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December 29th, 2013

12/29/2013

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Helen's been talking about Mrs. Clemans' great pot pies, so with a plentiful amount of chicken thighs freezer-burning in the deep freeze, I thought I'd give one a try. I found one in The Martha Stewart Living Cookbook, which has been a reliable and tested set of recipes.

Absolutely delicious! I slow-cooked the chicken and swapped chopped onion and celery for pearl onions and leeks. The potatoes were white instead of red. I omitted the carrots and mushrooms, and added some leftover peas.

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Squeezing Citrus

12/22/2013

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The secret to squeezing out the maximum amount of juice from a piece of citrus is a microwave. While cooks often avoid this instrument, the breakdown of the cells within the fruit [note: my science may not be science] aides the squeezability [definitely a technical term] when pressed in a vise.

Tonight's mai tai is excellent, by the way!

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Art Journal

12/5/2013

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Pamperpuss just blogged about this as part of a lovely gift she'd received from a friend. The idea is that you put something on paper every day and accept it for what it is.

Here are some of my favorite inspirations from her list:

4) Find a beautiful picture in a magazine cut it out and make that the centre of your art journal page.

8) What is your favourite fairy tale? Draw or paint your favourite scene.

9) Think about someone who inspires you. Use the person's characteristics to inspire your journal page.

12) Grab some junk mail and use it as the background of your page. Colour over it.

16) Pretend you are a goddess. Draw her.

26) Use glue to stick book pages to your Journal page and use as a background then draw and paint on top of them.

What else might be good art prompts? I'm thinking about throwing a few more multimedia blips where I glue something random on the page and incorporate my drawing and painting around it.

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