December 2010
55 posts
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less than zero
MAKING: cranberry molasses upside down cake LISTENING: elvis costello, my aim is true
Dec 31st
5 tags
until you die
MAKING: cucumber wontons & edamame with sweet chili/soy sauce LISTENING: the microphones, live in japan
Dec 31st
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like no other
MAKING: english muffin bread, toasted, buttered and dented with my thumb & apple slices LISTENING: that dog, that dog
Dec 31st
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enjoy the silence
MAKING: fried tofu, garlic spinach & mexican scallion pancake LISTENING: depeche mode, violator
Dec 30th
6 tags
knock on it all day
MAKING: rice noodle soup, edamame & tempura shrimp LISTENING: dinosaur jr., green mind
Dec 30th
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what is this thing
MAKING: cinnamon rolls from a can (oh yes) LISTENING: ariel pink’s haunted graffiti, before today
Dec 29th
5 tags
simply having
MAKING: the amazing macdonald/french family christmas breakfast, comprised of leftover ham and potatoes from christmas eve fried up, scrambled eggs, and rolls with raspberry jelly LISTENING: san diego’s all-christmas radio station
Dec 29th
5 tags
less than lonely
MAKING: fettuccine with homemade tomato sauce and crumbled mozzarella cheese LISTENING: husker du, candy apple grey
Dec 29th
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thank you
MAKING: leftover pizza with purple cabbage LISTENING: the smiths, rank
Dec 21st
6 tags
like a bell
MAKING: mozzarella/parmesan cheese pizza with a delicious sourdough crustLISTENING: billy bragg, brewing up with billy bragg and fleetwood mac, fleetwood mac homemade pizza takes a while but it is ABSOLUTELY WORTH IT.
Dec 21st
3 tags
back to the bench
MAKING: ploughman’s with 1/2 quesadilla, avocado, goat cheese, corn chips & salsa LISTENING: morrissey, bona drag
Dec 20th
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you are a runner
MAKING: dark chocolate chunk banana bread, toasted and buttered LISTENING: wolf parade, apologies to the queen mary
Dec 20th
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magical things are happening in the world
MAKING: ploughman’s with goat cheese, cashews, cranberry jelly, wheat english muffins, honey roasted peanuts, and sliced apple (two nuts! crazytown!) LISTENING: stereolab, peng!
Dec 20th
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i am yours
MAKING: dark chocolate chunk banana bread, toasted and lovingly spread with butter LISTENING: thanksgiving, the ‘in the world’ (6 new songs)
Dec 20th
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and i wait
MAKING: udon noodles in a soy-based broth, edamame, purple cabbage, roast beef LISTENING: toadies, rubberneck
Dec 20th
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bright lit blue skies
MAKING: ploughman’s with goat cheese, wheat english muffins, sliced apple, honey roasted peanuts and cranberry jelly (so festive! so delicious! god i love ploughman’s! and lunch!) LISTENING: ariel pink’s haunted graffiti, before today
Dec 18th
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seven little red birds
MAKING: dark chocolate chunk banana bread LISTENING: julee cruise, floating into the night i think i would die without this tape.
Dec 18th
6 tags
adobe slats for my girls
MAKING: roasted beef & organic yukon gold potatoes, collard greens & cranberry jelly LISTENING: animal collective, merriweather post pavillion
Dec 18th
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merry & bright
last night at CVS i found totally out of season, unicorn-esque cadbury mini eggs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! they were six dollars a bag. i just wish i wasn’t so broke or i would have bought more (like 10 bags more). no joke. this is a christmas miracle! proof that this isn’t a trick: the eggs, sitting pretty under my christmas tree like the present from the universe they...
Dec 18th
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i beg of you
MAKING: panko-crusted dover sole tacos with purple cabbage, hot sauce, corn chips & salsa LISTENING: the grateful dead, workingman’s dead
Dec 17th
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what goes on up there
MAKING: panko-crusted dover sole, ramen, garlicky collard greens & soy-based spicy dip aren’t my new chopsticks just lovely? what a complementary color. LISTENING: mount eerie, wind’s poem
Dec 17th
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remember that god saves
MAKING: fake buffalo wings, steak fries & purple cabbage with sour cream & extra sauce LISTENING: violent femmes, hallowed ground
Dec 17th
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if any of the guards are still talking to me
MAKING: cashew/almond/dark chocolate chunk banana bread LISTENING: johnny cash, johnny cash at san quentin
Dec 17th
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stretch out and wait
MAKING: ploughman’s with cashews, toasted crusty bread, cheddar cheese & cucumbers LISTENING: the smiths, louder than bombs
Dec 16th
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that little black train
MAKING: fettucine with basil, garlic, butter and parmesan, topped with a fried egg, topped with japanese house spice (toasted crusty bread not pictured) LISTENING: woody guthrie, poor boy
Dec 16th
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love each other so
MAKING: peanut butter on a croissant & corn chips (i swear there’s peanut butter in there) LISTENING: the replacements, let it be notice the charming homemade-ness? (love the white out) our old neighbor found a box of tapes in boston on the side of the road.  and this was among them. when we moved from MA to CA, she was kind enough to let us choose a few for our road trip. the...
