Sick or not, coffee always hits the spot.
Well, unless its tea.
Yes, I often want tea
instead of coffee
when I'm feeling ill.
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365-12 - May 25, 2011
Mister and I occasionally wander around the homestead doing not much other than looking at stuff, talking about stuff, thinking about stuff.
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365-04 - May 17, 2011
I called this photo "FortyTwo" (for lack of a better moniker) because yesterday was my last day to be, biologically speaking, 42 years of age.
I love yellow and tulips. It just makes sense to celebrate today, yesterday, tomorrow, beginnings, endings and middles. Plan for tomorrow while not sacrificing today. My goal.
Potato Salad
Potato Salad
- Red potatoes, cooked and cooled
- Hearts of Palm, sliced
- Artichoke Hearts, chopped
- Green Olives, chopped
- White Onion, chopped
- Celery, chopped
Dressing
- Rice Wine Vinegar
- Good Quality Olive Oil
- Garlic, smashed
- S/P
- Dijon Mustard
- Thyme, Dill, Parsley, Paprika, Sugar-if desired
I prefer a vinaigrette on potato salad over a mayonnaise based dressing. Use basic vinaigrette making instructions and add whatever flavorings you think will go with your particular salad. A pinch of sugar can cut the vinegar if its too tart. I'm partial to some lemon in the dressing, but as this particular salad is for Mister and that's not one of his favorite things, I left that out.
I sometimes will also add chickpeas to my salad - oh my, that is delicious and they go very well with a vinaigrette dressing. Its sort of a bit like a Greek potato salad, kind of, sort of. That's where my taste buds go.
Here is the bowl and some misc ingredients. I adore green olives (good ones) with pimiento.
And here are some of the dressing ingredients after they were used and left laying around to be cleaned up later. No, I didn't put Lawry's in the salad. Its still sitting there from my breaksfast eggs. Oh, and the wire trivet for my tea pot is on the left side of the shelf.... and some balsamic vinaigrette there on the back of the stove, ready for my salad at dinner.
There you go. Random instructions (if you can call them that) for the potato salad I made for Mister's Mancation this weekend.
5.17.2011
365-03 - May 16, 2011
Droplets on a fringe-edged, parrot tulip in our yard. Mister and I planted a border of all manner of bulb flowers at the front edge of our front yard last Autumn. Its been wonderful to watch each wave of flower variety pop through the soil then to see what it produced. I went with a theme, purple, white, yellow. Several varieties and mixes, but all in a similar color palette. When these wine colored tulips popped up in amongst the royal purples (my description) I said "I didn't choose that color!" I am pretty certain the photo on the box of bulbs was more a deep, deep, dark, blackish-purple. Funny, that's not what they are. They don't "go" with my theme, but, they are pretty nonetheless.
What's a girl to do!
Sour Cream Coffee Cake
I saw this recipe last week for LA Schools Sour Cream Coffee Cake. I made it substituting vanilla coconut milk yogurt for the sour cream. It was delicious! No, I don't have a photo. You'll have to click the link for the photo. Just be warned... you may need to make it once you see the photo. Or, that could just be me, I'm a coffee cake junkie.
So, as we shared this delicious and tender cake with my mom-in-law, we chatted about the possibilities for changing up the recipe. (Its what I do.) Some of the possibilities born from that conversation over cake were:
- caramelized bananas layered in the middle with the topping
- blueberries mixed into the cake batter
- a drizzle of light vanilla or maple icing
- diced then sauteed and maybe spiced up apples incorporated into the topping
I could go on and on. The cake, as is, was super delicious but it seemed to lend itself to being very versitile. You could do just about anything with it. One of the things that, for me, really made the cake (you know, aside from the brown sugar/walnut topping) was the use of cake flour. I rarely use it, but am glad I happened to have some one hand and remembered I had it in the house and then actually used it. That can actually be a stretch for me at times.
Anway...
5.16.2011
365-02 - May 15, 2011
This is what happens when you can't make a decision about which photo to choose to represent your best work for the day.
This is my Harley-bear. Adore that boy! He adores me. Unconditional, unpretentious, unassuming, unselfish, unbiased, highly-emotional, heart-wrenching love. I believe he and I share that.
365-01 - May 14, 2011
Yes, its true. I am considering a second project 365. I've been missing my camera of late. I've nearly forgotten how to use it. When I realized just that, I was saddened and a bit energized.
Whatever it is, its right now and the above is a dandelion sending its seeds off to dande-fy the neighborhood. I like looking at stuff so very closely that you see the fibers, the make up, the barbs you wouldn't see with just a passing glance.
Though I am having trouble with commitment at this time in my life. I am feeling the need to be free of encumbrances and constraints on my time and energy. Maybe its a mid-life crisis, maybe its seeing friends' lives altered in ways they didn't and wouldn't have chosen, maybe its just who I am becoming. I don't know. What I do know is that I picked up my camera this weekend, posted photos and think I may be able to commit to this one little thing, for now. Maybe its the one little commitment I can make that will bring me back some semblance of routine and normalcy.
Whatever it is, its right now and the above is a dandelion sending its seeds off to dande-fy the neighborhood. I like looking at stuff so very closely that you see the fibers, the make up, the barbs you wouldn't see with just a passing glance. 5.13.2011
Cat in my neighborhood
This cat lives in my neighborhood. I almost didn't know what it was when I first came upon it, sitting there like an old crone with a fur muff.
Since I stopped to stare and photograph, he came out to see me. I could not help but chuckle, so he ran right by me (sniping all the way) and sat a few feet from me. Just out of arms reach, but not too far for the DSLR.
Have a super weekend.
Since I stopped to stare and photograph, he came out to see me. I could not help but chuckle, so he ran right by me (sniping all the way) and sat a few feet from me. Just out of arms reach, but not too far for the DSLR.
Have a super weekend.
5.12.2011
Just Read: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I had some wild, unfounded notions about what this book was going to be about. I was completely wrong. Where did I get the idea this book was about a young Asian woman mercenary who quite possibly worked for some secret government agency?! Seriously!
I know I'm late to the game, but, this is an amazing book, and its based in Sweden. Imagine that, the country where the writer lived.
Lisbeth Salander is a misfit, to say the least. A brilliant outcast with talent that doesn't always conform to the rules or laws. Mikael Blomkvist is a journalist who got in deeper than he knew and was blown out of the water by the industrialist he tried to expose. The two are an unlikely pair, but it works. Before the two meet up, the book chronicles their stories simultaneously. I liked the style and the writing and the characters and the plot twists and turns.
This book is the first in a three part series called Millennium. I have already picked up the second book, The Girl Who Played With Fire, and know I'll plow through it rather quickly. Well, quickly for me. It'll take a month, or two. That's how I read
I have plans to now watch the first book in movie form. Very excited to see that interpretation
5.09.2011
Just Watched: The Kids are All Right
Annette Benning, Julianne Moore, Mark Ruffalo, Mia Wasikowski...
Great cast.
I give The Kids are All Right 2 thumbs up.
Thought provoking.
That would be my summary of this film.
5.03.2011
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