Month: December 2007

My friend C told me that the recipe for sesame seed cookies that she likes is Martha Stewart’s.

This morning I went to worship. For a carol, we sang “Silent Night.” This was controversial because yesterday at choir practice, we talked about singing “Go Tell it on the Mountain,” but P objected to the phrase “If I were a Christian” in the second verse. She said she’s ask Swami about it, and he… Read More »

Yesterday in the morning I worked on functionally ill issue three. I liked what I saw there more than I thought I would. I added some stuff. I have about three pages to go and it will be done. It’s going to be a smaller size than the others, half as big. Erik and Laura-Marie… Read More »

The carrot-ginger cake turned out delicious as always and moist. The interfaith meeting was pretty interesting. I enjoyed the Jew’s presentation as much as last year’s. He kept it brief and lit the menorah. I like hearing other languages. He said something in–I assume it was Yiddish? Swami’s presentation was the best. He talked about… Read More »

My walk this morning was colder than usual. A black cat crossed my path. I saw beautiful red leaves.

Today is Erik’s birthday. He’s 33. In the afternoon I’ll bake a carrot-ginger cake. In the evening he plans to score SAT, so I’m going to an interfaith meeting. We’ll actually celebrate his birthday once SAT scoring is over. The interfaith meeting I went to last year. It’s mostly boring but okay. It’s at a… Read More »

Do you think baking cookies should be done at a certain time of day? I tend to think of it as an afternoon / evening activity, but I baked some sesame cookies this morning. They’re not very good. I’d made them once before years ago, back when Erik and I lived in Bishop. I remember… Read More »

Today I made pasta salad with whole wheat penne from Trader Joe’s. It has garlic, broccoli, and sun dried tomatoes chopped up very fine. It’s in olive oil and red wine vinegar with lots of basil and oregano, salt and pepper. It’s served with toasted pine nuts sprinkled on top. It’s really good if you’re… Read More »

I bought this Soy Taco meatless taco filling at Whole Foods. It’s made by the same people who make Soyrizo, which is soy chorizo, which I love and allow myself to buy occasionally. (Fake meat is expensive.) Last night I decided to make tacos. I found the Soy Taco meatless taco filling kind of dull.… Read More »

Yesterday at Trader Joe’s I bought some Double Rainbow Ultra Chocolate Ice Cream for Erik and some Double Rainbow Mango Vanilla Soy Cream for myself. I tried mine last night, and it’s good. The mango and vanilla are separate. The mango portion is sorbet-like and very mango-y, almost like eating a frozen mango. The vanilla… Read More »