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For what it's worth
-I finished another book this evening. I have one other library book to finish ("My Dog Skip"--very cute)
-At my mother's request I made some bread last week to be taken to my relatives' before the weekend. I am quite enjoying bread making and only wonder how to incorporate observations on texture or density of the bread into future batches. -
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I was chatting with a classmate on facebook that I hadn't talked with in quite a while and all of a sudden a random message appeared in our chat box that neither of us had written. However, it was quite well written, so I wanted to share it, both on the off chance that a) someone recognizes it and b) just because it's kind of cool:
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Updates that are not very interesting
Most excitingly, I read, and finished "Jane Eyre" which surprisingly I'd never read before. I was missing out. What a book! It actually makes me want to go back and re-read "Middlemarch" because I didn't enjoy "Middlemarch" very much. I decided to read it because a) as I mentioned in my last post I was in want of books to read, and b) was shown a ( Read more... ) -
Pumpkin bread, follow up 2
Made this recipe:www.cookingbread.com/classes/class_squash_bread.html over the weekend. VERY good. Better than the first recipe, in my opinion, but maybe I just liked the darker consistency and feel like any time I make bread in a loaf pan it doesn't come out but when I make it on the pizza stone it does. My only comment was that I don't think I ( Read more... ) -
The Future, part ? of ?
I know what I want to do, at least for a little while: I know I really, really, really want to go to grad school and get a Masters and a PhD, but since I'm still not any further in that, I realized today for certain what I want to be doing right now is traveling around the USA ( Read more... ) -
Cooking adventures, continued
I bought some fresh kale at the farmer's market the Sunday before last in Annapolis and kept meaning to use it and finally did this evening in a quite tasty kale and sweet potato soup: www.foodandwine.com/recipes/island-kale-and-sweet-potato-soup. May main comment would be to add more sweet potato, but that's more a note to self than a comment on ( Read more... ) -
Other infuriating things
Sorry I'm being so negative right now, but, sometimes it just happens ( Read more... ) -
Pumpkin bread follow up 1
Yesterday, after watching "The Invention of Lying" that I rented intending to watch Saturday night(I accidentally slept instead) I made the oatmeal pumpkin seed bread (www.recipegirl.com/2008/10/12/oatmeal-pumpkin-seed-bread/). Below are my thoughts.
( A lot of rambling about what I did/how I varied from the recipe and the results ) -
Pumpkins and bread
In pursuit of a non sweet bread pumpkin recipe(sort of like a non sweet zucchini bread recipe) I have found three recipes and will narrow it down to one, use the pumpkin puree that is frozen from last year's pumpkin and make pumpkin bread. This is my goal for the week. Perhaps I will write about the results here.
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Wonderful night of Theatre
I just want to say that if you're in the DC area I HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend seeing Henry VIII at the Folger Theatre. I saw it tonight and would definitely go back to see it again. I may or may not post more about it, but if you can(my mom found seats via a halfprice ticket website) GO ( Read more... )