Posts tagged: brownies
Finished ‘The Blind Assassin’ today, very good. I will read more Atwood when my book pile is a little smaller. Now onto ‘The Joy Luck Club’ by Amy Tan. After which I will be making a conscious effort to read all my DFW books. I’m lending my copy of Infinite Jest to someone who I have a vague hope might read it - I was flicking through it last night, looking at all the bits I’d underlined and made notes next to. I think my favourite was “I thought we were talking racy mosaics?” which made me laugh loudly. I think I might read it again next summer.
Marbled brownies were made this evening. Apple raspberry breakfast muffins next week, and possibly maple cheesecake if I have the time (which I probably won’t because it’s essay time again…)
Goodbye summertime, I’ll miss you <3
This evening I am making raspberry cheesecake brownies, which I am hoping will turn out exactly right. To be honest, even if they don’t, that amount of chocolate, sugar and butter can’t end up tasting bad (at least not until it’s spent two days in the office at work being unrefridgerated).
I got the fabric for my skirt, it is currently a work in progress. After this weekend I should have a bit more time to finish it. If I could, I think spending the rest of my life baking and sewing would be a pretty alright way for things to go. I am like a stereotypical 50s housewife. Apart from the looking after children part. Oh well.
I am now reading ‘Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close’ by Jonathan Safran Foer. It’s pretty amusing. As amusing as a book about a 9 year old boy who lost his father in 9/11 can be anyway. But this kid, Oskar, is completely adorable (if not somewhat unrealistic):
“Sensei Mark asked me to go over to him. “Kick my privates,” he told me. That made me feel self-conscious. “Excusez-moi?” I told him…He told me, “Go on guy. Destroy my privates.”… I told him, “I’m a pacifist,” and since most people my age don’t know what that means, I turned around and told the others, “I don’t think it’s right to destroy people’s privates. Ever.”
‘mazin.
