Tag: cooking
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Poe Cooks Reality: Eggplant Parmigiana from Food Network’s “Best Thing…”
While it’s generally well known that I have a very handsome in-house personal-chef-for-life, I too, can combine raw ingredients into something passably edible. Or, at least not poisonous. (I just scoured this website for a picture of me cooking and found nothing. NOTHING. I was sure there was a picture of me stirring a pot…
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Friday Links: Does This Blog Post Make My Butt Look Big (And/Or Shiny?) Edition
I was a bit light on posting this weekend. Mostly because I was transfixed by the comet landing. I just don’t get it. Why would anyone want to land on a comet? I don’t get space exploration in general. And don’t even get me started on this nonsense about commercial space travel. Or NASA funding.…
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Haciendo Fideo: Making Noodle Soup
So….I’m Mexican. (Bet you didn’t see that one coming). Don’t let the pale, sunburn-prone skin and curly, red hair fool you. I am definitely La Chicana. Maybe even a Chola. I don’t know. I haven’t fully explored my new-found ethnicity yet. Let me explain: since my adult-companion-caretaker-for-life XFE has been out of town a lot…
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Sichuan Must Be Chinese for ‘Burn a Hole in Your Belly’
My travel-buddy-for-life XFE and I often discuss where we might want to go for our next Really Big Trip. You know, the ones that require using lots and lots of miles, and all of your 25 vacation days and crossing many, many time zones. The last Really Big Trip was three weeks in Australia for…
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How Not to Do Date Night
My super significant other and I had one of those so-called “date nights” the other night. Well, I guess you could call it a “date night.” We put on real clothes and left the house for a pre-planned activity. This is one of those things you have to do when you’ve been together for seven…
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All I Want for Christmas is World Peace. And a Gateau Basque.
So Christmas is always, in my experience, an emotional roller coaster. And I don’t like roller coasters. Or emotions, really. But what I do like is cake. Or, pie. Or, cookie/pie/cake hybrids. Which is why for Christmas this year, I made a Gateau Basque. Actually, we’re not very big on sweets in thePoeLog household. Neither…
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Weekend in Pictures
No weddings, but other shenanigans were afoot. I signed up for this race about two months ago. I thought it was on Sunday, but while ironing on Saturday, I saw a commercial for a new show starting on Monday, April 30. I thought to myself, “no, Monday’s May 1,” but when I went and checked,…