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So say we all

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Disclaimer: This won’t make any sense if you don’t watch “Battlestar Galactica.” Also, I’m aware that this is evidence of my nerdiness. I’m OK with that.

BattlestarRockford and I spent many long nights last year catching up with “Battlestar Galactica.” Now there are only two episodes left, and I’m not liking the direction we seem to be heading. I’m hoping it’ll be otherwise, but here’s my official prediction for how the show will end:

  • Adama assembles a skeleton crew to man Galactica. They find The Colony. They fly Galactica straight inside and fire up the ol’ FTL. Boom. Space dust. The end.

    • Sounds bleak, doesn’t it? This season has been 99.9% depressing. But at least there’ll always be the memory of Fat Apollo.

    Eating

    Muffin cups to the rescue

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    Back in January I talked a little bit about the muffin cup’s potential. Since then, I’ve tried a few more things with it. And now it might be my very favorite kitchen tool.

    We almost always have pizza for dinner on Fridays, but I’ve never made my own pizza sauce. The last time we purchased pizza sauce, though, was months ago. (And when I say “we,” I mean the friends who brought the pizza sauce with them when they came over for dinner.) The sauce came from Sam’s, which meant that we had roughly 17 gallons of pizza sauce left over. Rather than finding a giant container to put it in — where it would’ve gotten stuck in the back of the fridge and ignored — I portioned the sauce out into pizza-sized batches and put it in a silicon muffin tin. And then I stuck that in the freezer. It took about three days to freeze all of it, because I only have one muffin tin, but now I have about 30 pizzas’ worth of sauce pucks in a bag in the freezer.

    The muffin cups are also great for chicken broth. I have several recipes that only call for half a cup or so of broth. I used to dump the rest of the container down the drain. But now the muffin cup has changed my wasteful ways! The standalone muffin cups I have hold about half a cup of chicken broth, which makes it pretty easy to thaw and use what I need.

    So there you have it. Muffin cups work for me. I might just get that printed on a T-shirt. That’s how much I love them.

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    Family matters

    "Now I’m gone and no one cares."

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    I realized yesterday that I’d forgotten to share any letters over the last few weeks. So this week, we get two of them. They’re both from Cornell, who was obviously having some drama in his life.

    July 4 1942
    Camp Pickitt Va

    Dear dad,

    I am still O.K. but I am worried to death. I am going to have to buy some clothes so I can get some rations. We don’t have enough clothes to keep clean. That is the reason I wrote for the money. I am in hard luck now. And if you knew what I do you wouldn’t think about selling out. You would be glad to know you have a home. I have taken out $5,000 of insurance and the government has the same. So that makes $10,000 dollars insurance. It will be mailed to you so I want it put in a safe place. So send me some money if you can. Tell Polly to send me some hangers.

    CM

    If hangers and insurance weren’t enough, there’s something going on with Cornell’s love life, too. And whatever it is, it’s turned him into a Fezzik-style poet.

    Sept. 4, 1942

    Hello everyone,

    I haven’t time to say much. But I’m hoping you all are well. Here’s all I have to say. My heart is great for the ones who care. But that ones that don’t theres nothing there.

    In time I’ve had a lot to say, and you all tell me to go away, and now I’m gone and no one cares. But someday your eyes will fill with tears.

    I always loved only one and she is now the greatest one. I’ll spend my life with that very one that made my life a pleasant one.

    Just Cornell