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5 Fandom Friday: Mmmm Comfort
Five down and four to go on Five Fandom Friday. I’m sad to see this meme on the way out but I am happy that today’s prompt is once again about FOOD! I love food and what’s better than COMFORT FOOD? I can’t wait to read everybody’s food choices this week. I hope mine pass…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Just Mango Slices
Trader Joe’s Dried Fruit Just Mango Slices Tastes Like: Very sweet and tough fruit leather. Great With: A spread of other delicious whatnots: almonds, figs, maybe a dollop of yogurt. Perfect For: eating by itself. The chewy nature makes these seem pretty difficult to combine with anything – just enjoy their simplicity on their own.…
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To Cap It Off
When the weather gets colder, it’s time for hats! Looking good in hats is a special talent of mine (don’t scoff – it takes a lot of work to pull off a good hat!) and on top of that (heh, hat pun?) hats serve the secondary purpose of disguising the fact that you’ve been too…
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Snickerdoodle Ice Cream
I call this sundae, “Gluten-Free To Be You And Me.” For my second experiment with homemade ice cream, I wanted to make a coffee ice cream that would taste like the flavoured coffee I loved getting from Tom’s. I used half a batch of ice cream base, plus 1/2oz of cold brew coffee concentrate, roughly…
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5 Fandom Friday: I WANT CANDY!
Wow-ee! It’s been a month of linking up with The Nerdy Girlie and SuperSpaceChick to play 5 Fandom Friday! This was my favourite prompt so far and the easiest to answer: 1. Mounds & 2. Almond Joy I was lucky growing up that both of my brothers and my mother despised coconut – as long…
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#tbt The Closet Costume
Ahhh, the art of the Closet Costume – a Halloween costume pulled together last-minute out of things you already own in your closet. This photo wasn’t taken last week, it was taken twenty (eep!)ish years ago. I was a hippie for Halloween that year (proof that some things never change?) and my costume was essentially…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Cage Free Fresh Hard-Cooked Peeled Eggs
Trader Joe’s Cage Free Fresh Hard-Cooked Peeled Eggs Tastes Like: perfectly – perfectly – hard-boiled eggs. Great With: cheese plates, fresh fruit, cottage cheese, breakfast and snack! Perfect For: turning into Devilled Eggs! Cut in half, (gently!) scoop out the yolks, mash them together with mayonaise, cumin, vinegar or pickle juice, and scoop back into…
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Escargot All Out
When you’re dashing to a lunch date with your feller and he texts you this picture: …you know your lazy Sunday is about to get a whole lot more interesting. The plan was to meet at The Lobster Place in Chelsea Market (home of The Food Network. No, really). We had intended to park at…
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Balsamic Berry Brownie Bonanza
You guys you guys you guys. My life has been changed forever. I have learned how to make my own ice cream. Now, you know how I hate to cook, but trust me, this is so easy, even I don’t hate it. And I’m barely competent enough to boil water. And that’s only so I…
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5 Fandom Friday: Halloween Movies
Time again for more 5 Fandom Friday with The Nerdy Girlie and SuperSpaceChick! This week’s topic is Halloween movies you must see – which is hard because I don’t really have many! I could only think of three that I *MUST* see every year: 1. It’s The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! OH MY GOD, I…
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#tbt Happy Birthday, Old Diane
In 2006, when I was a lowly transfer student at Binghamton University, a tall handsome ginger approached me in Watters Lobby and…asked me when I knew about AIDS lesions. That handsome ginger would go on to become one of my very best friends. Seriously though, isn’t he HOT??? Well, TOO BAD, because this guy’s got…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Pumpkin Cream Cheese
Trader Joe’s Pumpkin Cream Cheese Spread Tastes Like: Cream cheese with a cinnamon tang. I didn’t really get a strong “pumpkin” flavor from this, more like “pumpkin spice cheesecake.” Great With: bagels, English muffins, toast, any bread (or gluten-free bread!) product! Perfect For: making mini-personalized pumpkin cheesecakes! one of my favourite corn cakes, slathered with a…
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Friday
If I tell you what Friday is about, you’ll cringe. I cringed. And I’m Heinlein’s NUMBER ONE FAN. But yeah, it’s hard not to cringe at the back cover: But what do we know about judging a book by it’s cover? That ya shouldn’t oughta do it, that’s what. And here’s why. In between that…
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Trader Joe's Tuesday: Soy Chorizo
Trader Joe’s Soy Chorizo Tastes Like: SPOILER ALERT. this may be the most delicious thing I’ve bought at Trader Joe’s EVER. It’s spicy but not TOO spicy, the texture is sorta like ground beef but BETTER, less chewy. Great With: the instructions say to sauté to heat it up, and I would recommend adding very…
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Sunday at NYCC
Sunday was my longest day so far at New York Comic Con, with the least photos to show for it! I decided to try to throw together a last-minute costume and felt really cute doing this twee, hipster, gender-bent Fourth Doctor! Saw the talking K-9 and couldn’t resist. We made a smashing pair, isn’t that…
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Saturday at NYCC 2014
So on Saturday at NYCC 2014 my friend dressed up as Ragdoll from Secret Six. I spent a good part of the day taking photographs of his awesome cosplay and of getting his mask signed by Gail Simone – who confirmed NEW SECRET SIX STARTING IN DECEMBER! At least we have something to look forward…
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Friday at NYCC 2014
Friday morning I was all set to get to NYCC2014 bright and early when disaster struck! A water main broke on my subway line – where’s Aquaman when you actually NEED him? – and I wound up missing the only panel I really wanted to see that day. It took a while for the pieces…
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5 Fandom Friday: Nerdrobe Must-Haves
Welcome back to the second thrilling installment of 5 Fandom Friday with The Nerdy Girlie and SuperSpaceChick! This week, we’re talking about clothes. Nerdy clothes! Frak yes! My nerdrobe (that’s a portmanteau of “nerd” and “wardrobe”, guh!) is pretty full to begin with but could always cast a spell to create more space for these…
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#tbt Last Year’s ComicCon
TOMORROW IS NYCC NEW YORK COMIC CON! I hope everyone’s cosplay is finished, have gotten their flu shots, have bought enough granola bars to stuff into their bags, and have slid insoles into their Storm Trooper boots. I am so excited to drool on Artist’s Alley, to finger all the merch on the show floor,…
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Trader Joe’s Tuesday: Dark Chocolate Nutty Bits
Trader Joe’s Dark Chocolate Nutty Bits Tastes Like: Part granola bar, part chocolate dessert treat. Great With: Nobody. Don’t share these. Eat them alone in a dark corner where no one can witness your shame. Perfect For: Those times when you “feel like a nut.” Or for sneaking into ComicCon and eating in the back…