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December 29, 2005
the midway mark
yesterday, for all it's stormy beginnings, turned out to be kind of a nice day! (and, according to KRON4, today will be more of the same) it was the midway mark, and i must say; i've been doing really well with the balance of accomplishing tasks and lotza flotzing. i have not been doing well on the hanging out with tha peeps side of things, but that's cuz i really haven't been feeling the rain. if the rain is mia, i might try to either go down to 14th street or up to masonic...i suppose it depends on who's home and whatnot....anywho, i WAS talking about yesterday. yeah, i popped out yesterday and spend some of the precious cash in my possession to purchase some food stuffs. i admit, in my poverty, i went to safeway and purchased gmo carrots and tomatoes...and prolly frozen spinach. the hike over the hill was pretty good for me, since i hadn't had any kind of walk since sunday. i guess i got thinking food, cuz i wound up parusing these awesome ol skool betty crocker "cookbooks" i have...
this is called HOME ENTERTAINING and i have to say, that the illustrations have rocked me since i was a child looking at my mom's betty crocker cookbook binder...but more on that later...first
will you look at that buffet?!?!?!?! i mean it's not only the socially acceptable color and nutritional combinations, it's all the other stuff too; the serving dishes, furniture, linens, backdrop decor...I LOVE ALL OF IT?!?!?!?
i was also flipping through dinner for two
i ask you to please look at the above picture, and access for yourselves; does that look like a dinner for two? looks like a friggin' dinner for 4 at least to me...and then i wonder how it is that those folks coulda been eating all that food, yet we're the overweight generation....oh yeah, i forgot; technology. but that's a tangeant for another time.
the point being i got all inthemood to cook up a little sumpin-sumpin. i didn't make anything from betty crocker though. i made a pot-o-soup from my quick vegetarian pleasures cookbook; previously and continuously raved about as being the answer to all food blahs.
i went for the spinach soup with semolina dumplings, which i made so many times when i was back eastside, that i should have the recipe memorized by now...but i don't. i don't remember recipes i didn't make up myself...i mean, REALLY; it took me well over a year of knitting socks almost every day before i'd memorized that sucker...that's why i got that cookbook book stand. well worth the money, even if it is a little awkward to store in my kitchen space.
unfortunately you can't really see the dumplings. this time i was super careful not to stir the soup too soon after i'd dropped in the dumplings. i did that last time, and i trashed all the dumplings. the soup became more like a stew; yummy, but not really what i'd wanted...so, i learned from that situation and applied it to my current soup with preferable results!
the other thing i worked on yesterday, will hopefully be going in the mail later today
the rest of the day was spent knitting on my sweater (I FINISHED THE SLEEVES!)
and watching TWIN PEAKS
whereby i've totally fallen for the special agent cooper character....
Posted by Meagen at December 29, 2005 07:23 AM
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and now you are gonna wanna eat some 'damn fine cherry pie'
your loving flakey friend
rachel
who misses you and begs for forgiveness.
i think i am going to mail you a key to my gate and my front door so you can just come over whenever you want and get me to motivate...the potato feet are hindering my appetite for motivation...
Posted by: rachel at December 29, 2005 12:57 PM
you should be a food stylist. you could give some food some mad flair.
Posted by: bitemycookie at December 30, 2005 10:42 PM