Tuesday, November 10, 2009

food!


Butternut squash and purple potatoes. 'Nuff said.

Friday, November 06, 2009

songs from the album of the day

As presented by film students.








Tuesday, November 03, 2009

someday her prince will come

While I no longer like to dress up in a costume for my favorite holiday, the same is not true for my lovely niece. I never get to see her and rarely get to talk to her (when I do I can't make out what she's saying...still not sure if that's my fault or hers). But her dad was nice enough to send me a picture of her in her costume. Just a side note: every picture he's sent me of her includes an eating establishment and/or beer. Thank god, I know she's being brought up right. Anyway, doesn't she make an awesome Snow White? It's the role she was born to play!

great pumpkin


There are lots of reasons I love autumn, and one of them is pumpkin flavored things. Pie, beer, soup...yummy! In small doses and only once a year, of course. As Thanksgiving draws near it will most certainly be pie season.

I had a roommate who made a pumpkin pie one year and she wanted to use real pumpkin. She said she didn't want to use any of that canned junk. She emptied the pumpkin out, cut it, roasted it, scraped it, made a puree, etc. The pie was delicious! Only, all pumpkin pie is. See, the thing about the canned junk? It only has one ingredient: pumpkin. No salt, water, preservatives, artificial anything. In the end her pie tasted like one made from a can. I didn't tell her any of this.

I suppose that while the pie tasted the same as any other, it was special. It sticks out in my mind as a unique memory. I remember watching her do it and excited she was about it. And she probably saved a post-Halloween pumpkin from QFC's compost dumpster. Gay as it sounds, the secret ingredient in that pie was love.

So if you want to make a pie filling from scratch and tell people how you slaved over it for bonus points, it's pretty easy and tastes good. Or you could use a can and lie to people about it.