cooling in my room.  apparently? the shelves in the oven are not precisely horizontal.  there was some filling-bubbling-over-the-edge stuff happening.  should still be tasty, but is not attractive enough to be a product on a cooking show, i must say ( Read more... )

so the only place in town that ever sells corn syrup is out of corn syrup (both light and dark; when they were out of dark, i thought, hmm, well, maybe i can use light corn syrup and substitute brown sugar for the white sugar in the recipe, but then when i went back for the light corn syrup someone had bought the last of it).  i went to three other ( Read more... )

i hope your thanksgiving has been as good as mine ( Read more... )

-- thanksgiving to all y'all who care to be wished a happy thanksgiving
-- birthday to ellen_fremedon, for whom i still have a file in my "in-progress" folder, but today is the one day of the year it's okay that it isn't finished yet, because you can't give someone an un-birthday present on her birthday, now, can you ( Read more... )

richmond: confusing exterior layout; to get to the economy parking lot, i felt like i was driving to another state. interior, small and (i suppose) cozy, but i'm disinclined to think favorably of airports in which i'm forced to spend more time than i'd planned -- when you get there at a quarter to six for a 6:30 flight and they tell you the plane ( Read more... )