Saturday, March 13, 2010

Need motivation to read

Lately I've been doing a lot of sewing. Made myself a skirt and pajama pants last week, plus finished up a quilt. So I haven't been doing much reading. I finished a Short History of Women. It was ok, a bit depressing how all of the women were searching for something, feeling depressed about their lives.

Book Six: Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
I'm not too far into it, but it's entertaining so far. I have not read Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, but I think I will after this book. I'm curious to see how similar it is,but I'm told it's very close, the only thing added are the zombies.

Been slacking a bit

Recipe Twelve: Beer Battered Fish

I'm observing Lent this year, like any good Catholic, and have given up pop and of course meat on Friday. Two weeks ago I made Beer battered Cod, using a recipe on foodnetwork.com. It was ok. The cod we bought is a bit thin, I think it would work better with thicker pieces of cod.

Recipe Thirteen: Spicy Bakes Macaroni
Very tasty! I think it would have been good to add some Tabasco though before baking, but it's good! And there's so much of it, we'll be eating it all week!

This week I am going to attempt to make cherry scones, hope they turn out good!