February 23, 2008 at 1:09 pm
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Reading
What do you have out from the library right now?
I’m reading…
- How to pay less and keep more for your$elf: The essential consumer guide to Canadian banking and investing
- Grub: Ideas for an urban organic kitchen
- Peasant’s choice: More of the best from the urban peasant
On that note, I got incredibly bad service from the library assistant at my local branch today. So disappointing! Honestly people like him are the reason more folks don’t use the library. Luckily he is the exception and not the rule, but still. Even I almost felt like hating the place after that encounter, and I’m a librarian myself!
Ok tell me what you’re reading…
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February 20, 2008 at 11:25 pm
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bad luck, Good stuff, Career change?
Zee bad
- Lights are working again after $200 electrical work
- Got an unexpected due-this-second tax bill just short of $2000
Zee good
- Went running
- Got approved for a conference outside my usual area (aka not a library conference) in Florida in April
- Got my tickets for my mom and I to go to Mamma Mia in the mail
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February 17, 2008 at 10:59 pm
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Cooking, Food
So the muffins worked out nicely, though I would suggest using more lemon than the recipe calls for. I like things pretty lemony myself. And just in case the last post didn’t have enough photos for you, I took one of the finished product. Notice that there are only 11 muffins already… 
Ingredients
- 2 cups white flour
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 2 Tbsp sugar
- 2 1/2 tsp baking powder
- 1/2 tsp salt
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1 cup ricotta cheese
- 1/3 cup milk
- 6 Tbs butter, melted
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2 eggs
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Zest of one lemon
Directions
- Preheat oven to 200°C (400°F)
- Grease twelve muffin cups or line with paper
- In large bowl, sift flour, sugar (the half cup) baking powder and salt
- In another bowl, whisk lemon zest, ricotta, milk, butter, eggs
- Make well in center of dry ingedients and pour in the wet mixture
- Stir until just moistened. Don’t overdo it or they’ll be tough!
- Spoon batter into muffin tins
- Sprinkle the remaining sugar over top
- Bake 20 to 22 minutes, until muffins should be golden brown, spring back when touched or come clean when pierced.
- Remove from pan and cool on wire rack
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February 17, 2008 at 10:43 pm
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Home Sweet Home, Good stuff, starting anew
I just downloaded some photos off my camera and realized I haven’t posted any in about a hundred years. So here’s a random smattering for you. Click on any of them for a better view.
From Christmas
Mom and I at the edge of a very cold lake in Waterton over Christmas. We skiied there with Meg’s Rocco, it was a lot of fun. Especially the beer at burgers at the Kilmory afterwards!
Smiling as we go.
A couple of shots from the old apartment. Califia “helping” me do a puzzle.
And a few from my new apartment…
Califia shows you the living room
And the new table
My new year’s eve project - an orange wall
And finally… Califia helps me study for those damn exams. As you can imagine, it was immensely helpful to have her sitting on top of my study notes all the time!
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February 16, 2008 at 8:51 pm
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Cooking, Wine
Last week I promised a colleague that I would attempt lemon ricotta muffins this weekend (I’ve been on a bit of a baking tear lately). I went shopping today for the ingredients. Although I only need a cup of ricotta for the muffins, it’s sold in two-cup tubs. It would be dangerous to make muffins twice, so I decided it was time to attempt cannelloni. I stuffed the tubes with a mixture of sauteed onion, chopped fresh parsley, dried oregano, ricotta and egg, and then baked them in a basil tomato sauce. During the last ten minutes of baking I threw some shredded mozzarella on top. Holy mother of god, it was goooood! I’ve been enjoying it with the last of my bottle of Finca Los Primos malbec (part of my new project to work my way through the entire list of show stopping bargains in the Vancouver Magazine annual wine awards). The food is a success. The wine is great, and cheap to boot. Go buy some.
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February 15, 2008 at 8:00 am
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Random
I promise that one day soon (sorry can’t give an actual deadline) I will update this blog. That will involve choosing a new template and customizing it. But first I need to upgrade my wordpress version. I’ve been too busy lately to do anything. Now I have to run to work, where I have to publish the news by 9 am, and I’ll be staying late to install our library software on the production server and do data cleanup.
Okeydoke. Bye!
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