The Kitchen v7

Almost 300 posts in six! What are y'all thinking?!

And Stasia's quiz from November is cool:



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Well, kitchens do see a LOT of activity this time of year...

So true, so true. I hadn't thought of that.

we couldn't start a new thread without you!

ah nice, a nearly empty, cosy, brandnew kitchen-thread :-)

BTW - I'm a 75er now - I have my own thread! (If anybody is interested there is a link on my profile - thanks to all of you who have found it and commented)

Homemade pizza at Stasia's house tonight. Y'all come on by!

Ooo, that would have been good. I had to make due with splitting a burger and fries from Five Guys with the kiddo. ;) Can kids turn into french fries?

We were just waiting for you to come back and start a new kitchen thread.

ooh... I love homemade pizza. What toppings do you put on yours Stasia? I think the best homemade pizza I had was at an Italian friend's place. She made about 5 different thin crust pizzas, but my favorite was the one with gorgonzola and artichokes with a light tomato base.

I haven't been able to get pizza dough right, so now when I make pizza at home, I cheat and buy pizza dough from the supermarket and stretch it out thin.

#9: Caroline, I use a pizza dough flavoring that King Arthur Flour puts out in my dough and it is really good, so you might want to give it a try.

As for toppings, the girls chose: Canadian bacon with green olives on one, pepperoni and olives on the other.

Thanks for the tip, Stasia... I'll have to give it a try when I next make pizza. I love olives ..they go on almost every pizza I make or order.

Here's something I think rather odd: my husband and 3 other friends (all male) love olive oil and would, I think, if they could, not just drizzle their salads with EVOO, cook with it and dip their bread in it, but perhaps want to bathe in it as well. But they detest olives themselves. They won't eat it in its fruit form.

#11: King Arthur Flour also does an Italian flour that is especially for doing pizza and focaccia doughs. I have not tried it yet, but am going to next time I order my bread making yeast. Just thought it was worth the mention in case you decide to order the pizza dough flavoring.

No idea why someone would prefer olive oil over the olives themselves - sounds very strange to me, but then I only like green olives and cannot stand the black ones, lol.

#2, Hi Linda. Does your sheltie like the cold, snowy weather? Simon loves to sit on the deck, wind whipping his fur, nose in the air, snow flakes covering his face.

Hi Richard! So glad you decided to come on back to us.

Anita...It is always cheery when I see a post from you.

Calm...(love the name) Welcome! I'll be sure to check your thread.

Stasia...It is bitter cold here in NE PA...warm pizza sounds lovely.

Luxx..How are your babies?

Caroline..The book was sent to you yesterday..

Stasia: Oddly enough, I've had no problems making focaccia and they have so far always come out nicely.

I love all kinds of olives and olive oil. I was in Greece for a vacation some years back and I think i ate about a half a pound of black olives a day ... they were just so delicious. I especially love a good tapenade with hot crusty bread. I could make a dinner out of that and some cheese any day

Linda : Thank you so very much. I can't wait to get home.

#14: I have a recipe for an olive bread if you would like it. Just PM me with your e-mail address and I will send it your way.

I love focaccia! Actually, I just like bread in general and will try any kind.

Stasia: Why are you up?!!

#16: It is only 3:41am here.

Linda - They are doing great! Brooks loves our Christmas tree, and Max actually lets us sleep for 7 hours straight at night. I can't wait for Santa to visit our house this year - I think we'll be able to get Brooks to open his own gifts for the first time. ;)

How are you doing? Will you get to see your grandbabies again for the holidays?

#13 Hi, Linda. No, Callie isn't particularly fond of winter. She hates the wind, and when it's very cold, she dances around holding up first one foot, then the other in a very pitiful way. We actually bought her little suede booties with velcro straps to put on when the temperature dips down into the teens. If it's kind of mild, and the snow is fluffy in the yard, she does like to romp a bit and burrow her nose through it. But she's mainly all about her comfort. We've spoiled her rotten, of course, as she was a "mid-life baby". Our previous Sheltie, Bonnie, was a much hardier soul, but she was brought up with our daughter, and not pampered very much.

