1. Smooching: belated Valentine's greetings from our Elmo lovin' Evie. (We are in pigtail training, it's not pretty and I fear she may go bald from pulling out clumps of hair with the clippies. Any advice?)
2. Winning: the new Allison Pearson book, I THINK I LOVE YOU is Michelle from 1 More Chapter. I loved reading who everyone's teen idol crush was and I recognized them all. Hee hee. I wonder who Evie's will be...ack!
3. Working on: the planning stages of the school cookbook...the winning company will most likely be the one that allows users to submit recipes online. Um, hello no brainer.
4. Reading: finished The Postmistress by Sarah Blake. Still working on The Winter of our Discontent. It always takes me a while to ramp up when I read Steinbeck and by the time I'm on board, the book is over. Beginning The Nine Tailors. And I guess I have to choose classics for March. Any suggestions?
5. Cooking: made Unstuffed Peppers from a Rachael Ray magazine reader. I changed it a little based on what I had on hand....and we always add more meat. We used:
- 1 cup basmati rice (it calls for long grain/wild)
- 1 pound mild Italian sausage, casings discarded (we used 2 lbs sweet)
- 1 green bell pepper (original called for 2 peppers)
- 1 10-ounce package white mushrooms, sliced (we used baby bellas)
- 1/2 red onion, chopped (it called for a whole one).
If you want more info, I'm happy to email you the instructions since I can't find a link. But you can probably figure out it involves boiling the rice, browning the sausage, cooking the veggies and combining :).
6. Bread making: deserves it's own post. I took pictures. An overabundance of dough. And then it grew. And grew some more. And we ate a lot of bread. Every day.
7. Book clubbing: we met and selected our 2011 reads. The first is Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua. We think it will provide some lively discussion. Roar.
8. Listening: since I still can't find my Ipod, ahem, I am settling for Owen singing his own words to the tune of Arcade Fire's Ready to Start. O was onto them way before the Grammys, he doesn't know what Grammys are, but he knows what he likes.
9. Planning: our road trip to Nashville to visit dear friends. Do you have a family of besties? What do you call them? (besides their name of course) I think I'll borrow from Charlie & Lola - the Ls are our Favorite and Best.
10. Tomorrow: Trish's Review Trifecta. That's three people ;)
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