Apr. 1st, 2006

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Good stuff from the last couple of days:

1) Helped [livejournal.com profile] stonebender do a really fun thing.

2) Had [livejournal.com profile] dryadgrl and her kiddo over last evening. Kiddo was a pleasure, as was talking with [livejournal.com profile] dryadgrl about how great it is to be in love with someone who goes out of zir way to do sweet things for you.

3) Watched "Walk the Line" with [livejournal.com profile] sogwife (ended it even more impressed with Reese Witherspoon and even more depressed by Hollywood than before)

4) Shaved my legs for the first time in more than 20 years, on a sort of whim, and like how it feels, so I did it again this morning.

5) Had a long, intimate evening with someone who really gets me. TMI )


In not-so-fun stuff:

1) Can't find the MS Office disk a friend kindly lent me, and now I have to either find it or use Word 97, which I hope will do what I need it to. I was dumb to wipe my hard drive before figuring out if I had the software handy. I told the contract client that I have a computer situation of Laurel-and-Hardy proportions, and he said he's in no hurry, so I'll either be able to do it today at home, or I'll see if [livejournal.com profile] loracs will let me use her computer to do it tomorrow.

2) Massive headache upon waking means I may not feel up to going to the gardening class I signed up for for today.
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Because of this post on rec.food.cooking, I decided I needed to make salted angel's cake.

[Edit: the author forgot to add that there is about 70-80g of fontina cheese, diced, in the filling.)

So far, we've got the dough ball rising:
http://pics.livejournal.com/serenejournal/pic/000363ha/g5

and the ingredients prepped:
http://pics.livejournal.com/serenejournal/pic/00037f44/g5

Once the dough has risen, I'll take pics of the next steps.
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[posted to my journal and [livejournal.com profile] one_happiness]

Happiness is having a house that's clean enough that when a neighbor stops by with a gift of yummy blueberry bread, you happily say "Come on in!"
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Made the angel's bread, and here are many pictures of it. If you just go to the first one, you should be able to navigate to the end.

([livejournal.com profile] sogwife walked in as I started the prep, so she took pictures -- that's why I'm in some of them. I'm amused by how hard I'm concentrating in the first picture.)

http://pics.livejournal.com/serenejournal/pic/0003es45/g5
http://pics.livejournal.com/serenejournal/pic/0003fbtg/g5
http://pics.livejournal.com/serenejournal/pic/0003gryh/g5
http://pics.livejournal.com/serenejournal/pic/0003heh2/g5
http://pics.livejournal.com/serenejournal/pic/0003k9k1/g5
http://pics.livejournal.com/serenejournal/pic/0003pqz0/g5

And the finished thing:

http://pics.livejournal.com/serenejournal/pic/0003q3hq/g5
http://pics.livejournal.com/serenejournal/pic/0003r3ye/g5

The gang liked it. [livejournal.com profile] someotherguy said it tasted like a cross between pizza and calzone to him. [livejournal.com profile] sogwife said she thought it would be good with pesto and artichokes. I thought it tasted like this thing my sister used to make, called stromboli.

Anyway, it was very fun to see something on Usenet, and decide Hey, I'm gonna make that.

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