Coffee Musings - 030408

Here is a sample of books that I bought that I haven't read. I was trying to find a book I had on the Library of Congress to photograph with my mug, but I remembered I gave it to the library. I hardly looked at it, so it was a waste of space. I probably gave it away over a year ago, and just missed it today.
I've been in the kitchen all day! First cooking garbanzo beans for hummus, lunch, dinner, baking biscotti. It's like I live there. We'll it's good to live in a place with food, and personality, eh? It has personality because I have many pictures of my nieces and nephew on my refrigerator :)

Coffee Musings - 022108

A few days worth of photographs. I'm attending a conference so I'm a little remiss in posting.
I've tried recipes from most of the cookbooks except the Mark Bittman book which I borrowed from the library yesterday. I'm looking forward to trying it out. If I like it I'll buy it. I haven't been "WOW"-d by the other cookbooks. Maybe the Mark Bittman book will help me figure out what I've been lacking or help me figure out what the other books are lacking.
Here I am drinking coffee and thinking of tea :) The angel is a Christmas ornament from my mom in Arizona. I have it out all year because it's too cool not to.
I made hummus straight from the bean! However, since I'm attending a coference it's just staying in my fridge unused. It was actually pretty good. I soaked those beans for almost 24 hours. I wasn't planning on soaking them THAT much, but I didn't have time to cook them before then. I'll probably continue to use dried beans as opposed to can for this. I bought garlic especially, and to try the white bean pate again.

Tea Musings - 020308

I decided to mix it up a little. Instead of coffee I drank tea this morning. Ooooh, watch out, next thing you'll know I'll be dying my hair purple :)

All day all day I was trying to motivate myself to run. Instead I completed many Su Doku puzzles. Who'd knew when I bought the book a couple years ago that I would use it as an excuse to be a deadbeat in exercise :) It definitely took the edge off the morning from reading the William Trevor book. I already read the end *blush* but it still reads as if something is always going to happen. As if the music from Jaws before the shark appears is constantly on replay. Anticipation of something ominous. I know this since I already read the end.