cooking & gardening & reading
Jul. 27th, 2010 11:48 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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I have appropriated the 27" monitor of the coworker who is no longer with us. Is this bad luck or karma or anything else? I figure he would want me to have it. He left me his candy dish, after all, and I don't think he got along very well w/ our other coworkers.
Now that it's summer I get to have my favorite meal:
I wish those were tomatoes I grew, but they're not. Open-faced sandwiches now remind me of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo because the characters in that book were constantly making/eating open-faced sandwiches. I wonder if that's a Swedish thing, or if it's just something the author likes to do.
I'll put this next picture behind a cut tag. This is the bacon-wrapped meatloaf that I attempted to make into a meat sauce due to not liking it that much:
The sauce was somewhat a success -- it's way better than the meatloaf, in any case, but not a sauce I'd want to make again (I have much better recipes).
A pictoral update of my garden!
A coworker of mine, who's into sci-fi/fantasy novels, has rec'ed a few novels to me. Jonathan Strange & Dr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, and Jack the Bodiless by Julian May (the first book of the Galactic Milieu trilogy, which is like, her favorite series ever). Have any of you guys read any of these novels? What'd you think of them? I don't know if her taste matches mine (I rec'ed Temeraire and GRRM to her).
Edit: Oops, forgot to add the next part of the TV Show Meme!
Day 14 - Favorite male character: Michael Scofield, Prison Break
He's super intelligent, insanely hot, and says very little. In other words, perfect.
Now that it's summer I get to have my favorite meal:
I wish those were tomatoes I grew, but they're not. Open-faced sandwiches now remind me of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo because the characters in that book were constantly making/eating open-faced sandwiches. I wonder if that's a Swedish thing, or if it's just something the author likes to do.
I'll put this next picture behind a cut tag. This is the bacon-wrapped meatloaf that I attempted to make into a meat sauce due to not liking it that much:
The sauce was somewhat a success -- it's way better than the meatloaf, in any case, but not a sauce I'd want to make again (I have much better recipes).
A pictoral update of my garden!
A coworker of mine, who's into sci-fi/fantasy novels, has rec'ed a few novels to me. Jonathan Strange & Dr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, The Beginning Place by Ursula K. Le Guin, The Magicians by Lev Grossman, and Jack the Bodiless by Julian May (the first book of the Galactic Milieu trilogy, which is like, her favorite series ever). Have any of you guys read any of these novels? What'd you think of them? I don't know if her taste matches mine (I rec'ed Temeraire and GRRM to her).
Edit: Oops, forgot to add the next part of the TV Show Meme!
Day 14 - Favorite male character: Michael Scofield, Prison Break
He's super intelligent, insanely hot, and says very little. In other words, perfect.
