AML
Kelly: i need to abort my life.
Brandi: hahah ABORT MY LIFE
Brandi: go to the clinic….
“hi im here for an abortion”
“how old is the fetus?”
“26″
Omegling
If you are not yet aware, Omegle.com throws you into a conversation with a complete stranger. This has the possibility of providing hours of hilarity and amusement, a lot of which needs to be recorded and shared with the world. Krysia has taken it upon herself to do just that!
Slap all your troubles away!
This video made my life.
Salted Caramels
It’s caramel! Again! I was browsing through my bookmarked recipes today and found this one at the top of the list, as well as half a litre of cream in my fridge that needed to be used up. I ended up making two batches because I added the cream to the sugar mixture too early on the first go and they came out really pale. I stepped away from the second batch for a few minutes too long and caught it at the second before burning, so naturally they came out extremely dark and intense. You can see how much difference a few minutes of cooking time makes in the picture below.
Both of them are tasty, so it’s really a matter of how much flavour you like your caramel to have. (I think I prefer mine somewhere in the middle of these two.) Another factor in flavour is salt. I stuck with the amount in the recipe but wished in the end that they had been saltier, so you can feel free to adjust that to your taste as well.
I had the most fun wrapping them up afterwards to ship off to my caramel loving friends - and Holy Mother of Pete do I have a lot! I’m going to have to start a waiting list if I get any more requests, but I think they look super adorable and old fashioned wrapped up in the wax paper and I hope everyone enjoys them!
Salted Caramels
Adapted from Gourmet October 2004
INGREDIENTS
- 1 cup heavy cream
- 5 tablespoons unsalted butter, cut into pieces
- 1-2 teaspoons fleur de sel*, depending on taste.
- 1 1/2 cups sugar
- 1/4 cup light corn syrup
- 1/4 cup water
- Special equipment: parchment paper; a candy or deep-fat thermometer
* (Or any flakey salt - I used Murray River Pink Flake Salt)
Directions
Line bottom and sides of an 8-inch square baking pan with parchment paper, then lightly oil parchment.
Bring cream, butter, and fleur de sel to a boil in a small saucepan, then remove from heat and set aside.
Boil sugar, corn syrup, and water in a 3- to 4-quart heavy saucepan, stirring until sugar is dissolved. Boil, without stirring but gently swirling pan, until mixture is a light golden caramel.
Carefully stir in cream mixture (mixture will bubble up) and simmer, stirring frequently, until caramel registers 248°F on thermometer, 10 to 15 minutes. Pour into baking pan and cool 2 hours. Cut into 1-inch pieces, then wrap each piece in a 4-inch square of wax paper, twisting 2 ends to close.
Makes approx 40 candies.
Dentistry, Vacation and Blog Math.
Things of importance that are marked by today:
- We are 1/4 of the way through this year.
- We are 2 months away from June which = summer.
- I am only 9 days away from taking my company-forced vacation.
I am most excited for that last one. Vacation + Tax refund = Good times. I haven’t decided on exactly what I am going to do yet but it lies somewhere between flying to Vancouver for a few days, going on a road trip to Montreal and finally going to the dentist on my company’s dime. According to everyone there is something very wrong with me, but I actually love going to the dentist! I even like the taste of the fluoride polish - cherry being my favourite.
Not only do I actually enjoy going to the dentist - I think I found the most awesome dentist in the whole city! They have flat screen TVs and computer monitors in each room and I totally picked them based on having the prettiest website. It also sounds like they will pretty much gas you up on request too, which I am told is pretty flipping awesome if you have the right music to listen to on your Ipod. *Cough-Brandi-Cough*
Other important things I should mention that occured today: Our friend Neil’s band Silverstein has a new album coming out today - you should check it out! (Our other friend Martin did their cover art again - I think it’s my favourite so far.) Also, there’s a new baby in our family - Congrats to my cousin Jamie and her boyfriend Kevin and welcome Alexander James!
