more rambling

[verbicide]

1. I can't believe I've lived this long without a Kitchen Aid mixer. It is teh hot sex.
2. Also, I really, really love my microplane. I would kiss it, but it would shred my lips.
3. I burned my hand. Owie.
4. Dishwashers are the best thing ever.

Okay, enough with the numbering crap. Dishes are a-washing, and most of the food is put away. I'm glad my office consists of gluttonous vultures, because I'm going to offload a metric ton of salmon pate, crackers, and really nice cheese (smoked Gouda, Brie, Gorgonzola, and this really wonderfully peppery cheese called No Woman, which is Jamaican/infused with jerk sauce). I need to see if Jeff would like the leftover Kalamata olives, or the work-doggies get it, too. I'm struggling to give up the leftover lumpia, because I love it so very much, but it's 5pts a piece and I don't need that kind of temptation in my fridge. I know I can't just eat one a day or anything. I may have to take a piece of the cheesecake in for my boss, who has a crazy sweet tooth. And naturally this would require my not just eating it while standing over my sink in my underwear. I finally tried a bite of it--it's pretty good, though my pan is a 9 1/4 inch pan and the recipe was for a 9 inch pan, and I think the crust is a bit too thin.

A recipe that was a big hit tonight that I particularly loved was the champagne grapes--marinated, not variety. And I will share:

Champagne Grapes [From epicurious.com]
2 pounds red, seedless grapes
3 cups champagne (at room temperature)
1/4 cup granulated sugar
1 Tbsp lemon zest (with some more for garnish)
2 Tsp superfine sugar

Cut grapes into small clusters. Pour champagne into plastic bowl with tight-fitting lid. Add sugar and zest and stir until sugar dissolves. Add grapes, cover, and chill for 8 hours. Pour off marinade, pat grapes dry with paper towel. Toss with superfine sugar and remaining zest.

They were oddly spectacular.

And dammit. I just realized I didn't set the strawberries out to eat with the fondue. Mrh.

Also, I want to say that I really love my cat. And, clearly, he loves me too. It's very, very nice. He's such a sweet animal. Excuse me, I must go properly snuggle with him.

Comments

[jodijodijodi.livejournal.com]

I'm so excited for you about your mixer. I want one too but I don't cook much. Is that weird? I just think they're pretty.

And they come in pink.

pink!

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's weird at all--I wanted one long before I had any use for one. They are so cool--and I have seen the pink one--very exciting! :)

[jodijodijodi.livejournal.com]

well, good.

On a side note, I have created a new icon in honor of my mixing dream. :)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Very cool :)

[rolypolypony.livejournal.com]

We loves our mixer! Mainly it makes cookies, but I have high hopes for more excitng things from it one day...

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I've yet to make cookies with it! But soon, soon!

[archaica.livejournal.com]

My scansion must be very weird, since I looked at that first item and read, "I can't believe I've lived this long without teh hot sex." It took me a second to fill that in.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Well that, too. Best sex of my life was still with my first boyfriend. How depressing is that?

And why am I not surprised that you read it that way? :)

[archaica.livejournal.com]

I can't be held responsible for the defects of my diseased brain :)

(Hey, at least you know what you like? That's something!)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure that's a helpful something *grin*

[archaica.livejournal.com]

No, it's true. There is something else rather more helpful :)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

You crazy kid :)

[archaica.livejournal.com]

I am what I am :)

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

You you are your own special creation!

[archaica.livejournal.com]

YEAH TELL ME ABOUT IT

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

*throws monkey a banana*

[archaica.livejournal.com]

*thinks about whether a banana crack is a good idea*

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Muhahahaha. If you bait it, they will come.

(Step right up! Getcher straight-lines right here!)

[archaica.livejournal.com]

GAME SET AND MATCH

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I graciously accept your unconditional defeat.

*hee*

[archaica.livejournal.com]

...

...

*throws a banana*

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Working from home = me very distractable.

[archaica.livejournal.com]

Yay! Distractable! Better than intractable!

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Well, I'm that, too :)

[archaica.livejournal.com]

Boo! Become tractable!

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

NEVAH!

[artemis77.livejournal.com]

They're good mixers then? I had one on my registry, but didn't get one, so I'm considering buying it for myself eventually... I jus wonder if I'll use it. Maybe it's a "if you buy it, it will be used" Field of Dreams type thing.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

I really love it. If you like to cook--especially bake--it's a treasure.

[archaica.livejournal.com]

You - wha - ? I was sure you got a super-deluxe mixer of some sort.

Although maybe I'm thinking of the Cuisinart.

[artemis77.livejournal.com]

Yup - I got the Cuisinart food processor, which I adore... no mixer though. It's all right, I'll get it this year.

[archaica.livejournal.com]

Or you could, y'know, use a wire whisk.

[artemis77.livejournal.com]

Good for the biceps!

[margotheangel.livejournal.com]

Yay! I love Beecher's cheese, and I know the No Woman cheese is theirs. They're right across the street from the Pike Place Market. Their Flagship cheese is so good - that's what Brian bought me for my birthday. Hee. They have a couple other ones like No Woman - one's Madagascar (or Marco Polo? something...), and there's a mexican one that's really good.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

It was a new discovery for me, and they are absolutely fantastic! I'll have to try the others soon.

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I had this idea of taking some apples and trying to make cider or something like that. Or maybe that was just the rationale for my compulsive need to buy stuff.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Mmmm cider.

But I understand the compulsive need to buy stuff :)

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I got my mixer long before I had a need for it. And it did not get me teh hot sex. I don't even know why it's still on the counter.

[verbicide.livejournal.com]

Out of curiousity--why did you get one? I didn't get the sense that you liked cooking that much (but were trying because it's good for you)?

[greyaenigma.livejournal.com]

I had this idea of taking some apples and trying to make cider or something like that. Or maybe that was just the rationale for my compulsive need to buy stuff.

I really should starting cooking stuff, though.