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"Strike another match girl, and start anew."
culinary dorkitude
I've realized that I am, in fact, one of those women who can come up with dozens of things to do with a zucchini. And yes, apparently that's an archetype. Or at least it is in my mind.
Having gotten used to having the green veggie practically forced upon me by many gardneing friends and relatives, my ingenuity has come to shine.
One summer I got hooked on making zucchini and black bean tacos with or without soyrizo. Delicious. Another year I made zucchini bread all the time. I've fried slices of a particularly large one and eaten it in a sandwich. I've stuffed and baked it.
This year I've been making sauteed zucchini with cracked black pepper, fresh basil and goat cheese. I've had it on pizza, I've grilled it, and I've sliced it as a crudite with dip. I've made zucchini muffins, and zucchini "fritters." I've made "zucchini carpaccio." I've frozen it in various forms. I've even fed it to Junot (who loves it, but too much gives him the trots.)
Last night I made zucchini parmigiana using fresh mozzarella, GF bread crumbs, free-range eggs and locally-made sauce. It was delicious. I kind of impress myself sometimes, haha.
Having gotten used to having the green veggie practically forced upon me by many gardneing friends and relatives, my ingenuity has come to shine.
One summer I got hooked on making zucchini and black bean tacos with or without soyrizo. Delicious. Another year I made zucchini bread all the time. I've fried slices of a particularly large one and eaten it in a sandwich. I've stuffed and baked it.
This year I've been making sauteed zucchini with cracked black pepper, fresh basil and goat cheese. I've had it on pizza, I've grilled it, and I've sliced it as a crudite with dip. I've made zucchini muffins, and zucchini "fritters." I've made "zucchini carpaccio." I've frozen it in various forms. I've even fed it to Junot (who loves it, but too much gives him the trots.)
Last night I made zucchini parmigiana using fresh mozzarella, GF bread crumbs, free-range eggs and locally-made sauce. It was delicious. I kind of impress myself sometimes, haha.
what the hell...
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read
6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series- JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights
8 Nineteen Eighty Four- George Orwell (i know, i know.)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22- Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (i highly doubt that anyone other than shakespearean scholars have really read every single one.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll (i've read some of it.)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (I read the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and a couple of others. I've forgotten which ones.)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (why isn't this part of 33?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White- Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov ( i really have to catch up on my russian lit.)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryce
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (i just finished mitchell's ghostwritten and loved it. this one's next.)
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( i LOATHE Albom. Never again!)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I've read several of them.)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
6 of the top 100 books they've printed. Well let's see.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Italicize those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list in your own LJ so we can try and track down these people who've read 6 and force books upon them
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series- JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights
8 Nineteen Eighty Four- George Orwell (i know, i know.)
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22- Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare (i highly doubt that anyone other than shakespearean scholars have really read every single one.)
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace- Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath- John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland- Lewis Carroll (i've read some of it.)
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (I read the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe and a couple of others. I've forgotten which ones.)
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (why isn't this part of 33?)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code- Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White- Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World- Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
62 Lolita- Vladimir Nabokov ( i really have to catch up on my russian lit.)
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On the Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From a Small Island - Bill Bryce
75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell (i just finished mitchell's ghostwritten and loved it. this one's next.)
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary- Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ( i LOATHE Albom. Never again!)
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (I've read several of them.)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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Lately even just trying to be a halfway decent person seems like an impossibly overwhelming task.
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it's 6:47 a.m. and i've been at work for 45 minutes.
'Nuff said.
'Nuff said.
i NEED this...
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I need to find a mentor....
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http://video.westminsterkennelclub…
I've gotten so hooked on the Westminister Dog Show judging videos this year.
I know everyone says this, but "my" dog really is the most adorable thing in the world. I might be in love with him. I have told Dan that if we split, I'm probably going to have to take Junot. I'd be too sad without him. Maybe we could set out to write the modern female equivalent of "Travels with Charley."
Dan's new roommate Kristen has this little love seat that Junot has adopted. At first I tried to be the disciplinarian and make him stay off of it. However, Kristen and Dan encouraged it because he just looks so fucking cute on it. So I relented. Because it really is the most adorable thing in the world to see him sleeping on the love seat.
