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- What I should do tonight is write. Instead, I suspect I am going to try out the new sewing machine, and play the rummage in the closets game. And do all the prep for lamb stew to cook tomorrow in the new crock pot.
- Oh yeah, new crock pot! My parents gave me a shiny new crock pot for my birthday. I need recipes. Because I have only ever used a crock pot for ... making stew. So please give me suggestions.
- Dear Weather Gods: NO SNOW in the lowlands, thanks. Preferably no icy roads, either, because I've got Stuff To Do all weekend. But NO SNOW. I cannot possibly stress this enough.
- It is freezing in my office right now. I'm on my third pot of herbal tea, all in an attempt to stay warm. Dear Self: bring one of the capelets to work tomorrow and leave it at work for the rest of winter.
- Dear Self: you do not need more little velvet or faux-fur capelets. Really, you don't. Stop browsing eBay for them.
- Oh yeah, new crock pot! My parents gave me a shiny new crock pot for my birthday. I need recipes. Because I have only ever used a crock pot for ... making stew. So please give me suggestions.
- Dear Weather Gods: NO SNOW in the lowlands, thanks. Preferably no icy roads, either, because I've got Stuff To Do all weekend. But NO SNOW. I cannot possibly stress this enough.
- It is freezing in my office right now. I'm on my third pot of herbal tea, all in an attempt to stay warm. Dear Self: bring one of the capelets to work tomorrow and leave it at work for the rest of winter.
- Dear Self: you do not need more little velvet or faux-fur capelets. Really, you don't. Stop browsing eBay for them.
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eta: Well, damn.
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No way.
I have to drive home still tonight. Dont do that.
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(I want there to be lots of snow in the mountains, for you wacky going-outside types, though.)
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You know how it is... it's a blue moon perfect alignment of conditions before it's even possible to snow in Seattle. Which sucks giant donkey shlong.
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However for Sunday they're saying a low of 28 and a high of 35. Now that is not good news.
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Well, if it happens Friday I wont be TOO worried. But I just dont like the fact that it will do it during the week, specially with the late hours I push :/
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Snow is for when I don't have anything to do. Not right now.
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Larry's Baked Beans
1 ½ lb dry navy beans (3 cups)
2 tsp dry mustard
1 C ketchup
2 T dark molasses
1 C brown sugar
1 T salt
1 additional cup water
¼ lb salt pork, ground or Diced. (Bacon works, I like using Tasso)
Cook dry beans in water till softened
(Simmer dry Beans in 3 times their volume of unsalted water
for 30 min in saucepan. Allow to stand, covered, for 1 ½ hr
until softened-May take more or less time-beans vary)
Make sure beans are soft before mixing with sugar/molasses.
Drain beans & put in crock pot. Add all remaining ingredients;
Mix well. Cover and cook on low 10-12 hours (High 4-6 hrs),
Stir occasionally
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I have capitulated to the pressures of the economy and gone back to job-hunting for officey-type jobs. And I went to a temp agency today and rocked their tests, and the placement gentleman said he had something in mind but was I allergic to dogs? because the people in the office were in the habit of bringing their dogs in.
I have high hopes that a job that permits dogs in the office will also look kindly on stripy stockings, velvet skirts, and skull and spider accessories.
I went stealth today, though. Black trousers, black conservative blazer, and a purple fine-gauge sweater.
It seems to have worked.
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I'll dig through some of my cookbooks and see if I can find any of my recipes.
Sending out "no snow in the lowlands~ma" your way. I'll willingly take some of the cooler weather, though. It was 80 degrees and rainy here today which conflicted with the beautiful velvet outfit I had planned.
I know this is pure enabling; yet, can one truly have too many little velvet or faux-fur capelets?
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local chick has a project of doing something new with her crockpot each day and sharing on her blog, for one year.
The year is almost over, so she has many things. She talks about how things turned out, if she screwed up, what went well, what she will do or not next time...
and there are all KINDS of things she does... Not even just food type things.
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It can snow on Sunday, preferably Sunday afternoon.
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Chicken adobo with ginger
1 cup water
1/3 cup red wine vinegar
1/4 cup soy sauce
3 bay leaves
10-20 whole peppercorns
1-2" chunk of ginger, peeled and thinly sliced
2-4 tablespoons brown sugar (optional)
Mix everything together and throw in the crock pot. Add brown sugar if you're like me and don't like a strong vinegar taste. Cook on low for 8-9 hours. (Don't be worried if it smells like boiled pickles -- it won't taste like it, promise.) Take out the bay leaves when done, and the ginger and peppercorns if you don't like eating them whole. Serve over rice.
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May I ask what kind of sewing machine you have? I am looking for a new one and the choices are overwhelming, especially to a novice sewer.
Thanks,
Rebecca
P.S. am anxiously awaiting the Gothic Charm School Book :)
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The sewing machines I now have are a vintage 70s Elna and a vintage 70s Pfaff, both of which are all-metal construction and will last forever. But those sorts of machines are usually difficult to come by, because people never want to let them go.
If you're a novice sewer, I would suggest getting one of the basic "entry-level" machines from White or Brother. Joann Fabrics carry them, and I think Sears does, and both retailers run sales where the basic machines are around $100. That's the type of sewing machine I've used for years and years; it was only this past weekend that I ended up with two of the "real" sewing machines. :)
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Lurker Chimes in with Crock Pot Recipe
1 small bag of baby carrots
3-4 red potatoes (to your taste), cut into rough quarters
1-2 yellow onion(s) (again, to your taste), cut into large chunks
1 bottle of Jim Beam bourbon honey mustard (or your favorite honey mustard with a little whiskey or bourbon)
1 corned beef brisket (stores usually sell them in packages of 3-4 lbs)
put your vegetables into the pot, potatoes first, then carrots, then onions. Lay the corned beef on top of the vegetables. Fill the pot with water until it is just touching the corned beef, then glaze the beef with a thick layer of your mustard. Cover it with a lid and let it cook on medium-low for about three hours. Serves four people. You can use the stock to make a nice gravy, or save it for soup-making later.
A variation of this recipe is to use a sharp horseradish mustard, and subsitute about half of the water with a dark beer of your choice.
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1 roast (I usually go for chuck - get whatever size will fit in your crock pot)
2 cans of Cream of Chicken
1 packet of Lipton's dry onion soup mix
Stick it in the crock pot on low, and come back to check on it in about 8 hours. It makes the most delicious gravy, and the beef just falls apart. You can add some veggies in, too, and consider it a hearty beef stew. :)