Recipes
- After having turned some soft, wrinkly apples into applesauce last week, I tried my hand in making applesauce cake– which turns out is SPECTACULAR. Like better than banana bread or anything else I’ve baked as of late kind of spectacular… like I ate the whole cake by myself over the weekend kind of spectacular… like its impossible to just have one slice kind of spectacular. I skipped the caramel glaze merely because I was out of butter at the time and once I cut into the cake (mostly out of impatience), I decided that it was oh so very good by itself. Butt, I think next time I will definitely make and add the glaze because I have a feeling.. it will be most grand 🙂 And isn’t that what we all live for? Apple sauce cake with caramel glaze? Yes.
- I’ve been craving good buttery flaky biscuits for awhile now and tried whipping up a batch the other week to go with my sausage gravy I had made, thinking.. how hard could it be? Turns out biscuits are tricky motherfuckers. If you handle the dough too much they wont rise (so basically, over stirring/mixing will kill a biscuit). Using a recipe that is high in baking powder will also make a biscuit weirdly salty-bitter. Nonetheless, after pretty much throwing out my first attempt, I tried out Alton Brown’s recipe and am happy to report back that my second batch was a success! Note: I doubled the amount of butter and shortening.. cuz fail-proof biscuits.
- Tried out this recipe for Mustard Broccoli and loved the new (to me) twist. It was easy to throw together and the flavor was great- though I think I will use less sugar next time.
What I’ve been watching
- I was feeling in the Christmas mood and stumbled across Netflix’s special A Very Murry Christmas and would recommend it to anyone who is looking for a little extra cheer this season. Bill Murry basically makes his rounds visiting and duet-ing with (who knew Bill could sing? He can’t really.) random artists like, Jenny Lewis and Chris Rock. Without a doubt Miley Cyrus steals the show with her cover of Silent Night. She kills it.
- I randomly came across the documentary The Tiger and The monk on Netflix and found it a bit.. puzzling? Something just didn’t feel right about how the tigers were taken care of and then exploited as a tourist act. Nonetheless, the documentary puts a light on the monks’ “charitable” acts, though I have since come across many articles online questioning the animals’ treatment with many visitors/tourists of Tiger Temple claiming that the tigers seemed sedated the entire time.
What I’ve been listening to
- I mentioned before that Dear Sugar Radio is the bomb.com but I wanted to mention that their infidelity episodes (there are 3 parts) are particularly intriguing. In part 1 they read and answer letters from people who have been cheated on (the betrayed) and in part 2 they read and answer letters from cheaters (the betrayers) themselves. Oh the perspective! In part 3, the sugars interview Esther Perel and it is absolutely fascinating. Give em a listen.
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