Note the first:  My husband makes possibly the best guacomole in the world.  I could drown face-down in a bowl of the stuff and die happy. omgsogood.

Note the second:  Was in a bread-bakey mood today, and have decided to try out a recipe I have for challah.  It is in the oven, and the house should be smelling delicious soon.  (If the challah works ( Read more... )

I managed to create a recipe for a diabetes-friendly chicken pot-pie.  It's not a pie, exactly -- it's more of a casserole, I think (lack of a crust, but with just enough penne to add some carbs and starchy yumminess).  But it's got that distinct comfort-food taste, and even though it's a little work-intensive, it is worth every minute of ( Read more... )

So, stuff and things are going on, and I decided to scribble some of it down.

( Boiled Cider and Baking Amnesia )

In case anyone, for whatever reason, might be remotely curious, the following is a list of symptoms for hypothyroidism.

• Fatigue
• Sluggishness
• Increased sensitivity to cold
• Pale, dry skin
• A puffy face

Second round of gingerbread cookies are now baked -- second try went a lot more smoothly than the first, and I tried a few different things, and they worked well, so I'm going to make notes on the original recipe. But the house smells divine, and that's always good ( Read more... )

AUGH.

I am trying to make gingerbread cookies, because it is rainy and grey out and there is a cold front moving through and I have been craving gingerbread FOR DAYS and the only thing I was missing was evaporated milk, so I went out yesterday and got that, only to discover that I need one cup of molasses for this recipe, and I have but three- ( Read more... )

I'm still working on putting LJ tags in my journal entries -- I got back as far as June, 2005 before I stopped again ( Read more... )

Okay.  SOMEONE left an LJ post for my-eyes-only yesterday, and now I can't find the post, and I'm starting to doubt who left it.  (Curse you, LJ for making me doubt my own sanity!)

( You know who you are... )

I got such a laugh out of dqbunny's candy-making adventure that I thought it was only fair to give a little back ( Read more... )