Last weekend, I decided to attempt to make buttermilk biscuits. These are pretty much my favorite biscuit of all times but every time I have tried to make them in the past they don’t turn out as fluffy and delicious as the buttermilk biscuits you find in restaurants. Luckily, I have this crazy sense of hope that keeps me from giving up in these situations. You should see me in lab – I am always excited and hopeful when I repeat experiments that have failed multiple times in the past. I just think maybe this time everything will be different and I will get cool results. Note: usually it’s not different and I don’t get cool results but oh well… that’s grad school for you. Anyway, the point here is that I am excited and hopeful every time I redo a previously failed activity and I don’t know if that is a good skill to have or not but it worked here. Look at these puffy biscuits. And since you can only see a picture of the biscuits (and not taste them), I will tell you about them. They are perfect – so light and fluffy. I would have eaten the whole batch in one sitting but I had to share some with Cobalt too… Yumminess.
Thanks to our friends Chocolate Pudding and Millionaire Space Accountant for giving us the cookbook with the winning buttermilk biscuits recipe! :)
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“Breakfast” for dinner
Last night, Cobalt and I made these tasty pancake things with sautéed apple chunks on top (and inside the pancakes too). They also have powdered sugar on top. Basically we used an Aebleskiver (Danish Pancake Balls) recipe but then since we don’t have an aebleskiver pan, we just made regular shaped pancakes. They turned out delicious but I bet they would have been even more amazing in ball form (it was kind of hard to get the apple chunks to stay inside the pancakes this way)… Anyway, we got the recipe from this website. Try it! :D
Before you scold me for eating sugary goodness for dinner, I just have to remind you that one of the best things about being an adult is being able to eat whatever you want… In the case of last night’s dinner, we ate it with a salad which, in my book, means that it’s dinner (or lunch). For example, donuts are generally a breakfast food, but donuts with salad on the side… now that’s dinner. ;) What about you? Are there any foods that you eat for dinner even though they are technically not dinner foods?
Happy Groundhog Day everyone! Try your best to make it amazing just in case you get stuck in it for a long time…
(Note: Potassium does not eat donuts for dinner… just to clear that up in case you were worried…)
Ring ring ring ring ring ring ring
Wedding expo?
This weekend, Cobalt and I are doing a crazy amount of wedding planning. I hope this post is awesome for you guys because I am pretty sure we’re going to be too busy for me to update over the next few days. So what’s going on exactly? Well, the biggest reason is that we are going to a wedding expo. That’s right… filling out tons of forms to win free stuff that we probably won’t win and being overwhelmed by a variety of local products that we probably can’t afford for our wedding. Cobalt and I are specifically interested in looking at local jewelers’ wedding rings. We have been looking around here in Boulder at various wedding ring vendors and nothing has really struck our eyes as the PERFECT pair of rings to represent the perfect pair that we are (;)) so we’re hoping maybe some local jewelers at the wedding expo will have some fresh ideas for us.
Do you have any stories about wedding rings? Are you only into the precious metals like white and yellow gold? Or do you have a thing for the weird metals like tungsten and titanium (or cobalt!)? Do you have horror stories about crazy rings or crazy jewelers? Use this as a forum to vent, compliment, or do whatever your hearts desire on the topic of wedding rings and jewelry. I am all ears (Cobalt is too, so speak up, guys!).
About the pic. Yes, this is my engagement ring! Prettiness huh? If it helps with the ring discussion, Cobalt and I would rather have rings that match each other than me having a ring that matches my engagement ring. Okay… Discuss! For real! I’ll be at work in lab awaiting your responses…
Egg rolls for the new year
Last night, Cobalt and I made homemade egg rolls for dinner! Here are some pictures:
Baby egg rolls waiting to be cooked
Cooking egg rolls (yeah yeah… we don’t have a wok… wedding registry?)
Cobalt eating the first egg roll! (He looks dubious but I assure you he liked it). This pic is also neat because if you look closely, you can see the steam coming off the egg roll… Yay! Steam captured.
Happy days. I love cooking… I especially love trying new recipes! What do you guys like to cook?
Midwinter haiku
Midwinter sun, how
pale you are compared with your
friend Summer sun. Sad…
Lights and Darks
One of my favorite things about living in Colorado is that sometimes we get AMAZING sunrises and sunsets where the whole sky looks like it’s on fire. Here’s an example of an incredible sunrise we got a few weeks ago. I woke up because my whole room was bright red!
Anyway, this picture also brings to mind an idea I learned in photography class – about photography being a mission to capture the contrast between light and dark. I like this picture because I think it effectively does that – the bright and dark spots in the clouds and the dark trees. Looks neat I think.
Speaking of missions – I am thinking about changing the focus (hehe photography joke) of my blog. Maybe making it more general. I haven’t been posting as much recently because with work and wedding planning and life, I have not had very much time to go out and take pictures, much less organize them according to the rules I am supposed to be following every day. I am thinking of just making it more general (a broader focus if you will) to include other aspects of my life – such as: planning my wedding (I am sure you are all thrilled about that), other artsy things I have been up to (a lot of crochet mostly), etc so that I will be able to post more. Thoughts?
Tale as old as Time
Cobalt and I saw Beauty and the Beast at the movie theater tonight. It was amazing, particularly because it has been over 10 years since I last saw it. With that movie and Cobalt and I working hard on planning our wedding, love has been on my mind a lot. Apparently love has also been on the mind of our insane Mayan Love Pepper plant which didn’t decide to sprout fruit until long after it started snowing outside. We’ve been dutifully taking care of it, letting it sit in the sun inside our warm house and putting it outside during any warm days. Cobalt even took it home over the holidays to make sure it was happy! Then yesterday, we noticed that one of its only two peppers had turned red, a sign that it is ripe. Just goes to show that you can always find love in the most unexpected of places, in the form of a beautiful girl falling in love with a hideous beast or even in the form of ripe heart shaped peppers in the middle of winter…
Fourth Week of Advent
I know… it’s been a LONG time since I wrote in here. I apologize for that. Grad school sucks up your creativity and time sometimes. Sad days.
Anyway, I am incredibly proud of this picture. So proud that I got on here and posted it for you all to see! Basically, I’ve been playing with the shapes of out of focus lights. I thought of it last week when we were at Denver zoo’s ZooLights and I had the f stop (depth of field) set very very low (higher sensitivity to light but very low depth of field… means that things not directly in the field of focus are not very much in focus). I noticed how easy it was to get any lights in the background to be big round dots and I thought it would be fun to try to change their shapes! So here we have all four advent candles lit and shining in the shape of stars… Stay tuned for more starry pictures…
Happy Halloween!!
Happy Monday. Today’s pictures: pumpkins. Yep. It’s Halloween. This one on top is my T-rex pumpkin. He is just so cute that I had to take a BUNCH of pictures of him. To be fair though, I also posted the pumpkin that Cobalt carved because it looks AWESOME all lit up…
Happy Halloween everyone! I hope your day/night is filled with ghosts and ghouls and BATS!! :):):)
Halloween wedding
Halloween’s coming up so I thought it would be fitting to have a Halloween themed post today. Also, I thought it’d be kind of cute if my Tuesday and Thursday posts (my “free” days) were wedding themed this week. So we get this picture, taken at The Stanley Hotel in Estes Park, CO (known for its association with The Shining), which is all decorated for Halloween. There were pumpkin scarecrows everywhere! These two were my favorite because 1) yesssss I am planning my own wedding so I have a strange affinity for weddings right now but mostly 2) the sun was shining down on them in such a neat way that I just had to take a ton of pictures of them. So cute… Halloween bride and groom! Congrats guys! ;)
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