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Saturday night we went to the Bonos' Christmas party, where we read aloud from David Sedaris's "Holidays on Ice" and had a mid-century recipe cook-off.
Travis and I brought a celery log from a 1970s Weight Watchers recipe, as well as "Peanut Butter Catchup Dip" from a 1950s Good Housekeeping cookbook. The dip, in case you're curious enough to try it, consists of equal parts peanut butter and ketchup, and it comes out to be an intriguing color of brownish orange.
We labeled the dip "Mystery Dip," which led to the hosts holding a competition to see who could guess the ingredients, giving a prize to the person who was closest (well, the one of the tied-for-closest who won the subsequent arm-wrestling match).
The dip also won Most Half-Assed Recipe. And nobody could really decide whether it tasted good.
The celery log, apart from being hilarious, was (as anticipated) exceedingly mediocre.
That was the highlight of the weekend. Other things I've been up to lately: watching Gossip Girl; reading books about vampires; ordering things online with very mixed results (I received shoes today that were somehow shockingly ugly while still managing to look like they did in the picture); patronizing our new favorite local bar, the Bleeding Deacon; watching and attempting to photograph Lomo's new habit of warming his head under lampshades; reaching the halfway point in my paralegal training; and perfecting a mix cd for next week's Mixmas party.
Also, Travis and I officially have tickets for our April trip to Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, which I have begun to call our Hapsburg Honeymoon.
And I just surprised Travis with homemade vanilla pudding. Things are pretty cozy around here.
Travis and I brought a celery log from a 1970s Weight Watchers recipe, as well as "Peanut Butter Catchup Dip" from a 1950s Good Housekeeping cookbook. The dip, in case you're curious enough to try it, consists of equal parts peanut butter and ketchup, and it comes out to be an intriguing color of brownish orange.
We labeled the dip "Mystery Dip," which led to the hosts holding a competition to see who could guess the ingredients, giving a prize to the person who was closest (well, the one of the tied-for-closest who won the subsequent arm-wrestling match).
The dip also won Most Half-Assed Recipe. And nobody could really decide whether it tasted good.
The celery log, apart from being hilarious, was (as anticipated) exceedingly mediocre.
That was the highlight of the weekend. Other things I've been up to lately: watching Gossip Girl; reading books about vampires; ordering things online with very mixed results (I received shoes today that were somehow shockingly ugly while still managing to look like they did in the picture); patronizing our new favorite local bar, the Bleeding Deacon; watching and attempting to photograph Lomo's new habit of warming his head under lampshades; reaching the halfway point in my paralegal training; and perfecting a mix cd for next week's Mixmas party.
Also, Travis and I officially have tickets for our April trip to Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic, which I have begun to call our Hapsburg Honeymoon.
And I just surprised Travis with homemade vanilla pudding. Things are pretty cozy around here.