Received a big package in the mail from the Jaegers! It was a holiday of cooking gifts! Ty got a wok, a ginger grater, and a mortar and pestle. I got a pressure cooker, canning utensils, and canning cookbooks!
Here is the link:
http://www.juleedunekacke.com/gallery/main.php?g2_itemId=6200
I’ve got to go pack some more and help cook dinner, otherwise I would list these individually!
My friend and band mate Robin Becker‘s book has a release date!
Brains: A Zombie Memoir comes out on May 22nd, 2010. Click through on the link to find out more about the book, and click on the “Author” tab to see Robin’s delightful face and my first book jacket photo credit!
On Amazon you can pre-order your copy of Brains: A Zombie Memoir today!
The websites I read seem to come up in conversations often. I’m going to post the funniest ones today so we can have a funny conversation later.
Indexed – Just found this site today. The nerd in me loves it.
xkcd – Another nerdy site, this one with comics instead of graphs.
Ok time for some fun ones:
Cake Wrecks – Sometimes I start explaining this site to people, and I can’t do it. I pull up the site for them and hear them giggle for the next 15 minutes.
Fail Blog – I can’t believe the stupidity displayed by this site. Even though I can’t believe it, I am entertained by it.
LOL Cats – I really dislike having to read text-speak on phones, over facebook, and even hearing people say things out loud that were abbreviated into this new language. When animals do it, it is hilarious.
I also talk about woot.com. It is an on-line store that sells only one item per day, unless they have a woot-off, and then they sell different items, one at a time, back to back. The site has an entire subculture following it, and I find that fascinating.
From my Facebook friends and family, I see I’m missing one heckuva blizzard in eastern Nebraska right now. I was taking a look at my copy of the St. Matthew’s Lutheran Church Centennial Cookbook (Johnson, NE), looking for holiday cookie recipes. My cousins, two aunts, and great aunts all submitted family recipes, and added funny notes to a few of the recipes, so I just enjoy reading it.
I found my great aunt Alice’s recipe for Snow Ice Cream, and thought I would share it with all of you who have an abundance of snow right now. I remember making this with my mom and dad on a snow day when they both stayed home from school, although we called it “snow pudding”, and just mixed in vanilla pudding with snow. The texture is nothing like regular ice cream, but amazing in its own way.
Snow Ice Cream by Alice Hahn
1 C evaporated milk
1 C sugar
2 beaten eggs (farm fresh)
1/2 t salt
1 t vanilla
Fill a large pan with snow from a clean and undisturbed big snow bank. Add the above mixture to enough snow to make the consistency of the ice cream. Eat immediately.
Recipe Note: In years past, after a big snow and the sleigh rides, building snow forts and snow ball fights were over, came time to make snow ice cream.
ENJOY!
Football has always been in my life. My father was a coach and I grew up in Nebraska. My sister, who was supposed to be a boy, could out-punt all of the boys in high school. We also has a basketball hoop set at 9ft, so it was almost like we were set up to fail in basketball so we would pay more attention to football.
They say that Arkansans (or Arkansawyers) are pretty serious about football too. I think it is wise to have a mascot that could very well be the tastiest thing on the planet (hog). They’ve got one thing completely wrong though. They wear Oklahoma Sooner Red, and they don’t even realize it. It may have been a different color in the past, but it is definitely not a collegiate red or maroon. The Arkansas color is only color between the two colors that Nebraskans (and probably Kansonians, Coloradans, Missourities, Texish, and Ioweegians) quickly identify as Sooner Red.
Today is a big day in the world of football. Texas plays the Cornhuskers for the Big XII Championship in a few hours. I don’t see the corn winning, but if they do, it could seriously mess up the BCS. Seriously messing up the Bowl Championship series is the first step to a national playoff system, LIKE EVERY OTHER SPORT, or EVERY OTHER FOOTBALL LEAGUE.
So in cheering for the Huskers tonight, not only am I cheering on my own heritage and culture, I am cheering on the evolution of college football.
Time is running out to make your internet gift purchases. I made up this list for friend who is a burgeoning crafter with crafter relatives.
For the new knitter:
Denise interchangeable knitting needles set
These are pink. Mine are blue. The set allows you to create round or straight knitting needles of multiple lengths and 10 different sizes. Considering that most places charge $7-$10 for each size of needle, it is well worth the savings. These needles are great except for one thing: I’m knitting on the smallest size right now, and the tightness of the stitch sometimes causes me to quarter-turn my work and pop off the end needle. This never happens with the larger sizes.
Good books for learning how to knit/crochet:
I’m a big fan of the Stitch’n'Bitch series.
The original book, and The Happy Hooker, and “>Stitch ‘n Bitch Nation are some of the best books I’ve encountered detailing each stitch with clear drawings, details, and examples.
I know I wasn’t allowed to use the word “bitch” as a young girl, so I apologize for these selections if they seem offensive.
If you read this blog a bunch, you know I bake a lot of bread from this book.
The Authors of that book have a new bread book with healthier and gluten free recipes.
One of my favorite blogs, dooce, is posting cool gifts every other day. She’s separated it out into a few categories.
A green blog, Inhabitat, also has a green gift guide that I always like.
Today I’m going to check out all of the Little Rock Craft Fairs with a few friends. As much as I like crafts, I usually don’t like craft fairs very much, but we’re going to three, and one is bound to be to my liking.
