January « 2009 « Butterscotch Sundae

The Butterscotch League

  • MrPlayfair (Tom)
  • The Crimson Cats (Rockford)
  • Dillon Lions (Nichole)
  • Howling Wolf (Mark)
  • GoDawgs! (Chris)
  • Blue Moo (Genia)
  • Hippowdon (Sam, I think)
  • Honolulu Blue (Perry Mason)

I'm updating the fantasy college football rankings by hand every week. You know what would be awesome, Yahoo? A widget that would do this automatically.

In brief

This Day Last Year

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Papa’s favorite ribs

Crispity! Crunchity! Didn't quite workity!

After two months of extremely rich desserts, January’s hosts opted for something a bit lighter. Tuile cookies are airy, crispy little guys that are meant to be shaped and molded into something cute or elegant.

I say “meant to be,” because the reality of mine weren’t quite that way. They tasted good, but the first batch

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By nichole | January 29th, 2009 | Filed under: recipes, the daring bakers | 3 comments

Instant mood booster

Order a free box of chocolates from Ferrero in early December.

Forget about it.
Wonder what the FedEx guy could be delivering on this rainy day.
Open box.
Rejoice.

It’s not often I can say this, but today? My forgetfulness is working for me!

Edited to add: The UPS guy just brought me a book! Yay

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By nichole | January 28th, 2009 | Filed under: works for me | 4 comments

"Times is fairly good here."

A few years ago, my mom gave me a shoebox full of old papers that her grandfather had saved. Some of them were yellowed receipts and such, but there were also quite a few letters from various family members. I scanned and transcribed them when Mom gave me the box, and then I didn’t do

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By nichole | January 27th, 2009 | Filed under: ephemera | 4 comments

The zero-creativity menu

I was a little rushed when I made this week’s menu — last night, 5 minutes before I left for a late-night run to the grocery store. We’re using mostly things that I already had on hand. My in-laws are coming over on Wednesday, and had they not put in a request we probably would’ve

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By nichole | January 26th, 2009 | Filed under: menu plan Monday | One comment

Icecapades

By nichole | January 25th, 2009 | Filed under: Poppy, Sam, Sophie, picture pages | 4 comments

Friday links! A few little gems

Seth Stevenson’s “The Partygoer: How many inaugural balls can I get to in one night?” made me laugh out loud at least once.
They’re a little pricey for me, but Handmadefont.com has a ton of fantastic, wacky fonts. My favorite by far is “biscuits” — although in my world, that’s called a doughnut.

By nichole | January 23rd, 2009 | Filed under: linky dinky | Comments are closed

Out of the loop

This is the first time in many, many years that I haven’t seen any of the movies nominated for Best Picture. I’ve seen very few of the nominated movies overall, in fact. We did see “The Dark Knight,” “Bolt,” “Wall-E” and “Happy-Go-Lucky.” But I think that’s it. And two of those, I didn’t like one

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By nichole | January 22nd, 2009 | Filed under: watching | 2 comments

Baby's first inauguration

By nichole | January 20th, 2009 | Filed under: picture pages | 4 comments
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