Hullo! I peeked in this mornning, then we were off and running before I could post. As you may have guessed, we were working in the bathroom. I drew blood from both hands. Much cussing ensued. We quit about half an hour ago, not having accomplished what we’d hoped to get done. Oh well.
I’m about to toss a load of unders in the wash. I’m taking peas-n-carrots to my sister’s tomorrow, so that’s easy. I hope I have a sack of peas in the freezer.
Oh yeah, snow. We got over an inch, but I don’t think it quite hit 2", and most of it is melted now. It was really weird seeing snow on blooming forsythia. I shoulda took some pics. Alas for missed opportunity.
Off to do laundry…
Trying Something new here. writing this with the Stylus pen thing and any new fancy Tablet can actually recognize my handwriting!!
It capitalizes a bit randomly but it’s Still Kind of neat.
I have the marinara simmering I’m off to feed the Cats then it’s nap time.
Still struggling with the beast that is my thesis.
Does anyone have ideas for feta cheese? I have some sitting in my fridge and I dunno what to do with it.
Haze it’s cheese. You can do anything with it! You could crumble it up on top of a nice salad. You could use it to make an adult grilled cheese. You could use some to make adult mac & cheese. Yes, I’ve had that. It’s quite good. You could just, I dunno, eat it just like it is. Or make a cheese fondue with it and dip hunks of crusty bread in it. Or sump’n sophisticated.
Ok, droppin’ back in to say I did up a version of adult grilled cheese sammich for supper. I didn’t have any thick sliced sourdough bread but I do have some Texas Toast, so I used that. I grated up some sharp cheddar and monterray jack cheese. I grilled up some thick sliced bacon and sliced up some tomato. I put all that together and grilled it on my little sammich/waffle maker thingy. The results…
NUMMY!!!
It definitely should be washed down with a beerverage or two. It is beerverage worthy food.
I talked with ol’ y’all know who shortly after downin’ the sammich and told him it would definitely be enterin’ the supper rotation. I think he drooled on his cellphone while I was describin’ it. 
::checks to see if shredder works with sweet N.O.T.s::
Funny pictures, nashi. Wonder what mom would think.
Hank, I mix feta (8 oz, maybe) with spinach (one package chopped frozen, thawed), a little onion, garlic, nutmeg, and one egg and use it as filling for calzones. You could use crescent rolls or puff pastry for the dough instead.
I’m with you, SCL and MamaT on the subject of SCL’s friend. At least she’s waiting till June.
Pass the sweet N.O.T. pie, swampy.
Off to unload the dryer and throw the next load in. Maybe I’ll do some sheets next.
GT
Ooh, Swampy, sweet N.O.T. pie is the bestest! I only wish I could make it properly. I can certainly eat enough of it!
I’ve spent the last few hours with my tootsies up, trying out some new knitting – I’ve chickened out on that birds eye pattern after screwing it up hopelessly about 20 times; I need to try it with fatter yarn first – so am working on a much simpler lace pattern using a double strand of lace weight yarn. It’s a color called “sea green,” that is a kind of misty bluish greenish grey. It’s just gorgeous! Anyway, we’ll see how this one turns out. I drool over Shetland lace wedding ring shawls, but have come to realize that I lack the skills, patience, and eyesight to do one, so I will have to content myself with drooling.
But now I need to get up off my arse and do a bit of sewing for Lapin Blanc, who’s heading out to catch a plane at 0 dark 30 tomorrow morning to go take care of her Grandma. There’s nothing like the pressure of a deadline to get me to actually sit down at the sewing machine.
Been gearing up for the easter weekend at the in-laws. This generally entails getting my haircut, some shopping, and some baking of pies. (Apple, strawberry-rhubarb, and pumpkin, each of which needs to be baked tonight)
In shopping however I inadvertently came across some killer deals. The Bay in the mall near me is closing down so their clearance sale started today. It’s amazing how the bargain hunters can denude an entire two-level department store in a single day; by the time we got there around 4pm, well over 70% of the store was gone. There were still a few things left though. I managed to find a gorgeous, dressy, stylish shirt in a dark, denim-style blue, really soft and with a silky tan lining, which had been selling for $60, then marked down to $40, then marked down to $20 for the pre-closing sale, then marked down a further 50% for today’s clearance. In the end, I got a really nice $60 shirt for $10. Just in time for easter, too. Can’t beat that!
