Take one chicken breast [boneless]
Defrost [almost all food in our house spends some time in the freezer]
Pound with a rolling pin
Stop pounding, preferably before, but certainly after, you realize you’ve ruptured the plastic bags you had wrapped the chicken in before freezing
Take a pan with sloping sides, pour in about an quarter-inch of rosé
Add liberal [...]
Archive for February, 2009
Chicken: it’s what’s for dinner
Posted in Food on 23 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Post ideas in need of elaboration
Posted in Musing about Teaching, My brain, tactless observations, tagged cat vocabulary, misused mice, science writing exercises on 23 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Simplified Cat Vocabulary: I don’t expect long conversations from my cats. And I don’t imagine them saying a great deal.
Xeno conveys things like “More”, “Mine”, “Mom”, and “Damnit.”
Malkin has definite opinions on “Want that!” “Want that now!”, which comes with paw gestures and a willingness to dance in circles.
Leia has branched out from “Why?” to [...]
Just too sober
Posted in My brain, tactless observations on 22 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Look, I love musicals. In high school I managed to see Evita enough times to end up at a cast party and knew the differences between the performances of 5 different Evas. I remember songs I’ve heard only once, at shows that never made it out of previews, or never made it to tape or [...]
Calling the Clue Fairy
Posted in tactless observations, tagged clue fairy, dereliction of duty, tanning, what were they thinking? on 19 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
If you don’t understand the biologic process that results in tan skin, you probably shouldn’t be left to your own discretion how to use high-intensity UV lights
[sigh]
First outdoor flower of 2009
Posted in Gardening on 15 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It actually arrived late last week, but I was too busy to post it:
Also, a new site to explore: LabLit. It’s about science in culture, fact, and fiction. Sounds like fun!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged February blues, May flowers, peony petals, valentine heart on 14 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Belated, but heartfelt. These peony petals were not, of course, around at Valentine time, but don’t we all want a taste of May at this point in the year?
Even better — my beloved is home, and we had mead, cheese, breads, and fig jam for dinner, along with some little shrimp dumplings and coconut cake.
Ah, [...]
Portrait of a cat as a saner animal
Posted in Backstory, cats, tagged Himmie, kindness makes kind cats, miaow!, portrait of a kitty, princess kitty, rescue cat, success on 13 February, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Just look at this lovely puff of fur — finally ready for her close-up and she isn’t even completely freaked about the camera flash. I am so deeply grateful to whatever it was that got Leia back into civil society. I’ve gotten off all but one of the fur knots [it's tricky clipping close to [...]
The things I learn… [or, "They do the fan dance, don'tcha know"]
Posted in Musing about Teaching, tactless observations on 11 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know that some students take jobs at strip clubs in order to pay their way through school. One such student self-identified last night. And yes, it was relevant to the discussion to bring up how many different contaminants might be on a dollar bill. But…errr…
[Okay, I did exacerbate the situation by suggesting a potential [...]
Music for the ride
Posted in Uncategorized on 10 February, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Got back from the store just now; got some ordinary milk [as opposed to the "Happy Cow" milk we just finished] and a few other items. Much more interesting was the music on the local college station: “The Bones of You”, by a group called Elbow. The repeated lyric “And I’m five years ago/And three [...]
