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[psa] Housekeeping
With my move to Dreamwidth, I got a burr under my saddle this morning to go through and do a deep clean-up of my LiveJournal friends list--mostly, I removed all the RSS feeds and all the communities I no longer read or participate in, but I also unfollowed a bunch of accounts for people I know haven't been around for, in most cases, years ( Read more... ) -
ANNOUNCEMENT: Making the migration
With the recent change to LiveJournal's hosting, the new TOS and it's strictures, I've decided to finally leave the LJ nest and move my posting host over to Dreamwidth.org. It's really weird, because I've been here since August 2001 (nearly 16 years).
If you want to find me, I'm alix there (I managed to get in early enough to get my preferred net ( Read more... ) -
Recipe Roundup: February 2017
- Smitten Kitchen: Small batch Tiramisu
(Don't go looking for it, there wasn't one of these for January)
- Smitten Kitchen: Small batch Tiramisu
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'There, but for the grace of God, go I'
This is a phrase that tends to go through my head a lot. Mostly whenever I encounter homeless people. It's an attempt to remind myself that I shouldn't be complacent, that all it would take is a managerial decision for me to be laid off, fired, or whatever clever euphemism my company is using to refer to it this time to not say those words and ( Read more... ) -
In dark times, turn to snark
#WeThePeople pic.twitter.com/xTEN36qsHs
- Nicole Chase (@SpaceAgNicole) January 20, 2017
Today was a momentous day today; I honestly can't remember a presidential inaugration so burned into my memory this way. I find it deeply ironic that is pouring buckets here in California, a state that has pledged to resist "any effort that would shred our ( Read more... ) -
DIY: Stained glass 'windows'
Last year, I had this brainwave for a deco for my room: faux stained glass windows made from shadow box frames with stained glass decals backed by led lights. I'd seen some on Etsy that I really loved and I thought it would be pretty for a wall I don't have much art on ( Read more... ) -
Recipe Roundup: December 2016
- Cookie+Kate: West African Peanut Soup
- Kitchen Treaty: One pot pumpkin pasta
- The Daily Meal: Microwave poached egg
- The Daily Meal: Slow cooker turtle monkey bread
- Smitten Kitchen: Homemade Irish Cream
- Serious Eats: German apple pancake
- Serious Eats: Lofthouse-style cookies
- Serious Eats: Mexican spiced chocolate pecans
- Serious Eats: ( Read more... )
- Cookie+Kate: West African Peanut Soup
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Recipe Roundup: October 2016
- Smitten Kitchen: Skillet-baked pasta with five cheeses
- Serious Eats (via explosiontime): Taiwanese meat sauce with Rice (Lu Rou Fan)
- Smitten Kitchen: Pumpkin bread (with cinnamon sugar topped crust)
- Smitten Kitchen: Winter squash pancakes with crispy sage and brown butter
- Recipe Tin Eats: Bacon and egg breakfast muffin
- Smitten Kitchen: Broken pasta ( Read more... )
- Smitten Kitchen: Skillet-baked pasta with five cheeses
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Recipe Roundup: September 2016
- Smitten Kitchen: Chocolate pavlova
- Smitten Kitchen: Indian-spiced cauliflower soup
- Smitten Kitchen: Chocolate pavlova
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Recipe Roundup: August 2016
- Smitten Kitchen: Blueberry bread and butter pudding (blueberry bread pudding, blueberry bread pudding french toast casserole)
- Smitten Kitchen: Peach melba popsicles
- Gluten-free Girl: Fruit crisp
- Via a SWTOR guildie: Breaded chicken-cheese balls (deep fried chicken meatballs?)
- Via a SWTOR guildie: Mozarella-chicken cheese roll
- Vanilla ( Read more... )
- Smitten Kitchen: Blueberry bread and butter pudding (blueberry bread pudding, blueberry bread pudding french toast casserole)