Then shopping at Zellers to pick up a few things, got a small jug of Sunlight laundry detergent (because we had to do a wash). Marked at $4.99, evidently this specific jug, which contained Snuggle fabric softener, was on sale for a whole buck. So I went back and grabbed the last one they had, too. Hey, 24 loads for $2 of premium detergent is pretty damn good.
Oh, and marshmallow peeps, 6 5-packs for $1. No way I’m passing up sugary, marshmallowey goodness that cheap.
Right, then. I’m off to put the laundry in the dryer and bake a few pies.
I promise to bring some when I come back.
Sweet N.O.T. Pie is better’en punkin’pie. That’s the concensus, right? cause I agree!
Hey, QuasiDaughter, are you around? You could tell LiLi she’s been [del]volunteered[/del] given the honor of hosting Monday’s MMP
I still haven’t done my taxes. Pity me.
Back from shopping (and resting afterwards …); wasn’t able to find any lamb that I could afford so instead got a rib roast and a quarter of a spiral sliced ham. Also picked up a sweet N.O.T pie, which I -know- won’t be as good as the one Swampy baked! I’ve tried my hand at them a couple of times - very similar to how you make pumpkin pie, just using sweet N.O.T’s instead of pumpkin. I’ve also found that the crust is a good part of what makes a pie tasty (fancy that?!); those Pillsbury ready-made crusts are right good - of course, they do have lard in em. 
My cable modem connection comes with a radio option–the free version has a huge selection of music styles and right now I’m listening to essential classical, a Monteverdi piece that sounds very Elizabethian. I love this cable connection!!
Haze, what I do with feta is make an omelet with spinach, onion and the feta cheese as filling - delicious! I like GT’s suggestion too. Those crescent rolls are very versatile. I had some chunky dark chocolate that I rolled up in some crescent rolls and made fairly decent chocolate croissants out of. 
Not feeling as morbid as I was earlier, thankfully. Music helps me when I’m feeling depressed. Religious days/holidays usually make me think of my Mom, since she was a church organist. I still miss her so much; sometimes I just want to pick up the phone and call her and talk to her still (her old number is still on my speed dial). I have many, many good memories of her, though, and she does live on in that way and through her grandchildren too.
Hope everyone enjoys their holiday weekend. Hope your hands are okay, FCM; I don’t know how you and FCD have the energy to do all that work!! Heh, forget the energy, I’d be afraid that I’d mess something up. Good on you, though, and hope it all goes well for you.
I am out of my mind. I am cramping and PMSing and really wanted something sweet - no ice cream, or cookies, or sweet stuff in the house. So I decided to make some hot tea and found a jar of marshmallow creme in the cupboard.
I ate a quarter of the jar.
I am bad.
Grr. Hamsters ate my post. Where was I? Oh, yeah, Sweet N.O.T. pie and wedding ring shawls.
I really like Sweet N.O.T. pie, but I lurve bean pie. A co-worker’s FIL used to make them to sell and they were very, very good. He made individual serving sized ones, too. Mmmm.
herbs, glad you’re feeling better. MBG, I hope you’re not feeling as funky as before.
SCL, did I read that right? That your friend is 32, dating a 22 year old, and has a 12 year old? :eek: I hope something shiny distracts them before June.
BioTigs, have you been drooling over the patterns at Heirloom Knitting? I like to go and look at the patterns there, one of which is “one of the most challenging patterns ever written.” It sure is beautiful, though. I read a blog where the blogger was planning a project with gossamer yarn, 1200 meters per 50 grams. Gulp! That’s really fine yarn. Their finest yarn, though, is 725 meters per 25 grams, sewing thread weight. I’m not sure I could knit that in white, in direct sunlight. But I like to think that I’ll knit one of those wedding ring shawls someday. (So-called because the completed shawl will fit through a wedding ring.)
Laundry done. StrawBarb pie done and cooling. Punkin pie baking.
Mmm. Pie.
