No doubt you have been saying to yourself, "I wonder how Peabody's hockey teams are doing?" I'm glad you asked. The Sabres have advanced to the 2nd round of the playoffs, with their opponent yet to be decided. My Flames however, are a different story. They are on their way out if they don't pull it together. They play in a couple of hours and if they don't win it is an early exit to the golf course. (They lost so they will be hitting the golf course early.... :( ) My husband has said that I have remained amazingly calm so far this season. I might have to agree. I have actually been watching the whole game(normally I switch channels whenever it goes into our defensive "bad zone”) and that is so not like me. This is just a short post with no recipe because I still want people to be reading my Livestrong post so that it gathers more attention. I think it is a wonderful blogging event and I don't want people missing out on it! I'll have a recipe(bread) up in a couple of days, … [Read more...]
Pie with a side of strength…
(My mother and me as Moon Jellyfish at the Seattle Aqauarium) I was in the car and the phone rang. My mother asked me where I was and I told her I was driving to my friend L's house. She said "oh good, call me when you get there...I don't want to distract you from driving." I arrived at L's house and called my mom back like she asked. She got really quiet and said, "I have cancer". Amazingly enough I did not cry at that moment (I am such a crier). I just sat there not knowing what to say, with an overwhelming sense of numbness that I had never felt before. She calmly explained to me that she had stage 2 breast cancer. I know she told me all the details that day but of course none of it sunk in. She assured me that all would be alright and sounded astonishingly chipper for someone telling their daughter they had cancer. My mom asked me to hand the phone over to L. She told all the details to L so that when I got over the shock, L could tell me everything when I would be more … [Read more...]
HHDD #11….mousse…and not the kind for your hair
The torch was passed off to Helen of Tartelette(not Troy)...and the parade of cheesecake was gone and is soon to become the parade of mousse. That's right, this installment of Hay, Hay it's Donna Day is mousse...any type you would like. Since Donna is simple flavored woman that is what I tried to stick with. If you are not familiar with the whole HHDD extravaganza head on over to Barb's (the founder of HHDD) website, winos and foodies. I was a little torn on this one. Part of me wanted to do a more traditional mousse and the other part of me wanted to get creative. So I just did both...because two types of mousse is always better than one! I was not at all creative with the chocolate mousse, the only deviation from the recipe was to add Kahlua. This makes for a nice thick mousse that sets up nicely. I used the bittersweet chocolate instead of the semisweet. Now my other mousse is a different story. Inspired by my over zealous cheese purchase, where I left the cheese store with 9 … [Read more...]
What’s the Story, Morning Glory?
This weekend could have affectionately been referred to as Cuss-Fest 2007. For not one but BOTH of my teams decided to piss me off and lose. I have officially decided that quiche is the wrong food and ditched that. Now, I'm not surprised my Flames lost. They are after all playing the Detroit Red Wings, who, as much as I hate to admit, are pretty darn good. I hate the Red Wings(more than any team in the NHL...I even have a Detroit sucks jersey and a t-shirt that reads If Detroit's so great...go back!) for a list of many reasons. But the biggest reasons why I hate Detroit is the bandwagon fans. I can't stand bandwagon fans!!!! And there are a lot of them. If you are reading this saying oh, I'm not a bandwagon fan and I love the Red Wings...then quick, without looking it up on the Internet, name me 7 players off the Detroit team(exactly...shut up, you are a bandwagon fan). The true fans are the tortured ones like my poor friend Ivonne, who suffers the curse of being a Leafs fan which is … [Read more...]
