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Spaghetti Aglio e Olio
I made this for dinner tonight. I wanted to take pictures, but my camera ran out of battery just as it was snapping the shot. Then we were too hungry to wait for it to charge, so it's all gone now. It was that tasty. I made a few changes from traditional recipes. I had some green garlic from the farmer's market, so I tossed that in with the chopped ( Read more... ) -
Bizarre encounter at the bus stop
This happened about two years ago, but some of my recent reading brought it to mind ( Read more... ) -
NaNoWriMo +Tarot
So I'm doing NaNoWriMo again. This time around I did basically no planning. I spent some time on November 1 brainstorming some characters to write about, and just went from there. There's kind of a lack of conflict or adversity, unfortunately; I keep forgetting to bring it in.
Anyway, I've been getting kind of bogged down trying to figure out what ( Read more... ) -
Hotdog fried rice
This is one of my standbys. I often make it for brunch on weekends when I'm feeling particularly lazy, or for merienda.
Ingredients:
Enough for merienda for two. If you want brunch for two, double it. Adjust ratios to satisfaction. The amounts below will fit comfortably in a 1-quart mixing bowl. Doubled will fit in a 1.5-quart mixing bowl.- 3/4 c ( Read more... )
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Steak for Christmas
My dad decided to send me and my fiance some mail-order steaks for Christmas. I think part of the reason was that he was curious how ordering steaks online worked. In any case, I decided to make them for Christmas dinner. I also tried to orchestrate everything to come out at about the same time, or fairly close, which was challenging.
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Frying pan pizza
So, recently I have been making frying pan pizza kind of often. It's pretty easy and rather quick, and it's nice having freshly-made pizza. The recipe is adapted from The Ultimate Student Cookbook.
Ingredients:- 1 heaping cup whole wheat flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- pinch salt
- ~4 tbsp water
- ~2 tbsp olive oil
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Cooking calms me down
So I got up pretty late today, and should have gone in to work on my project, but I really didn't feel like going in. Then one of my teammates showed me the finished version of something I requested, and I really didn't like the result. It made me feel disproportionately angry, and I knew I'd have to tell her about my problems with it, but I also ( Read more... ) -
Crazy fusion falafel-onigiri
I stumbled upon some instructions for easy onigiri, and quickly tried them out. I've never actually had "authentic" Japanese onigiri before, so I have no reference for comparison. The first time, my rice was way too wet (still learning how to use my steamer), and I didn't have a good feel for salt.
A few days ago I decided to try making onigiri ( Read more... ) -
Unhappy with school!
Today was pretty stressful for me ( Read more... ) -
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A short idea I came up with a while back for Shattered Veils that I kept forgetting to post ( Read more... )