find fail, or descriptor fail? :(
I am looking for squiggly boxes…
A Confession…
Instead of cooking or baking or even cleaning my dirty ass house, I’ve been reading Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time series and eating summer sausage and drinking fanta.
FML.
Cupcakes, with bacon?
Have you ever wondered which is better, a maple brown sugar bacon cupcake, or a dark chocolate bacon cupcake? Oh you have?! ME TOO! I’m off to the grocery store to buy ingredients for both, and soon we will have a bacon-cupcake-off.
Mistakes
Some people learn from their mistakes. Some people learn from their friends mistakes. Some people just don’t learn at all.
p.s. I think I need a bigger container.
Engagement pictures are here!
Amazon.com 4 for 3 promotion sucks me in yet again
These amazon people are evil, they sure know how to get you. I was only there to get this candy thermometer
I finally decided on the following:
Oneida 4-Piece Stratford Turner Set
World Cuisine 16.37-Inch x 11.62-Inch Perforated Baking Mat (41540)
Salter 1051 Aluminum Scale with Lighted Readout, Black
Now during this 3 day of constantly browsing through kitchen gadgets at amazon, I came across quite a few bizarre and useless things. Can you guess what these are??
Is it a nice comb for your hair?? A back scratcher??
Paper weight maybe… or a really bad dumbell…
Yes definitely something with pineapples, but what is it doing and is it legal?
iphone opens iphoto automatically, super annoying!
I have no idea when this started, but my iPhone has been opening up iPhoto every time I plug it in to charge. I don’t even use iPhoto, because it kind of sucks. By default I can’t find anything on my mac that regulates this behavior so it was annoying me to no end. I finally found this app Flexibits that allows the user to set the default behavior when a camera is plugged in. After installing flexibits, I can plug in my iPhone now without crazy stuff popping up all over the place.
yay!
Como Zoo in St Paul MN
Saturday we took a trip to the como zoo with Troy and Erika and their little baby Siri. We saw lions, and tigers, but no bears because his enclosure is under construction, oh my.
The place was PACKED, parking was ridiculous but the weather was cool enough and we were in great company, so it was a nice experience all around.
I even braved the enclosure full of “butterflies” aka nasty bugs with pretty wings to bring you these pictures. I didn’t enjoy creepy flappy bugs all around me, but I did enjoy playing with my camera and getting some good shots.
The giraffes was the most entertaining besides the monkeys, I kept trying to get a good shot of him sticking his nasty blue tongue out, and out of 10 pictures I got one! I need Ronnie’s awesome DSLR camera. :( I especially enjoy the first giraffe picture, he’s giving you such a disapproving look. The lion is also one of my favorites, he is just relaxing with his head on a tire, reminds me of my dogs.
The polar bear exhibit will be finished in 2010, I’m very glad he’s getting a (hopefully better) new enclosure because he would always swim around the old pool in the same pattern every time you visited, it was very sad.
And some people will tell you there are wolves at the como zoo, but every time I’ve visited, they are not out. I think it’s an elaborate lie, there is no cake. To get my wolf fix, I go to the Minnesota zoo, they have some magestic beautiful wolves there.
Epicurious app for the iphone
There are good apps, silly apps, and sometimes just plain stupid apps for the iPhone. I usually don’t rave about any of them but I feel like I have to rave about the epicurious app. If you live under a rock, epicurious.com is a website full of delicious recipes, from bon appetit, gourmet magazine, etc etc and whatnot.
Basically you start the app, and you can do the following:
- Search for a recipe by name, ingredient, region, course, whatever you can think of.
- Save the recipe to your favorites.
- Landscape view the recipe to get step by step instructions.
(now this is where it gets super duper cool)
- Create a shopping list from any recipe in your favorites folder.
- Ability to check off items as you purchase.
- The recipe list is organized by department!!
Now if you are a high functioning retard like me when it comes to making lists to take to the grocery store, and you realize that you put “lettuce” after “eggs” and you have to walk all the way back to the front of the store to get lettuce, and then realize you need to get milk as well so you walk all the way back to the dairy section… this app is a life saver. I went to target and got ingredients for 4 recipes in under 15 minutes. (Then it took the cashier 10 minutes to check me out… grr.)
And when you are ready to make food from your recipe, you turn your phone landscape and choose the recipe. It has arrows to guide you step by step. It’s the best thing since sliced bread.
The downsides…
- It doesn’t know how to combine “2 cloves of garlic” and “2 garlic cloves”. But since everything is organized by department, you can eyeball it and get the general gist of things.
- You can’t add your own items to the shopping list.
- You can only use epicurious recipes.
Did I mention that this app is free? My favorite word.
Costco, the happiest place on earth
seriously… screw disneyland. It’s time to go to COSTCO!!!!
I got a 4 pack of ground turkey… so uh I need some turkey recipes now. We can’t eat 4 lbs of turkey burgers. (Actually I have 5 lbs of ground turkey now, there’s still a pack in my freezer from last week.)
Here are 3 giant packs of MEAT. Ribeyes for $9.99/lb, we splurged on the good stuff this trip, the cheaper ribeyes are $6.99/lb. 2 slabs of pot roast, and 2 flank steaks to make more beef jerky with.
OMG THE MEAT. One giant $70 beef tenderloin, when cut up, it’s like 15 fillets. Also some pork back ribs. I’ve been making this amazing Paula Dean pork ribs recipe, so more ribs the merrier.
I was very happy to get 2 whole red snappers for $10 each. They are 2 lbs each, big fat snappers. One is getting grilled tonight and swimming in mah belleh.
And something not food related, I also got a bunch of flowers for $15. I’ve heard good things about costco flowers, so why not! It’s still more expensive than the farmer’s market but I’m so lazy…
