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random thoughts and a baking adventure
For the first time in the history of forever, FB's creepy ad algorithm is making me actually happy: it keeps serving me ads for CBS All Access with promo shots of Captain Pike in the full TOS uniform. Every time it pops up, my brain is all 'ooooooo', which is 1000x better than its usual 'this is bad, so bad, sososo bad' refrain.
I am not doing a huge amount around the house, but I did manage to go through all my bras and slips and things and got rid of the ones that don't fit, etc, and then washed all of the ones I'm keeping, so I have a full set of undergarments even though I'm basically wearing the same 2 of the most comfortable ones, \o?
Oh, also, BabyBoy tore apart the living room to make a film studio for a couple of his classes and he found a stack of cookbooks that I've been looking for for I don't even know how long, so that's cool. (I'd been thinking that they'd somehow gotten into a Friends of the Library donation box and got shipped off, but no, there they were on the bottom shelf of the extra coffee table.)
Also, BabyBoy celebrated his 20th (!!!) birthday last week and said he didn't want a cake, but that he'd help me make cheesecake from my brother's recipe. (Grumpy!Engineer!Uncle B and his supremely competent attorney wife (yes, they are a romance sub-genre unto themselves) are legendary for shipping cheesecakes all over the world at the holidays.)
So, I checked the recipe, decided we'd go for the half-recipe option, somehow managed to find 3 pounds of cream cheese and got all the way to where we were whisking in the last of the vanilla extract before we actually *looked* at the VAST quantity of filling we'd just made and said words to the effect of WTF?? Because, seriously, it was a vat o' cheesecake filling, clearly too much for the 9 inch diameter pan we had prepared. So, we called the Grumpy!Engineer himself, who said, "Yeah, no, that's not filling for 2 8 inch pans or 1 9 inch pan, that's filling for 2 8's AND a 9."
HOLY CRAP. That's the HALVED recipe. My brother is a maniac and his wife is a saint for living with him.
FORTUNATELY, I had, over the last month of Inside Time, cleaned out my baking cupboard and was able to lay my hands on 2 extra cheesecake pans of varying diameters. Two of them are in the oven now, the third goes in after the HoB decimates my frozen pizza supplies, b/c nothing else is getting done in that kitchen now.
I'll post pictures.
I am not doing a huge amount around the house, but I did manage to go through all my bras and slips and things and got rid of the ones that don't fit, etc, and then washed all of the ones I'm keeping, so I have a full set of undergarments even though I'm basically wearing the same 2 of the most comfortable ones, \o?
Oh, also, BabyBoy tore apart the living room to make a film studio for a couple of his classes and he found a stack of cookbooks that I've been looking for for I don't even know how long, so that's cool. (I'd been thinking that they'd somehow gotten into a Friends of the Library donation box and got shipped off, but no, there they were on the bottom shelf of the extra coffee table.)
Also, BabyBoy celebrated his 20th (!!!) birthday last week and said he didn't want a cake, but that he'd help me make cheesecake from my brother's recipe. (Grumpy!Engineer!Uncle B and his supremely competent attorney wife (yes, they are a romance sub-genre unto themselves) are legendary for shipping cheesecakes all over the world at the holidays.)
So, I checked the recipe, decided we'd go for the half-recipe option, somehow managed to find 3 pounds of cream cheese and got all the way to where we were whisking in the last of the vanilla extract before we actually *looked* at the VAST quantity of filling we'd just made and said words to the effect of WTF?? Because, seriously, it was a vat o' cheesecake filling, clearly too much for the 9 inch diameter pan we had prepared. So, we called the Grumpy!Engineer himself, who said, "Yeah, no, that's not filling for 2 8 inch pans or 1 9 inch pan, that's filling for 2 8's AND a 9."
HOLY CRAP. That's the HALVED recipe. My brother is a maniac and his wife is a saint for living with him.
FORTUNATELY, I had, over the last month of Inside Time, cleaned out my baking cupboard and was able to lay my hands on 2 extra cheesecake pans of varying diameters. Two of them are in the oven now, the third goes in after the HoB decimates my frozen pizza supplies, b/c nothing else is getting done in that kitchen now.
I'll post pictures.
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I made a batch of chocolate marshmallow squares yesterday and then put all of them right in the freezer. I was more in the mood to make something than actually eat it and this recipe is perfect for freezing.
I'm going to have such a hard time going back to wearing bras after this.
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Happy birthday to him! Hope he enjoyed all that cheesecake.
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