A Funk has overtaken me for a time now. It ebbs and flows and generally pisses me off. Funks are no fun and render me lethargic, uninspired and useless. I will expound more on this in a later post, as I am trying to collect my thoughts regarding said Funk. So for now I will give you a list of some activities that can beat the Funk, and even if they can't beat it, they can certainly give it a run for it's money.
-Buying a new pair of shoes. Yellow flats are espically funk-repellent
-Planting a herb garden in a pail and seeing the seedlings begin to sprout
-Enjoying a toasted marshmellow milkshake (with a toasted marshmellow on top even!) from The Stand (just don't eat their hamburgers)
-Organizing the CRAP out of your apartment. Like under the bathroom sink, in the shoe/coat closet, and the kitchen cabinets. It's so cathartic.
-Enjoying Drag Queen Cocktails, while wearing Tiara's and watching the finale of RuPauls's Drag Race.
-Eating yoru first ever double cheeseburger from Shake Shack. **Warning** deep pangs of guilt may follow this indulgence, but that is just the Funk getting to you. Life is short, eat good burgers.
-Eating an amazing salad of kale, beets, peas, wheatberries, feta cheese and other oh-so-nourishing and soul feeding healthy foods, which makes you feel like a grown up who can balance their diet after eating a double cheeseburger, cheese fries, and ice cream.
-Watching LOST (it's getting so good!) with the two main men in your life and drinking Champagne cocktails
-Lots of cuddly, kissy, lovey kitty time.
-Pre-ordering your ticktes to the midnight opening of Sex and the City: 2
-Drinking margaritta's at 2pm on a Friday with your brother while throngs of teenage girls scream outside the restaurant at Channing Tatum who is filming a movie in Astoria, and you realize you are too old and out of touch to know who he is and why people care.
-Being asked to be an actor in a staged reading of a very cool new play, performing it for a crowd of intelligent theatre-goers and finally feeling like you are doing something creative after months of stagnation. (Thank you Brian!)
-Watching this on YouTube. Incredible.
-Knowing that as you write this blog your husband is in the process of making sauteed pork chops with musrooms, dill and sour cream along with twice baked potatoes.
What activities do you do to beat the Funk?
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
Simple Pleasures: Homemade goat cheese. And oven roasted tomatoes. And Crostini. And Other lovely things.
Every Tuesday (since early February) I wake up with the excitement of a kid on Christmas morning, because Tuesdays bring something no other day of the week can bring: a new episode of LOST.
I jumped on the LOST train about a year and a half ago and have never looked back, not even during this season when the writing gets a bit clunky and deliberate, no not even then, and I suggest you do the same. It's quite a ride, I assure you. Thankfully Neill has been a passenger on the train as well, so we are a content party of three, who gather in front of our tiny TV, mouths agape (in fascination or disappointment...) for a full hour followed by at least thirty minutes of discussion about what we just witnessed. Good times indeed.
(Stanley is a fan too!)
Of course we can't just get together and watch TV, no no no we need to drink. So we have decided that our drink of choice during the duration of this season will be Absolut Mango as sort of an ode to the fruits they may find while on the island. Also, eating is helpful, and Jürg and I do our best to put some sort of food on the table. Some nights (like last) we don't have our act together and it ends up being pasta, but other nights, like last week, we hit a home run, and we make our very own goat cheese.
Yes you read that right, we (well, I) made cheese. It may very well be one of the most thrilling things I accomplish all year (I aim high), and I simply had to share this with all of you so you can experience the excitement for yourself. You don't need a must see Tuesday night show to inspire you, goat cheese can be consumed any time, and in an ideal world I would have some every day. I'm serious. There are few things I love more that goat cheese in all its creamy, tangy, sometimes herby splendor.
I never realized that making my own would be so easy, until I came across this incredible blog. I found it one Sunday evening when the blog creator made a comment on my first Sunny Side Up post, making her the first "stranger" to comment on my blog. Which was thrilling in and of itself, but find the recipe for goat cheese, and so many other delectable dishes was the real prize. Thank you Giao!
