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Month: September 2011

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    @witty_knitter I gasped. Amazing work.

    Thrilled that I now have a local fabric store! Website not up yet tho. (Hat tip to @randomknits.) http://t.co/CLgZro7 http://t.co/NIFS772

    I’m running the SRF Half-Marathon Sunday; make sure you leave me a message of support! My bib number is C06839 at asics.com.au/runwithme

    @knitterjp OOOH, YAY! I could walk over to your office at lunch, maybe?

    @imdominating I will admit to muttering, “God I hate you Sookie” several times during Ep11. But I cheered when Eric drank from the heart. 🙂

    @knitterjp Oh, in the evening? Sure, if you like. They’re pretty big binders so I don’t think either of us wants to carry them to/from work.

    @knitterjp Binders with hand and cat for scale. (I’m happy to bring them over tomorrow if you like!) http://t.co/5znok4w

    @knitterjp Okay, I’ll bring ’em in tomorrow. Just message me where/when to meet you! I’m in Westfield Towers at bottom of Crown.

    @knitterjp You’re gonna laugh when you see them, btw. V printed out every email sent during her reign. 🙂

    Jamie’s 30Min Meals #29: Catherine Wheel Sausage, Horseradish Mash, Apple Salad, Sage&Leek Gravy, Stuffed Apples. http://t.co/08MYXV7 YUM!

    Ooh, Fabric Muse’s (aka my new local fabric store) website is up! http://t.co/OXrjyJz

    @randomknits That’s very nice of you. Whole situation gives me flashbacks to dumb decisions I made in uni. No hospital tho (sheer luck).

    RT @Mark_Sisson: The Primal Blueprint 30-Day Challenge begins today! Get in the best shape of your life and win cool prizes along the way.

    @goldfishgeorge Ooh, I didn’t, thanks. FM is only like 2 blocks from my house though! Loving that. 🙂

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    The Running Festival is doing something neat this year. You can leave a message for me (and the Snook) attached to my bib number and it’ll be displayed as we run the course!

    You can never go wrong with pork, apples, and cider…

  • Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #29: Catherine Wheel Sausage

    This is our 29th cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals. Sorry for missing the past two weeks! We were in Melbourne for one of them. We actually did cook a Jamie meal last weekend, but we had visitors and got too distracted to properly document the meal. (We decided we’d revisit that one again in the future.) The Snook was on cooking duty for this one, and he chose “Catherine Wheel Sausage, Horseradish Mash, Apple Salad, Sage & Leek Gravy, and Stuffed Apples.” This is actually the second meal to use a “Catherine Wheel sausage,” but I was the chef on the other one. We chose this one because it used a lot of ingredients we already had. Unfortunately the TV episode hasn’t aired yet, so we were working just from the book. The time, I’m afraid, was a blow-out: 42:27. Luckily it made up for it in taste!

    Catherine Wheel Sausage

    Substitutions: We used Dutch Cream potatoes instead of the ones specified. We couldn’t find any watercress in season, so we substituted rocket instead. We had roasted almonds instead of blanched for the dessert, and we didn’t bother with the flaming Cointreau(!). Other than that, everything was as written in the recipe!

    Quick verdict: This was another winner in terms of the overall flavour “theme.” Each component complemented the rest really well. (You can’t go wrong with pork and apples, basically.) The sausage is impressive-looking, but it’s not a large portion of protein. That’s okay because you fill up on horseradish mash, which is very tasty and awesome. The “gravy” isn’t really; it’s more of a weird leek white sauce. It tasted good though. Snook was dubious about the apple salad at first (mostly the Ryvita bits on the bottom), but I thought it was unusual and nicely crunchy. And stuffed apples always = YUM. We both rated this one a 9 out of 10.

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  • Amazing “yarnbombing”

    Amazing, beautiful, and breathtaking “yarnbombing”. See? It’s not all done by people using a trend to excuse their crappy technique.

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    Finally seeing HP:7! ($18 a ticket is RIDICULOUS.) (@ Hoyts) http://t.co/oRYoXaw

    @misswired I like him too. He’s our Dickens.

    @damjanov Looks like a Viewmaster slide, you know? Heightened reality.

    @misswired Yeah, but also our ephemera. The pop music and cars and nightmares and brands and mundanity that describes our time.

    @misswired @thelastressort I don’t think it’s the plots. I think it’s the characters, the small towns, the way we talk, the things we fear.

    RT @imdominating: SO MUCH AWESOME RT @NathanFillion: Twitter meltdown. @feliciaday, @edgarwright, Tony Head, and @simonpegg in Joss’ hou …

    @lemon_lime No, we just waited 6 weeks til all the annoying children had seen it and the theater was mostly empty.

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    Finally seeing HP:7! ($18 a ticket is RIDICULOUS.)

    Great run! No injury; nearly race pace. Happy.

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    Knitters Guild meeting. We appear to be locked out… (@ Surry Hills Library) http://t.co/vXbjduB

    Jamie’s Catherine Wheel Sausage, Horseradish Mash, Apple Salad, Gravy, & Stuffed Apples. YUM. http://t.co/LdUtF1S http://t.co/WXrNp6s

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    Knitters Guild meeting. We appear to be locked out…

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