Happy Birthday to me.
Happy Birthday to me.
Happy Birthday to MMMEEEE.
Happy Birthday to me.
Monday, February 18, 2008
Wednesday, February 6, 2008
FYI - What the $%$%
HOLLANDAISE SAUCE
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup cream
2 egg yolks, beaten
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
salt to taste
pinch of cayenne pepper
pinch of paprika
1 teaspoon freshly minced parsley
Melt butter in the top of a double boiler. Stir in cream and beaten egg yolks. Whisk together. Add salt and lemon juice. Cook over boiling water in a double boiler until mixture thickens, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and beat with a whisk until light. Stir in cayenne pepper, paprika and freshly chopped parsley, if desired.
...Hollandaise sauce is an emulsion of butter and a reduction (usually made from white wine) using egg yolks as the emulsifying agent,...
I'm gonna spew.
1/4 cup butter
1/4 cup cream
2 egg yolks, beaten
1 tablespoon freshly squeezed lemon juice
salt to taste
pinch of cayenne pepper
pinch of paprika
1 teaspoon freshly minced parsley
Melt butter in the top of a double boiler. Stir in cream and beaten egg yolks. Whisk together. Add salt and lemon juice. Cook over boiling water in a double boiler until mixture thickens, stirring constantly.
Remove from heat and beat with a whisk until light. Stir in cayenne pepper, paprika and freshly chopped parsley, if desired.
...Hollandaise sauce is an emulsion of butter and a reduction (usually made from white wine) using egg yolks as the emulsifying agent,...
I'm gonna spew.
Update #2
Alright, damn it. I'm updating this. Let's see...oddly enough, I am witnessing more Hannah Montana karaoke as I sit here. Sadly, it grows on you. At least it doesn't have the dang Jonas brothers. Man, they blow. Sad. They make millions for being mediocre. And for goodness sakes, can they get haircuts? blech
I just wrote down a list of numbers for my daughter (who is 7) so she could write down if they were odd or even. There is no way on this Earth I could be a teacher. It is driving me nuts. Odd or Even? Shit. What could be easier? She knew that when she was 5. I have no patience for it. Good mommy.
Oh, movie critic time...Watch Happy Feet! It is great. The music is fun and they are penguins who tap dance. What could be more entertaining? Seriously, try it out. I require silence from the kids when it is on. Go rent it, seriously, I mean it. Seriously.
Oh, other great movies...
Anchorman (I'm in a glass case of emotion!), (It's got bits of real panther!)
Office Space (who wouldn't like it?),
Ocean 11, 12 and 13...don't even know the plot..but damn, who cares, (Clooney, not Pitt...he's overrated).
Pee Wee's Big Adventure...If you can sit through it the first time, you will realize the genious! I saw the dinosaurs that were in that movie in California. I made my husband turn around and drive back. Called my sister from the foot of the tyrannasaurus...she loved it just like me.
Tommy Boy (God rest his soul) was greatness.
The Hunt for Red October - "The Russians don't take a piss, son, without a plan." Yes, that is a quote from the not-so-much-anymore presidential candidate Fred Thompson. I can't believe he quit!
Crap...hold on. I have to tend to the boy. Good mommy.
I'm back...
Star Wars of course. Let's rank them....Star Wars Episode 4, Star Wars Episode 5, Star Wars episode 6 (only first 30 minutes till they get out of Tatooine). The rest is a toss up because they sucked. Prequels I can do without.
Next post will feature....Shows that can't be watched without Tivo. Pins and needles!!!!
I just wrote down a list of numbers for my daughter (who is 7) so she could write down if they were odd or even. There is no way on this Earth I could be a teacher. It is driving me nuts. Odd or Even? Shit. What could be easier? She knew that when she was 5. I have no patience for it. Good mommy.
Oh, movie critic time...Watch Happy Feet! It is great. The music is fun and they are penguins who tap dance. What could be more entertaining? Seriously, try it out. I require silence from the kids when it is on. Go rent it, seriously, I mean it. Seriously.
