I baked the clafoutis per one of the BBC recipes and it’s an unappetizing color. Taste was fine. I don’t think I’m into clafoutis and would rather just make cake with fruit in it.
Do some recipes call for an acid to stop this weird color? Or does the kirsch (I did not use) minimize it?
Also I just saw the monster and it looks very bad. Guy in a bodysuit with gloves and mask and webbed feet.
I’m watching classic doctor who on britbox and three was jerky to Jo! He just asked “did you fail Latin as well as science?”
ETA the episode is The Daemons
We dropped off my oldest child at college today. College is a five hours drive from home. We moved his stuff into the dorm then said goodbye.
I thought I’d be sad because we won’t see him every day anymore. But mostly I was scared that he won’t know how to do something; that he’ll get hurt (hit by a car or something); that his roommates will be mean to him; that he will be frustrated or have trouble finding things. And I realized after having a little cry, that there is NOTHING I can do about that stuff.
It’s up to him now. I hope he tries hard. I hope he can be patient. I hope he meets a ton of new friends and learns so many wonderful things. I hope he stays safe.
I feel like I’ve thrown him out of the nest and flown away without looking back. Does this get better?
After years of failing to win over voters by having policies voters like, and trying to win by suppressing votes, republicans have another dirty trick now. IDK that lies are new but it’s a gross new package for them. Fake websites pretending to be independent news. Check out Popular Info from today.
https://popular.info/p/senate-republicans-launch-network?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Get Short(y)bread
#CookiesAMovieOrPlay #HashtagGames
I’m doing the weekly 6-mi run this morning and then block walking for the local congress person I want to help (because his opponent primaried Dan Crenshaw from the right and won). It’s gonna be 100 today. Haha what could go wrong?
I’m bringing sunscreen, water, and an umbrella.
I think this is just spent starter right? I used it after it being out for 8+ hours and just hoped. Can the starter just die? I don’t want to have to make a new starter!
Any other Houstonians with this problem? #Houston #houstonelectric #HoustonElectricityFail #HoustonOutage?
The power’s out here, again. Last time was June 15; almost one month ago. Going back further, outage on 27-May and 20-May. This is ridiculous. It is not even raining or windy. The power company usually reports the cause as “equipment damage” and idk what to make of that.
I’m staying at my parents’ this week, a few hours from home. My husband made “Microwave tatertots with cheese and bacon bits and ketchup!!!” for dinner. Just look at that plating…
I told him that tater tots do NOT go in the microwave. He says wrong!!!
#EBTSC I guess it’s a quarterly thing but it’s plum season around here in the northern hemisphere and I want to suggest a recipe: the best plum cake ever. Gets better the next day as the plums leak lurid pink juice into the cake. Amazing cake, pretty easy. If you haven’t had it, please try it. Probably will work with any stone fruit. I’ll share a photo of mine tomorrow, made with apricot and cherry if the kids don’t eat the last of the pitted cherries today.
Cool adobe village and again George Lucas taking the idea forward to episode one JFC
Ooh I love terraces.
Live-blogging Naqoyqatsi
Boat/ocean scene is pretty but why is there a horse in the water?
Seriously - whistles and all, WTF “George”?!?!
This is gonna be SUPER SPECIFIC so if anyone relates to this we should probably be mutuals.
I just started watching Powwaqatsi and the first song in the thing must’ve influenced fucking George Lucas immensely because he RIPPED IT OFF at the end of The Phantom Menace. You know, the stupid scene where at the end Boss Nass The Racist Stereotype bellows “Peace!”? That song. Amazing Lucas held on to that from 1988 to whenever episode 1 came out.
I went into Houston with two of my teens today. We went to
- Koffeteria - hard to get to because of the World Cup activities (also note massive cop presence all over), but delicious stuff. Plum yuzu scone was great, peach almond danish good, and a plum guava crostata was fine but crust too thick/a little overdone
- MFAH (museum of fine arts Houston) where we saw a cool interactive piece you can climb in that felt like being in a snail (but dry); a Picasso Matisse Klee etc exhibit with one of THE Braque textbook cubism paintings, a delightful Picasso video of him drawing a chicken; an exhibit of Hew Locke assemblages of beautiful overadorned sculptures made of plastic crap (among other things) that were so cool; and numerous regular collection things from the Americas that we really liked; plus colored rooms on the way in
- Niko Nikos Greek potatoes and salad and falafel and feta fries
I’m enjoying this week off!
Bike riding is so much more pleasant (less sweaty) than running right now!
