I wanted to do something with filling, because I used to adore these cream-cheese blueberry muffins I’d get at this bakery down the block back in college. This was baked in a muffin tin and built on my last experiment, so I figured I’d give it a stab. Lab Assistant Ben was intrigued by the […]
Monthly Archives: December 2007
It is with some personal pleasure and somewhat more dismay that I announce the coming of a new project…the Illustrated Hama Sutra. Some months ago, the notorious Mr. K—–, hard at work on his doctorate in Applied Hamster Studies, locked himself in his study with a case of Wild Turkey and a copy of that […]
My gratitude to the very nice fan who got me “Diary of a Wombat” and “Elephant Prince” and the one who sent me the awesome maple-leaf nightlight, which will make my bathroom less of a navigation hazard when I stagger forth in the small hours of the night! My house smells like somebody baked muffins […]
The muffins are in the oven. Assembly was not difficult…we’ll see in 18-20 minutes whether or not that was “deceptively easy” or not. Only took fifteen minutes or so to prepare. I used the Alton Brown Old-School Muffin recipe. Lab Assistant Ben was baffled by my presence in the kitchen. Why was I there? Was […]
Holy crap, it’s the 19th!? I fly to Michigan next MONDAY?! Oh, man… Digger will have the holidays off, I think. Crimony. Hmm. Okay. Laundry and packing this weekend. Situation under control. Not getting any major paintings done before the new year, but that was probably a pipe dream anyway. Eee! Gotta mail Dad’s presents… […]
Yesterday I accomplished virtually nothing! Well, I had a lot of good food, and Deb got me some lovely Fiestaware plates in purple for Christmas, and I went out for tapas with a friend in the evening, but other than assembling my ingredients/equipment for muffindom, I accomplished pretty much nada, went to bed early, and […]
I was out until 2 am last night. At a gay bar. Drawing hamster…well, not porn exactly. Let us call it “hamsterotica.”* Today I have lunch with my buddy Deb, and am hopefully going to take my first stab at baking muffins. I think…blackberry muffins. (And it’s all business expense! I can bake for research! […]
There’s a skin of ice on the birdbath this morning, a red-bellied woodpecker on the suet feeder, hooded mergansers on the pond, and I am off to Wilmington to help a friend move. I have been doing this all weekend–I’m glad to do it, I owe the cosmos moving karma in a big way, and […]
Looking For The Herd
A lovely evening. Any party where I both discuss echidna penises with an enthusiastic audience, AND have to clean cognac out of my cleavage is a success, as far as I’m concerned. Also, I owe my father an apology. Tequila and hot chocolate really IS a fabulous combination, and I doubted him. Mind you, it […]