who is crazier
11.30.2012
So, I also slept with my eye mask on.
You'd think that the mask would negate the lights being on ... but it didn't. I still knew they were on as I fell asleep. And it was great.
stuff to say
11.27.2012
Tonight I had planned to write about bacon jam or how I'm decorating for Christmas. But instead, I ate roasted brussel sprouts and left a long voicemail for my friend Ria. I leave terrible voicemails that are all sorts of rambly and not focused. (Kind of like this blog post?) I call with one thing to say, then I get distracted and next thing I know I've hung up the phone and it's been a minute and a half. Whoopsies.
I'm still doing some thinking about things that might turn into posts but in the meantime it seemed worthwhile to capture some of the recent activities.
Mexican Turkey Soup
11.24.2012
Maybe you come from a family that likes variety .... but I think that's probably a lie.
making my own broth
11.23.2012
They freak me out.
When I'm out to dinner, I scan the menu for dishes that might include the bone almost before anything. I will never forget my first buffalo chicken wing either. It was my senior year of college and I left an embarrassing amount of meat on the bone.
bomb-tastic bagels
11.22.2012
But, since it's Thanksgiving I had the opportunity to knock two things off my list that I love to do:
(1) make a family breakfast
(2) make a recipe that I've had on my list for months
I come from a carb loving family. We love muffins, bagels, toast ... but especially bagels. On Sunday mornings, my Dad comes home with a pile of bagels and multiple times of cream cheese and perhaps a pound of bacon. He is known around the block for what he calls his "Minot McMuffin" sandwiches ... which is a fried egg, bacon and cheese on a bagel.
So let me introduce you to bagel bombs. More specifically .... everything bagel bombs stuffed with bacon cream cheese.
Welp, I'm addicted.
11.15.2012
Snack foods don't stand a chance in my house. I try to not buy cheez-its because they have a shelf life of two days. I can normally get a bag of pretzels to last a week. But a bag of tostitos? three days... especially if they are the lime ones. I routinely shift the bag around so I can see all the chips and determine which ones have the most amount of lime flavor on them. I don't even care that you can "see" the flavor.
Cinnamon Book Bread ... from 2011
11.13.2012
If you've ever read this blog before, you know that sometimes it takes me a long time to write things down. I mean to do it but then I get distracted with wine, the ocean, and maybe avoiding doing dishes.
But, this particular recipe has been listed as "coming soon" since July 4th .... 2011. That's 16 months.
So, I'm not going to mess around here. I'm going to tell you the facts about this bread:
- it did not last long once it was fresh out of the oven
- the stacking of the dough is not as orderly as it looks in the pictures
- I would make this again in a heartbeat ... although it's clearly been 16 months and I haven't
Something about this bread says it's perfect for a family breakfast ... and given that we are fast approaching Thanksgiving and Christmas. I don't have much experience in Hanukkah or Kwanzaa but perhaps it would be good for that as well.
Let's get started ... it's been 16 months.
gluten free blueberry loaf
So this idea of going gluten free is confusing to me. I'm not even really sure what gluten is.
I ended up attempting this gluten free blueberry loaf because I was grabbing drinks with a friend who lives in a gluten free house. Her hubs has a gluten allergy and well, it just seems mean to make something for her that he can't eat and needs to stay in the car.
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