Dec 15th
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dazzle them all
MAKING: croissants with cranberry jelly (i ate two) LISTENING: ariel pink’s haunted graffiti, before today
Dec 15th
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still doing things that i gave up years ago
MAKING: white cheddar shells ‘n’ cheese, fake chicken nuggets & cranberry jelly LISTENING: lou reed, transformer
Dec 14th
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just go to sleep
MAKING: pan-fried mozzarella & basil sandwich on wheat bread, corn chips & salsa LISTENING: hole, live through this
Dec 14th
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it will surely come
MAKING: ploughman’s breakfast of 1/2 english muffin (seriously buttered), 1/2 blackberry jam thumbprint cookie from verve (thanks britt!), 1/2 apple, 1/2 satsuma LISTENING: brian eno, before and after science
Dec 14th
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like a flower
MAKING: cheese quesadillas, cilantro, saffron rice, red cabbage, chips, salsa & sour cream LISTENING: paul mccartney, mccartney II
Dec 13th
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MYSTERIOUS WHISPER
MAKING: shittake mushroom soft tacos with lettuce & cilantro, corn chips & salsa LISTENING: they might be giants, apollo 18
Dec 13th
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i am your favorite horse
MAKING: leftover pizza, corn & potato chip remnants, radishes LISTENING: bonnie “prince” billy, greatest palace music
Dec 13th
Anonymous asked: can you make it so i can comment on certain pictures. or posts... caus ei have comments and such...

brian desimone
Dec 12th
3 tags
get into my hot tub
MAKING: english muffin slathered in butter & cranberry upside down cake LISTENING: ariel pink’s haunted graffiti, before today
Dec 12th
3 tags
in a town so small
MAKING: sourdough mozzarella cheese pizza with sausage, basil & homemade sauce LISTENING: band of horses, cease to begin chicle posing against the insert (her idea):
Dec 12th
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please is not a word that i ever said quietly
MAKING: par-baked sourdough rolls (all matt) LISTENING: swan lake, beast moans
Dec 12th
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one sells diamonds
MAKING: cranberry upside down cake from smitten kitchen LISTENING: neil young, time fades away
Dec 12th
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busy clippers
MAKING: ploughman’s with toasted french bread, cheddar cheese, pickles and radishes LISTENING: morrissey, bona drag
Dec 12th
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give me the cure
MAKING: takeout from india joze LISTENING: fugazi, fugazi
Dec 11th
08942-deactivated20110418-deact asked: YOU HAVE GRACE ON CASSETTE?!!? THIS MOMENT RIGHT NOW IS PROBABLY THE MOST I'VE BEEN JEALOUS THIS ENTIRE YEAR!

Where did you get it from???? (reply using my ask so I can see :( ) lol
Dec 11th
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the wind blew an invocation
MAKING: pan-fried cheddar cheese sandwich on multigrain bread with corn chips & salsa LISTENING: jeff buckley, grace
Dec 10th
6 tags
the one that you took
MAKING: panko crusted honey drizzled fried tofu, ramen noodles & brussels sprouts LISTENING: morrissey, bona drag
Dec 10th
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if i had a rubber hose i would beat you
two things of note, one just lovely, one total bullshit: 1. matt made pizza dough from our sourdough starter (pictured). jealous? 2. the trader joe’s advent calendars no longer have a graphic of what the chocolate inside is supposed to be shaped like, resulting in bizarre, indecipherable morsels such as this: what the hell is that? a deformed mouse? holly berries? a jester? god knows....
Dec 9th
4 tags
minor or major
MAKING: whole foods pork tamales (we went grocery shopping & were feeling lazy) with homegrown kale, corn ships & salsa and rogue chipotle ale (which was NOT good) LISTENING: the notorious b.i.g., ready to die
Dec 9th
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save me dear
MAKING: fried egg & parmesan on multigrain toast, homegrown kale, potato chips LISTENING: ghostface, the pretty toney album
Dec 8th
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oh oh domino
MAKING: angel hair pasta with pesto & parmesan, raw green beans, hard rolls LISTENING: van morrison, his band and the street choir
Dec 8th
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golden hours
MAKING: pan-fried brie and pesto sandwiches, potato chips & chili sauce LISTENING: brian eno, another green world
Dec 8th
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sentimental, heartbreaking
MAKING: multi-grain english muffins with butter & sliced pink lady apple (not pictured, but no less important, is the delicious handmade mocha we usually start our day with) LISTENING: the unofficial video for ariel pink’s haunted graffiti’s, round and round
Dec 7th
5 tags
i dig a pygmy
MAKING: fake chicken nuggets, raw green beans, crinkle cut fries & cranberry jelly LISTENING: the beatles, let it be
Dec 7th
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