Progress, 2009

..., for a year 9.Do stream-of-consciousness writing at least once a month Food 10.Diet: - plan (also for after-goal) - reach 70 kg and plan how to keep it 11.Try a new recipe from my cookbooks once a month (must include soups and at lest 10 foreign ones (incl. green pistachio chicken curry)! [0/10]) 12.Drink a minimum of 1 liter/8 glasses of water daily 13.Try: bananas (again), pomegranate, ...

not resolutions but more like... mental notes to myself.

... their vortex of doom. Get rid of toxic, one sided relationships. Read more for the love of god. You started 2 books and never finished them. You cleaned up the bookcase and got all your cookbooks in a section that you can reach to often. Make new things and perfect the things you've already made. Simplification: get rid of old things you never touch, organize the things you want to keep, ...

My second attempt...

... sweaters and reuse to make Christmas stockings. 32. Participate in the Morsbags project. Make and give away at least 25 reusable bags. 33. Try at least two recipes from every cookbook I own. Give away cookbooks I don't/won't use. 34. Try at least one recipe from every cooking magazine that comes into my house each month. Throw away magazines that have no recipes worth trying. 35. Learn ...

It's the 2009 Bragging Entry

... read 60 books (let's face it, I'm not going to finish Black Man, Best Served Cold or Bolo before the New Year party tonight). Of those, 43 were fiction books, 5 were short story collections, 1 non-fiction, 1 play, 5 RPG Books (+one of the short story collections was technically an RPG source book), 2 graphic novel volumes, 1 Firefly reference book and 2 cookbooks. Read the rest of this post

CHECKING IN, CHECKING OUT

... fuck me over. You know who you are. 14. Where did most of your money go? Debts, library charges, bank charges, train tickets to London, train tickets between Manchester and Liverpool, booze, cookbooks, records, very pretty dresses . 15. What did you get excited about? Going to Supersonic with James, Paul and Henry. Writing about food and being paid for it. Moving to Liverpool. Power ...

... with soymilk and stevia Lunch: Piece of toast with peanut butter Apple Snack: Tastes of sugar cookie and peanut butter cookie dough Banana bread Dinner: Bean tostada with pico de gallo White corn with earth balance New Years Resolution: Stop eating ridiculous amounts of peanut butter everyday and start actually cooking. I have 5 glorious new vegan cookbooks. 2010 is going to be delicious.

A Christmas Fairytale - Part 25

... has been drinking the wine rather than cooking with it,” commented Shannon as he and Jared untangled themselves and pushed to their feet. “I need it to read my grandmother’s cookbooks,” replied Tomo, indignantly. “Tipsy is the only state I can remember my Croatian properly.” “Croatian?” repeated Shannon, pushing past the two and into the living room that Tomo had rearranged ...

Christmas, meme

...The Dispossessed (asked my mom for it, but Graham also knew I needed a new copy - oops), A Room With A View , Peter Pan (the original novel), a Tom Waits album, two vegetarian cookbooks, and a $50 gift certificate to Borders -$50 from my grandmother, which is much appreciated for grocery-purchasing purposes *** And now for a meme, via intertext : List the towns or cities where you ...

First post here, w00t w00t

... wandering around frustrated cause I couldn't find the book I wanted my mom pointed out the cookbooks. And guess where my mind immediately went? They had almost everything . Spanish, Turkish, Russian (...I didn't buy any of them though. Mostly because they didn't have any Baltic/Polish cookbooks. >: So yeah, MLIH. BONUS: The book I was looking for was on the Bavarian Illuminati for my...

... days is that they start around 9 a.m., and it's never me who has to be woken up at the last minute. This year I got some nice long-sleeved shirts, a pair of good headphones, a few cookbooks, and a pile of photo album and scrapbook supplies for all my France stuff. My brother's girlfriend, who I figured only knew I existed as a sort of shadowy background figure from the distant past, came over in ...