Oh, other great movies...
Anchorman (I'm in a glass case of emotion!), (It's got bits of real panther!)
Office Space (who wouldn't like it?),
Ocean 11, 12 and 13...don't even know the plot..but damn, who cares, (Clooney, not Pitt...he's overrated).
Pee Wee's Big Adventure...If you can sit through it the first time, you will realize the genious! I saw the dinosaurs that were in that movie in California. I made my husband turn around and drive back. Called my sister from the foot of the tyrannasaurus...she loved it just like me.
Tommy Boy (God rest his soul) was greatness.
The Hunt for Red October - "The Russians don't take a piss, son, without a plan." Yes, that is a quote from the not-so-much-anymore presidential candidate Fred Thompson. I can't believe he quit!
Crap...hold on. I have to tend to the boy. Good mommy.
I'm back...
Star Wars of course. Let's rank them....Star Wars Episode 4, Star Wars Episode 5, Star Wars episode 6 (only first 30 minutes till they get out of Tatooine). The rest is a toss up because they sucked. Prequels I can do without.
Next post will feature....Shows that can't be watched without Tivo. Pins and needles!!!!
Monday, December 31, 2007
Happy New Year's Eve!
Spending an evening with the family singing karaoke to Hannah Montana and High School Musical 2. This is awesome!
Kids had a nice nap this afternoon, trashy hors'dourves are in the kitchen and unlimited Kahlua coffee. What more can you ask for? 2007 was great. 2008 will be even better.
Wishing everyone who reads this a Happy New Year. Yes, I know it is only one person and I wish you the best!
Kids had a nice nap this afternoon, trashy hors'dourves are in the kitchen and unlimited Kahlua coffee. What more can you ask for? 2007 was great. 2008 will be even better.
Wishing everyone who reads this a Happy New Year. Yes, I know it is only one person and I wish you the best!
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
YEA FOR ME!
I can't cook. I try occassionally but usually to no avail. Our usual home cooked meal consists of tacos, hamburgers (grilled) or spaghetti (which my adorable husband makes because I can't seem to measure the spaghetti correctly). However, this has all changed!
We usually go out for Thanksgiving dinner so I decided to try and make a full meal at home last weekend. I've tried it before and it usually ends with "Nice try honey...wanna go out to eat tonight?" This year was a complete surprise.
I tried a 'brine' recipe which my friend sent me. I still don't know what it means but it was simple so I tried it. Not sure if that is why it is so good, but WOW, it was awesome. The turkey had flavor this year!
The mashed potatoes which usually end up very 'liquidy' turned out perfect, the sweet potatoes (with pecans) were yummy, the homemade mac and cheese (yes, I have kids), was delish, the noodles were awesome and the pumpkin pie was just right.
The whole experience was great...except....the damn dishes. I think we did 3 loads of dishes that day with all of the pots, pans, dinner plates and leftover plates. My husband, bless his heart, did most of the clean up. He was great.
I got a 'Thank you' from my husband AND kids.
(Yes, we went out to eat the next night!)
Happy Thanksgiving!
We usually go out for Thanksgiving dinner so I decided to try and make a full meal at home last weekend. I've tried it before and it usually ends with "Nice try honey...wanna go out to eat tonight?" This year was a complete surprise.
I tried a 'brine' recipe which my friend sent me. I still don't know what it means but it was simple so I tried it. Not sure if that is why it is so good, but WOW, it was awesome. The turkey had flavor this year!
The mashed potatoes which usually end up very 'liquidy' turned out perfect, the sweet potatoes (with pecans) were yummy, the homemade mac and cheese (yes, I have kids), was delish, the noodles were awesome and the pumpkin pie was just right.
The whole experience was great...except....the damn dishes. I think we did 3 loads of dishes that day with all of the pots, pans, dinner plates and leftover plates. My husband, bless his heart, did most of the clean up. He was great.
I got a 'Thank you' from my husband AND kids.
(Yes, we went out to eat the next night!)
Happy Thanksgiving!
