Recent activities: watching Downton Abbey (if you've seen it, you will like these photos of the cast outside of their Edwardian costumes, and if you haven't, get streaming! It's pure highbrow camp. I love it) and reading and Fab Ab Feb'ing and organizing my thoughts for a couple of lectures next week and cooking and turning all the black bananas in the freezer into:
Cooking Light classic banana bread
Banana chocolate chip muffins
And then freezing those.
Other culinary highlights:
Truffled mac and cheese (Cooking Light 2012) SOOO good! Salty and savory and complex. It's an umami tsunami and you should make it POSTHASTE.
Italian sub salad (Food Network) Deconstructed sub - tasty. Doesn't keep so scale it down or serve it to a crowd.
Broccoli and quinoa casserole (a Pinterest recipe that actually worked out) A little gummy but maybe that's how quinoa is? I have never cooked it before... maybe the quick-cooking variety turns out that way. A one cup serving has 8 grams of protein and 5 grams of fiber - so it's sort of like the Greek yogurt of the grain world - and I plan on using it more (it's a superfood!)
Just finished Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe) - whew. A Very Long Book. Now can turn attention to several library books on deck: Why We Believe in God(s): The Science of Faith (The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves...); The United States of Americana: Backyard Chickens, Burlesque Beauties, and Handmade Bitters: A Field Guide to the New American Roots Movement (I have long maintained that knitting-by-the-under-40-crowd and burlesque is not so much a Venn diagram as ONE BIG CIRCLE and someone has written the book before me); Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Cool, Small Places (I keep reading books about design and yet my nightstand is full of clutter - vide supra- and shoes pile up at the door) and Smut: Stories (featured in New York Times and on NPR and where I heard about it, Oprah magazine) It features a fabulous wink wink nudge nudge cover. Little teacups...so precious. So sweet. Oh my!
Cooking Light classic banana bread
Banana chocolate chip muffins
And then freezing those.
Other culinary highlights:
Truffled mac and cheese (Cooking Light 2012) SOOO good! Salty and savory and complex. It's an umami tsunami and you should make it POSTHASTE.
Italian sub salad (Food Network) Deconstructed sub - tasty. Doesn't keep so scale it down or serve it to a crowd.
Broccoli and quinoa casserole (a Pinterest recipe that actually worked out) A little gummy but maybe that's how quinoa is? I have never cooked it before... maybe the quick-cooking variety turns out that way. A one cup serving has 8 grams of protein and 5 grams of fiber - so it's sort of like the Greek yogurt of the grain world - and I plan on using it more (it's a superfood!)
Just finished Bonfire of the Vanities (Tom Wolfe) - whew. A Very Long Book. Now can turn attention to several library books on deck: Why We Believe in God(s): The Science of Faith (The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars/ But in ourselves...); The United States of Americana: Backyard Chickens, Burlesque Beauties, and Handmade Bitters: A Field Guide to the New American Roots Movement (I have long maintained that knitting-by-the-under-40-crowd and burlesque is not so much a Venn diagram as ONE BIG CIRCLE and someone has written the book before me); Apartment Therapy's Big Book of Cool, Small Places (I keep reading books about design and yet my nightstand is full of clutter - vide supra- and shoes pile up at the door) and Smut: Stories (featured in New York Times and on NPR and where I heard about it, Oprah magazine) It features a fabulous wink wink nudge nudge cover. Little teacups...so precious. So sweet. Oh my!
Happy reading, happy cooking, happy February, gentle readers!
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