Mini Meal Planners + Recipe Jotters.

A lovely little meal planner. Eight weeks or 56 days worth to be exact, each separated by a different patterned paper. For those of us who need to plan ahead in order to not eat cereal every night after work. (Guilty as charged.)

And equally lovely recipe jotters. A ring bound book with 16 hand-stamped 3″x5″ recipe cards. Use them for your favorites or your “I have to write this down now”s.

:: via The Kitchn

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Dualit Toaster.

I heart toast. Plain, buttered or with jam. Peanut butter or cinnamon sugar are also regulars in my repertoire.

My toaster does an okay job, but the Dualit is the King of Toasting. They recently re-engineered their iconic appliance from mechanical to electronic operation. New features include one-side bagel toasting, a defrost setting, wider slots and electronic controls that operate each slot independently. Wowzah.

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On the Rocks: The Chicago Fizz.


The Chicago Fizz goes out to all my friends in The Windy City who are busy trying to generate body heat on this crazy-cold day!

Ingredients:
– 1 ounce dark rum
– 1 ounce ruby port
– 1/2 ounce lemon juice
– 1/2 teaspoon superfine sugar
– 1 egg whites

Shake all ingredients with cracked ice, strain into small Collins glass, and top with a splash of soda water.

:: cocktail recipe and photo via Alcademics

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We Feel Fine.

We Feel Fine is an exploration of human emotion on a global scale engineered by Jonathan Harris and Sepandar Kamvar. I could spend hours pouring over the beautiful words and images.
“Since August 2005, We Feel Fine has been harvesting human feelings from a large number of weblogs. Every few minutes, the system searches the world’s newly posted blog entries for occurrences of the phrases “I feel” and “I am feeling”. When it finds such a phrase, it records the full sentence, up to the period, and identifies the “feeling” expressed in that sentence (e.g. sad, happy, depressed, etc.). Because blogs are structured in largely standard ways, the age, gender, and geographical location of the author can often be extracted and saved along with the sentence, as can the local weather conditions at the time the sentence was written. All of this information is saved.”

“At its core, We Feel Fine is an artwork authored by everyone. It will grow and change as we grow and change, reflecting what’s on our blogs, what’s in our hearts, what’s in our minds. We hope it makes the world seem a little smaller, and we hope it helps people see beauty in the everyday ups and downs of life.

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Dave Matthews.

Why is it that I never seem to fall on the preferable side of this quote?

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