Link
Homemade skillet pizza
Skillet plus broiler to approximate a real pizza oven? Worth a shot sometime.
Kronka
The world is too much with us…
Mon
Jan 25 2010
Link
Southern California schools ban dictionary
Nice. What the heck are reference books doing in classrooms, anyways.
Tue
Jan 19 2010
Review
The Magicians by Lev Grossman
Takes the best of Harry Potter, Narnia, Lord of the Rings, and a few other fantasy worlds, mixes them with a double of Scotch. And perhaps because Grossman makes it about as close to real life as a fantasy could be—gritty, painful, dark—The Magicians goes where those other books never could.
Thu
Jan 14 2010
Quoth
Did I mention our weekly dinners are awesome?
- Me: Wait, is this just butter? Am I just drinking butter?
- Eric: No, clearly, that’s just pear juice…
- Brandyn: (laughter)
- Eric: …that’s also slightly hydrophobic.
- Me: We’re just drinking butter!
- Eric: You can afford to drink some butter, anyways.
- Me: I don’t know if my arteries can. Let me wash it down with this ice cream…
Tue
Jan 12 2010
Quoth
Whatever motivates you.
Dude I need to cure cancer! Then all Asian dramas will end happy!
— Andy
Thu
Jan 7 2010
Review
Wicked on Broadway
I could watch this over and over and over again.
Except I don’t have enough money. So the soundtrack will have to do.
Sun
Dec 13 2009
Musing
Goals
Some of my goals in life. Thought I should write them down. In no particular order.
- Start a company.
- Write a novel.
- Make friends with everyone.
- Learn Spanish. And more French.
- Have a kitchen with four ovens.
- Okay, maybe three.
- Live outside of America again.
- Teach. College or high school, perhaps.
- Go to space.
- Own a boat. A yacht would be cool, but to be perfectly honest, a canoe will do.
- Learn how to play the guitar.
- And the piano. Again.
- Have children.
- Become a doctor. Of something.
- Figure out why my chocolate chip cookies don’t turn out that great. I mean, they’re good, but… I’m gunning for Mrs. Fields, here.
- Run a marathon.
- Ride every roller coaster, ever.
- Wake up when my alarm clock goes off.
- Learn to make more practical and achievable goals.
Picture
A cute filet.
Baked crab mac and cheese, sautéed asparagus, filet mignon with onions. Ten easy steps.
- Make macaroni.
- Make roux. Not too much. Add milk. Then your favorite cheeses and herbs. A lot. (Of cheeses.) Adjust quantities until it is thick and delicious. (You know this when you can’t stop eating it.)
- Combine your sauce with your macaroni. Add lump crab, or lobster, or something of your desire.
- Put it in a pan, top it with buttered panko.
- Bake it.
- Make steak. (Possibly in a pan. On the stove.)
- Remove steak from pan, throw in onions and a lot of wine (red, please). Reduce until it looks like it belongs on a steak, and doesn’t kill you with EtOH.
- Make asparagus.
- Season everything to taste.
- Serve!
Voilà.
(Okay, so some of those steps are a bit overloaded. And I might’ve left some out. But I leave you some creative freedom. And really, the last two are throwaways, anyways.)