– Swizzle me this
Check out these gorgeous swizzle sticks from VanTiki studio, they're made of titanium! Titanium - a metal that is strong, lightweight, impervious to corrosion, and will not affect the taste of your beverage Check out these MartiniBOTS, perfect to skewer olives... and then on to skewering the human race! And two of my favorite swizzles Spook and Leviathan They'll be on sale this weekend at Tiki Oasis and afterwards in the new VanTiki etsy shop
– Baking on the brain
It's all Joy's fault. I've had baking on the brain. I was planning a girls night in with my friend Kellie, so I just decided to take advantage of a few hours inside on a Friday night. I wanted to make Joy the Baker's Banana Bourbon Bread Pudding and had just purchased a loaf of Amish Apple Bread... so some experimenting was going to be done. I was planning out my shopping list late Friday afternoon and came across Dana from MADE's post about Peach Cobbler just before I left for the store. A light bulb turned on... I had a ton of fresh peaches from ...
– Baking on the brain… two
So let's discuss baking and not following the recipe. It's practically playing with fire. You can RUIN a dish by messing with the chemistry involved in baking... problem is I'm terrible with following recipes, I always get distracted. Either I miss an ingredient or the order of steps always gets tweaked.... This time the recipe didn't involve too much to screw up. It's bread pudding, traditionally stale bread and a custard. Joy and Jill posted a video of them making this bread pudding (go watch it!) and I took the liberty to make it slightly more my own. She pointed out you ...
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This beautiful video is the work of singer/songwriter Tanya Davis and filmmaker Andrea Dorfman. It was shot in Halifax, which gives it a comfortable homey feel to me… reminds me of my hometown.
Best lesson from this? Something I’ve known for a long while, and makes me a better person.
Alone is ok.
via Madeline Brand
Last night marked the premier of StoryCorps‘ animated series on PBS. They will be releasing an animated version of some of their best recorded interviews during the program POV over the next few months…
I’ve blogged before about how moving and inspiring the project is. As founder Dave Isay states,
“StoryCorps grew out of a very a simple idea: we wanted to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record their life stories.”
This first episode to be released on TV is based on a couple that Dave Isay spoke about at the book reading I attended earlier this year… it’s very touching.
Listen and watch Danny and Annie recount their first date, their marriage, and being in love ’til death do you part’
I cannot urge you enough to watch it. Make sure to have a kleenex!
Kesennnum, a frozen aquarium in Japan.
I am so enamored with the idea of a frozen octopus stuck to my wall…. It’s the suckers… they get to me.
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What can I say. Out of the mouths of babes…
Miss P (who I can easily confirm is the cutest almost 4 year old on earth) overhears a History Channel program on the Sahara Desert during the 19th century:
The commentator mentions a ‘colossal rapture’
Mommy, did you hear him? He said Colossalraptor! Where is the dinosaur!?
Her mother texts me the story and has me laughing out loud.
Her favorite ride at Disneyland? The train. Why? It used to be because of the BRAND Canyon. Now it’s because of the Dinosaurs. We pretty much have to ride the train twice when we go to the park.
Forget Nemo, Cinderella, and those Toy Story punks. Bring on the dinos!
Makes me glad I already bought us tickets for Walking with Dinosaurs
(get discounted tix through Goldstar!)
Thanks to Keaton Simons for retweeting this…
Enjoying a complementary flight and free inflight wifi courtesy of Klout and Virgin Americahttp://cmp.ly/2/va)
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