Oh good, my homepage is back up. Let’s see, what to say since last I wrote? I got up v. late this morning and am still sort of trying to recover from that. I need to shower and drink water, not necessarily in that order. My vegetable beef soup turned out really yummy. So did the pumpkin pie I made. Today I shall make shepherd’s pie, and that oughta take up the rest of the rib roast that we had for Christmas. It may very well feed us for the…
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sleepy
Sleepy me, although I didn’t get up until 9:30. Lazy me! We went to Paycheck this morning. It wasn’t very good. :) Much more a Ben Affleck movie than a John Woo movie, sadly. Still, it was about what I was up for, mentally, so I guess it’s okay, overall. Then we went to Waldenbooks and blew a couple of gift certificates. :) Ted bought THE JOY OF COOKING. I went hog-wild and bought ten YA novels, including two Garth Nix books and a Diana Wynne Jones novel, and also…
Catie’s Blueberry Pie
Now, okay, look. I’m a good baker. I’ve been baking for a long time, and the way I choose recipes is by reading through them, if I’m looking for something I haven’t made, until I find one that looks good to me. I’m not exactly sure how this works, but it does. It’s how I found the very good german chocolate cake recipe I make for Ted, and it’s how I’ve found several other recipes. There was no pie recipe that looked right to me. I wanted to make a…
Catie’s Blueberry Pie
Catie’s Blueberry Pie 5 c blueberries, thawed & semi-crushed 1.5 c sugar 2 tbsp flour 3 heaping tsp corn starch 1 egg, beaten 3 tbsp lemon juice 2 tsp vanilla 2 c sour cream Cook the first 7 ingredients together in a saucepan, stirring constantly, until the mixture has thickened up nicely. (The gel between the berries should be thick and transluscent. If you think it might not be thick yet, it isn’t.) Allow to cool. (Expedient manner: spread wax paper on a cookie sheet and spread the filling over…
myohmyohmy
My oh my oh my, what a nice day it’s been. Mom and Dad came over around 10:30 for breakfast. Ted made waffles which were very good, and we used some of my peach and strawberry syrups (jams which’d failed) as well as regular syrup, and mmm yummy. After that, an orgy of gifts. There was a great deal of cleaning up done, including a long bread-loaf pan which I’d been coveting, X2, The Lion King, a jillion or so books, *four* CDs, new small cereal-sized bowls, a sports-sized MP3…