Monster Turducken. I feel like using just the breasts is cheating a little bit though. It sounds as if they aren’t making a “Russian doll” so much as stuffing gobbets of meat in a meat bag. (Link courtesy of – if you can believe it – Andrew G.)
Leanne: Guess what everybody? We’re getting rid of Feathers!
Me and Devvy: Yayyyy!
Leanne: Maybe we should have a bonfire.
Me: That would be TOXIC.
Carrot Cupcakes with Maple Cream Cheese Frosting
The Snook mentioned the other night that the grocery store had some lovely carrots (which he was serving to me for dinner), which reminded me that I’ve had a hankering for come carrot cake lately. I made the mistake of saying that aloud at work yesterday… and promptly received about half a dozen requests for it. A cake is always hard to transport and dish up though, so I decided to go with cupcakes instead. A few websites mention that carrot cake can be a bit dense and heavy for cupcakes, so I found this recipe with a trick to avoid the problem. You “emulsify” the oil by pouring it into a running food processor (with egg and sugar). Sounds fancy, but was actually really easy. So I baked a dozen of them last night, and this morning I decorated them. We’re actually out of maple syrup at the moment (and Coles didn’t have any last night), so I used the hand mixer to beat a bit of maple flavouring along with a good scoop of brown sugar into a block of cream cheese. It tastes FANTASTIC. Then I sprinkled on some orange icing sugar (I have the biggest collection of Halloween-related baking paraphernalia outside the US) and then topped with a walnut half. I hope everybody likes them! (And I have to say, I’m really proud of my food porn photography. Hooray for the macro mode!)
Sock Monkey Fingers Popped Out. Weird name; cute pattern! That might actually convince me to make wrist-warmers this year. (Link courtesy of Bex.)
Korea’s Dark Half. That map and the associated text are really fascinating. You’d think I’d know more about this stuff (since it’s part of my heritage and all), but I don’t.
I love the obscure book questions on AskMeFi. Today somebody asked this question, and I realized that I’d read part of that book myself. It was called In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson, and I definitely remember reading at least an excerpt from it in grade school. (Did anybody else? Maybe it was a common one in those anthologies we all had to read.) Man, I might have to order a copy so I can relive third grade…
Mean Girls was on TV last week, and I had no idea that it was a harbinger of things to come. Why are girls so bitchy towards each other? On Monday I got a vague warning at the shop that we were to crack down on gossiping, as some of the staff were saying upsetting things. “Sure, whatever,” I thought, and filed it away in the back of my brain. It was several days before I discovered that some of the mean shit was actually about ME. On one level I’m just amused, like weren’t we supposed to get over this crap ten years ago? And at the same time I’m sorta hurt, because it was my success at doing my job that was being called into question. So UGH, WHATEVER. And yeah, I kinda know I’m fanning the flames a little bit here, seeing as how other members of staff actually read this site. I should probably the bigger person and just not mention it at all. But I’m human, and I’m smarting a little bit. I figure this is the safer way to get it out of my system.
Wow. This tale of a Serial Yarn Thief sure puts our Titsiana to shame!
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