more than a feelin’
I have approximately three (3) buttloads of reading to do for tomorrow. I haven’t looked at my assignments yet, actually, so I can’t be sure, but I do know that I have my most reading-intensive classes back-to-back-to-back tomorrow morning and that gives me the vaguest of senses that I should maybe be doing something.
So I ate a very long dinner while watching nine episodes of Scrubs, and now I’m updating this blog instead of getting started. There are a few reasons for that. One is the fact that I thought up another thing to put on my wishlist: a nice new bike. A street bike with a ladies’ frame. I like the seating position of street bikes, and I like the handlebars, and my current bike is a) too small for me, b) a piece of crap that cost $45 new at Target, and c) rusting into oblivion because I leave it outside all the time.
Cool.
I also am developing a new plan for this blog, maybe? Instead of publishing eighteen thousand little entries in the same day, I’m going to hit “Save” instead of “Publish” each time and just publish the one no more often than once per day.
We’ll see how that goes.
For the record, I actually am enjoying my classes this quarter very much. I have crushes on both my English professors, friends to sit with for Hebrew Bible, and Statistics is early and boring but easy. That being said, I still don’t want to get started on the reading but since I’m basically out of things to write about here I suppose I must.
Oh, except I thought of some more things I wanted to say! Not only am I using this little Internet space of mine to keep track of my miscellaneous wishes for miscellaneous things, but I am also going to use it to keep track of miscellaneous recipes that I have for miscellaneous things so I don’t have to worry about losing little bits of paper! Here’s what I’ve got so far, just so the “recipes” category isn’t so lonely…
Meringue Cookies
(Beacon Hill Cookies, from my [mother's] mother’s recipe file circa 1958, with a hand written note, “My Best Cookies.”)
- 1 cup, 6 oz semi sweet chocolate chips
- 2 egg whites, room temperature (easier to separate when cold, though). Make sure there are no yolk or shell specks or foreign matter in the whites.
- Dash of salt
- Dash of cream of tartar (available in spice section of supermarket, not absolutely essential)
- ½ cup sugar
- ½ tsp vanilla
- ½ tsp white vinegar
- ¾ cup coarsely chopped walnuts or pecans OR substitute equal amount in chocolate chips if your children don’t like nuts
- Parchment paper
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Melt chocolate chips in pyrex measuring cup in microwave-go slowly as they burn quickly. Remove when they are just soft, and stir to melt the rest of the way.
In very clean chilled bowl, using chilled beaters, beat eggs with pinch of cream of tartar and salt until stiff peaks form and stay formed when you lift mixer (carefully, after shutting off). Add sugar and beat well. Beat in vanilla and vinegar. Fold in melted chocolate and nuts or c. chips. Stir gently only until just blended, using folding motion. Drop my teaspoonfuls onto parchment paper-lined cookie sheet, several inches apart, as they spread. Bake about 10 minutes, until tops look pale and dry and begin to crack. Let cool before removing. Store in airtight container or freeze.
Makes about 3 dozen.
Prune Whip
(Don’t ask. You never know when this might come in handy.)
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 1 cup whipping cream
- 1/4 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 cup prunes, pitted and cut up
- 1/4 cup chopped nuts
- 1/4 cup prune juice
Cook prunes till tender. Drain and mash, saving liquid. Allow to cool.
Beat whipping cream. Add sugar, nuts, prunes, vanilla and prune juice.
Whip all together and chill. Serves 6.
Cool! At this point, with the recipes contained in this blog thus far, we can create something extremely delicious AND something extremely questionable!
What more could I ever need?
-@
2 Responses to “more than a feelin’”
Um, from which side of the family did prune whip come?
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