Let's Do The Time Warp Again
So far I've been doing really well on having veggies and/or fruit with every meal. The Cook's Illustrated Italian Sunday Gravy that I made Friday was the exception. A friend kindly tried to say the tomatoes and onions count, but I don't think they really do. I got to freeze a whole bunch of sauce to thaw out when my parents are here at the holidays, though, which will be convenient.
I screwed around with Alton Brown's Pearnsip Sauce recipe, and I really shouldn't have. I think made as directed would be really yummy... my version, with less cardamom, and half as much honey instead of maple syrup, was a little bit meh.
I have yet to find the perfect, homemade mac n cheese recipe. Mr. Brienze tolerates my efforts, but is just as happy with the Kraft yellow stuff. So it was easy to sneak Tyler Florence's Cauliflower Mac n Cheese past him. I never did get the texture entirely smooth - maybe boiling the crap out of it instead of roasting the cauliflower might've worked - but it tasted fine, and not cauliflowery. Probably won't be making it again, tho.
I made negative knitting progress last week, and got nothing else done aside from the aforementioned cooking and a whole lot of playing WoW. I got my Hallow's End achievement Friday and my albino drake today, so I think I can finally stop being tied to the computer and spend some quality time with, er, with the computer attached to my tv. Poor thing is seriously running low on disk space, and I haven't watched a Vampire Diaries since the pilot.
Have so much to do this fall that I started making a list for myself. Lists are lovely, optimistic things, that do not in and of themselves feel let down when you fail to accomplish more than half the things listed on them. Where did October go? For that matter, where did September go? Wasn't it just Labor Day?
I screwed around with Alton Brown's Pearnsip Sauce recipe, and I really shouldn't have. I think made as directed would be really yummy... my version, with less cardamom, and half as much honey instead of maple syrup, was a little bit meh.
I have yet to find the perfect, homemade mac n cheese recipe. Mr. Brienze tolerates my efforts, but is just as happy with the Kraft yellow stuff. So it was easy to sneak Tyler Florence's Cauliflower Mac n Cheese past him. I never did get the texture entirely smooth - maybe boiling the crap out of it instead of roasting the cauliflower might've worked - but it tasted fine, and not cauliflowery. Probably won't be making it again, tho.
I made negative knitting progress last week, and got nothing else done aside from the aforementioned cooking and a whole lot of playing WoW. I got my Hallow's End achievement Friday and my albino drake today, so I think I can finally stop being tied to the computer and spend some quality time with, er, with the computer attached to my tv. Poor thing is seriously running low on disk space, and I haven't watched a Vampire Diaries since the pilot.
Have so much to do this fall that I started making a list for myself. Lists are lovely, optimistic things, that do not in and of themselves feel let down when you fail to accomplish more than half the things listed on them. Where did October go? For that matter, where did September go? Wasn't it just Labor Day?