Wednesday, February 10, 2010
Monday, February 08, 2010
Wednesday, February 03, 2010
Mengele in print, for sale
Tuesday, February 02, 2010
Monday, February 01, 2010
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Cooking with Bubbe
Friday, January 29, 2010
Anne Frank Banned in VA School
Captive Phrases
his life was a series of lapses."
reductio ad absurdum
progress-resistant cultural influences
ambivalence, doubt and confusion are essential to forming dynamic new hybrid selves
hidden brain
anger is born of impotence, a frustration that can melt away just by doing something about it.
the inchoate chafing at any manifestation of authority
Friday, January 22, 2010
A girl on the train
Wednesday, January 20, 2010
Purchases to make
Astrology Program ~ 70.00
Waffle Bathrobe ~ 70.00 (Instead I picked up the funkiest Teddy-bear robe at the Thrift Shop for 4.00 plus tax)
Small Alarm Clock ~ 15.00
Monday, January 18, 2010
A book resolution for 2010
My New Year's resolution about books and reading differs somewhat from Ms. Miller's suggestion to read a book that is unappealing.
Instead I am going to parse my "wish list" at Amazon and elsewhere, and sift through the pages to refine which of the dozens--possibly hundreds of books--I have accumulated in the last couple of years.
I know that if I made reading my sole occupation as I did the summer I spent in Guilford I could read between 5-7 books per week, but I am in a different place in my life and that ain't going to happen.
I started to review all the books on my lists; deleted quite a few and will be gathering the titles and authors into a fresh journal later this month.
Martin Luther King, Jr
"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
Sunday, January 17, 2010
Eric Rohmer
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Wednesday, January 06, 2010
Brownies from Scratch
Ada's Brownies by Anne Stander
1/4 pound of butter
2 squares baking chocolate
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup chopped nuts
Melt butter and chocolate and set aside to cool. Cream sugar and eggs. Add vanilla, then flour, salt and nuts. Add butter and chocolate mixture. Bake in greased, floured 9-by-9-inch pan. 350 degrees for 10 minutes, then 300 degrees for about 25 minutes.
My Notes
This is the original recipe written as was. Translated: 1/4 pound butter is one stick of unsalted butter. Two squares baking chocolate is 4 ounces of unsweetened chocolate -- use the best you can find. Cut back on the (white) sugar slightly. Nuts are optional.
For gluten free: Use Bette's Featherlight gf flour blend from Authentic Foods and add 1/4 teaspoon xanthan gum. Under-measure the gf flour just slightly.
Mix everything as little as possible. Brownies don't benefit from overmixing. Less fussing makes them dense and chewy.
Recipe courtesy of Lisa Stander Horel at Salon.com