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Six Unimportant Things I Love

June 30, 2009 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Yes, I do have some baking from this week to post. I baked breakfast goodies for the set up crew at the Comfest Band Merch Booth on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. I’m uploading my photos to Flickr right now, but because the food ones are mixed in with the regular Comfest ones, it’s going to take a while to get everything uploaded. And I’m so tired from this weekend, that I may go to bed before they’re finished which means I’ll post them here tomorrow.

But in the meantime, I’ve stolen another quiz from a baking blog. Danae over at The Busty Baker posted this one and I couldn’t resist. Here they are: Six unimportant things I love.

1. Laura Ingalls Wilder
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I have a somewhat unhealthy obsession with all things LIW. I’ve cleaned out the bookstore where I work of LIW-related books and have ordered the ones we don’t stock. I own all but one season of “Little House on the Prairie” on DVD. I’ve read all of LIW’s books at least twice (my favorites are “Little Town on the Prairie” and “These Happy Golden Years”), and I’m bound and determined to visit Mansfield, Missouri to see Rocky Ridge Farm where Laura and Almanzo Wilder lived.

2. Giant Eagle Market District Unsweetened Black Iced Tea
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I have a problem when it comes to this iced tea. I buy four or five of them at a time and they never last beyond two days. Once when we driving to New Jersey for a visit, we stopped at a GetGo in Pennsylvania and they had my iced tea in the little convenience store. I did a happy dance.
This is probably a good time to mention that I’m going to be moving to New York in about a month!!! This is happy news, aside from the fact that there are no Giant Eagles or GetGos in New York, so I’m going to be without my delicious iced tea. I’m seriously considering buying about twenty of them and packing them for the trip. They’re only $1 apiece.

3. My iPhone
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Rob and I got matching iPhones about a week before our wedding so we would have them for the honeymoon. I don’t know what we would have done without them. This thing is seriously magical and I’m eternally grateful to be embarking to NYC with it.

4. Comic Strips
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Once upon a time I wrote and drew a comic strip. I thought I had a chance at maybe becoming a syndicated cartoonist. Alas, those days are over, but I still love comics. “Pogo” is one of my favorites, even if you have to study 1950′s history to get it. My contemporary favorites include “Get Fuzzy”, “Zits” and, of course, “Retail”. I’ve been known to spend hundreds of dollars on classic comic strip collections. I dropped about $60 on two first-edition Sunday “Pogo” books at Powell’s in Portland, Oregon. Worth it.

5. Cerulean
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I love the color, I love the word. I love that in an episode of “The X-Files” called “The Pusher”, a guy convinced a policeman to drive into a cerulean-colored van by repeating, “Cerulean is a gentle breeze.”

6. Hounddog’s Pizza
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My husband will kill me for saying this, but man, I’m going to miss Hounddog’s Pizza when we go to New York. I know I’ll be living in the land of awesome pizza, but I’ve really come to love and depend on Hounddog’s meatball and green pepper pizza. I just had it for dinner tonight. Sniff.

Things other people wouldn’t find important that I totally do that I also love:
Jeni’s Ice Cream
My Pink KitchenAid Stand Mixer
Corgis
Cupcakes
Baking books
Miranda Sound
Ted Leo & the Pharmacists

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The Getting to Know You Quiz

May 16, 2009 in Uncategorized | 1 comment

Shamelessly stolen from How To Eat a Cupcake. Be sure to post it on your baking blog as well!

Here goes!

Metal or non-stick? I think my pans are non-stick…but I still use parchment paper or My Precious.

Cast iron or stainless? Stainless steel. Cast iron is too heavy for me.

Cutting board: silicone or wood? Wood. I’ve got two of ‘em.

Knife: carbon steel or stainless? I have no idea what mine are. They’re Faberware. They were a wedding gift from my Best Woman. She loves giving me knives as gifts.

Kitchenaid or hand mixer? I won’t even dignify this with an answer. Any baker worth her salt has a Kitchenaid stand mixer. I do covet the pink Kitchenaid hand mixer thought, just so I could have a matching set.

Cooktop: gas, electric, induction? Gas. I’ve used electric before though. Electric takes a little longer, but you don’t have to worry about blowing yourself up if the pilot light goes out.

Side-by-side, freezer on top, fridge on top? Boy oh boy, do I want a side-by-side. I’m stuck with the freezer on top.

Apron or whoops? I have two aprons (soon to be three), and I rarely wear them. I probably should. I tend to get stuff all over me.

Mashed potatoes: by hand, ricer, or mixer? I do it by hand. I really want a ricer though.

Sandwich or wrap? Wraps fall apart too easily. Gimme a good ol fashioned sandwich.

PB & _________ ? Smucker’s Grape Jelly. Anything else is a crime against nature.

Pancakes: syrup or applesauce? Applesauce on pancakes??? I’ve never heard of such a thing. I do really like the apple compote you can get at IHOP. But I prefer a little butter and a little syrup.

Cake: scratch or mix? Scratch. I actually have a really difficult time with box mixes now that I know how to bake from scratch.

Chili: beans or no? Only if they’re black beans.

Napkin: cloth or paper? Paper. I know it’s bad for the environment, but I really don’t feel like learning how to use bleach.

BBQ: takes the whole weekend to make or take out? Ehh, I’m not the biggest BBQ fan.

Chicken: white or dark? White.

Ice cream: cone or dish? At home I usually just eat it out of the container (we buy pints, and I don’t eat the whole thing in one sitting, don’t freak out), if I’m out, it’s gotta be in a cone. Mmmm….now you’ve got me thinking about Jeni’s….

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