Well, it smells like bread. It didn't rise like bread. It's still a little doughy inside, but browned to not-quite-burnt on the outside.

Oh yeah. This is going to go real well.

So hey! Nanowrimo starts tomorrow! And according to the poll I'm supposed to post what I write, even though it's going to be awful. And I don't mean that as a ding against my writing abilities, I just mean that it's a first draft. And also that my brain has decided to write about something I know very little about, and I know many of you do ( Read more... )

I turned on the tv for some noise while I worked on Mom's socks...and saw Brian Boitano making candied bacon for roller derby girls ( Read more... )

Coffee-Jello Pie....NOT going in the family cookbook.

Yesterday I went to the store to buy Draino and Cat Food, when I was seized with the sudden craving for strawberry pie. Not like, pie with real strawberries and things, but a proper midwest pie created entirely from jello and cool whip. I'd never made one before, but how hard can it be? You mix cool whip into jello before it solidifies and stick ( Read more... )

I love Mental Floss. It's my favorite magazine, second only to Archeology. And even better they have a blog that they update every day with all kinds of interesting stories. Yesterday they had a really interesting article on 65 degree eggs (that would be Celsius). The basic ideas is that the egg will cook just fine at a lower temperature than ' ( Read more... )

Last night was a good night. I whipped out my neglected Japanese cooking tutorial (which apparently they have in English in Europe. C'mon! Bring it out in America tooooo!) and made some potato salad. I'm really picky when it comes to my potato salad, there are really only about 3 or 4 kinds in the world that I will eat. But Japanese potato ( Read more... )

I finally got my DS cooking game this weekend and it is SO AWESOME. If you have a DS and know Japanese you should order it right this very second. It's an amazingly robust piece of software and it boggles the mind that they haven't come out with an English version (though they would need new recipes)

( My DS game, it has a flavor )