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February 22, 2010

strawberries and tall food

Yesterday I decided to make mini strawberry tarts, and stack as many strawberries in them as possible. Came out quite tasty, and left enough tart shell dough left to make mini apple tarts tonight. I think next time I will condense the apple tarts into 1, though.



During the cold snap where we were all cooking to keep warm I made the strawberry shortcakes out of the america's test kitchens cooking for two book, which was a christmas present. Lots of useful scaled-down stuff in there. Also kitchenaid-made whipped cream is awesome and fast. Non sickly-sweet whipped cream ftw.

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February 16, 2010

sunday mornings

This is what my Sunday morning looked like, as we head into the home stretch of Mardi Gras day. I even have a costume for tomorrow. Spent some of the lull between parades here wandering St. Charles with a bloody mary. Good times. The crowds only got worse.

Here: a scattering of Mardi Gras pictures and some awesome Lombardi Gras pictures.

See you on the other side.

Update: Today's pictures are in the Mardi Gras set link above.

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February 07, 2010

FINISH STRONG

The end of the last float in the second parade today, after which everyone is going home to fix food for the superbowl... Where else do you scramble out of bed for 11am parades on superbowl sunday?

See also gold 67 mustang on the rust chronicles. It's as old as the team is. Hopefully it is still out there.

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January 31, 2010

pigs are flying

The saints are in the superbowl, and Clay is contemplating the tackiest (also largest) dress in my vintage arsenal. He's kinda wiped out from the parades last night so we may miss this event.

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January 21, 2010

stock to keep warm

Now that it is back in the upper sixties, low seventies in the daytime here, I finally get around to the 2010 new orleans freeze stock experiment.

We were cooking to keep warm. The house was a crisp 50 degrees indoors when it was below freezing out in the daytime. No insulation. The neighbors, who insulated their identical twin house, say it only helps to about 60-65.

This stock, with a nice combination of cow necks and feet, came out so well it is practically an aspic. I made some great onion soup from it which got eaten too quickly to take pictures.

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January 10, 2010

christmas present

I forgot to mention that I got a nabaztag for Christmas. It is a silly little programmable rabbit, which has a hosted API on the one side, (REST, simple) and a hacked madness french developer community with working server projects in case the company that bought the rabbit decides to kill their servers. It moves its ears and talks and blinks colors and gives me weather and news and likes old french techno.

When I was researching the specifications and the assembly language (it has a virtual machine) it was all in French. Technical specifications en francais are hilarious. Very glad I decided to take 4th semester French as an elective last semester to get a better working knowledge of things.

School starts tomorrow and I have not yet written any of the technical stuff I wanted to. Last semester I set up a virtualbox reusable sandboxing system for viruses with a fake network services component that was really nifty. Maybe I will post the presentation soon.

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January 02, 2010

bonjour, 2010

Ten years ago seems like an eternity. The only similarity I can
think of between my life then and now is that I am in school.
Now, though due to the lack of snow among other things, I actually
get good grades. (To sum up my RIT career, it was cold and and I
drank too much.) Oh, and I still dance. So two things.

2005's events left my life split in two, and 2000 seems like an
eternity now. So much so that I barely remember some of it.

To better years! I will not offer a toast because I have spent what
feels like the last week with a hangover and a headache, and got
a stomach virus today. Getting better.

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December 28, 2009

buttercream frosting

So we decided to forego waiting until wedding-present season and spent christmas present money on a shiny blue kitchenaid. With the amount of creme patissier I make during strawberry season it sounded like a good idea.

I made frosting this summer with a handheld electric mixer and it was a bear. Took forever and my right arm hurt for hours. This? Less than ten minutes.

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December 15, 2009

susie rides in patches

Meant to post this picture quite a while ago. She sat in the driver's seat as well. Death by cuteness.

I am alive, got through the semester, nearly perfect (3.9) gpa. Lots going on, lots to discuss, hopefully will have time to work on/discuss my repeatable virus sandbox system that has been this semester's project.

Just now coming up for air; I don't even have pictures of our house's christmas lights - we have holly bushes along the front so I thought they would look nice - or any cars in a couple of weeks. Major car and food posts coming I hope.

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