I had a dream last night that I made chocolate cupcakes and then used rice krispie treat for the “frosting” and then drizzled peanut butter/caramel sauce over them.
I think I’ll just stick to my ol’ standby, the red velvet, but a little internet research shows I am not the first to have the rice krispie cupcake idea.
JP. Miss him.
- me: omg!
- the grossest house thing happened the last day i was there.
- at the farm
- first of all, katie came over and noticed water in diego's bathroom
- and it was overflowing from the tub! and the toilet
- water with literal SHIT in it.
- and so chris called the plumber
- Jon: oh jesus
- me: and i was unplugging the cablevision shit and noticed the smell of death back behind the tv
- much the same smell under your bed.
- and it was a dead mouse, that had to be dead for so LONG!
- Jon: oh no. they really stink
- me: then the plumber came and the whole problem with the pipes was a DEAD RAT
- stuck in the pipe
- under the sink
- Jon: hahahaha
- me: no idea where he disposed of it, nor do i care.
- me: the plumber was laughing
- cause he said something was in the pipes and i said "was it a dead mouse"
- and he said "no, rat"
- and i was like, ugh thank GOD i am moving out today
- i'm sure he sees that all the time though right ?
- Jon: that's hilarious
- Jon: maybe katie clogged it and the guy was trying to be nice
- me: for real. katie is small but her and mark are ordering all that museli from united.
- i believe it
- Jon: haha
Cheryl's Linkedin Page...Click here to see!
find my friend cheryl a job. she’s pretty awesome.
Yet another social networking site in hopes it will aid with the job search! pass it along!
The last of Browder’s Birds. Chicken with Porcini Mushroom and Tomato Cream Sauce. Le sigh.
Whole Wheat Oatmeal Butternut Squash Cookies
I made “healthy” cookies for my favorite (and only) little sister who is so graciously letting me overstay my due with her this week.
These are TASTY!!! It’s like an oatmeal cookie with a pumpkin pie inside of it. I highly recommend them for the fall. Could you use pumpkin instead of Butternut Squash? Sure. I just like the old Butternut better.
DRY INGREDIENTS
1 cup whole wheat flour
1 1/2 cups oatmeal
2 tsps. baking powder
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp allspice
1 tsp nutmeg
WET INGREDIENTS
1 medium butternut squash (roasted with flesh sccoped out and set aside - about 1/2 cup)
1 egg
3/4 cup honey
3 tablespoons vegetable oil
1 tsp vanilla
Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
1. Mix dry ingredients together in a large mixing bowl.
2. In a seperate medium sized mixing bowl, mix wet ingredients.
3. Pour wet ingredients into the dry and mix well.
4. Drop a spoonful at a time onto a greased cookie sheet. Bake for 15 - 20 minutes or until bottom is golden brown.
5. Cool and enjoy!
If you’ve ever worked or lived on a farm you probably don’t need to read this. If you haven’t, you probably should. I’ll even let you borrow mine.
Plotting.
- Casie
- lots of rich boys have boats in the marina. we are gonna have to tap into the marina crowd
- my winggirl. haha yes!!
- we'll be each others wing girl
- 10: 05pmMelissa
- a houseboat!
- 10: 06pmCasie
- seriously, we're gonna have to go to bars in the marina, which is where i never go, but that's the rich young single crowd. i'm going to become a superficial egomaniac who doesn't want to work
- 10: 06pmMelissa
- i hate working
- 10: 06pmCasie
- i just want to roll around in $100 bills
- 10: 06pmMelissa
- i just want to spend all day cooking elaborate dinners
- 10: 06pmCasie
- oooohhh and rolling around in $100 bills
- 10: 06pmMelissa
- hahahha. then i want to drink an after dinner martini and roll around in $100 Bills
- and i want to have pet pigs
- 10: 07pmCasie
- haha. got it. oh that reminds me...where's my wine bottle
- 10: 07pmMelissa
- micro pigs from england
- 10: 07pmCasie
- hey i heard there are tiny cows now
- 10: 07pmMelissa
- omg! i want a house full of tiny miniature farm animals!
- 10: 08pmCasie
- shit i am laughing so hard. i wonder if people can hear me outside cuz all my windows are open
- you are cracking me up
- 10: 08pmMelissa
- can you even imagine walking into my tiny farm animal house?
- tiny goats, and pigs and cows
- 10: 08pmCasie
- omg
- ahahahahaaaaaaaa
- holy shit, the wine i'm drinking is called mad housewife!
- it would go perfect with your tiny farm house
- 10: 09pmMelissa
- HAHAHAHAHA perfect
- should be call "mad rich housewife with eccentric pets"
- 10: 10pmCasie
- yeah but then it would cost more than 4.99
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Dear Melissa Rebholz,
Congratulations! We enjoyed meeting you and we’re delighted to tell you that you have made it to the next level of casting for Chopped.
my most recent email. sweet. i’m banking on winning chopped to get a shitty car and drive to the west coast. stranger things have happened.
Ok. So I am reading Eating Animals right now by Jonathan Safran Foer. I do not need to be reading this book. I have read MUCH about factory farms. I have seen Death on a Factory Farm (http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/deathfactoryfarm/index.html). I spent 4 years in high school/college as a vegetarian. I feel like the choir getting preached to reading the book.
I’m not sure why I bought it. Maybe it’s because since I read this article.. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/04/health/04meat.html in the beginning of October I realized I had to say no to meat, a lot. I need constant reassurance that I should not be eating this meat.
But the carnitas at Taco Tuesday are soooo tasty. And pepperoni is the ulimate topping for any crappy pizza (in Riverhead) and the burgers with bacon are the best thing on the menu Thursday nights at Diggers.
I have been eating origin-less meat for quite some time. Favorite street vendors anyone?
It has been SUPER DUPER hard not to get that burger on Thursdays. And while the crab cake po’boy is good, it ain’t a bacon cheeseburger. I’m not scared of contracting e.coli and dying (although I suppose it’s possible) I am more horrified by the abuse animals on factory farms endure.
The most prolific page in Eating Animals for me so far has been one in which Safran Foer talks about “Discomfort Food”. He outlines how it’s completely socially acceptable for someone to request a vegetarian option at a public dinner, on an airline, at a wedding, what have you… BUT it’s frowned upon or socially more awkward to just request a humanely raised meat option. It’s much much easier to say “I’m vegetarian” than to say “I don’t want to eat your weird meat” to a host. Do I have to start pretending to be vegetarian? Do I have to actually become vegetarian again?
I love meat. I love bacon and belly and short ribs and livers and wings and I don’t think I could give that up. But over the past year it’s become more of a luxury for me.
I have been really lucky to have the opportunity to raise 2 pigs this year and see what awesomely amazingly smart and super friendly and responsive and social and giving animals they are. And if I think that they were born in a farrowing crate and that makes me not want to eat them, that’s MY prerogative. I’m not better than you in anyway. I’m not being pretentious or enlightened or vegetarian.. If I don’t want to eat the “weird meat” at your house I don’t have to. And that’s all I have to say about that.
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