Hah! Very true, Sarameg. Though that's often why I make cupcakes rather than cake. Or cookies instead. Because it's way easier to sample them, and not look like you're bringing leftovers to teh potluck.
Harrow: You didn't have to wound that man. Mal: Yeah, I know, it was just funny.
'Shindig'
Natter 52: Playing with a full deck?
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
meara - Jul 04, 2007 9:21:40 am PDT #6317 of 10001
sarameg - Jul 04, 2007 9:24:40 am PDT #6318 of 10001
And now it's raining, hard. I guess I'll wait.
Jesse - Jul 04, 2007 9:24:54 am PDT #6319 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
With cupcakes, you wouldn't have this issue!
That's hilarious!
You know what I love about the 4th? It's always Wimbledon and Law&Order on TV.
Amy - Jul 04, 2007 9:34:06 am PDT #6320 of 10001
Because books.
But SciFi is doing a Twilight Zone marathon! And TCM had Barefoot in the Park on before The Goodbye Girl, and The Odd Couple is following!
Signed,
Spending a rainy Fourth playing with the kids when not sprawled on the bed watching TV
sumi - Jul 04, 2007 9:39:18 am PDT #6321 of 10001
Art Crawl!!!
And Monk - USA is doing a Monk marathon.
Although the weirdness of the NBC/ESPN coverage means that when ESPN started up again at noon they were showing the end of a match that NBC was showing the beginning of on tape delay.
amych - Jul 04, 2007 9:49:37 am PDT #6322 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Eddie Izzard marathon. IJS.
Pix - Jul 04, 2007 10:04:10 am PDT #6323 of 10001
The status is NOT quo.
It is a gazillion degrees here, and my favorite local nail salon has no air conditioning. And yet...cheap nails and waxing and close to home. Worth it, I think. So long as I don't have to wait much longer.
sarameg - Jul 04, 2007 10:06:44 am PDT #6324 of 10001
It's stopped raining, so I think I'll walk over.
It just occurred to me that mom is at my brother's for the 4th of July. One of the occasions he uses to try to blow up the neighborhood and himself.
I can just hear her fretting.
Hil R. - Jul 04, 2007 10:18:12 am PDT #6325 of 10001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Cooking question: I want to make cupcakes. I've got a recipe. I just realized that the icing requires melting some chocolate. I don't have any of the bar-type baking chocolate, but I do have cocoa powder. The side of the container has the little chart saying that mixing the cocoa powder with some oil will substitute for baking chocolate. Will this still work in icing, or will it make it too runny or too grainy or something? (I've already discovered that pretty much every icing recipe I've made from this book has been too runny, so I don't want to risk it being even runnier.)
Sue - Jul 04, 2007 10:20:16 am PDT #6326 of 10001
hip deep in pie
Hil, I wouldn't use the oil, I'd just add a little more of the butter, shortening, etc. that's called for in the recipe. And i always use less of the fat that they usually call for when substituting the cocoa for chunk chocolate.