sweet

When I bake cakes or cupcakes, I make my own frosting about 60% of the time. I always have leftover frosting. Well, I have about five little containers of leftover frosting in my fridge right now, a variety of flavors (chocolate buttercream, chocolate cream cheese, cream cheese, vanilla buttercream, and white frosting).

Well, I have devised the best way possible of eating this up without having to bake a batch of cupcakes or a cake: dice up fruit, preferably peaches (altho I am adding in a banana this morning) and then dip fruit into frosting.

YUM.

Now, I do realize this is terrible for you, so I will only allow this to happen once a week for the next five weeks. But goddamn. It's delicious. And wonderful. Wonderfully delicious, you might say.

grow

The garden at my apartment is just so awesome. Take a gander at these tomatos we harvested - they are so yummy and delicious. M made some wonderful gazpacho out of them the other day in her new food processor (I am officially in love with food processors, by the way). We have peppers, lettuce, a myriad of spices ready to harvest, and a zuchinni and a few eggplants on their way to being ready.



We also harvested the corn. It looked so promising!


And then we tossed it in the pot...


But when we took it out to cool it down and took a bite, our teeth got stuck. The corn had turned to a glue-like consistency. It was such a sad moment. I think we should have picked it much earlier. Oh well - that's what first gardens are for, right? To experiment and make mistakes? Obviously, I'm trying to make myself feel better. ;)

out

Today (sunday) I couldn't bear being inside. I was outside from the time I got up until it got dark and had to go in. A 75 minute run. Drive to Melrose with all the windows down. Walk along Melrose. Drive home with windows open. Bike to park. Read dwell and book. bike back. Bike to store for muffin ingredients. Bike back. Garden. Dark.

And then I made bran muffins and M made zucchini bread with our first (and perhaps only) zuchinni. The zucchini and yellow squash caught a bad case of The Powerdy Mildew. it's sad. I have pictures on my camera. The powdery mildew is the death of squashes. Poor squashes. But this zucchini bread is damn good. So, I will pull out the dead-ish plants and plant new ones. And more peppers. We have two peppers ready to come in soon. YUM.

Anyway. It will be a hard monday, I think, because I'll be inside. But at least I'll have bran muffins for breakfast.

coffee

i seem to be buying more coffee lately. i should start researching coffee that i can make at home that i like and enjoy. get one of those "travel cups" so i can walk to work with it. keep half & half at home. and special sugars.

mememememe

I...

want sex. now. hours of it.
just made butterscotch rice krispy treats, and ate a square that was too big.
cleaned and watered four plants tonight.
can cut a pineapple up in NO TIME AT ALL!
have not been drinking enough water lately.
need sex.
was invited to a boggle tournament.
have never played boggle.
sex. now.
need to dye my hair.
would like to buy new running shoes.
need to put away some toilet paper i bought four days ago
bought myself flowers tonight.
NEED WANT NOW SEX SEX SEX
have four boxes left to unpack.
want to travel someplace with a lover.
want a lover.
want sex.
travel, lover, sex.



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