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[oyceter]

Picked up an extra copy of Emma Bull's Finder at the library sale, anyone want it? (aka, free book!)

I also picked up a random magazine -- The Upholsterer and Interior Decorator, June 15, 1931, and was going to see if anyone on LJ wanted it. Then I found it out was selling on Abebooks for $20. Sooo... maybe not. Must investigate selling options. Unless there is anyone here who really wants to buy it (for less than $20, naturally)?

I caved and got vols. 6 and 9 of Saiyuki, so now I can read straight through (I have 4, 7, and 8 currently and sat in Borders reading 5).

All the cooking shows going crazy over the holidays and eating coffeeandink's tasty food and marvelling at the fact that she actually made it all has sort of inspired me to cook. Well... we'll see how it goes.

Things I want to try:
coffeeandink/Moosewood Restaurant's cornmeal scones
Alton Brown's fruitcake
AB's oatmeal
Some gingerbread recipe (anyone have a good one?)
AB's clotted cream
heres_luck's polenta
upsy_daisy's garlic chicken

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I have three very different good gingerbread recipes. Two of them are on my webpage, here (http://www.marissalingen.com/stoutginger.html) and here (http://www.marissalingen.com/pepparkakor.html).

[oyceter]

Oh, thank you! Is the cake-y gingerbread basically like a cake? Or is it just thicker and chewier than the cookie-gingerbread?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Umm. I would say that one of them is like a sweet bread like banana bread or something, and one of them is a cookie. But if you frosted the bread one, I bet it'd be kind of cakeish.

[gwyneira.livejournal.com]

I haven't a good gingerbread recipe, sadly (though I want to try mrissa's), but I highly, highly recommend AB's oatmeal. We usually have it at least once a weekend, generally with bacon on the side.

[oyceter]

Yay! I just got some steel-cut oats and buttermilk and all that jazz ^_^.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

I'll take Finder, if no one else has put in a claim. Do you want anything? Say, a mix? Some BPAL?

[oyceter]

Mailed it! (usually I am not so efficient, alas)

Ummm... a mix would be nifty, if you'd like (I loved your last one), but no need. I like rescuing good books from library sales.

[rilina.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Due to grad school application headaches, I won't be able to do the mix until January, but you'll definitely be getting one eventually. :)

[jinian.livejournal.com]

Do you want thin, sturdy house gingerbread or moist, cakelike gingerbread to be consumed immoderately with whipped cream (or your aspired clotted cream, for that matter)?

[oyceter]

Uh. I don't want crispy gingerbread... sort of a soft cookie consistency?

Although cake gingerbread sounds good too... wow, who knew there were so many kinds!

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

You need to own volume 5. That's my favorite one!

[oyceter]

I do!!! I keep finding myself rereading vol. 4 and wanting desperately to reread vol. 5.