Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

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.

Wow busy busy weekend. Deep cleaned the house, watched The Room (and palette cleansed that with Fellowship of the rings part II), photographed an MRE taste test, enocoded six hours of videotape, got to see Crystal and Ada at the local park, cooked ten meals and a loaf of bread. And suddenly the weekend is done.

Still need to vacuum the office, and cook another five meals, but this weekend was conquered. Now I relax for a few hours and enjoy the fruits of my ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

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.

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Last boost: that would be me. The old woman yelling at cloud computing is me.

I don't really celebrate Christmas, but there are things I kings want to have around just because it rankings me of the season.

1) The white ceramic Christmas tree with the star on top, cause I remember my grandmother having one and I thought it was beautiful at night.

2) Those Christmas lights that bubble when they get warm. I think they're illegal now? Cause they can break and the liquid can catch fire? I think I read about that somewhere.

I'm not a Christmas person, but they do feel like Winter things for me.

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

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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?