He LOVES it. He really is just so fucking happy to be sleeping on the love seat. Sometimes he lays on it with all on four paws intertwined. In fact, it's so fucking cute that Dan, Kristen and I keep finding ourselves just watching him for periods of time. This morning he looked like he was sucking his thumb. If there was a Junot Web cam, I'd watch it all the time. At one point, Dan bought a child's race car bed for Junot to sleep in and when he wanted Junie to go into it, he would say "Junot, Vrooom, vroom." So now when you want Junot to go lay down on the love seat, you just have to say "Junot, vroom, vroom" and he runs and gets onto it. Kristen found her dog, Cooper, (an oddly charming llasa apso) sleeping on the loveseat with Junot one morning and snapped a cell phone picture.
Last Saturday, Junot and Cooper were running around and playing before I got out of Dan's bed. Junot started doing this little game where they'd both run into the bedroom, lick my face, run out again and then do the same thing a few minutes later. They must have done it about four times. It was too cute.
I've gotten so hooked on the Westminister Dog Show judging videos this year.
I know everyone says this, but "my" dog really is the most adorable thing in the world. I might be in love with him. I have told Dan that if we split, I'm probably going to have to take Junot. I'd be too sad without him. Maybe we could set out to write the modern female equivalent of "Travels with Charley."
Dan's new roommate Kristen has this little love seat that Junot has adopted. At first I tried to be the disciplinarian and make him stay off of it. However, Kristen and Dan encouraged it because he just looks so fucking cute on it. So I relented. Because it really is the most adorable thing in the world to see him sleeping on the love seat.
He LOVES it. He really is just so fucking happy to be sleeping on the love seat. Sometimes he lays on it with all on four paws intertwined. In fact, it's so fucking cute that Dan, Kristen and I keep finding ourselves just watching him for periods of time. This morning he looked like he was sucking his thumb. If there was a Junot Web cam, I'd watch it all the time. At one point, Dan bought a child's race car bed for Junot to sleep in and when he wanted Junie to go into it, he would say "Junot, Vrooom, vroom." So now when you want Junot to go lay down on the love seat, you just have to say "Junot, vroom, vroom" and he runs and gets onto it. Kristen found her dog, Cooper, (an oddly charming llasa apso) sleeping on the loveseat with Junot one morning and snapped a cell phone picture.
Last Saturday, Junot and Cooper were running around and playing before I got out of Dan's bed. Junot started doing this little game where they'd both run into the bedroom, lick my face, run out again and then do the same thing a few minutes later. They must have done it about four times. It was too cute.
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I'm going to Chicago next month to visit my friend Sam in her new digs, maybe check out Medill and of course, have some fun.
I plan on checking out the Day of the Dead exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art, eating a lot of good Mexican food in the Pilsen neighborhood, doing some major thrift-shopping, perhaps catching an art film at the Gene Siskel Film Center and hopefully getting to see a live production of Mortified.
I'll be staying with Sam and her boyfriend Josh for most of the trip, although I'd like to get a hotel for at least the Saturday and Sunday night. I'm looking for something that's not super expensive and is close to "the nightlife."
If anyone has any ideas of where I should go or stay and what I should see/do, please let me know. I've never been to the windy city before so I don't know what to expect. I'd love actual advice and ideas from people I know who have been there because I don't always trust online reviews. The last time I relied on online reviews, Dan and I got practically got sick on horrible tasting clams from a lame restaurant in Mystic, Connecticut.
I plan on checking out the Day of the Dead exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art, eating a lot of good Mexican food in the Pilsen neighborhood, doing some major thrift-shopping, perhaps catching an art film at the Gene Siskel Film Center and hopefully getting to see a live production of Mortified.
I'll be staying with Sam and her boyfriend Josh for most of the trip, although I'd like to get a hotel for at least the Saturday and Sunday night. I'm looking for something that's not super expensive and is close to "the nightlife."
If anyone has any ideas of where I should go or stay and what I should see/do, please let me know. I've never been to the windy city before so I don't know what to expect. I'd love actual advice and ideas from people I know who have been there because I don't always trust online reviews. The last time I relied on online reviews, Dan and I got practically got sick on horrible tasting clams from a lame restaurant in Mystic, Connecticut.
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why am i so terrible at just staying still?
(i think i need to re-teach myself how to relax on my own without always jumping at every call, every urge to go/do/see/be somewhere/something/someone else.)
(i think i need to re-teach myself how to relax on my own without always jumping at every call, every urge to go/do/see/be somewhere/something/someone else.)