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Charli Wrote:
-ditto what Red said about bags, I just had to purge some last spring
-and lately baking, I've been baking at least twice a week lately and with xmas season that'll pick up a bit.


What'd you do with your bags? I mean, not that I need anymore... but...

Seriously, though, I need to get rid of some of mine.

What're you baking? I didn't know there was another baking nerd on the board. I just figured out my xmas cookie menu.

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-ditto what Red said about bags, I just had to purge some last spring
-and lately baking, I've been baking at least twice a week lately and with xmas season that'll pick up a bit.


What'd you do with your bags? I mean, not that I need anymore... but...

Seriously, though, I need to get rid of some of mine.

What're you baking? I didn't know there was another baking nerd on the board. I just figured out my xmas cookie menu.


I ended up giving some to a couple girls at my work. When I was pregnant I went on a mad spring cleaning of all my stuff one weekend. It scared me how much stuff I had that I didn't wear or use anymore. I had to give up the dream of ever fitting back into my size 4 pants. ha

Baking wise: I've done every kind of muffin lately, cornbread, pumpkin bread, brownies and cookies galore.

For xmas I have four types of cookies and fudge on the menu. I'm planning on going overboard with this and give some to my family and the spa and salon that I worked for and still go to.

My husband and mother are super excited that I'm tackling the fudge this year. I just hope it turns out ok.

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Here's one of my favorite cookie recipies...


Honey-Soaked Cookies:

¼ cup Unsalted butter; softened
¼ cup Corn oil
3 tablespoon Sugar
Zest of 1/2 orange; finely chopped
1 ½ teaspoon Orange juice
½ teaspoon Baking powder
¼ teaspoon Baking soda
1 cup All-purpose flour; plus
1 tablespoon All-purpose flour

=== SYRUP ===
1 cup Sugar
½ cup Honey
¾ cup Water
½ cup Finely-chopped walnuts

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees and grease a large baking sheet. In the bowl of an electric mixer or with a handheld mixer, beat the butter and corn oil together until creamy. Add the sugar and continue beating until thoroughly combined. Add the orange zest and juice and mix in. Combine the baking powder and baking soda with 1/2 cup of the flour and beat that in. Add the remaining flour 1/4 cup at a time and mix until a medium-stiff dough is formed, adding a little less or a little more as necessary to achieve the correct consistency. The dough should hold its shape without collapsing. Shape the dough by teaspoonfuls into 2-inch long ovals and transfer them to the baking sheet 1 1/2 inches apart. Bake on the middle rack for about 20 minutes, until just golden. Cool on wire racks. While the cookies are cooling, combine the sugar, honey, and water in a small sauce pan and bring to a boil. Boil for 2 minutes, then reduce the heat so that the mixture is simmering. With a slotted spoon, gently dip the cooled cookies into the syrup just for a moment, making sure all sides are evenly coated. Take extra care to be gentle when handling the cookies or they may break apart. Again place the cookies on the wire racks and immediately sprinkle them with the walnuts, while they are still warm. Dry on the rack for 20 minutes. This recipe yields 45 cookies.

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Fudge sounds awesome. I've never tried to make it.

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Charli Wrote:
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oh yes, I suppose I should have mentioned that as well.


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Makeup, though I can't afford really good makeup, so I am a drug store makeup whore.

"Boy" movies. You know, with, like, explosions and stuff.

TV on DVD

Clothes

Photography

Baking

Finding the "most awesome gift" for people.

Greeting cards

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For serious? That's cool! What are their names?

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Books (used to read the NYTimes book review religiously, have 2 full built ins full. Mistly Thompson and Tom Wolfe, and then A LOT of political books)

Politics (I have forgotten a lot of the 1987 Baseball Encyclopedia that I memorized so as to know the succession of Senators and Governors for most states in the Confederacy)

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"Boy" movies. You know, with, like, explosions and stuff.


mee too.

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Pens


Okay... so... what's your poison?


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movies. used to be really geeky about this. used to obsesses over aspect ratios and when videos were in letterbox. dvd changed that need (I never had laserdisc). I used to try to watch every movie by directors I liked such as Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges, Jacques Rivette, Scorsese, etc. I've forgotten a lot of the dates and titles I used to be able to rattle off.

old postcards. mostly I like artist drawn/illustrated topographical (defining that loosely) cards from the UK and California, especially if they have some sort of historical element to them--not just the fact that they may be 100 years old.


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- sexually deviant behavior (i love reading about abnormal fetishes)


You can't learn everything from a book ya know...


...although being a bit of a book geek would probably be me as well.

And, my wife's obsession with true crime makes me know way more than I otherwise would about it and we at least share the serial killer fascination.

Horror movie geek I guess you could say as well.


Hmmm, this explains a lot.

:wink: :lol:

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pollysix Wrote:
SpontaneousPoet Wrote:
"Boy" movies. You know, with, like, explosions and stuff.


mee too.

SpontaneousPoet Wrote:
Pens


Okay... so... what's your poison?


Get a room, you two. And pst px pls.

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Jacques Rivette

The Museum of the Moving Image in NYC is running a complete films of Rivette series. If I ever bothered to leave the house I'd go catch a few of them.


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Jacques Rivette

The Museum of the Moving Image in NYC is running a complete films of Rivette series. If I ever bothered to leave the house I'd go catch a few of them.


Are they doing the 12 something hour version of Out 1? I'd love to see that but thats a long ass time to sit in a theater seat.


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Jacques Rivette

The Museum of the Moving Image in NYC is running a complete films of Rivette series. If I ever bothered to leave the house I'd go catch a few of them.


Are they doing the 12 something hour version of Out 1? I'd love to see that but thats a long ass time to sit in a theater seat.

Yeah, they're showing it over two days with dinner breaks:

http://www.movingimage.us/site/screenings/pages/2006/index_rivette.html


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