January 15, 2009
The Daily Eat: Maple Syrup Pie.
Maple syrup.
In a pie.
Seriously yum.
:: recipe and photo via Culinary Concoctions by Peabody
Posted In recipes
January 15, 2009
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
Posted In kitchen, paper goods
January 15, 2009
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.
Posted In kitchen
January 14, 2009
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
Posted In cocktails
January 14, 2009
The Daily Eat: Gleaming Maple Cheesecake.
I’ll eat any kind of cheesecake. Preferably at night when I shouldn’t be eating anything. This Gleaming Maple Cheesecake looks amazing!
:: recipe and photo via Not Quite Nigella
Posted In recipes
January 14, 2009
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.
Posted In collaboration/project, online
January 14, 2009
Alphabet Card Case.
I have this exact business card case.
Minus the cool alphabet part.
Mine is much less cool.
January 13, 2009
Dave Matthews.
Why is it that I never seem to fall on the preferable side of this quote?
January 13, 2009
Family Series Totes.
A customizable family series tote from k studio would make the perfect gift for newlyweds or expectant parents. *Love.* And the figure drawings couldn’t be any sweeter if they tried!