Very busy on super-secret skunk works project! In summary:
- 2005 Animation Show: not as good as the 2004 version. Don Hertzfeldt is possibly losing his mind and should return to the days of Billy’s Balloon. My favorite piece was Jonathan Nix’s Hello, It’s online, and it’s worth 10 minutes of your time.
- Complain about cooking, and the bloggers deliver. After following the link to Estelle’s food weblog, Luna made the vanilla cake recipe and delivered half of it to the office for Scott and me to sample. Delicious!
- Clumsy Lovers: best show I’ve seen in a long time, even though it was at the Tin Angel. The Clumsy Lovers are a Canadian countryish rockish band with a lot of energy and funny shirts (see above).
- Boss-across-the-hall is coming to campus this week, and we are having lunch. No doubt he will tell me how the soulless office park has fallen to pieces since I left and will beg me to return.
- Still working on a half bushel of Stayman Winesap picked at Linvalla Orchards: apple bread, apple pancakes, apple and sweet potato casserole, baked apple. What else?
- Type E reports that the celebratory Ben Franklin special ale is now on draft at the Yards tasting room. His verdict: “interesting, but I wouldn’t pay for it.”
Lastly, thanks to people who have e-mailed because they saw Lititz in the news. Lititz, where shoe man sits and the fire department rescues ducks from the sewer and the big crime is vandalizing a lion’s head carved into the park wall. Not so anymore, if it ever was.
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“No doubt he will tell me how the soulless office park has fallen to pieces since I left and will beg me to return.”
That is an understatement….
Apple-banana bread, apple tartlets, apple pie, apple stuffing, apple salad…
Apple crisp, apple dumplings, apple streudel, applesauce, apple and cranberry compote, Waldorf salad…
How about just eating them one day at a time?
That t-shirt is hilarious.
Wow, I have my work cut out for me in the apple department–thanks for the suggestions.
Raul, I’m sure you’re kidding about the soulless office park, since I totally was
Ah, Yoko has reminded me of something: Apparently you can replace the butter in cake/muffin recipes with apple sauce and it will not only be moist; but it will also be low fat!
(haven’t tried it myself, but I hear they are good)
Okay, our lives are having some scary overlaps here. Especially disturbing is that you’re living what I’m still planning to do!
The Clumsy Lovers are friends-of-friends, and I’ve been meaning to see them for quite awhile. Really sorry I missed the show.
Plus, we’re going to Linvilla precisely to buy Stayman Winesaps. I grew up next door to an orchard, and there’s nothing like fresh Staymans. We won’t use anything else to bake our Thanksgiving Apple pies!
Funny, I went to Linvilla Orchards last year and brought back way too many apples. I did not what to do with them, until I came accross this recipe: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/106669
Absolutely delicious and so easy to make! Hope you will try it (the recipe is in English, so you have no excuse!!).
Glad you liked the cake