Adventures in cooking: Frittata with fresh spinach, chopped mushrooms and sliced potatoes, cooked turkey bacon and shredded reduced fat mozzarella
Whenever I work from home, I tend to get caught up in work and forget about breakfast. Today I wanted to make something for brunch that I hadn’t before and a frittata came to mind. I already had all these ingredients, so it was just a matter of throwing everything in a pie pan and baking.
I used six eggs and poured in a little skim milk to make it a bit fluffier. After making sure all the ingredients are covered, pour it in a pie pan and cook on 375 F for 30 minutes. In the last five minutes, sprinkle it with the shredded cheese. Let it cool so it hardens a bit, and you’re ready to impress.
Consider whipping one of these up if you have guests staying with you for the holidays! It’s a level above the standard eggs and bacon breakfast and can serve many hungry people.
Now, I realize that Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) is no Simone de Beauvoir, but the sight of her at her computer, doing the writer’s jig that turns thoughts and experiences into words, still gives me chills. The very phrase, “I couldn’t help but wonder,” that signals the beginning of her musings on sexology, can propel me into convulsions of creative identification.
I came to rely on the formula of her posing the question, followed by what she finds out about herself, her friends, her world, as a result. That one little sentence, along with the image of her wispy body poised before her Mac, sometimes with a cocktail, sometimes a cig, has become one of my archetypal images of the working writer. Unlike the promise of dolorous sentence scrawling offered by so many of the other far more pretentious and far more dead authors in whose image I have constructed my bardic fantasies, Carrie represents a modern view of a successful writer who seems to love what she does for a living.
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You guys know about this, right?
When you sign up for a free account on ShopItToMe.com, you can register for Sale Mail, a service that scours the vast Internet for sales at a variety of brands — think Juicy Couture, DKNY, BCBG — to find the best sales IN YOUR SIZE. Then it compiles a list that gets sent directly to your inbox. You can even have it sent daily, if you’re dangerous like me.
The best part is that you can pick the brands to search ( I picked, um, all 70 of them) and set a price point. There is no minimum price point (I set mine at $100) which is great so that no items over your budget can tempt you.
In the spirit of Thanksgiving, let’s be selfless for a minute. If you’re looking for that perfect gift for your girlfriends this year, or even your man (they search men’s clothing and shoes, too!), set your price limit and let the gift ideas come to you.
Happy shopping!
Brad just e-mailed me this link. I’m sensing sarcasm…
DIY - Wine Bottle Vases
As soon as I get something to call a home of my own, I’m putting these crafty DIY wine bottle vases up in my kitchen. I adore the painted frame around them like the one seen below, and for those that have a kitchen table on the small side, they leave you free of a space-stealing centerpiece.
However, these really would work in just about any room — even the bathroom.
The total cost for one of the vases is about $5 (not including the wine, but I’m sure I could find a way to enjoy emptying the bottle).
Here’s what you need (per vase):
— 1 empty wine bottle of your choice
— 1 top plate connector/ceiling flanges (3/8″ size)
— 1 1″ split ring hanger
— 2 screws to fit and hold the top plate connector (you may also want drywall anchors if you are not mounting directly into studs or another material)
— 1 piece of 3/8″ threaded rod, cut into 2 1/2″ pieces
— 1/2″ double sided foam mounting tape (optional – if your bottle’s neck is smaller than 1″)
— Silk flowers of your choice
Visit the Design Sponge Web site for the step-by-step on how to make your own — and you can thank me later.
It’s later.
(photo via jesssica:goodeggs)
This would make a pretty freakin’ fabulous NYE dress.
Adventures in cooking: Giant pancake with powdered sugar, strawberries and blackberries (no syrup required)
No recipe required, either. Big thanks to Mom for Saturday’s surprise breakfast.
Set during Carrie Bradshaw’s high school years, the book details the budding fashionista’s early relationships and how she began her career as a writer.
According to the publisher, “The Carrie Diaries” will also focus on Bradshaw’s first love, while the cover art specifically references an incident between the character and her mother.
“The Carrie Diaries” will be published on April 27, 2010.
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Happiness Is a Warm Gun — Joe Anderson (Across the Universe Soundtrack)
Can’t get enough of this movie or its soundtrack.
