Chanukah Blog Tour 5767
1. Quick! You must turn a plate of latkes into an upscale gourmet delight (as if they aren’t already?). What would you add to them to dress them up, flavor and/or garnish them?
Since it was my first year making latkes, I’d be wary of venturing too much from the very successful recipe I found. If […]
Sheana’s addendum to Jenn’s Guide to Gift Wrapping
So Jenn made this kind of extraordinary guide to gift wrapping, which I almost totally agree with. Plus, if you look at her presents at the end, they’re gorgeous! But, tastes will differ, so I’m offering up my, er, tips, in addition to Jenn’s most excellent ideas on wrapping.
Oh, and before I share pictures, why […]
Chanukah Blog Tour and Chanukah Man
This year, among the many memes I’m participating in is the Chanukah Blog Tour, which I just signed up for today over at Amy Guth’s blog. Via there, I’ve found all kinds of other neat folks who are observing the holiday. My favorite blog, so far, is life as orieyenta, where Orieyenta posts about Jewish […]
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The Dreidel Song
Frankly, I’m a little embarrassed, but my partner in crime and I recorded the Dreidel song (you know, “Oh Dreidel Dreidel! something something something those are the only words people know?) for Citizen of the Month’s holiday concert, which I believe will be posted tomorrow. I’m too bashful to post the song here, but if […]
The best gift of all
Today I’ll be turning in my last paper for the semester; it’s still a little unreal to me that my first semester at graduate school has come to an end. In all honesty, it could have come to an end a whole lot sooner - as in, earlier last week, if only I had been […]
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Hello, Pacific.
Friday night after the Chanukah lights were out (and moments before our roommates had their Christmas Toga Party), we set out for the beach. Colleen had only been to the beach once since we got here, and I’d never been.
It was plenty dark and cold by the time we got there, and all the […]
Latkes for the one you love
Tonight Colleen and I took a stab at making Dreama’s traditional latkes. Things started out a little rough with our lack of a food processor and what with using the blender, and then with the wateriness of the starch they kind of looked like grainy, uncooked mashed potatoes. Watery, grainy, uncooked mashed potatoes.
It got pretty […]
Blini is a gateway drug
The first blini I had, a little over a year ago in Saint Petersburg, were filled with mushrooms and potatoes. I’ve actually come to like mushrooms. They’re like a gateway vegetable; I never used to do vegetables, but ever since I tried mushrooms I’ve experimented with all kinds of other vegetables: first onions, then venturing […]
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