and now, back to our regularly scheduled programming

My brother is here to visit until Sunday, and today we’ll be making our giant Thanksgiving dinner for three, since everyone else is out of town. We’re going to make:
delicata squash stuffed with field roast and mushrooms
scalloped potatoes
roasted brussels sprouts
cranberry sauce
chocolate pecan pie
This may be a bit much for three people, but I rarely have [...]

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Yet another non-food related post

But at least this time it’s not me whining about being unemployed!
In a few weeks it will have been a year since I went home for Christmas. I’ve been feeling strangely depressed about this. It’s like, I don’t go home for three years at a time, and then I do and it’s the most disappointing [...]

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I need to get out of the house. Really.

I’ve spent all day alternately trolling craigslist for jobs, sweeping my floors, and obsessively checking my email to see if any jobs have gotten back to me. In this frenzy of internet madness, I forgot about a job interview I had today. Which is probably a good thing, because I REALLY did not want to [...]

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Cookie package, take 2

A  mediocre photo essay by me.
I needed to make cookies for my friend who never got the first package of cookies I mailed him. (WTF, postal service? A man’s cat AND half brother both die and you can’t get his damn cookies to him?) Looking around my kitchen, I realized I didn’t have a TON [...]

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When life hands me lemons

I make eggnog pancakes. No photos this time, cause I believe in eating pancakes as soon as they come out of the pan.
ingredients:
2 cups all-purp. flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
2 tablespoons sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 cups eggnog
3 tablespoons butter, melted
1 egg
In a bowl, mix the dry ingredients. Separately, beat egg, then add melted butter [...]

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BLEGH

I just found out via the North Carolina employment commission that I didn’t work at my job long enough to apply for unemployment. 
Did I mention that there are NO JOBS here?
I’ve applied for four (I think?) jobs since I got laid off; they’re all crappy retail positions, because that’s the only thing that seems to [...]

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“The internet is for porn.”

That’s why my blog is not destined for greatness.
Well, that and the fact that I’m lazy and don’t update much. And I haven’t quite figured out how to make it look pretty around here. I’ll figure it out.
The last few days have been LONG. I spend part of my day cleaning and trying to keep [...]

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i need to remember the recipes from this job

And since they’re just in my head, because I didn’t get to take the giant recipe book with me when I left, I’m gonna write down as many as I remember.
chocolate chip cookie recipe:
2 # butter
4 c brown sugar
4 c white sugar
8 eggs
2 tsp salt
1 tb plus 1 tsp baking soda
vanilla
12 c flour
10 c chocolate [...]

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teh economy, it is teh suck

I thought I was safe from the recession, but I got laid off today. I don’t really have much to say about it right now, since I’m still kind of trying to process the situation.
Unfortunately, when restaurants are failing, pastry chefs are the first to be cut. I’ve always known this; I’ve read about it [...]

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Tonight I’ll be sleeping alone

For the first time in four years! It’s weird. Really weird. And it’s not like I ever really thought about it before; Yoni and I just don’t spend the night apart. We live together, we go on vacation together. It’s not like we’re attached at the hip (and, in fact, we spend precious little time [...]

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