Friday, November 16, 2007
Diligent, I am not
Wow, not an entry since September. That blows. Let's try to catch up the last 2 months.
Work has been a nightmare but with accounting/finance, that is expected. Each quarter is a mess and then throw the damn budget on top of it all and you might as well just screw the holidays. Oh well, tis the season.
My daughter has loose teeth. She is almost seven so she has lost teeth before but OMG, I cannot stand wiggly teeth. It is one of the grossest things I have ever seen. Plus, she likes to smile at you and then use her tongue to start pushing the tooth back and forth just for kicks. AAUGH. I send her away every time she tries it. Oh, she knows that it disgusts me, and usually she's pretty good about only showing her father, but she is seven....
My son is almost 4. He is in a stage of becoming the 'big kid'. He talks like he's older and is acting more mature (as mature as a 4 year old can be) but he is also into the stage of "Only Daddy makes me happy". This is fine because for a long time it was the "Only Mommy" stage and I loved it. I guess Daddy needs some time as well. One thing he does is takes swim lessons. The funny part is that when he swims, he only uses his right arm. The other one kind of moves under the water but he has no interest in letting it help move him through the water. He thinks it is funny though and just laughs. I wonder if he will be laughing in 12 years when he is still in the Three - Level Three class with the other 3/4 year olds only swimming in a counterclockwise circle...or would it be clockwise. Not the point.
In case anyone is a college football fan, the Kansas Jayhawks are #3 in the country (according to the BCS poll). KU is getting a lot of grief for this in that, admittidly so, they have a fairly weak schedule this year, but for goodness sakes, they are still #3 and, damn it, I'm gonna talk it up for as long as I can. They haven't been out of the cellar in years. Good for them. And by the way, Coach Mangino is gonna have a coronary soon if he doesn't lay off of the alfredo sauce. And, he is a sporting coach, I find it odd, but I try not to judge....to much. I would put in a link to one of his gigantic pictures, but I don't know how so just google it if you are interested.
As you can see, I haven't done much of interest in the last 2 months.
My friend is still pregnant. She is beginning the phase of "Holiday Guilt" and she hasn't even had the kid yet. It gets worse. Do you spend the holidays in a hotel to make yourself and your immediate family more comfortable and less stressed, or do you stay at the grandparents and endure the stress that happens at every grandparents house, or do you stay at the sister's house so the kids and their cousins that they see once a year can play together more but then you endure the stress of the grandparents being upset that they aren't with the grandkids all of the time during the holidays. Sigh. It is a no-win situation, but you love your family so you go through it every year.
Ok, time to budget some more. I'll update in another couple of months! Happy Holidays!
Work has been a nightmare but with accounting/finance, that is expected. Each quarter is a mess and then throw the damn budget on top of it all and you might as well just screw the holidays. Oh well, tis the season.
My daughter has loose teeth. She is almost seven so she has lost teeth before but OMG, I cannot stand wiggly teeth. It is one of the grossest things I have ever seen. Plus, she likes to smile at you and then use her tongue to start pushing the tooth back and forth just for kicks. AAUGH. I send her away every time she tries it. Oh, she knows that it disgusts me, and usually she's pretty good about only showing her father, but she is seven....
My son is almost 4. He is in a stage of becoming the 'big kid'. He talks like he's older and is acting more mature (as mature as a 4 year old can be) but he is also into the stage of "Only Daddy makes me happy". This is fine because for a long time it was the "Only Mommy" stage and I loved it. I guess Daddy needs some time as well. One thing he does is takes swim lessons. The funny part is that when he swims, he only uses his right arm. The other one kind of moves under the water but he has no interest in letting it help move him through the water. He thinks it is funny though and just laughs. I wonder if he will be laughing in 12 years when he is still in the Three - Level Three class with the other 3/4 year olds only swimming in a counterclockwise circle...or would it be clockwise. Not the point.
