how many things I accrue in a given period of time, and I don’t really care about any of it. It’s just stuff. I keep a lot of it because I’m expected to, because it’s what people do, because someone gave it to me, because because because.
Funny thing is that I really don’t have very much, especially compared to my roommates. It’s insane to see how much one person can have and still never touch. Sometimes an object is forgotten and a replacement is purchased, even though the original is in the top drawer of the computer desk. I don’t get it.
The cake, though I thought it was a little ugly, was deemed a success. I’ll have to get pictures from my parents’ camera once I move home. The icing/filling and the cake(s) tasted pretty awesome, too. I highly recommend trying the cake recipe.
Is it a cloud?
Maybe a pillow, or perhaps a dumpling.
Sorry for not being around for the past month. Things have been a little hectic and suchlike, and I never really did anything worth writing about. I do have a fancypants food project coming up tomorrow/Saturday, so if you’re still reading this thing you’d best get excited.
It involves
CAKE
as well as
MY PARENTS’ 30th ANNIVERSARY
so it’s gonna be pretty sweet.
