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We'll be at the Boulder City Renaissance Faire in Boulder City, Nevada this coming weekend. We'll have originals and prints and assorted arty goodness a-plenty in our booth! I'm looking forward to mead and turkey legs! |
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Snowflakes are falling but it's too warm for it to stick. Many trees are leafed out for spring already. Today, I'm optimistically going to try to finish a large commission. Finishing tomorrow is probably more realistic. Then I have a smaller one, and then I need to wrap up my work for May before getting back to doing new work for prints. I got a fresh turkey on sale so I'm going to prepare achiote butter-basted roast turkey with ancho chili gravy. I roasted extra poblano peppers to also make Two Hot Tamales green rice recipe and homemade refried beans to go with it yesterday. I freely admit that I resorted to use of this book for the green rice and beans, I'm still learning! (That book is worth buying for the chicken with citrus salsa recipe alone.) I managed to find achiote paste at the Mexican market, never used it before but I hear it will dye everything in the kitchen a nice saffron color if I'm not careful.
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Watery eyes and sneeziness, spring has sprung with all its pollen.
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One day away from finishing another painting for a new print. Then on to commissions. During my down time, I've been enjoying the randomness of Netflix offerings. I'm in mid season 3 of Deep Space 9 now. I'm about halfway through the rather dark Dylan Moran comedy series "Black Books" about a cynical drunken book shop owner and his friends. Continuing my quotable angry outburst film festival begun with Black Books, I watched "Winnebago Man," a surprisingly good documentary about the "angriest man in the world" from the viral video of the same name. Just like the video, the movie is thoroughly peppered with salty language. He he. Just finished "Today's Special", a comedy featuring Aasif Mandvi. I'm now very hungry for Indian food, and it's a good long trip up the highway to any Indian restaurant. India Indian. I could probably get Navajo food before I'd hit any Indian if I headed east. The other thing I watched this weekend was a beautiful four part BBC miniseries of Elizabeth Gaskell's "Wives and Daughters." Tonight I'll probably finish watching "Rare Exports", a beautifully shot Finnish movie about rural reindeer hunters who fight the ancient evil better known to the world as Santa Claus. (Warning: salty language at end of trailer.) n
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The strip roast is roasting,I started it on high heat and am finishing it on low for maximum juicy beefy goodness with caramelized crust. I'll take it out at medium rare and let it rest 20 minutes before slicing. The cab is open for "breathing" and the cats have been given the cork as a toy. I still need to make au jus and bake the rolls. The kitchen is a wild ungodly mess, with potato peels, papery skin of garlic, puffs of cocoa powder and huge piles of dirty dishes all around. |
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Making homemade brownies to go with vanilla ice cream and Grand Marnier fudge sauce. The pan size depends on if I want them to be thick and cakey or thin and chewy. I'm leaning toward chewy, I especially like chewy brownie edge pieces and corners.
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Happy Easter! The cats have me so well trained that I feed them first thing, and don't disturb their repast by operating the coffee grinder until they're done eating. This morning I'm making a garlic-herb paste to coat a big New York Strip roast that I got on sale. It needs to marinate all day before I roast it. I'm going to make scalloped potatoes from scratch to go with it. I have pink bubbly muscat in the fridge to go with dessert. I think the dinner wine will be Colorado Cellars Caberbet Sauvignon. Blueberry pancakes this morning. I better get busy!
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