mobileCategory: food
05/01/06 07:37 - 69ºF - ID#24981
Cheesecakey Goodness again?
Since the dishwasher is on the fritz, again, and I can't run water through my sink, this recipe will have to wait until I have my kitchen back.
Until then, here's a recipe that's incredibly easy and really really bad for you.
Ingredients
12-18 vanilla wafers (((e:matthew)) - to make this glutenfree, I think you could use an equivalent crust of crushed nuts and butter)
2 8-oz. packages of cream cheese
1/2 cup sugar
1 tsp vanilla
2 eggs
the twist I want to try - 1/2 - 1 tsp of raspberry extract
topping (any fruit, any pie filling, chocolate, nuts, go wild)
Steps
Line muffin tins with foil liners. Put a wafer (or nut crust) at the bottom of each.
Beat the cream cheese, sugar, vanilla and eggs until creamy. Pour mix over wafer until cups are 3/4 full. Bake at 325 for 25 minutes.
Top with topping of your choice when cooled.
Makes 12-18 cakes.
I won't take credit for coming up with this recipe, but I will say that I could have eaten a dozen of them in one sitting.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
04/25/06 07:53 - 45ºF - ID#24980
Kitchen Woes
Alas, it was not to be. The god of plumbing has chosen to smite our house, and whenever we run the kitchen faucet or dishwasher, gross water backs up through the downstair's neighbor's drain. This is most unpleasant. It's not anything in our drain and I don't know enough about plumbing to know what to do. Hopefully the plumber can come tomorrow and make it all work again. At least we can use the bathroom. I did manage to cook up some pasta this evening, and remembered to strain it into the bathtub. That was really weird.
Look for more recipes later this week. I plan to make a roast chicken, honey balls, crazy chocolate cake, and something involving rice.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
04/25/06 08:09 - 49ºF - ID#24979
La Tea Da
in Rochester. (There's a La Tee Da Tea Room in Buffalo on Allen Street, but I haven't been there yet).It was wonderful, with outstanding food and a great atmosphere. As we walked in, the "Lady of the House" offered us a selection of hats and feather boas to wear. After settling in, we had trays and trays of little sandwiches, little cookies and scones that would make Paula
Dean smile.If you're up in Rochester and are looking to score some tea and scones, that is the place to go.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: fun
04/20/06 08:26 - 74ºF - ID#24978
Dolphy Day
at LeMoyne College in Syracuse. This tradition stretches back many years, and is basically a day for all students to skip class and get drunk beyond all comprehension. The dining hall sets up grills outside, most classes are cancelled, and fun is had by all. Public drunkenness reigns; it's a great way to end the academic year.The name of Dolphy Day has a few different potential origins. Some say it has something to do with jazz legend Eric Dolphy
; my issue with this theory is that, besides a choral group, the school is not musically oriented. I tend to believe that Dolphy is a corruption of "Dolphin," which is the school mascot. When you're too drunk to feel your own face, "Dolphy" would be a reasonable interpretation of that word.From what I remember of my first Dolphy Day, I lived on campus, and after a few days of D-Day alarms, with M-80s going off outside my window, the day began at 4 a.m.
The day was damp and dark, and a hill on the quad got completely muddy from the weather, spilled beer and the amount of people trouncing around. I spent a lot of it covered from hair to foot in mud. Apparently, sliding down the muddy slope seemed like a good idea the first time I did it. The second time I was so filthy that it didn't seem to matter. I also remember eating donuts, not being able to tie my shoes, a nap in someone's lounge, and thinking "wow, hundreds of college students too blasted to stand. Cool."
Their alumni office, rather than try to ignore this time-honored tradition, actually sent out an email to let their graduates know that today was the day, complete with a slideshow. I appreciated it.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: abby
04/19/06 10:59 - 60ºF - ID#24977
Happy Birthday, Abby
My grandparents sent her a birthday card. They are the coolest people on the planet.
She's my bear.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: spam
04/19/06 08:11 - 42ºF - ID#24976
SPAM
(e:paul) - the IP was 196.201.88.200.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: gas
04/18/06 09:01 - 61ºF - ID#24975
Gasbuddy
to scope out the best prices - and the worst.We tuned up all our bikes (two "old fashioned" kinds and one vroom vroom zoom zoom kind), changing oil, lubing chains and checking air pressure. If it's above 50 degrees when I leave tomorrow I may be taking my other vehicle to work and out shopping.
I'll have to wake up a little earlier too, but I can do it! It will get me around the offensive construction that has clogged up Main Street from Bailey to Hertel. Does anyone have any idea what they're trying to do there? And when they'll be done?
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: buffalo
04/17/06 08:18 - 54ºF - ID#24974
NFTA and local colleges
Here's one.
UB's newspaper had an article last week
about extending NFTA passes to all students for $25 each semester. This system is already in place for other local colleges, including my place of employment but I think it could go much further.There are an average of 20 working days each month. If I were to take the metro rail, which is quite convenient to our house, a monthly pass would equal about $1.37 per trip based on a monthly pass of $55
. When a one-way ticket costs $1.50, that's not much of a savings. So, I gas up my car for $2.96 or more per gallon, (and later this spring, strap on my helmet for a bike ride), and join the throng of commuters on the road wasting fossil fuels.My solution would be to offer any business, organization, school or group in the region the chance to sign their employees up for a discounted rate. If they want more riders, that's the way to do it. I think $30-$35 would be my personal price point to commute daily, and I'd be encouraged to use it to go shopping and to zip around town. Heck, (e:strip) could present itself as a community organization, and all (e:peeps) could qualify.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: food
04/13/06 09:07 - 52ºF - ID#24973
Kara's Open Face Sandwiches
There are a few ways to do this. The best way to is to evaulate what's in your fridge and work from there. Ideally, you would be buying enoug fresh veggies each week to make this possible.
Take thinly sliced veggies and saute with OO and a splash of balsamic vinegar.
potential veggies: spinach, roasted red peppers, mushrooms and garlic, carrot ribbons, zucchini, onions, celery, peppers, pepperoncini. Remove from the pan to a plate.
Take bread (I use my favorite homemade focaccia) and spray each side with OO. Keeping the pan hot, toast on each side for a few seconds. Don't burn it!
Add cheese (parm, cheddar, something French) to the top of the bread, remove from the pan to the plate. Spread the veggies on top.
It's not the most elegant meal, but it's filling, healthy and a way to finish off veggies that would otherwise get gross.
If I had any, I may have added a few slices of sliced chicken or turkey, ham or salami.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
Category: potpourri
04/11/06 08:24 - ID#24972
Hummers
running in the handicapped spot at the Mobil station near South Campus this morning:I hate you, for oh so many reasons. When gas hits $4/gal I hope you suffer.
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Location: Buffalo, NY
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My sis in law used to make wee cheese cakes... her little twist was to put a caramel at the bottom before adding the cheesecake batter. It would melt and be all gooey and yummy at the bottom... and she would top it with choco. Good stuff.