1. (NFRC) How many ways do I hate thee, TimeWarner? Let me count them... We lost Internet service on Saturday morning and didn't regain it until an hour ago. Five increasingly irate calls to TimeWarner produced nothing. When I came back from running errands this afternoon, a mob of neighbors had converged on the TimeWarner service truck. Good luck, fellas! Total credit for two days of lost service? $2.80. (And lest anyone chide me for being addicted to the Internet--we did enjoy getting books read and having a little more silence, but if you run a small business, this is a colossal pain in the patoot.)
2. Went to our Italian/S. French standby, Nizza, for our eighth anniversary last night. Ordered the same thing we order there every single time. Now they just laugh at us...in a nice way, I'm sure, but there must be an element of "Ha ha, how cute; 'just the usual.' Are you not aware that we have a four-page menu?!" (Incidentally, sorry to repeat for those whom I know on Facebook, but Jakub and I are expecting in December--knowing both of us, the tot is destined to love garlic and dumplings and have a thing for black-and-white cookies). smileys/wink.gif
3. Made the sweet calzones for Sunday breakfast--not bad at all. An eight-ounce ball of dough split in half to make two calzones still produced enormous serving sizes--next time, I'll try splitting into four-ounce balls.
4. Used Naomi Duguid's banana-bread recipe to use up 5 bananas--the recipe only calls for 2-3 bananas, but then I have to stick them back in the freezer, so I always add whatever's around and it turns out fine. Dense as a brick, but fine, and very good toasted and served with coffee.
5. (Related to #2) Things I am REALLY looking forward to eating after December: CHEESE. SOFT CHEESE. ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL THE SOFT, UNPASTEURIZED CHEESE. Please, someone go eat some Camembert for me. Yes, I know that French women eat it and sail right through their pregnancies, but all the American preggo-lit regards soft cheese as right up there with smoking and Olympic pole-vaulting as activities best avoided for nine months. Boursin isn't cutting it--plus, it's insanely expensive for just a small hit. Anyway. There you go. Also: red wine.
6. Trying to figure out what to make for my parents' anniversary dinner. Variables: unfamiliar kitchen (but, ok, a well stocked condo kitchen), unfamiliar supermarket (although better than it was, ten years ago, I hear), lack of serious butcher, bakery, etc. There might be a farmers' market, but I don't think it's in the cards to get to it. I'm sort of inclined just to bring up the ingredients in a cooler in the car from Denver, but my mom remembers us doing this to excess, years past, and some food going to waste...but if it's only for one dinner, and I have more control over it that way, then why not?
/dinner control-freak
Hope you all had good weekends!
Erin
2. Went to our Italian/S. French standby, Nizza, for our eighth anniversary last night. Ordered the same thing we order there every single time. Now they just laugh at us...in a nice way, I'm sure, but there must be an element of "Ha ha, how cute; 'just the usual.' Are you not aware that we have a four-page menu?!" (Incidentally, sorry to repeat for those whom I know on Facebook, but Jakub and I are expecting in December--knowing both of us, the tot is destined to love garlic and dumplings and have a thing for black-and-white cookies). smileys/wink.gif
3. Made the sweet calzones for Sunday breakfast--not bad at all. An eight-ounce ball of dough split in half to make two calzones still produced enormous serving sizes--next time, I'll try splitting into four-ounce balls.
4. Used Naomi Duguid's banana-bread recipe to use up 5 bananas--the recipe only calls for 2-3 bananas, but then I have to stick them back in the freezer, so I always add whatever's around and it turns out fine. Dense as a brick, but fine, and very good toasted and served with coffee.
5. (Related to #2) Things I am REALLY looking forward to eating after December: CHEESE. SOFT CHEESE. ALLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL THE SOFT, UNPASTEURIZED CHEESE. Please, someone go eat some Camembert for me. Yes, I know that French women eat it and sail right through their pregnancies, but all the American preggo-lit regards soft cheese as right up there with smoking and Olympic pole-vaulting as activities best avoided for nine months. Boursin isn't cutting it--plus, it's insanely expensive for just a small hit. Anyway. There you go. Also: red wine.
6. Trying to figure out what to make for my parents' anniversary dinner. Variables: unfamiliar kitchen (but, ok, a well stocked condo kitchen), unfamiliar supermarket (although better than it was, ten years ago, I hear), lack of serious butcher, bakery, etc. There might be a farmers' market, but I don't think it's in the cards to get to it. I'm sort of inclined just to bring up the ingredients in a cooler in the car from Denver, but my mom remembers us doing this to excess, years past, and some food going to waste...but if it's only for one dinner, and I have more control over it that way, then why not?
/dinner control-freak
Hope you all had good weekends!
Erin