Olives: The most persuasve argument that there is a kindly, beneficent God who created all things. There is no other reasonable explanation for the fact that there are so many delicious things the olive can be. Next highest on that list of reasons: Apples.

King Arthur Flour's pizza-dough flavoring is very, very good. I use some garlic powder to make it more in tune with my palate, but it's really nummers. Their pizza-only flour is a godsend for those, like me and apparently cameling, who simply can't make a good pizza dough. It's worked every time. I just love their products in general.

Cold and dogs: Stella thinks cold, windy weather is the bee's knees. It was 25F last night, a stiff 20mph wind, and I trundled along wrapped in so many layers I looked like Starfish Maggie from "The Simpsons" while Stella cavorted, gamboled, and generally expressed ecstatic approval of the proceedings.

Christmas decorating to do today! Getting the new fake tree set up, moving stuff around, the wreath for the front door, etc etc. Tomorrow is the actual tree decorating. Fun fun!!

Olives . . . my mother LOVED olives. I'm another of those curious people who love olive oil and don't like olives at all . . . go figure.

I've just posted another positive review of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe. It's scarcely necessary to say it's a popular book, what with 132 reviews already, but it's also a really, really good read for Y-chromosome-bearing individuals. Honest. If you like history even a little bit, there is something to catch you in this storyteller's work.

Also up on my thread: http://www.librarything.com/topic/75718

I enjoy olive oil and black olives, but not the green ones... my husband likes olive oil but won't touch the fruit, so... I don't get to eat Greek salad much around here, LOL.

please send me that recipe??? olive bread sounds wonderful!

I love love love olives..!

My Italian mother instilled in me a love of many wonderful foods but at the top of the list-olives--all kinds of olives. My siblings and I would love when the holidays came around because we knew there would be a big tray with many varieties of olives and cheese.

** Note **

The 2010 Challenge Group is up and running and can be found here:

http://www.librarything.com/groups/75booksin2010

#24: Kath, I sent it to the e-mail address you have posted on your profile page. Let me know if you do not get it.

For those living in the DC area, I highly recommend the Shakespeare Theatre Company's current production of As You Like It. It was just extended until December 22, so there's still a chance to check it out.

Completely new topic...I was poking around on the group tab and noticed that the 2009 Challenge group is number 3 on the total messages list with nearly 80,000 messages! We're a chatty bunch!!

Adore olives: black, Kalamata, spiced, anything...green the least. Can't imagine cooking without olive oil.

#22..Richard. I started to read this book and had to get it back to the library. Over the semester break, I will read it.

I gave your excellent review a thumbs up!

Hummmmm, while everyone is over there in the 2010 kitchen I think I'll take this delightful opportunity to pocket some of these delightful goodies that no one has touched because they're eating latkes and gingersnaps in the new year. I don't think anyone will even notice lil ole me........ : D

#32 Busted!! (Please pass the sour cream)

8 } uh, sour cream is uh, gone, may I offer you an eggnog, maybe, huh, he he....(leaves a trail of crumbs as I slunk off *****)

Resolutely REFUSING to look at anything to do with 2010.

Sharing some holiday treats:



No pictures of the pan of brownies that has sat untouched for 36 hours now. I must be getting sick - brownies *never* last in my house.

Ladies and gentlemen, I herewith announce a new sodality here on LT: The "I Hate Luxx" club! Membership open to all who, like me, just gained 11lb all on the worst part of the body because of the photos of numminess posted by the said Luxx, aka "Satan's Chief Minioness."

Membership is free, and comes with weight-loss support.

Richard
I could use the weight-loss support and because I've just learned that I have major car repairs heading my way, I would use the free membership...BUT, I just simply cannot hate Luxx.

The above sentences posted after consuming two chocolate chip cream cheese cupcakes during lunch.

That does look mighty good.

Heh. At first I read Satan's Chef Minioness...

>38 Whisper1: See?! See?!? She is already at work, making us each fatter and fatter! Resist! Resist!!

>39 brenzi: Don't it though.

>40 drneutron: I like yours better than mine, think I'll co-opt it.

Hey now, if I'm gaining weight, you're all gaining it with me.

