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I think I'm gonna stay home and watch a DVD. I have "Masked and Anonymous" and "Everything is Illuminated" and a few more Deadwood episodes.
I might also grill a nice piece of salmon with some eggplant, yellow squash, zucchini, black olives, and tomatoes, and drizzle all of it with olive oil
Going to a friend's birthday party. I've been down for the count for a couple of days & haven't left the damned apartment, so it'll be nice to go see the world. I hope.
I have soooo many movies to watch. So I will watch them. And help my friend do her taxes, because apparently I am the only non-CPA in America who doesn't mind doing them.
I'm going to try my hand at another Italian recipe for dinner and accomplish all the stuff on my to-do list. Hang pictures, buy a rug, get train tickets for Los Angeles in a couple of weeks.
Currently marinating a leg of lamb for dinner with ikkyu2. Trying to figure out if I can substitute bourbon for grand marnier in the glazed carrots. Procrastinating on laundry and vaccuuming. (Though I guess that's more of a "what are you doing now" response.)
The original recipe is orange marmalade and grand marnier, along with butter. I bought some lovely June Taylor blood orange marmalade, so I have the orange part covered, I'm just wondering about cutting it with bourbon rather than running out to get Grand Marnier, which seems like it might be overly sweet, anyway.
On the other hand, the whole point of the orange-y carrots was to have something sweet to contrast with the lamb, so maybe I'll go find an airplane bottle of Grand Marnier.
In any event, I'll stop co-opting this thread into an "occhiblu ponders dinner" monologue.
I dunno. For me, the bourbon taste doesn't match well with the orange. Seems that the smokiness is wrong. That's just me, though. Maybe it'll be great.
Brandy would work better for my tastes, or even a dry white wine. Or, omit the booze and add more butter.
I see what you're saying. I have Booker's bourbon right now, though, which is almost cinnamon-y and might work. I'm so used to this particular cookbook author calling for cognac, and then my substituting bourbon (because I generally have it on hand), that I've pretty much started automatically replacing any liquor she calls for with "bourbon," which might not ultimately be a good thing.
And I do have tequila. I could do "tequila sunrise carrots."
Of course, if I get Grand Marnier, I will then have tequila *and* Grand Marnier, which would lead to margarita happiness.
1. it's a beautiful evening, so I'm about to go do something spontaneous to celebrate it.
2. run spotlights for a very bad play. Good actors, for shit direction.
3. set up my cult's sanctuary for tomorrow's services.
4. maybe go to either the gay bar or the hookah bar.
I just got home from meeting an online friend. He and his wife live in Germany and they're in the UK for a seminar on a subject I didn't quite understand when they explained it, something to do with psychic tapping and emotional freedom.
We went for dinner at The Wishing Well in Hammersmith. I had a lovely meal - Gypsy Lamb with rice and salad, followed by a scrummy ice cream and caramel dessert. Then, because I live so far away from Hammersmith, I had to leave. But it was a lovely evening. On the way home I saw the most beautiful window hangings in someone's home, took a photo of them but doubt it'll come out (I have a cheapo camera).
I like meeting online friends in person for the first time. These people were very different from how I'd imagined them to be.
I just got back from taking the kid to a children's play. It was abysmal, as has been every single one I've ever taken her to. I worry that I'm giving her horribly low entertainment standards. Is there anything on Broadway right now suitable for a 4 year old? She seriously needs to see a real play.
Somebody, probably an alter ego of mine, put something in a cookie I ate; I am listening to "This is the Sea" with the sound down on le basket. Soon my compadres will arrive and a brisk game of Risk or some such other pursuit will ensue before some wild Brooklyn party is crashed or thought the better of.
For non-nw bunnies, Les Schwab is a rancher turned tire center mogul, who runs an annual promotion wherein you get free beef when you buy tires from him. So this year, I got tires durring the promotion hence, the dirty, dirty sounding barbecue.
Heh. It's the next thrilling installment of Occhiblu's Carrots!
Carrots were awesome. I took mudpuppie's advice and got the Grand Marnier. Ikkyu2 mentioned several times that I should pass along thanks to mudpuppie for the advice, because the carrots were so so so good. And the marmalade had nice chunks of blood orange, which I hadn't accounted for, which would have been weird with the bourbon but were awesome with the Grand Marnier.
Carrots did end up a bit sweet, but they were really good with the roast leg of lamb, which had rosemary and sage and black olives in the marinade and a dijon mustard glaze. Salad of farmer's-market arugula and walnuts with a dijon balsamic vinaigrette to contrast with the sweet carrots and complement the mustard on the lamb. Lamb came out a perfect juicy medium rare. Nice unusual Italian red from a vineyard owned and operated by a woman, for an added feminist spice.
MAN it was good. The kind of evening that keeps you smiling for days.
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