She does an incredible job of teaching you how to bring the pleasure of homemade cheese into your kitchen, and beautifully depicts it in photographs, so I will simply provide you a link rather than recount it here. However I will tell you that a quart of goats milk cost me $3.50, which is the same price as a typical "log size" goat cheese, and this recipe yields at least two "logs" worth. Not only do you get the joy of becoming a novice cheese maker, but you save money in the process! Love that!
We paired the goat cheese with some homemade oven roasted tomatoes, homemade crostini, and homemade potato leek soup (not pictured). The soup was also from the same blog, and simply wonderful. We already had enough potato's on hand so all we needed to buy was a few leeks and some chicken stock. Dear friends, I tell you it's possible to eat like a gourmand on a tight budget.
Oh yes! The drinks! How could I forget? So far we have tried three different types of Mango drinks, one of which does not bear repeating, and we continue to search for more. There are ten episodes left this season, so we have plenty of time to find a favorite.
They are the Absolut Caliente and The Absolut Firefly, which certainly don't lack in either flavor or color. You would pay $14 a pop for these in Manhattan, but here in Queens we shake and stir to our hearts (and wallets) content. The Absolute Drinks site has all kinds of great recipes, take a gander for yourself!
Tuesdays are the new Friday's in my book, well for the next ten weeks anyway.
I jumped on the LOST train about a year and a half ago and have never looked back, not even during this season when the writing gets a bit clunky and deliberate, no not even then, and I suggest you do the same. It's quite a ride, I assure you. Thankfully Neill has been a passenger on the train as well, so we are a content party of three, who gather in front of our tiny TV, mouths agape (in fascination or disappointment...) for a full hour followed by at least thirty minutes of discussion about what we just witnessed. Good times indeed.
Of course we can't just get together and watch TV, no no no we need to drink. So we have decided that our drink of choice during the duration of this season will be Absolut Mango as sort of an ode to the fruits they may find while on the island. Also, eating is helpful, and Jürg and I do our best to put some sort of food on the table. Some nights (like last) we don't have our act together and it ends up being pasta, but other nights, like last week, we hit a home run, and we make our very own goat cheese.
Yes you read that right, we (well, I) made cheese. It may very well be one of the most thrilling things I accomplish all year (I aim high), and I simply had to share this with all of you so you can experience the excitement for yourself. You don't need a must see Tuesday night show to inspire you, goat cheese can be consumed any time, and in an ideal world I would have some every day. I'm serious. There are few things I love more that goat cheese in all its creamy, tangy, sometimes herby splendor.
I never realized that making my own would be so easy, until I came across this incredible blog. I found it one Sunday evening when the blog creator made a comment on my first Sunny Side Up post, making her the first "stranger" to comment on my blog. Which was thrilling in and of itself, but find the recipe for goat cheese, and so many other delectable dishes was the real prize. Thank you Giao!
She does an incredible job of teaching you how to bring the pleasure of homemade cheese into your kitchen, and beautifully depicts it in photographs, so I will simply provide you a link rather than recount it here. However I will tell you that a quart of goats milk cost me $3.50, which is the same price as a typical "log size" goat cheese, and this recipe yields at least two "logs" worth. Not only do you get the joy of becoming a novice cheese maker, but you save money in the process! Love that!
We paired the goat cheese with some homemade oven roasted tomatoes, homemade crostini, and homemade potato leek soup (not pictured). The soup was also from the same blog, and simply wonderful. We already had enough potato's on hand so all we needed to buy was a few leeks and some chicken stock. Dear friends, I tell you it's possible to eat like a gourmand on a tight budget.
Oh yes! The drinks! How could I forget? So far we have tried three different types of Mango drinks, one of which does not bear repeating, and we continue to search for more. There are ten episodes left this season, so we have plenty of time to find a favorite.
They are the Absolut Caliente and The Absolut Firefly, which certainly don't lack in either flavor or color. You would pay $14 a pop for these in Manhattan, but here in Queens we shake and stir to our hearts (and wallets) content. The Absolute Drinks site has all kinds of great recipes, take a gander for yourself!
Tuesdays are the new Friday's in my book, well for the next ten weeks anyway.
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