I didn't bake for three years because, as I put it, Satan lived in my oven (heat varied and wasn't constant enough to compensate for). Now I have a new oven, and no hope of fitting back into my work clothes in January.

I'm happy to continue eating with my eyes only on this thread - so thanks Luxx and keep posting the virtual goodies.

I got a new stove 2 yrs ago.... it is wonderful!!!!!!
enjoy Luxx!

SqueakyChu, I think a member of this group, wrote the following in her Hot Review of The Story of a Marriage:

"The end of the story was both beautiful and emotional. I had to stop along the way, though, to jot down some memorable lines. I even caught myself deciding exactly how I wanted the story to end before reaching its actual conclusion. I did appreciate how the author constructed the ending, reaching into many years later to see the outcome of decisions made a long time ago."

No spoilers, no theatrics, and I HAD to add the book to my wishlist. Excellent!

I took a peek at the 2010 group and my head is already swimming. Oh dear, oh dear .... how will I catch up when the year actually starts? I definitely don't have time to go on both groups now with Christmas and New Year's Eve coming up and me with friends visiting from France amidst all the madness that comes with the holiday season.

I think I'm going to take a leaf out of tiffin's book and not have anything to do with the 2010 threads until the official start of the year .... I'll try anyway, even if it means I'll be woefully behind. Perhaps there'll be another snowstorm in the first week of Jan which will mean snow days from the office and I'll get to stay home and LT away with abandon.

Luxx : I love the pictures even if they made me crave cookies and toffee

ugh! I do not want to see another cookie until 2010. I baked 10 batches of choc chip cookies at last nights neighborhood holiday party. People can't get enough of them when they are hot out of the oven.

I am not a fan of the chocolate chip cookie myself. Go figure.

I do not like them either - I do not like chocolate. Maybe we should form a club, Kath.

OK, this is probably a stupid question that is answered somewhere, but I have no idea where. So, how do we thank our Secret Santa? I received the books, but the only
name on the receipt was Tim's, so how do I know who to thank?

Posting to my thread, too.

It's Monday, and I was in Borders down in Mission Valley at 3:00 today, and not only did they not have ANYTHING I was looking for to use my 30% off coupon on, but the line was at least 60 people long. The heck with it, I'll go back after Christmas!!

The heck with it is right. Your time is also precious..more important than 30%

Happy Holidays to you~

>>>50 alcottacre: Stasia - I think I remember reading that as of 12/25, you can see all of the comments associated with your own username where you are the recipient which should tell you the username of your Santa.

Plus I went down the line until I found someone with a Borders Rewards card who didn't have the coupon--nearly 20 people! So the coupon got used anyway, Linda. Waste not, want not!

#53: Thanks for the info, Nancy!

nicely done ronin!!!

Fun news!

My first published short story came out yesterday, in the very small (but credible!) journal Emerald Tales.

It's called 'The Sacrifice' and is about a priestess who tries to save her lover during the ancient Babylonian festival of Zagmuk.

If you're interested, you can get a copy here --> http://www.scribblersandinkspillers.com/emeraldtales.html

Scroll down to Volume One, Special Vol.3 :)

I'm VERY excited... it's my first "real" published credit... a perfect Christmas gift for me, haha. Thought I'd let you all know about it, just because I'm happy and want to share the excitement!!!

Faith - That is amazing news! How awesome to see you name as a "contributor." You must do something very special to celebrate!

Congratulations Faith! Very cool.

Congratulations!

Cool beans, Faith! Just adds to the holiday cheer for you.

Way to go, Faith! We knew you when.....

Very cool!

Thanks everyone!!! *does a happy dance around the room*

>58 porch_reader:: To celebrate, my husband brought me home a Starbucks latte, a small box of chocolates, and a cake. A perfect celebration, if you ask me!!! LOL. :D

Congratulations! That's wonderful

Today is my day off and I've decided to be lazy all morning. I'm not looking forward to the next two days at work where I am scheduled to be charge nurse (ward nurse) on the 24th and in the step down unit (aka the dungeon) on the 25th. Ugh!
I have made a pot of lemon tea (with honey) and maple walnut scones (with clotted cream) and I'm just slouching on the couch watching tv and catching up on threads. Once the Doctor Who Christmas special goes off I actually plan on getting up and doing stuff- baking brownies, ironing clothes, etc. I may drag out the turntable and play records I haven't listened to in awhile. Happy Holidays!

