March 2009
40 posts
Risotto recap
It went well, but let me tell you, having me and Dan both trying to cook ridiculous things in our two-dimensional kitchen is TOUGH. We used pretty much all the dishes in the house and I had to use a big multi-gallon pot intended for beer brewing in order to simmer the like 6 cups of broth I needed, and then whenever I needed to tip the giant pot to scoop up some more broth for the rice, I had to...
February 2009
108 posts
Risotto
I am planning to make this for the Top Chef finale viewing party I’m going to tonight. I haven’t made risotto before, but earlier in the week I did some pretty legit trash-talking about out-doing the other party guests with my dish. Pride goes before a fall, as Ma Ingalls says, so I’m a little worried. Plus, I think I’m going to be stuck deveining shrimp for the second time...
“From Monticello
My Old Friend,
This morning the bees were swarming in the...”
– Another President. My grandma recently sent me this.
I watched Nick and Norah last night on DVD because I feel the need to see a new stupid romantic comedy type thing every few months and it had been a while. It was sort of neutral for me — not meh, but not memorable either (see what I did there?). Mostly it just made me miss being young.
In unrelated news, I put new orthopedic knee-pain-reducing inserts into my favorite boots and they make...
““Unlike ALL other walks of life, status updates are the appropriate places for...”
– Being There (via kamlot)
An apology and an aside
Sorry, sometimes I get carried away blogging things on Emmaterial and I post them here instead.
Unrelated: When was the last time you had a Goldfish cracker? I just had some and I swear they are just not as salty as they were when I was a kid. Maybe my ability to taste salt has been weakened somehow. Growing up sucks.
Telephone Poles
They have been with us a long time. They will outlast the elms. Our eyes, like the eyes of a savage sieving the trees In his search for game, Run through them. They blend along small-town streets Like a race of giants that have faded into mere mythology. Our eyes, washing clean of belief, Lift incredulous to their fearsome crowns of bolts, trusses, struts, nuts, insulators and such Barnacles as...
Oh Top Chef...
so heartwarming.
As I write this I am only finishing the ep from like a week+ ago, meaning I just found out who is in the final four and I am SO THRILLED by who made it. I love Stefan always, and I think Carla is amazing for so many reasons, specifically her attitude, and Fabio is too entertaining to hate. Hosea, whatever. The point is that Leah sucked always, and I can’t believe she lasted...
“As well as any writer ever has, he fulfilled Virginia Woolf’s dictum that the...”
– Postscript: John Updike: The Talk of the Town: The New Yorker
I am so behind on my New Yorkers, so I just read this yesterday. And, if my earlier comments weren’t obvious enough, I haven’t even read Updike beyond his reviews and a newer short story or two (if it was in the New Yorker in...
“All I mean is that once you’ve had a reasonable grounding in sufficient...”
– Whisper it: you don’t need to have read John Updike - Telegraph
Yes, but where do you draw the line at “reasonable grounding”???
No need to worry.
So my anxiety about going to that Lakers game was misplaced… it was actually super fun. Pau Gasol looks even funnier (longer legs!) when you are looking at him from like the 10th row from the top of the Coliseum. I love Pau Gasol and I don’t care if he looks like a carrot, as some people say.
Now that I’ve said that on my gchat status AND on my Facebook interests, I think I am...
“Greetings from Napa Valley, where, since I arrived on Sunday, I’ve seen nothing...”
– From the Mists of Napa - The Pour Blog - NYTimes.com
Guilty as charged. (via Baribeau’s shared items)
A day in the life
I am having the weirdest day. It is probably the kind of day that should be a Xanax day, the reason for me having a prescription, but unfortunately I can’t get it together enough to keep a small stash at work for the prescription to fulfill its purpose.
I think I can trace this back to waking up extra-early this morning because of a trippy dream I had, in which I was at this dude’s...
Reasons I'm freaked out about attending my first...
1) shebs:
I’d also like to get in some lighthearted-but-actually-kind-of-serious jabbing at any Lakers fans near me. I’m scary at NorCal-SoCal match ups, you guys.
2) The other person I am going with is Peattie. If you knew him you’d understand, but the point is, I am outnumbered.
For the record, I am wearing a purple cardigan today.
antony and the johnsons - epilepsy is dancing
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In defense
…. of the 25 Things About Me meme on Facebook (and elsewhere): Our obsession with answering surveys with semi-inane facts about ourselves is not new. I mean, the Proust Questionnaire, right? (Not to mention my favorite part of Esquire magazine, the “Things I’ve Learned” page(s).)
Moving on.
Delbert McClinton - Weatherman
There are just a...
