oh i forgot to mention my fantastic discovery on my last post, but it's so fantastic that i think it warrants its very own post!
COOKING BLOGS!
being as bored as i usually am, i have a tendancy to click on blogs with interesting sounding names and while i really cant remember how i got here, THIS is what made me stay :D I havnt actually made them yet, but they look GOO-OOD.
and if you've found one cooking blog, you've pretty much found them all:
I like her and i think ive actually used a couple of her recipes but i dont remember which ones, they may have been baked goods.
And also this one - just because the instructions are so easy to follow and the pictures depict such yummy final products.
Oh and i found this one...somehow or another...and it is just an *excellent* cooking community. most recipes have a nutritional chart on the side and makes it really easy to find those healthier recipes. plus, you can save recipes to your account, the homepage automatically shows you your 'recently viewed' recipes, and you can search for recipes that have the highest ratings from others who've made it. (wow, i should be paid advertising fees. but it is an awesome site :P)
thats right everybody, my name is wnd and i am a cooking-blog addict. they is wonderful! and especially for a sad excuse of a cook such as myself, i love the fact that these bloggers have actually made the recipes theyve posted (most of them anyway) and so have suggestions, comments from others who've tried it, and scrump-diddly-umtious PICTURES! how can you possibly go wrong? you just cant! so happy clicking and cooking everyone! yay, FOOD!
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
Monday, May 29, 2006
it's now 4am on a sunday night, and once again i find myself unable to sleep. you wonder how im able to screw up my sleep schedule on such a tight school schedule - 9am classes everyday, and since it's accelerated, i cant skip them to sleep in either. I have no idea how i can be so talented in such matters.
anyway, i find myself really liking to living on my own. i'll admit that sometimes going for days without being to able to rant/talk to others really get to me, but i think that just pushes me to contribute more in class - which is always a good thing i suppose. i like having the whole house to myself: knowing where everything is, creating messes i dont feel guilty about, blasting my music such that i hear it from the kitchen (if only to piss off the neighbours), baking at 3am just because im bored and want to, food shopping for myself, and (even though i cant and everything turns to mush) cooking for myself.
not that i didnt love living with the girls, but im enjoying coming home to absolutely nothing - no people, no noise whatsoever. if i want anything, i have to create it - food, sounds, entertainment, or company. it is a very odd grasp at control but it is surprisingly satisfying to possess it - if only for a little while longer.
despite living on my own for only a month, ive found that my senses have been dulled (or maybe it's just my imagination). maybe i should stretch first before my trips back to TO? food sensitivity is my own fault - coffee being the strongest taste i take in. im using no salt or sauces of any kind in my 'cooking' and usually just use light seasoning, which makes everything really healthy but just very bland tasting. so of course my taste buds are shocked back into existence when i go back to TO and eat out every day for virtually every meal. though my sugar content is the same as always, so yay for me :P
have you ever gone for long stretches of time without talking to anyone, and then thrown back into everyday conversations with others and feel exhausted afterwards - even with really interesting conversations - and think that perhaps you should have done facial-expression stretches first...? ya, me neither :P
restaurants are LOUD and full of SCREAMING people.
but then again, it could just be me not being used to it seeing as how what i "blast" is classical music and you dont really have to listen to it so much as just let it wash over you. so what does that mean? i dont know...cant seem tofind my train of thought. it either has something to do with be MORE sensitive to highs and lows of sound, or that everything seems louder because youre not used to it.
oh wait, thats the same thing.
excellent. time for sleep.
anyway, i find myself really liking to living on my own. i'll admit that sometimes going for days without being to able to rant/talk to others really get to me, but i think that just pushes me to contribute more in class - which is always a good thing i suppose. i like having the whole house to myself: knowing where everything is, creating messes i dont feel guilty about, blasting my music such that i hear it from the kitchen (if only to piss off the neighbours), baking at 3am just because im bored and want to, food shopping for myself, and (even though i cant and everything turns to mush) cooking for myself.
not that i didnt love living with the girls, but im enjoying coming home to absolutely nothing - no people, no noise whatsoever. if i want anything, i have to create it - food, sounds, entertainment, or company. it is a very odd grasp at control but it is surprisingly satisfying to possess it - if only for a little while longer.
despite living on my own for only a month, ive found that my senses have been dulled (or maybe it's just my imagination). maybe i should stretch first before my trips back to TO? food sensitivity is my own fault - coffee being the strongest taste i take in. im using no salt or sauces of any kind in my 'cooking' and usually just use light seasoning, which makes everything really healthy but just very bland tasting. so of course my taste buds are shocked back into existence when i go back to TO and eat out every day for virtually every meal. though my sugar content is the same as always, so yay for me :P
have you ever gone for long stretches of time without talking to anyone, and then thrown back into everyday conversations with others and feel exhausted afterwards - even with really interesting conversations - and think that perhaps you should have done facial-expression stretches first...? ya, me neither :P
restaurants are LOUD and full of SCREAMING people.
but then again, it could just be me not being used to it seeing as how what i "blast" is classical music and you dont really have to listen to it so much as just let it wash over you. so what does that mean? i dont know...cant seem tofind my train of thought. it either has something to do with be MORE sensitive to highs and lows of sound, or that everything seems louder because youre not used to it.
oh wait, thats the same thing.
excellent. time for sleep.
