Friday, March 21, 2008
Look what you’ve done to my beautiful wickedness
This is beautiful yet… disturbing.
Thus spoke Lorena on 03/21/08 at 11:02 PM in Consumables, Media, YouTube
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Tuesday, March 20, 2007
Mmm, coffee.
I think everyone knows that I drink tea, and it probably comes as no surprise that I also drink coffee. It takes a gallon or so to get me going in the morning (hahahah just kidding, not really a whole gallon). (Just most of a gallon.) Just like I like a wide variety of teas, I also appreciate a range of coffees-- from the light and flavored to the dark and bitter (not unlike my heart). Right now I’m on a Dunkin’ Donuts kick, which I have to get mailed to my house because we don’t have one in town. So every twelve weeks, I get a bag of Hazlenut, a bag of Cinnamon, and a bag of French Vanilla. In between those, I like to get the occasional bag of Barnies (in a variety of flavors). And Sophia just sent me some Second Cup Paradiso coffee that I’m looking forward to breaking into just as soon as I finish off this bag of Hazlenut.
And about a year or so ago, my friend Jenn turned me on to Sweetwater Organic Coffee (which I have been sending to a bunch of knitters for swaps! I hope they like it as much as I do!). Sweetwater Coffee is organic, shade grown, Fair Trade Certified, and best of all… local! I think this may even be the coffee that they provide for us at work, but at work I tend to only drink tea.
A girl does have to have some limits, after all.
Tuesday, January 30, 2007
Make-your-own Pizza
I’ve been a big fan lately of making my own pizza. I don’t make the dough from scratch, let’s not get too crazy here. But here’s the thing about being both a vegetarian and a picky eater: it’s hard to satisfy both your needs and the needs of your carnivorous husbeast. Sure, we order out; but with sausage on Tim’s half of the pizza, there’s almost always something gross that I’m picking off of my double-cheesy half.
So I was tooling around the grocery store a while ago, and this is what I came up with--
Single-sized pre-made pizza crusts (they’re a little thicker than I normally prefer, and I usually wind up not eating the outside ring of the crust), a flavored tomato sauce, and whatever toppings I want. Want shrimp? Check! Want artichoke hearts? Check! Want green olives stuffed with blue cheese? Check! Want Parmesan and Romano instead of Mozzarella? Or all three? Check! I don’t have to pick off little snot-balls of sausage. I don’t have to explain to someone that yes, for the most part I am a vegetarian but no, I don’t like onions and peppers so please don’t put them on my half of the pizza.
By the way, update about the Genmai Cha-- I took it home where I can better control the temperature and steeping time of the tea, and it is as I suspected… I love it!
Tuesday, January 02, 2007
Tea: Genmai Cha
Name of tea: Genmai Cha
Type of tea: Green leaf
Looks like: Potpourri! Looks like blades of grass with popcorn and cooked brown rice.
Smells like: Something burning. Brewed, it doesn’t smell like what it smells like before it’s brewed. In the tin it has kind of a grassy, fresh smell… but it’s slightly bitter and smoky after brewing. I just asked a co-worker to smell it (without telling her what it was) (I mean, she could tell it was tea, duh) and she said, “that smells like burnt Chinese food!”. So.
Tastes like: It has a very light, rice-like taste to it. A slight bitter aftertaste, with kind of a smoky burnt flavor… which sounds worse than I mean it to, because it’s kind of tasty.
Comments: I wonder if I either used water that was too hot, or let it steep too long? Although this probably won’t become my favorite, I do like it. I think it’s a good tea for a cold afternoon. Thank you for the tea, Jenn! (If you are interested in trying this tea, Jenn got it for me from Adagio.) OH, AH HA! In reading other people’s reviews for this tea, someone said to be careful not to oversteep, as it will go from nutty to burnt pretty easily. That explains it. I will try this tea again, for sure, with an open mind (and an eye on the clock).
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