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NaBloPoMo :: day 6

I made chicken soup. Oh, so delicious, so simple. Stock, carrots, celery, parsley, chicken, noodles, S & P. I used the last bowl's worth to experiment with and added some tamari and green onions, and it was wonderful. I don't think I'll have time tomorrow to make anything else, but Satuday I think I should have time. Asian chicken soup and anything else I want to cook will have to wait.

I had a request for thinner, lighter weight dishcloths so I went out an bought some sport weight cotton tonight. I'm not sure how it's going to work out. The worsted weight is already a little loose when wet and in use, I'm afraid the sport weight is going to be useless once wet. I'm going to see if I can make it tomorrow while the babies are sleeping but because I'm planning for them sleeping well they won't.

Unrelated: I'm going to bed on time tonight if it kills me.

NaBloPoMo :: day 2

I thought I'd share some of the recipes that I'm looking forward to cooking. I frequent a few different food related blogs and here are a few of my favorites:

• Simply Recipes
• delicious:days
• Tea & Cookies
• Vanilla Garlic

From Simply Recipes, I've been eyeing this Chicken Echiladas Verdes recipe for a while and I think I might buy the ingredients and make it later this week. Not to mention the Beef & Broccoli recipe that was just posted today, it looks so yummy and easy. I don't have any experience cooking enchiladas but they can't be that hard.

Next up is the 3-Pepper Spaghetti Carbonara posted just today on delicious:days. I've never had carbonara of any sort. I didn't even know what it was till just 3 days ago, and then this recipe gets posted. What are the odds? I do admit, that when I first heard a friend describing the basic premise of carbonara it sounded disgusting but I was won over this afternoon while reading delicious:days. This looks like such a quick and easy recipe that I might try to pull it off for the first time after a long day of work*.I might have to alter the 3-pepper part because I'm not a huge pepper fan but maybe I'll keep it in the first time just to try it.

Lemon Blueberry Buckwheat Pancakes. That's the very first recipe to get me hooked to Tea & Cookies. I love the wonderful backstories that go along with her delicious recipes. She writting a food book and I can't wait to read it. I tried making her Raspberry Curd once. While it tasted wonderful, my batch smelled funky. Funky like I'm worried to eat it funny. And before I relalized that it smelled funky I had already jarred some and gifted it to friends. I learned my lesson... don't hastily make curd in the middle of the night.

And last but not least, while I don't think I'll ever get my hands on some whattleseed, these cupcakes facinate me to no end. I have no idea what the flavor is like but I so desprately want to try it. Vanilla Garlic is my most recent aquiring and I have yet to really dive into it but the very first post I read, about Fermented Black Garlic, got me hooked right in.

I'll keep you updated if I try any of these, or the hundreds of other bookmarked recipes, in the next few weeks. If you decide to try your hand at them let me know how it goes.

Also, if any of you are feeling really adventurous you should check out the Sticky Pig Candy. I can't say that I haven't been tempted.