to live in this town you made your whole life in
I am pleased with how the Oscars turned out. I mean, I've always liked Sandra Bullock (I once watched Speed every night for a month; admittedly, that's because I'm kind of ridiculous about Keanu - I also watched The Matrix every night for a month when it first arrived on HBO), so while I am less than sanguine about The Blind Side as a movie, I don't mind that she won. And her speech was awesome, so... And I am exceptionally pleased about The Hurt Locker, which I certainly think was the best movie I saw in 2009. Well, tied with Up, so that was great, and Kathryn Bigelow's win was awesome.
I'm up right now because I took tomorrow off, and I realized about forty minutes ago that I was supposed to make dough so I could bake bread tomorrow, and I'd completely forgotten. So instead of putting it off til the morning like a normal person, I ended up trying out a new recipe entirely: Dutch oven artisanal bread. Amazingly, the beer I bought sometime last summer which has been sitting in my fridge since then is still good. Since I only needed 3 oz. for the recipe, I am drinking the rest of it now. Apparently I've been out of school for almost twenty years, but still can't face wasting good beer. All my frat boy friends would be so proud. (Yes, my friends in college were mostly frat boys.) I'll finish the recipe tomorrow, and hope it all works out.
Earlier this evening, I made homemade chocolate pudding and fresh whipped cream, and it turned out lovely. I will still have to do some baking tomorrow night for breakfast for the rest of the week though, since I can't take pudding to work for breakfast. Or, I could, but it would feel even more decadent than orange ricotta pound cake or chocolate cupcakes.
I also made polenta again - this time from a box, and it worked out perfectly. Then I folded in some butter, sprinkled shredded mozzarella on top, and baked it for ten minutes, so hopefully it can be cut into slices and be reheated for lunch. We'll see how that goes. I admit, I'm a little skeptical. But at least this time it didn't just harden to the consistency of cement before I even got to stir it more than once.
Small steps, man. Small steps.
Okay, I just finished the beer, so I'ma sleep now.
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I'm up right now because I took tomorrow off, and I realized about forty minutes ago that I was supposed to make dough so I could bake bread tomorrow, and I'd completely forgotten. So instead of putting it off til the morning like a normal person, I ended up trying out a new recipe entirely: Dutch oven artisanal bread. Amazingly, the beer I bought sometime last summer which has been sitting in my fridge since then is still good. Since I only needed 3 oz. for the recipe, I am drinking the rest of it now. Apparently I've been out of school for almost twenty years, but still can't face wasting good beer. All my frat boy friends would be so proud. (Yes, my friends in college were mostly frat boys.) I'll finish the recipe tomorrow, and hope it all works out.
Earlier this evening, I made homemade chocolate pudding and fresh whipped cream, and it turned out lovely. I will still have to do some baking tomorrow night for breakfast for the rest of the week though, since I can't take pudding to work for breakfast. Or, I could, but it would feel even more decadent than orange ricotta pound cake or chocolate cupcakes.
I also made polenta again - this time from a box, and it worked out perfectly. Then I folded in some butter, sprinkled shredded mozzarella on top, and baked it for ten minutes, so hopefully it can be cut into slices and be reheated for lunch. We'll see how that goes. I admit, I'm a little skeptical. But at least this time it didn't just harden to the consistency of cement before I even got to stir it more than once.
Small steps, man. Small steps.
Okay, I just finished the beer, so I'ma sleep now.
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people have commented there.