In case anyone is a college football fan, the Kansas Jayhawks are #3 in the country (according to the BCS poll). KU is getting a lot of grief for this in that, admittidly so, they have a fairly weak schedule this year, but for goodness sakes, they are still #3 and, damn it, I'm gonna talk it up for as long as I can. They haven't been out of the cellar in years. Good for them. And by the way, Coach Mangino is gonna have a coronary soon if he doesn't lay off of the alfredo sauce. And, he is a sporting coach, I find it odd, but I try not to judge....to much. I would put in a link to one of his gigantic pictures, but I don't know how so just google it if you are interested.
As you can see, I haven't done much of interest in the last 2 months.
My friend is still pregnant. She is beginning the phase of "Holiday Guilt" and she hasn't even had the kid yet. It gets worse. Do you spend the holidays in a hotel to make yourself and your immediate family more comfortable and less stressed, or do you stay at the grandparents and endure the stress that happens at every grandparents house, or do you stay at the sister's house so the kids and their cousins that they see once a year can play together more but then you endure the stress of the grandparents being upset that they aren't with the grandkids all of the time during the holidays. Sigh. It is a no-win situation, but you love your family so you go through it every year.
Ok, time to budget some more. I'll update in another couple of months! Happy Holidays!
Thursday, September 6, 2007
What to do
Woe is me. I have a softball game tonight at 7:30 and it is only 5:00. This wouldn't seem like such a problem except for the fact if I were to actually go home then I would be caught in traffic for all of the 2.5 hours and bascially waste a tank of gas. I could stay at work and get a little bit more done but for some reason it has been just an overall beating today and I don't know if I can stay here much longer even if I'm just typing this blog.
I could go to the car and read my book (again) or I could go to the gym for a while. Now you might think this is a good way for me to 'warm up' for the game (which I haven't played since this time last year), but in fact, the gym has a huge locker room with a plasma TV and nice soft couch which would be calling my name instead of the treadmill which I so desperately need. A nice little workout would probably ease my built up tension but I know it's not going to happen.
I did read my favorite blog (that someone else posts and is quite entertaining) and checked to see if the other blog I read has been udpated, but alas, it was not. I assume there are only 3 blogs on the entire internet (including mine) so I guess I have exhausted that trail of entertainment. I sure wish Mr. Gore had invented more of those. Now he is out saving the world so I guess enhancing the internet is now secondary in his career.
I can't decide if I want it to rain or not. I keep checking the weather.com radar and it is splotchy at best. I like playing softball even if it is just one tournament a year. The problem is I can't run. I was called "Goose" in highschool and I had no idea why until I saw a video of my self running up and down a basketball court. That is, if you could call it running. I was truly embarrassed. And now I am about to go through the embarrasment again but I have resigned myself to the fact of how slow and laborious my running style is (and everyone on my team has resigned themselves as well). Unfortunately, we observed our daughter running the bases the other day....Bless her heart. Who knew it was hereditary?
I could go to the car and read my book (again) or I could go to the gym for a while. Now you might think this is a good way for me to 'warm up' for the game (which I haven't played since this time last year), but in fact, the gym has a huge locker room with a plasma TV and nice soft couch which would be calling my name instead of the treadmill which I so desperately need. A nice little workout would probably ease my built up tension but I know it's not going to happen.
I did read my favorite blog (that someone else posts and is quite entertaining) and checked to see if the other blog I read has been udpated, but alas, it was not. I assume there are only 3 blogs on the entire internet (including mine) so I guess I have exhausted that trail of entertainment. I sure wish Mr. Gore had invented more of those. Now he is out saving the world so I guess enhancing the internet is now secondary in his career.
I can't decide if I want it to rain or not. I keep checking the weather.com radar and it is splotchy at best. I like playing softball even if it is just one tournament a year. The problem is I can't run. I was called "Goose" in highschool and I had no idea why until I saw a video of my self running up and down a basketball court. That is, if you could call it running. I was truly embarrassed. And now I am about to go through the embarrasment again but I have resigned myself to the fact of how slow and laborious my running style is (and everyone on my team has resigned themselves as well). Unfortunately, we observed our daughter running the bases the other day....Bless her heart. Who knew it was hereditary?
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