I've been on a grilled cheese sandwich making kick and have been testing all kinds of cheese: sharp cheddar, colby jack, smoked gouda, and brie. Brie is my favorite cheese, but it turns out grilling it between two relatively thin slices of bread is not the best way to eat it, so I remembered this delicious brie and apple sandwich I'd once had at a ( Read more... )

HOOKER: Very rousing, sir.
PRYCE: Churchill rousing or Hitler rousing?

God, how much do I love Mad Men? So much ( Read more... )

I made baked ziti yesterday. The recipe was relatively straightforward and it turned out really well, although I used jar spaghetti sauce which was on sale and, y'know, on sale for good reason. Other than that, everything came out surprisingly well ( Read more... )

I had a weird night yesterday. I went out with friend S, and we met up with a couple of guys she knew at this fairly nice bar. The one guy she was with kept trying to convince her to go back to his place with hiim (and this was only the second time they had hung out) even though she made it clear that she didn't want to. The guy that was ( Read more... )

Modern Family - This is fun. I'd say it's humor somewhat in the vein of Arrested Development, focusing on 3 different branches of the same family tree (and old guy with his trophy wife and her son, a more traditional nuclear family, and then a gay couple that just adopted a Vietnamese baby). It's nice to see a gay couple on TV, and I enjoyed the ( Read more... )

My BFF is visiting me this Saturday. I am ridiculously excited for this. I will bore her with nonstop prattle about my unexciting life--which is what I do already, but now I will do it in person instead of over the phone ( Read more... )

Today I spent being fairly productive. It's lovely to be able to sleep in on weekends--and that's precisely what I did. I went to bed at midnight and slept in soundly ( Read more... )

It's gotten cold and autumnal in the past week and I have to say, I'm not so much a fan of that. I want the temperatures back up around 70's and 80's, damnit! My summer dresses are too cute to be put away already ( Read more... )

Several things to report in. On the RL front, I went with A to try to see a free screening of the HD recording of La Boheme at the Lincoln Center. Sadly, more than 3000 people beat us to the punch an hour early and we were unable to snag seats. As a result, we went to the Shake Shack for delicious milkshakes and conversation, and then ended up ( Read more... )

Project Runway - They've kept basically everything that makes PR great: Tim Gunn, Heidi, the judges--even the workroom looks exactly the same, all the way across the country in LA. They do seem to be showing more of the constructive/supportive criticism by the judges (I've read in Tim Gunn's blog that the judges usually give a lot of really ( Read more... )