Baked Onions With Pecans

Sally Fallon is an extremely talented female chef. I've been cooking from her classic Nourishing Traditions for about 2 years now, and this recipe is one of my favorites from it.

Baked Onions With Pecans
(adapted)
Serves 8

4 large onions
garlic (optional)
1 cup veggie stock
3 tablespoons butter*
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon lemon juice*
1/4 teaspoon paprika
sea salt*
1/2 cup chopped pecans
*make sure you do not use too much butter, lemon juice, or salt, or else it will soak into the onions (and garlic), creating a terribly unpleasant and unpalatable, strong off-flavor

Peel onions, and slice along the equator. I like to give them another vertical slice, just so they end up as bite-size pieces. Lay them along a baking tray with their sides up. I choose to add halved garlic cloves as well. Mix stock, melted butter, honey, lemon juice, and paprika. Salt to taste. Again, make sure that the mixture is very light and subtle. Strong flavors will become even stronger when the mixture soaks into the baking onions! Pour over onions, and bake them for about an hour at 350 degrees, until onions are just tender. Sprinkle with pecans, and bake for another 10-15 minutes.

Bon Appetit!

Daffodil Haiku

A Perennial,
Daffodils Are Everywhere.
Stop In Tracks To Smell.

(Photo Copyright CRK.)

Transmogrifier

I, like Calvin, own a transmogrifier!



This was a box that my housemate's mattress came in, and man, was it funny to see how excited a group of 20-year-olds can get about playing with such things.





We all remember Calvin's clone/transformation machine.
(For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about or never read Calvin and Hobbes, don't be offended, but how did you get through childhood?)

Fame By Association

Tea Leaf Green, a talented jam band, came to my city last weekend.
They played at the Pearl St. Night Club, and I was able to make my way up to the front row. The last song they played was the song I was waiting for them to play the entire time, my favorite, "The Garden (Part III)". As I was singing along to the words and dancing, the beautiful Trevor Garrod, keyboardist and vocalist, looked right at me and smiled during the moment of, "got a little bit a soul, got a little bit a rock n' roll in my bones..."

It was epic.

That familiar voice, from all the years of listening to it, singing right back to me as we flirted.
It was definitely one of those celebrity moments, where the audience and stage become one.



Tea Leaf Green on MySpace

"The Garden (Part III)" on Taught To Be Proud, by Tea Leaf Green

Got a little bit a soul,
Got a little bit a rock n' roll in my bones,
Don't you bury me when I'm old,
I may need 'em when I'm reborn,
When I'm reborn.

The garden that you planted is doin' well,
I thought you'd like to know,
The roses are growin' on the hound dog's bones,
It reminds me of the time, I told you long ago.

Darlin' let's let our hair grow long,
We can work on a farm, maybe live on a mountain,
I got an old hound dog, likes to run,
Needs a lot of room, and he hates to be chained up.

Just like me, just like we are supposed to be,
Just like me, just like we are supposed to be,
Just like me, just like we are supposed to be,
Just like me, just like we are supposed to be.

The mountain's sinkin', the river's risin',
The sky's fallin', I fear I'm dyin',
The forest is creepin' in, and I cannot stop it,
I don't want to try now, I can't remember how,
I used to dream about them valley highways,
Before I was chained to this country by way,
And left me here, lettin' freedom tear us apart.

OOOOOHHHH!...

Darlin' let's let our hair grow long,
We can work on a farm, maybe live on a mountain,
I got an old hound dog, likes to run,
Needs a lot of room, and he hates to be chained up.

Just like me, just like we are supposed to be,
Just like me, just like we are supposed to be,
Just like me, just like we are supposed to be,
Just like me, just like we are supposed to be.

MS Paint Art

I created this the summer after I graduated from high school. The original was a piece I did on canvas w/ acrylic for a boyfriend I had when I was in high school. This one, of course, took longer. The palm trees took about 3 hours alone! But the seagull was the toughest! I would have done more, but it was overly trying. I listened to a lot of Sigur Rós back then, and I probably went through the entire "Takk..." album multiple times while I worked. Singing along to the words of every song even though I didn't know Icelandic. It was pretty ethereal.

"Fingermade" (ha!) by a laptop scroll pad, not bad eh?!

Shun Dell

Thinking of buying a new computer?
Considering Dell? Don't.
This is why you do not want a Dell computer:



This has been going on for about a year and a half now. It first started with one vertical line. Then two, three, four, etc... A nice assortment of colors, also. Next, lines starting aggregating. I now even have a horizontal line. It's weird though, because they all go away if I torque the screen. I once tried bungee cording it for some semi-permanent torquing, but to no avail. Haha... anyway, my computer is destined to fry its LCD. And there is no use getting it fixed, since you could pretty much call my computer totaled. Not covered by warranty, either. Thanks, Dell!... Even though you recalled this product for this exact reason and have a customer service e-mail address made specifically for customers with complaints about vertical lines!

This should go on fail blog:



I also have an issue with my battery. Every time my power cord gets unplugged, the computer immediately shuts down. Though, it will stay on for as long as it's plugged in. I can't take my laptop anywhere, geez.

When I'm at the library, and I walk away from my computer, I'll put up this screen and feel comfortable being gone for any length of time: