International Cookie War and Other Birthday Fun

August 28th, 2008


Today is DQ’s manysomethingth birthday. You will have to ask her how old she is ‘cuz I’m not the one to leak that sort of information to teh intertubes. Nope. But I will leak that she may or may not have been born in the same calendar year I was but not born in the same Chinese year. You internets stalkers go have fun with that while the rest of us move on.
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These Shoes Were Made for Walking

August 27th, 2008


Check them out: My snazzy new not-Birks. On a related note, there is no limit to the hate my feet have for me today. Hmmm, perhaps six years of continuous Birk wearing has a downside.
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Chicken So Hot It’ll Fry Your Brain

August 26th, 2008


As promised, the Chicken Tikka Masala recipe:
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‘Sperimentin In The Kitchen

August 25th, 2008


Soup and Proto-soup!
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SAST Friday

August 22nd, 2008


I’m kinda getting in to this random Friday thing.
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The Cats are Fired

August 21st, 2008


Argh! I went and called up a karma backlash the other day when I glibly said “Ever since we let the cats downstairs we haven’t had a cricket problem. Wow, that was about three years ago, aren’t our cats awesome! Tra-la-la!” But of course this weekend we noticed a rather loud chirruping and lo! We have a cricket somewhere in the basement. I think we noticed the phantom bugger Friday night and it’s still down there somewhere happily singing its stupid tune.
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The Come Back Cold

August 18th, 2008


I’ve got nuttin’ for you on the cooking front because the Cold up and took me out this weekend. On the plus side, the Aubergines were roasted up and are awaiting baba ganoushing. When I’m not illin I’ll baba ganoush those puppies. RARH!
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