weekend roundup liek whoas
Oct. 15th, 2006 07:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
miss_pryssHoly Shit, y'all. I did a LOT this weekend. Let's have a breakdown, shall we?
THINGS I DID THAT WERE ON MY LIST:
1. Ordered from Fresh Direct
2. Made banana muffins
3. Helped![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
myalexandria move (though I punked out early)
4. Brunch!
5. Pinched back my geranium
6. Picked up my birth control pills from the pharmacy
7. Watched more Freaks and Geeks (yes, that was on my list)
8. Took a shitload of stuff to the Goodwill
9. Bought produce at Mr. Ahn's Korean Deli
10. Dropped off the dry cleaning
11. Cooked Saturday night dinner -- Kale with garlic and shitake, and rice & beans
12. Called my mom
THINGS I DID THAT WERE NOT ON MY LIST:
1. Spent ONE FUCKING HOUR on the phone with Fresh Direct after they delivered a box full of chili (the actual carton having burst wiiiiide open) and failed to deliver the most important box in my order (the one with all the tasty tasty bread) at all.
2. Defrosted the freezer! Actually, Mr. Smarty Pants mostly did this while I stood by and watched admiringly. He used a heat gun!
3. Took the air conditioners out of the windows and stashed them away in the hall closet. Again, mostly Mr. Smarty Pants. "Admiring" is a good look for me, I understand.
4. Took a very pretty walk around the neighborhood
5. Planted the cuttings from the geranium. They look very cute. They will almost certainly die as I have a black and withering thumb.
6. Sorted through and labeled all of my bootleg/home-burned TV dvds and cds
7. Weeded out a lot of unneccessary junk from my hard drive. (This action precipitated by a failed download of some porn. My 56G harddrive had no space for porn! Madness!)
8. Ordered test prints from the iPhoto print-order service. If they look OK, I'll probably use that service to order all the photos for my long-overdue wedding album.
THINGS ON MY LIST I HAVE NOT YET DONE AND VERY WELL MAY NOT DO
1. Dye my hair pink (it's orange right now and I do not like it)
2. Make goo*
3. Make an icon featuring Bill Haverchuck with a wool hat over his eyes.
4. Reply to LJ comments
5. Watch an episode of THE MIGHTY BOOSH
6. Choose my new health insurance for the year
7. Weed through wedding photos so I don't end up ordering, like, 300 prints for an album that can only hold 200
*Here is the recipe for goo, so that you, too, can make goo!
GOO
3-5 cloves garlic
2 bunches of parsley OR 2 bunches of cilantro
1 can garbanzo beans, rinsed
1 can navy beans, rinsed
juice of 1/2 to 1 lemon (to taste)
salt to taste
cayenne pepper to taste
cumin to taste
olive oil
1. Squash and peel the garlic cloves then fry them for a long-ass time over a low heat in a few glugs of olive oil. The idea is that they should be profoundly cooked through, translucent and falling apart. This way they won't get super-sharp when you chuck them in the food processor. Let them cool down in the oil when they're done frying.
2. Wash off the parsley or cilantro and cut off about half of the stems. OK to leave some stem. Throw it into the food processor (you *can* use a blender but only if your blender is better than mine; my cheap one almost died the one time I tried this in it) along with a couple glugs of nice olive oil, the two cans of beans, and the now-cool garlic and garlicky oil.
3. Blend. Or food process. Or whatever. If you're blending, you'll probably want to start with just the greens and some oil and add the beans bit by bit so you don't screw up your machine.
4. Taste. Add salt, cayenne pepper (or black, but I prefer cayenne), cumin, lemon juice, and more olive oil to taste. Blend some more. Mixture should be smooth and tasty.
Use as a spread for a tasty tomato sandwich; on a veggie burger; or as a chip-n-crudite dip. Tasty stuff! Keeps pretty good but watch out 'cause the garlic gets sharper the longer it's in the fridge.
THINGS I DID THAT WERE ON MY LIST:
1. Ordered from Fresh Direct
2. Made banana muffins
3. Helped
myalexandria move (though I punked out early)4. Brunch!
5. Pinched back my geranium
6. Picked up my birth control pills from the pharmacy
7. Watched more Freaks and Geeks (yes, that was on my list)
8. Took a shitload of stuff to the Goodwill
9. Bought produce at Mr. Ahn's Korean Deli
10. Dropped off the dry cleaning
11. Cooked Saturday night dinner -- Kale with garlic and shitake, and rice & beans
12. Called my mom
THINGS I DID THAT WERE NOT ON MY LIST:
1. Spent ONE FUCKING HOUR on the phone with Fresh Direct after they delivered a box full of chili (the actual carton having burst wiiiiide open) and failed to deliver the most important box in my order (the one with all the tasty tasty bread) at all.
2. Defrosted the freezer! Actually, Mr. Smarty Pants mostly did this while I stood by and watched admiringly. He used a heat gun!
3. Took the air conditioners out of the windows and stashed them away in the hall closet. Again, mostly Mr. Smarty Pants. "Admiring" is a good look for me, I understand.
4. Took a very pretty walk around the neighborhood
5. Planted the cuttings from the geranium. They look very cute. They will almost certainly die as I have a black and withering thumb.
6. Sorted through and labeled all of my bootleg/home-burned TV dvds and cds
7. Weeded out a lot of unneccessary junk from my hard drive. (This action precipitated by a failed download of some porn. My 56G harddrive had no space for porn! Madness!)
8. Ordered test prints from the iPhoto print-order service. If they look OK, I'll probably use that service to order all the photos for my long-overdue wedding album.
THINGS ON MY LIST I HAVE NOT YET DONE AND VERY WELL MAY NOT DO
1. Dye my hair pink (it's orange right now and I do not like it)
2. Make goo*
3. Make an icon featuring Bill Haverchuck with a wool hat over his eyes.
4. Reply to LJ comments
5. Watch an episode of THE MIGHTY BOOSH
6. Choose my new health insurance for the year
7. Weed through wedding photos so I don't end up ordering, like, 300 prints for an album that can only hold 200
*Here is the recipe for goo, so that you, too, can make goo!
GOO
3-5 cloves garlic
2 bunches of parsley OR 2 bunches of cilantro
1 can garbanzo beans, rinsed
1 can navy beans, rinsed
juice of 1/2 to 1 lemon (to taste)
salt to taste
cayenne pepper to taste
cumin to taste
olive oil
1. Squash and peel the garlic cloves then fry them for a long-ass time over a low heat in a few glugs of olive oil. The idea is that they should be profoundly cooked through, translucent and falling apart. This way they won't get super-sharp when you chuck them in the food processor. Let them cool down in the oil when they're done frying.
2. Wash off the parsley or cilantro and cut off about half of the stems. OK to leave some stem. Throw it into the food processor (you *can* use a blender but only if your blender is better than mine; my cheap one almost died the one time I tried this in it) along with a couple glugs of nice olive oil, the two cans of beans, and the now-cool garlic and garlicky oil.
3. Blend. Or food process. Or whatever. If you're blending, you'll probably want to start with just the greens and some oil and add the beans bit by bit so you don't screw up your machine.
4. Taste. Add salt, cayenne pepper (or black, but I prefer cayenne), cumin, lemon juice, and more olive oil to taste. Blend some more. Mixture should be smooth and tasty.
Use as a spread for a tasty tomato sandwich; on a veggie burger; or as a chip-n-crudite dip. Tasty stuff! Keeps pretty good but watch out 'cause the garlic gets sharper the longer it's in the fridge.
