When you've had the game on for a half an hour before realizing you couldn't tell someone which team is winning, you know it's time to flip over to the America's Next Top Model marathon on Oxygen.
Sunday, February 1, 2009
Sunday soup
This afternoon I made this super easy white bean soup from Everyday Food.
I have this problem called whenever I make soup I like to add potato chunks and teeny pasta even if the recipe doesn't want me to, which way compromises the healthiness of whatever the soup is, but no matter, it's my favorite part of soup. This time I restrained myself from adding some little potato cubes but did add in some ditalini. The only downside to this is that the pasta sucks up a lot of extra liquid, so it needs extra water and/or extra broth.
This white bean soup was quick to make, and the only ingredient I had to buy for it that I didn't already have on hand was the scallions (now I have like a dozen extra scallions hanging around that I need to find something to do with, though). The broth is really flavorful too. A lot of times with homemade soups the broth comes out so blah, but the scallions and dried oregano are great for the broth.
Plus I am extra into making soups lately because they allow me to make use of my pretty pretty green enameled cast iron pot, which my mom gave me for Christmas.
I have this problem called whenever I make soup I like to add potato chunks and teeny pasta even if the recipe doesn't want me to, which way compromises the healthiness of whatever the soup is, but no matter, it's my favorite part of soup. This time I restrained myself from adding some little potato cubes but did add in some ditalini. The only downside to this is that the pasta sucks up a lot of extra liquid, so it needs extra water and/or extra broth.
This white bean soup was quick to make, and the only ingredient I had to buy for it that I didn't already have on hand was the scallions (now I have like a dozen extra scallions hanging around that I need to find something to do with, though). The broth is really flavorful too. A lot of times with homemade soups the broth comes out so blah, but the scallions and dried oregano are great for the broth.
Plus I am extra into making soups lately because they allow me to make use of my pretty pretty green enameled cast iron pot, which my mom gave me for Christmas.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Perfect
I'm sorry, but is this not one of the coolest kitchen gadgets of life?
It's the Silvertone/Red Cupcake Caddy from Target.
I am ocassionally one of those people who brings baked goods to share with people at work. Carrying anything on the subway is a pain in itself, but traveling with cupcakes is really hard. Because, you know, who wants smooshed frosting? You can't stack them!
I must have this!
It's the Silvertone/Red Cupcake Caddy from Target.I am ocassionally one of those people who brings baked goods to share with people at work. Carrying anything on the subway is a pain in itself, but traveling with cupcakes is really hard. Because, you know, who wants smooshed frosting? You can't stack them!
I must have this!
Separation anxiety
4,378.
That's the number of pictures I had saved on my computer, going back to freshman year of college. Sadly, my laptop is more than five years old and I'm pretty sure it's about to hit the crapper soon. It's at the point where the "You are running low on disc space on drive C" warning pops up approximately every 15 minutes, and it's been doing that for like two years.
So I know my pictures are, well, in peril. (Peril!)
That's why I have a fancy, high-capacity external hard drive where I have them all backed up. But even though they're backed up, I still can't bring myself to delete the files from my computer. I just am distrustful of the external hard drive because I'm not 100% familiar with the way it works and how it works to restore things once they've been backed up.
But yesterday I finally did it. I backed up all 4,378 photo files again and then I started deleting them from the computer. And now my laptop is running much faster, which is really nice. So I'm learning to trust little external hard drive and not imagine it being lost in a fire or a flood or me spilling something on it or stepping on it and breaking it or someone stealing it.
Here are a few last looks at 2003:
That's the number of pictures I had saved on my computer, going back to freshman year of college. Sadly, my laptop is more than five years old and I'm pretty sure it's about to hit the crapper soon. It's at the point where the "You are running low on disc space on drive C" warning pops up approximately every 15 minutes, and it's been doing that for like two years.
So I know my pictures are, well, in peril. (Peril!)
That's why I have a fancy, high-capacity external hard drive where I have them all backed up. But even though they're backed up, I still can't bring myself to delete the files from my computer. I just am distrustful of the external hard drive because I'm not 100% familiar with the way it works and how it works to restore things once they've been backed up.
But yesterday I finally did it. I backed up all 4,378 photo files again and then I started deleting them from the computer. And now my laptop is running much faster, which is really nice. So I'm learning to trust little external hard drive and not imagine it being lost in a fire or a flood or me spilling something on it or stepping on it and breaking it or someone stealing it.
Here are a few last looks at 2003:
Friday, January 30, 2009
EW, where are the predictions?
I've subscribed to Entertainment Weekly on and off for more than five years, and I always look forward to their Oscar preview issue. This year though, Oscar wasn't even on the cover (Barack was though, so it's aight) and there were no predictions! And no odds on each nominee in the main categories, either. The closest they came was calling Slumdog Millionaire the "frontrunner." Not good enough for me, EW.
Nominated movies I still want to see:
Revolutionary Road (just finished the novel)
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Doubt
Of the main films this year, so far I've only seen Slumdog and Rachel Getting Married, which were both fantastic.
If only the last trip to the movies hadn't been wasted on stupid Seven Pounds. I tell ya.
Up for tomorrow night are Wall-E (Best Animated Feature nominee) and Vicky Cristina Barcelona (Penelope Cruz is nominated for a Best Supporting Actress award). VCB is written and directed by Woody Allen, so it's risky in that it could go either in the Match Point (yay) or Scoop (boo).
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