After three days of letting my sourdough starter do it's thing, I added more flour and some warm water, stirred, and let it be for 18 or 20 hours. I pulled a golden, round loaf from the oven at lunchtime. The bottom burned a bit, but nothing terrible; I'll take it out earlier next time. I've just had a slice- it's good, but I can not taste ( Read more... )

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Had a nice visit to Illinois last week for L'Thar and Julie's nuptials. Yay for cake and horses!

On Saturdaydelayedneutron tookrydain and myself to Chicago to bum around the art museum.rydain got to see loads of ancient Chinese art and artifacts, and I got to see Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keefe, and a surprise Diego Rivera. Also saw a teeny teeny tiny 10thC. engraving of St ( Read more... )

I am eating mint julep peaches, and all of the general misanthropy and the low yet incessant hum of depression I've been feeling lately is forgotten.
My Nana used to (she probably still does, frankly), as many ruralish* folk do, get good things to eat by the bushel basket in the summertime. Peaches were among these, which she would clean, peel, ( Read more... )

My house smells fabulously of the holiday season, today. I baked a delicious something that a very lucky and patient someone is going to have mailed to her or him in time for flaming cats Chanukah, and I made Nigella Lawson's spiced peaches. The latter is supposedly excellent eaten with ham, hot or cold, and so when I saw the recipe I immediately ( Read more... )

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My Rosh Hashannah shindig is tomorrow evening (because I'm the only Jew in attendance, and having the party on Monday would be just damned inconvenient for my guests and G-d said it was okay), and I've just finished pureeing haddock in the food processor.
Indeed.

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It's hot as balls here. I wouldn't whine about it, but it's also humid. Oh dear lord the humidity.

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I now know what death smells like. That smell is liver cooking. *shudder* The things I do for my pets.
(Read that liver is good for rats, so I bought some to cook and keep in the freezer and fridge for feeding a couple of days a week.)
Just... AUGH THE SMELL.

Nana claims that when my mother was a tot she would beg for chicken livers. My mother is now ( Read more... )