Mexican pizza, take two

It was better last time, sadly.  But, I did make my own crust this time, using an amazingly easy recipe out of this Sara Moulton cookbook.  She’s my hero.  Well, she was my hero before because I’d worship anyone who was or is or might be on the Food Network, but I like her even [...]

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Milky Way in the morning

Okay, not really.  But I do have a little problem in that my friend at work just introduced me to the Milky Way flavor for the Flavia machine.

Let me tell you something.  These things smell just like cake batter.  I love the smell of cake batter.  Especially in the morning.  It nearly beats Starbucks, except [...]

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Multitalented

It’s Monday, in case you didn’t know.  Blah!  But at least this particular Monday is Chris’s birthday, which is exciting.  More so for him than for me, but I still get to go out to dinner.
On Saturday we had a karaoke party to celebrate:

The extremely talented Jaclyn made Chris pretty much the most amazing cake [...]

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Long post about small things

Thanks for all the lactose-related tips from the other day.  I know that I will probably be able to eat Sun Chips and butter and yogurt, but for some reason my doctor said not to until I go back in two weeks.  I’m serious.  I specifically asked about the Sun Chips.
In the comments of [...]

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A life without ice cream is no life at all

Tonight I very excitedly used a recipe in my new Food Network magazine to make Thai Red Curry Mahi Mahi Salad.

Quite a name, right?  It was quite a recipe.  I think it actually would have turned out well, except I’m scared of my broiler and so I couldn’t follow the directions.  I have a broiler, [...]

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Part of history

I can’t believe it actually happened!  I don’t even know what to say about it, really.  It is amazing.  Last night when they named Obama the projected winner, Chris and I muted the television and our entire neighborhood was just exploding in cheers and fireworks.  When I was walking Jack this morning, three people I [...]

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Big day!

Don’t forget to vote!!  For Obama.  No, I’m kidding.  Sort of.  Not really.  Just vote.

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Just call me The Blogger

I had a rather uneventful weekend, which was exciting because things have been a little too eventful for me lately.  A few highlights:
Possibly the last ice cream of the season (outdoors, obviously…it’s always ice cream weather inside the walls of my apartment):

After he took this picture, Chris carried on for about an hour about how [...]

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Working for my food

I love pumpkin seeds.  I usually buy a bag from Trader Joe’s, but I haven’t seen them because I haven’t actually looked for them.  I’m forgetful.
So, I decided to take matters into my own hands.  Chris brought home a pumpkin tonight so I could make some seeds.  And of course we had to carve the [...]

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Mexico!

Pictures!  So many pictures.  We stayed in this little resort all by ourselves.  There were a few little casitas and then a common area with a kitchen, lots of lounge chairs for napping, and a swimming pool:

I spent a lot of time in the pool doing this:

And sometimes I swapped the beer for one of [...]

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