Congrats phoenix......!!!!! great news :)

Congratulations, Faith! How very exciting for you!

#66: Kelly, I have to work Christmas too. Can I run up and get some maple walnut scones? They sound just lovely!

I am off to be with my family for the next couple of days. I hope everyone has a wonderful Christmas!

Stasia, have a great holiday with your family. i hope your work shift on the 25th is a good one. Are there a lot of people in need of bail on Christmas? That's kinda sad.

#71: Unfortunately, yes, there are quite a few. Too many overimbibers and family feuds.

Everyone seems to be rushing off to be with loved ones. Well, this year I've decided not to travel and to just have the vacation with my husband, son, great aunt and father in law. I'll see the aunt and FIL over the vacation but not Christmas. It feels wonderful to have all the stress of traveling just vanish!

I wish I could just stay home this year for Christmas because I've just been traveling alot over the last 2 months, but I've got to head down to NY for Christmas with the in-laws and friends. Instead of battling traffic, I've decided to take the train down this year since my husband has already been down there for a week, and I look forward to a few hours of quiet reading/napping.

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday season and I'll see you in a week's time.

Happy Holidays to all the 75ers. May you all have time to sit and read!

Good choice Caroline....

Merry Christmas all...
I will be here off and on.. but mostly off...
I wish I could hug all of you!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all the challengers!

wishing all happy holidays talk to you all on the 26th!

Bxxx

Regardless of your beliefs, may you all have a blessed and peaceful day tomorrow! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Good Will toward Men and Women and Peace on Earth.

Look what I got for Christmas!



Snow!!

Stasia..snow? snow in Texas?

Ronincats...
Merry Christmas to you!

To all my LT friends (and that means everyone in the group): I wish you the most joyous of all possible holiday seasons! Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas everyone!

Stasia - snow? Goodness! Enjoy it!

(We just had a hard frost and lots of ice!)

Merry Christmas!

We woke up to snow (about 3 inches I'm guessing) here in Southwest Missouri as well. Not enough to interfere with holiday activities. Peace On Earth to all in the 75ers group. What books showed up under your Christmas tree this morning?

Congrats on the white Christmas! We still have plenty from last weekend if you want some more!

#86: I will take some more, Jim! We got between 2-3 inches and it is melting already :(

just passing by to wish everyone a Merry Christmas! Have a wonderful time with your loved ones!

Merry Christmas to you too, Eliza!

Merry Christmas everyone and a Happy, Happy New Year with lots of opportunities for lots of reading :-)

I hope everyone had a perfectly marvelous day!

The same to you Luxx!

SOS! I can't get to my thread. When I click on (next) error on page pops up and can not take me to the next page. Somebody, please post something on my thread to bring it to the top.

BTW - I've been spending so much time in 2010 keeping up to date with posts that I've forgotten about the current year.

Wishing all of you a joyous holilday season!

#93 Carmenere It is a fault on the groups page - the next button works from Talk so can you try from the your posts setting. As far as I can tell I didn't post on your 2009 thread so can't get to it.

To the Muslim friends among the group, I wish you a wonderful Eid Monday!

Congratulations to Richard and Cait86 regarding their hot reviews listed on today's home page!

Happy Kwanza!

Someone posted this online book game over in the Book Talk group, so I thought I would share it here: http://www.betweenthecovers.com/_misc/letterature.php

It is like Wheel of Fortune only with book titles. Fun!

Update on the bug - it is now fixed and we can get to the next page in groups!

Wonderful!

Thanks for checking into the problem calm :)

Great game, Stasia! And I add my thanks, calm.

I liked the game too, but that is one dumb computer. :-)

I enjoyed the game, too. But I agree about the computer being dumb!

Happy New Year, everyone! 2009 has been great here on LT with you all, and 2010 bodes well to be even better.

Happy New Year, everybody! I agree with Roni - 2010 is going to be even better, I am sure!