Probably everybody has already seen these, but if not, they’re worth posting.
http://www.candyboots.com/wwcards.html
I swear, it’s the worst thing since Lilek’s Gallery of Regrettable Food. But then, I love that whole site.
Got up at 6 with the kiddo. She always wants to get up earlier than that, but we have a rule that we stay in our rooms until 6. I used the extra time to make buttermilk blueberry pancakes, link sausages, and also some boiled eggs as a snack later in the day. Helped my daughter to keep her poor tortured Sims alive for a while. She bought them parrots (not available in Sims 2) and the birds made so much noise that the poor Sims couldn’t even pass out on the lawn in peace.
I let the hubby sleep in, and he came into the kitchen at a hair after 7, clearly ticked off that we were running late. After he took a shower, he had woken up enough to come out of “hibernating bear” mode and gave me a hug and thanked me for the extra time and the food. He is going for a degree online and couldn’t concentrate enough to finish up his work last night. He’s been very tired, and really needed the extra 45 minutes or so of sleep.
We took our daughter to school (she was five minutes late) and the hubby dropped me off outside the house and went on to work eating sausages rolled up in blueberry pancakes.
I’m still exhausted and a touch depressed, as I perpetually am these days, but let’s hope that the good start to the day sets a nice tone.
This one’s pretty easy, and you don’t get too many dishes dirty. I like it because I always have cocoa powder around the house, since I like to make hot cocoa from scratch whenever snow’s in the forecast.
BODACIOUS BROWNIES
1/2 cup butter or margarine (whatever it is, it should be solid, not in a tub.)
1 cup white sugar
1/3 cup unsweetened cocoa powder
2 eggs
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup all-purpose flour
3/4 t baking powder
1/4 t salt
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease 8×8″ baking pan.
Combine flour, baking powder, and salt. Set aside.
Melt butter in saucepan. Remove from heat, stir in sugar and cocoa. Beat in eggs, 1 at a time, then stir in vanilla.
Stir dry ingredients into chocolate mixture until just blended. (This may be a workout for your arm!) Spread into pan.
Bake for 25 minutes or until a wooden pick inserted into the center comes out clean.
Cool in pan, preferably on wire rack.
Eat!
And the crappiness just keeps coming.
Every year, we have Cornish game hens with garlic, rosemary, and lemon.
This year, as I went to pour the mixture of white wine, broth, and olive oil on the hens, the predictable happened. It had never happened before, but of course in hindsight it was predictable.
Room temperature mixture + 450 degree Pyrex = EXPLODING CASSEROLE DISH.
All over the kitchen. Great.
Sigh.