Made a few little pie experiments last night. As you may know, pie is my favorite form of food-- basically, put it in a crust and I'm automatically going to enjoy it --and I like them even better when they're mini. But as much as I love them, I still haven't really figured out how to produce them reliably. I'm still toying with the proper procedure ( Read more... )

katiescarlett29 organized a lovely apple picking trip this past weekend, which yielded a lovely crop of apples. Despite the fact that I was not permitted to climb up on the trees, I had a very nice time seeing everyone and drinking hot mulled apple cider. I chose tart apples, Cortland mostly, because as far as I'm concerned, the best thing to do with lots of ( Read more... )

For the cast party yesterday I offered to bring a pie. I wasn't sure what kind of pie, but I'm good at them and let's face it, what kind of weirdo doesn't like pie? Dad suggested berry might be appropriate for the beginning of summer, so I gathered the supplies to make my lattice-topped straw-rasp-black-blue, the showiest pie in my repetoire.

The ( Read more... )

Today is a lousy day. My whole body aches, has ached since yesterday afternoon, probably a side effect from the tetanus-diphtheria-pertussis vaccine I had to get for Lesley. My stomach is all messed up and I'm afraid to eat anything for fear of setting it off. And every little thing seems to just be going wrong. The way things are going I'm going ( Read more... )

I am now back from my lovely excursion, and smack back in the middle of work and responsibilities. Ah, well. Idle hands are the devil's workshop and all that. It was nice to have such a lovely break.

I have a number of things going on right now, but since Halloween is less than a week away, my preparations must buckle down in earnest. My costume is ( Read more... )

So I am only just now getting to the point where I feel confident enough in my cooking skills that I feel I can experiment with at least a chance that the results will turn out edible. I tend to cook for large groups, and I've shied away from experimenting in the past because if I fail in that instance, well, my large group will have no dinner! But ( Read more... )

Goodness, but I have been a busy girl these last several days. Since my last post was on Friday, I will pick up from there. Cut into three installments to keep the number of tags for the entry from getting too absurd. I do love my tags, you know.

Friday night was a wonderful evening spent in the company of the lovely in_water_writ, in which she came over to ( Read more... )

Had a lovely Thanksgiving Day with my family today, spent cooking, watching The Closer marathon, and hanging out my parents and brother. Dinner was especially delicious this year, since we got a brined turkey this time around, and it came out juicier than it ever has before. And I don't care what Alton says, stuffing is fantastic, and ours came out ( Read more... )

My mom just sent me MINI PIE PLATES. MINI PIE PLATES, I TELL YOU. I LOVE HER SO MUCH.

Because it's my wonderful mother, the package contained, in addition to the MINI PIE PLATES, chewable immune supplements, a mini-DV of her riding her horse Braveheart, a couple of chocolate kisses, and a humorous short story parodying Lovecraft fandom entitled "The ( Read more... )

Mmkay, after that long emo post, I'll try and focus on more positive things.

I got a part in Romeo and Juliet! I am playing Paris, county and cousin to the Prince of Verona, with whom I am well pleased because I get a fight scene as well as whenever I'm not around all the other characters praise me effusively. I can get behind that. :-) The show is ( Read more... )