So I am going to share a couple recipes that I would have loved to have made these last few weeks, share about some bands that I have been using recently to help me get through these days, and share a little about what my life looks like and why I think I may have made a mistake.
I have had these in the past, and man, they are incredible. No one has ever complained about these showing up for meals.
"Quarter and boil some gold potatoes, 8 to 12, for about 45 min to an hour, until they are soft and the skin starts to peel off. Drain the water completely, then add a block of Philadelphia cream cheese. Beat until smooth. Add a couple few dollops of sour cream and beat in until the potatoes are the consistency you want. Finish off with 2 or 3 tablespoons of butter on top, and put a lid on the pot so the butter melts. That's it!"
Too easy.
This is a recipe I found at Simple Daily Recipes.
I recently made these and they turned our very nice. I used a little more butter in the recipe and next time I would cook them for a little less time and or make them larger (I was a tad conservative in pinching them off).
The recipe is in the linky link also.
- 1 package quick-acting active dry yeast
- 1 1/3 cup milk (105 to 115F degrees)
- 3 to 3 1/2 cups flour or whole wheat flour
- 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 1 tablespoon sugar
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 tablespoon melted butter (I used 3, 2 in the mixer with the oil and the rest melted on top)
- coarse salt
Dissolve yeast in warm milk with sugar in electric mixer bowl. Stir in 1 cup flour, oil, and salt. Beat until smooth. Stir in enough remaining flour, scraping dough from side of bowl, until soft dough forms. Cover and let rise in warm place until double, about 45 minutes.
Heat oven 400F degrees. Punch down dough in center and fold over a few times. Prep a 12 cup muffin pan with non-stick cooking spray. Pinch off 1 inch balls of dough and quickly roll in palm of hands. Put 3 balls to one muffin cup, brush with melted butter; sprinkle with coarse salt.
Bake until crust is light golden brown, about 15 minutes. Immediately remove from pan.Well...I have not explored this part of my social life recently. I do listen to 90.3 FM KEXP as any good person should and there is always good music on, and some of it is new as well. If not new in generally then at the very least new to me. Sadly I have not had the pleasure of discovering a new band or stumbling over a lost treasure. Actually, I take that back. I stumbled across some funk that is just great. I can not even recall where and when I was exposed to it, but I immediately went to Pandora and created a station for it. It was Dennis Coffey & The Detroit Guitar Band.
I also have been listening to some older bands that I think are great. Such as Jawbox who recently reissued their first album "For Your Own Special Sweetheart" ala remastered. It sounds great.
And Sparta, while they are good, I think some of their songs are redundant. All though almost each song on "Wire Tap Scars" has some sort of power pop-ie hook melody like thing that grabs you.
Also The Promise Ring, The Helio Sequence and Nada Surf. BTW, I like some of the things that Pitchfork has to say, but mostly I like them because they offer free music. I find some of their review scores to be biased and actually I hardly ever take into account what others say as far as reviews go as I am my own person and am more than capable of creating my own interpretation of things.
Go download the KEXP podcasts right now to your MP3 player and soak up some good tunes. (Podcast 81 song 4 "The Heavenly States - The Race", clearly they have called the Fountains of Wayne Hotline...oh song 5 is great as well "MGMT - Kids")
- On December 5th, my old stomping grounds, the Kirkland branch of the KCLS is re-opening! This is the first time it will have been open since it closed for the remodeling it has undergone. Should be great.
- Also on Saturday December 12th the Juanita Woodlands and Denny Creek area are looking for volunteers to plant trees. This is where you will find me.
I regret not taking a harder look at culinary school.
I regret not taking a closer harder look at earning a musical degree.
I do not regret being back in school and learning, that much is certain. And I realize I can complete either one of these above mentioned goals easily upon the completion of my current studies. Which I intend to do.
I resolve that upon completion of my current school curriculum, I will immediately enroll in either a culinary program and then a music program (or the other way around). It is just common sense.