Lights & Music
Cut Copy was awesome last night despite the fact that some people felt it needed to be a mosh pit. And that we had to deal with sweaty annoying Clockwork Orange girl.
One thing I know is that Brandi is the best person to go to concerts with because she’s from Scarborough and will totally fuck you up if you don’t behave.
Some of the best things to come out of her mouth:
Brandi: “I choked her good. It was awesome.”
Stupid pushy guy: “I’m just trying to get by.”
Brandi: “Yeah, well, it’s rude to push girls!”
Stupid pushy guy: “Well, there’s no other way…”
Brandi: “WELL FIND ANOTHER WAY!”
Stupid pushy guy blinks and then leaves.
Busy Bee
This month has been so incredibly busy! There’s been tons of projects, baby showers and family visits and the next few weeks are looking like more of the same. I finally finished my upholstery classes at The Workroom, which were absolutely fantastic, I had so much fun and learned so much. My camera finally kicked it so I haven’ t been able to get any good pictures of anything lately but you can see my cube up on The Workroom’s Flickr here, I just love how it turned out!
My little brothers (who are all bigger then me now) are coming to visit this weekend and then it’s more sewing projects, baby showers and a couple of concerts! Then spring should be officially here, which means summer is getting closer, which means vacation!!!
I can’t wait!
And the little glass vial goes into the gun like a battery
Repo! The Genetic Opera and Cheese Fudge are the two best things ever invented!
The song above infected my head so badly that Dave made me get up at 4am and load it onto my Ipod. Because he was creeped out that I was laying there in the dark with my eyes open.
Trufax.
I’m Still Alive
Turns out all I needed to start feeling better after being a disease-y near-corpse all week was six hours of watching Oscar presentations and red carpet shows…not a bag of medication from the drug store!
I had planned on posting more recipes but the brownies got eaten before I could take any pictures and the cinnamon buns failed miserably, then I got sick and lost all sense of taste and smell and quit cooking altogether. The boy is in Vegas for the rest of the week, so I’m hoping to catch up since he won’t be around to make fun of me for taking pictures of dinner. Otherwise I have lots of projects to photograph and share - the cube is done (and oh so adorable!) and I’m working on some baby gifts in the meantime.
Brandi is sleeping over this weekend and I am expecting it to be every bit as epic as our ‘Twilight’ date in Vaughn. The one where we only had an hour to get there and arrived nine minutes before it started only to find out we had driven to the wrong theater, yet still managed to make it on time. You just can’t appreciate how bad ‘Twilight’ is until you have seen it on the big screen - The terrible makeup. The visible contacts. THE SPARKLING! The choking on your own laughter because your best friend keeps exclaiming ‘OMG his face is like THE SUN!’ anytime there is an extreme closeup of Rob Pattinson’s face.
It is totally my new favourite movie.
Cheese Juice
I had the most ridiculous commentversation on Facebook last night that ended in hilarity. Kids say the funniest things.
It started with my status:
Kelly is frying hotdogs in butter.
Jenn: In butter KD? Does that make them taste better?
Kyle: Yeah. Does that make them taste better? Don’t spend too much time answering this. You may burn them.
Kelly: It’s the only proper way to cook them.
Kyle: Proper. If it’s proper, how come I’ve never heard of it before?
Kelly: What? Dad cooked them like that for us all the time! That’s where I learned how to do it!
Kyle: Maybe for you. But when I was a kid they were never cooked like that.
Kelly: Yeah but Grandma also made Kraft Dinner like it was cheese soup apparently.
Kyle: That is true. And I accidentally poured too much milk when making KD for Vann once. And he wants it that way all the time now. He says he likes the cheese juice.
Kelly: Cheese Juice?!?!?
Kyle: That’s what he calls it when you add too much milk. He says it’s the juice from the cheese. I think its gross too. But he likes it.
Kelly is cheese juice.
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