I realized something about barbers today. They all seem to have trouble hearing. My instructions were pretty simple: #3 clippers to the side and back, #5 to the top. Good 'n short, good for spiking. So what does he do? He starts out with the scissors, snipping away with the skilled precision of one who hadn’t planned on using clippers at all. Fortunately, once he’d gotten the hair down to more or less the way he thought I wanted it, he clipped the sides and back and faded it nicely into the top. The top however, while shorter, was not a #5. It was more like a #8 or something. A bit longer than I wanted, but it looks pretty good just the same. The only thing is it’ll only take a week or two before it’s too long to spike. That’s why I wanted a #5; that lasts a good 3 weeks before it starts getting long in the follicle. sigh
There are something like 6 barbers in the mall I live behind. This is the third I tried, and is geared towards men, so I thought this one might be pretty decent. (The last one couldn’t find her #5 clipper head so I had to go with a #6. Not a sign of a good barber when they can’t find their tools.)
It snowed today. In April. In Louisiana. We’re waiting for the locusts and the infestation of boils next.
I made a cheesecake but we can’t eat it till tomorrow.
Heirloom Knitting is indeed the place, Jahdra. I doubt I’d ever have the nerve to even try anything beyond their simplest patterns, especially since I’m finding that knitting with a single strand of lace weight yarn is almost more than I’m willing to put up with. I cannot even imagine dealing with their gossamer yarn. Might as well just get out the sewing thread! I used to crochet with the thin crochet cotton and found that was easy to deal with, but the really fine yarns are another story entirely. But fortunately for my crazy self, that wedding ring shawl pattern was a limited edition of 500 and they’re sold out; they won’t be offering it again till 2010 or so. Whew! Dodged that “I’m just crazy enough to think I could try the hardest lace pattern ever created” bullet!
I really, really hope you’re in north Louisiana, Telperien. Because if you’re in south Louisiana? Hell really IS starting to freeze over!
**MamaTigs, ** we’re in the west central bit, about halfway between Shreveport and Lake Charles, north-south. How’s that?
Jahdra - yeah; it’s as bad as it sounds. Boyfriend (who has a 2 or 3 year old with his ex-wife) is ten years younger than my friend and only ten years older than her oldest son. She has two kids by her first marriage (12 & 8) and a 5 year old from her second marriage. Although she’s been seperated from #2 for a while they’ve only been legally divorced since October.
I haven’t had a chance to have a sit-down talk with her yet. I really want to find out why she is rushing into marriage so fast. I know it is really none of my business but she is my friend and I worry.
I would just like to point out, as I promised, that I am posting. It is Easter, I am Catholic, and I am well on my way to being drunk, in the company of four Husbands, Best Friend, QD, and Attacks Husband’s girlfriend. My parents and sponsors have gone home, and we’re getting hammered. Everyone is making fun of QD behind me.
Hockey season is over in Raleigh. 
On the bright side we had a rocking(if chilly) tailgate. We also came back from 4-1 in the third to win 5-4 in OT. At the end, they had a give away where the players gave away the jerseys off their backs. Is it September yet? Go Canes! Go Packers!
SCL, your friend needs to wait. 1/4 jar? No, bad would be eating the whole jar, and a 5lbs’ bag of sugar.
LiLi, One of us! One of Us! 
Lili, I’m looking forward to your MMP on Monday. It sounds like it’s going to be a doozy.
MBG, what kind of tablet do you have? Writing with a stylus sounds cool. Do you use it to paint and draw also?
Mork, if those pies are made from scratch, you’re my hero. I’ve had it as one of my goals to make a pie from scratch for many years now. I haven’t gotten up the motivation. I used to bake bread in a bread machine and loved that. Very therapeutic. The smell of fresh baked bread is wonderful. But baking a pie from scratch is truly a great skill. If you do make the crust from scratch, do you use butter, crisco, margarine or a combination?
I went to a book club today at my local library. Almost all of the women in the group are over 60 years old. When I first attended several years ago, I thought I would never fit in. And it’s taken me a while and sometimes I still don’t feel like I fit in. But today, people greeted me nicely and were very kind. And last month, one of the women said that I ask great questions, so that was nice. It was a good meeting today.
Happy Easter everyone!