Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Does anyone else see a hand?

ANYONE ELSE?!?!?!

The Jenn's Grocery List Challenge: Create ONE dish that uses every ingredient on the list in the amounts listed. Including the wire fasteners and gas.

GO!

Recipe Review:

Wild Rice Soup: While I messed this up by not cooking the rice before I added it, it did cook in the soup and soften up nicely. This came out GREAT and I would totally do it again. The soup is nice and creamy, and the wild rice (wether it was how I made it or nice) give a nice chewy bite. Absolutely would make again. :)

Fettucine with Cream Sauce: Eh, it's good. The cream sauce is very thin, but tasty, and oddly contains no cream (cottage cheese and ricotta only). If I could thicken up the sauce it'd be fantastic, but otherwise, pretty decent. Good, would make again.

Mushrooms Italiano: I freaking messed that up big, and therefore it is disqualified from reviewing. Note to self: CAREFULLY read the recipe instead of skimming it for what you need to cook.

Nanos (Sponge Bread): This bread came out so much better than I thought it would. A good chewy, yet very slightly crunchy crust, the crumb is fairly dence but tasty and the cheese gives it a salt so that you don't even need butter on it. Cheddar Cheese may not be Roman, but it works in this bread.

Looking like next week won't get over freezing very often. TIME FOR THE YETO'S SUPREME SOUP.

This Week's Meals (3/3): Some Kind of Stir Fry Thing.

I literally didn't have pan big enough for everything, realized this was a recipe for stuffed mushrooms not sliced mushrooms and it all went sideways.

But it is now a nice, if thick, mushroom vegetable stir fry. Now I have 2.5 pounds of mushrooms to figure out what to do with.

I may have miscalculated the portion size for these meals.

Snowcake.

This Week's Meals BONUS: Nanos (Sponge Bread)

So, that Roman cookbook I have that I have no real faith in anymore? I don't put a lot of faith in the recipes anymore, but what it IS is a list of foods that I can look up online to try.

It has a recipe for Nanos, which is a cheese bread. Sounds good, but, again, no faith in the recipe (Especially as it calls for cheddar cheese, which we've previously determined is...not right). But I didn't see any other recipes for Nanos anywhere online. I found just one entry that mentioned it was a cheese bread, but no recipe. Just an entry of that it was a bread. I decided to go with the book's recipe. It actually has two different recipes, so I decided to try the first and it wasn't bad!

The crust with the cheese has got a nice bite to it, neither too crunchy, but not soft. The crumb is good, and the cheese layers give a nice taste to the bread. My only complaint was that I forgot the only bread pan I had was from IKEA, who make theirs super long and thin. So my loaf looks really long and really flat.

Also, I finally finished that bag of shredded cheddar cheese. I don't know if there was something wrong with it, but my goodness, it was the smelliest cheddar I've ever had. It was pungent.

This Week's Meals (2/3): Wild Rice Soup.

Big ole dumb me forgot to cook the rice first, so I put the soup on low heat and just let it simmer hoping to rice would soften. It did, but not much.

#thisweeksmeals

This Week's Meals (1/3): Fettuccini with Cream Sauce. Oddly, no cream in the cream sauce.

#thisweeksmeals

Ate the first MRE for the (apparently pictorial) write up. Now if you'll excuse me...I gotta go lie down. ::urp::

So, this tape has The Rock hosting Saturday Night Live.

Man hasn't aged a day

Today's "War of the Worlds" is the final episode, The Obelisk. Actually I'm really surprised at how far this show as come. From one that was obviously not taking itself seriously, goofy as hell, and not being able to determine if it's comedy, drama or horror, it goes into Season 2 as a straight up Cyberpunk Sci-Fi Drama. It's tone become super serious, and the writing goes through the roof.

I know they were cancelled early, but they did have enough lead time to actually make a last episode, which ends very hopefully, and with a tenuous peace between humans and aliens, and does it well.

I'm sad it ended, but I think the rough first season really hurt the great second season.

Now, what should I put in its place? The previous shows in this slot were the 1978 Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Space: 1999, and now War of the Worlds. What do you think? Should I go more Cyberpunk with Max Headroom? Or maybe a bit of wierd with Space Precinct? Any other suggestions?

Tonight's ST:TNG is "The Best of Both Worlds, Part 2."

FINALLY, Season 4. I personally think Season 4 if TNG is its best. It's got a nice, if unintendtion, arc about family runing through the first quarter or so of the season, and has most of my favorite episodes.

It's here I thought TNG became was finally able to stand on its own feet.

I haven't deep cleaned the house since my parents were here. The price of a clean house is eternal vigilance and an aching back.

Been feeling very homesick of late, despite the news about the worsening situation in Texas for trans folk. Be it ever so fucked up, it's home.

Was doing some map road-tripping and came across Click, TX. The town my car is named after (I promised I'd name her after the next ghost town we got to, if she could make it to Bluffton, TX...no easy feat as Bluffton hadn't been above Lake Buchanan for 100 some years.

There used to be a few buildings here, in really good condition. Someone either had them demolished, or moved. I hope moved. Now all that's left of Click is a lonely windmill.

We can't go back, but we can go on.

Sure, I'll give it a try. I like wierd foods. Why not?

Someone posted the trailer to Phase IV (one of my fave movies) and it got me thinking, with a lot of the video editing I've done lately, could I tack on the full deleted Saul Bass ending to the DVD? Turns out: Yes.

Needs some work on getting the brightness and contrast to match, but I'll wait on that for when I re-encode the DVD, whenever that is.

I fucking hate Fox News.

You've seen my "The Brunette" avatar from Second Life, which is the main one I use, but I do have another one I use that I designed to look like I likely would have had I not had the (literal) testosterone poisoning in my youth. It's rare I use it, but she's kinda cute.