Buns in the Oven
I baked today! It’s a big thing for me because I’ve been meaning to do this for about a week now, but life got in the way. Life, and lazyNez. So after a nice bath, I sucked it up and baked my buns off! …too cheesy? Meh.
First I made the dough for some hamburger buns and while that rose, I made some pizza dough which only needs a 5 minute rest. I cut it up into 8 pieces, rolled them out and stuffed them with pizza goodness.
Ta-da! Calzones for my Bubby! They’re made specially for him for when he needs a quick snack. Because we get tired of making sandwiches all the time. I also made him some breakfast burritos the other day that are now in the freezer. I also want to make some taquitos later.
So back to those buns.
They’re soft and pillowy and ready for baking!
Golden brown and smothered with butter, they’re a slab of meat away from being perfect. But the meat comes tonight. For now all I can do is snoof their warm, tasty smell and gaze at them from afar. But soon my pretties, soon.
Some Pictures
My finished dress
This little purse used to be a tank top
Too short jeans+Scrap fabric=cute skirt!
Just a Pirate flag...
..until my husband pointed this out :D
And that’s that. Enjoy!
For the Love of Bananas
Our rabbits love bananas. They will do anything physically possible to get a bite of a banana. Anything.
Look at those feet!
Oh yeah, feel the love.
Look What I Can Do!
From this:
To this!
I plan on wearing it with a more appropriate bra of course. But yay me and yay upcycling! It took me longer than I had wanted, but I learned a lot and the next time I do this will go much faster. And I think next time I’ll try a sweetheart neckline. Woo!
The View From My Window
This is from today.
The next one isn’t from today, rather one that Richard took a while ago. But it’s beautiful and deserves sharing.
I love where we live.
Cottage Cheese
I made some! It took me an hour from start to finish and I love it. It’s super easy, super tasty and it has way fewer ingredients than store bought. The price difference is only 20 cents less to make than buy, but that’s still a win. I made a pretty small amount as I wasn’t sure how it was going to turn out, but I’m thrilled with the results and am excited to make more.
I heated 4 cups up to 120 degrees, added 1 1/2 ounces of vinegar, stirred for a minute, then let it sit for 30 minutes. Then I drained it for 5 and rinsed. Add a sprinkle of salt and tuck it away in the fridge. When ready to serve, add a bit of milk or cream to it and enjoy! If you let it sit in the milk for a few minutes, it’s heavenly.
This only made a cup of cheese, but I can use the leftover whey. Since it has vinegar in it, the only thing I can really think to use it for is in soup. I don’t think it would be very good for baking nor smoothies. So soup it is!
Interesting fact that I learned, making cottage cheese is just like making ricotta and paneer. I can use the dry cottage cheese just like ricotta! Of course real ricotta is made from whey, but not the vinegary whey I have now. I think. …. I’ll have to get back to you. I’ma start up the stove again.
Nope, can’t make real ricotta out of the leftover whey. But there’s good news! My whey is now a lot less vinegary and will go wonderfully in a smoothie later. :D
A Good Weekend?
It’s hard for me to tell if it’s been a good weekend. I think it has, but there have been some deffinate lows.
Saturday we were supposed to have a Pirate Party with 4 of our friends. We had been planning it for several weeks and everyone said they were going to show up. Richard even sent a reminder last week. The morning of, he sent an email asking what everyone was going to bring, and 1 person said she was going out of town, another said she forgot about it and had to work, 1 said she was going to come for sure, and we never heard from the other. I was more than a bit pissed. But the pot roast was perfect, my anadama bread finally came out right, and the girl who did show up was good company. That night I slept long and hard and woke the next morning feeling very good.
Yesterday Richard and I went to the Folklife Festival. Last year it was warm and sunny, but this year it was cool and rainy. But we went anyway. It didn’t rain too hard and we had a good time. We even rode the monorail for the first time! On the way home I got a pretty awesome piece of clothing. It’s a magic skirt. It’s 2 layers of machine washable silk that you can wear at least 100 different ways. I spent a good 2 hours playing with it last night. :)
I didn’t sleep at all. I was tired, but I just couldn’t sleep. When I finally got up this morning, Richard started feeling weird. He was very dizzy and nauseous. He threw up a few times and couldn’t even hold down a bite of a sandwich. He’s taking his second nap right now. It’s a good thing he doesn’t have to go to school or work today.
Here are some of the ways to wear my skirt!
Etc, etc. It was a bit expensive, but it’s very economical when you take into account all the different ways you can wear it. It’s the perfect outfit for any occasion!
Not Much Going On
It’s been a boring week which I find rather pleasant. Richard’s going to school and working; I’m working; things are good.
I started wearing my Invisalign aligners again so that’s good too. My teeth hurt like a bitch, but I’ll suck it up and drink my smoothies because in about a year, I’ll have perfectly straight teeth! Although, if I had stayed with it the first time, I would have had straight teeth years ago. Ah well. This time it’s for my job. And to be pretty…er. :) They’ll also help me lose these last 10 pounds! You’re not supposed to eat with the aligners in and they hurt to take off, so I’m more likely to just not eat (or have a smoothie) than go through the pain. And even when I do take them off for a meal, my teeth are too sore for me to eat much at all. And since it’s getting too warm to exercise, cutting some calories will be the way to go. So yay aligners! Embrace the pain! ….they also make me talk silly. :P
The only not so good thing going on happens at night. We watched a “scary” movie last Saturday (Paranormal Activity) and I haven’t been able to sleep without a light on since. I spend all night wrapped around Richard on his side of the bed so that the monsters can’t find me. And even if they can, I’m so entwined with him that they won’t be able to drag me out of bed. And the light from the bathroom really helps. Banishing the shadows and burning away monsters who dare enter it’s protecting glow. I may feel like a 5 year old who still needs a night light and a teddy bear, but I’m still alive dammit! So neener.
At least Richard thinks it’s cute.
Feeling Better
Yesterday was just awful. I spent most of the day trying to sleep and failing. The rest of the day was spent sitting very still so that I wouldn’t disturb my stomach and crying when the waves of pain came anyway. Richard was a saint, making me toast that I took all day to eat and tea that I barely touched. He put socks onto my cold feet and gently tucked me in when I tried to get some sleep. I even tried to take some Tylenol, but could only get one pill down and that didn’t help at all. I finally managed to get a couple of hours of sleep in the afternoon and woke up almost hungry. Richard made me a sandwich and after a test bite stayed down, I snarfed it down before it came back up. Luckily it stayed down and I felt a little better. And after a full night of sleep, I feel much better today. A bit sore and dehydrated, but definitely better.
We’ve assumed that it was food poisoning and I sent an email to our friends who ate the same thing as us on Sunday and I was happy to learn that they’re all fine. Richard only had some mild stomach upsets, but nothing too bad. I guess I got all the bad bits. :P
If it’s not one thing, it’s another
I woke up around midnight last night with some pretty bad pains in my stomach. I went to the bathroom and wound up spending the rest of the night there. I blame the garbanzo beans. Or at least I did until I remembered that Richard had gone to bed with a stomach ache, and he didn’t eat any. Maybe it was the pizza.
Regardless of what it was, I hate throwing up. And I hate missing work and not being able to sleep or even be remotely comfortable. I can’t believe that there’s anything left inside me to come out, but sure enough, something makes it’s way out of me one way or another every 10 minutes or so. Blar.
So here I am, the very essence of n00b, starting my own blog. Why? Fuck if I know. But at least now I can share the vast wonders of my mind as they spew forth like so many cupcakes onto a clown. That is to say, sweet though unnecessary and kind of terrifying. Yeah, I’m kinda like that. 