July 15, 2007

Miscellaneous

I am playing the role of WOHM ("work-out-of-the-home-mom", for the uninitiated) this week so things have been a little bit wonky around here. Everything is working out, but it's definitely not our usual routine. My workshop last week went well though and "Annie" was a big hit. Now we just have to do it all over again with 40 different kids.

I had an exchange student visiting from Malta. Previous to speaking with her, I am ashamed to admit that I clearly had Malta and Gibraltar mixed up in my head. oops! Perhaps I need a trip to Italy in order to get my European geography down.

I did some prop building over the last week too, so here is the lamp post that I built:It doesn't look quite that "glowy" on stage because part of that is the sun hitting it just right, but I am still pleased at how it turned out- I had to use geometry. And a christmas tree stand.

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I had a whole bunch of other random things I was going to blog about, but then today I was looking at one of those Betty Crocker recipe collections that my mom was trying to get rid of, and it seems that most of those other blog ideas have gone right out of my head. You know the recipe collections popular in the 70's where you got a certain number of cards each month in the mail? I figured I'd look through this box of them to see if there was anything worth keeping and then donate the rest to a charity shop. Oh my lord, you wouldn't believe some of the funny/gross/interesting recipes in there. I did find 10 or so worth keeping (mostly desserts or breads) but I especially liked this one:It's a recipe for Vegetable Lasagne. But look at the last two pictures. "Arrange partly cooked bacon slices on top of the lasagne in a windowpane pattern". 12-14 slices of bacon.
Me: "That's funny, it's a vegetable lasagne, but it's not vegetarian."
Dude: "Well it is vegetarian...if you like bacon."

I also liked this decorating idea. Now I have a use for all those weeds I have to pull up.

I just have to decide which weeds are appropriately "frilly".

The grossest recipe I found?
"Creamy Dried Beef Mold"
Not Pictured (you're welcome)

4 comments:

Happy Veggie said...
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Happy Veggie said...

Crap I cannot type today.

The weed boquet explains much about my grandmother. She must have taken that one to heart. Which is odd, since for the most part she got her cooking advice from Julia Child.
I found a diet cookbook from the 70's. Awesome recipe for boiled chicken in that one.

Syl said...

Can you come build me some lampposts?

Pusher said...

That is a really awesome lamp post.

And hooray for the way '70s cookbooks could make anything look completely inedible, but it's okay because most of their recipes sound as bad as they look anyway!