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May. 11th, 2010 08:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
figmentI hate facebook's privacy shenanigans more and more each day. Just went through and deleted all of my "connections" that it had automatically set up, and set every privacy setting I could find to the max. Not sure if I'm quite ready to abandon ship there entirely, but I don't want to give them any more of my life than I already have.
Twitter is fun, but does not give much content; that's part of the point.
As far as I know, livejournal has not committed any terrible unethical acts lately or sold my privacy to anyone... So maybe I will post a little more often here.
... [money, meet mouth]
The other night for our veggie burgers-and-salad dinner I made the buns from scratch, because I didn't want to buy them at the store, all full of preservatives and nastiness, and because I'd seen this recipe that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
xatharine had posted. I modified the recipe with 1 cup of wheat flour, olive oil instead of canola, and some fresh rosemary. Mmm. And yes, they really only take 40 minutes to make.
Last night, dinner was mjadra (Lebanese lentil pottage, I can give the recipe if anyone wants it, it's delicious & vegan) and salad. And I had to make something using the rhubarb we'd bought, so I made a crisp, and it was good. I didn't really use a recipe, so here's what I did:
Ingredients:
2 bunches of rhubarb, washed & chopped; maybe this was 3-4 cups?
1.5 bags of frozen strawberries
half a lemon's zest and juice (probably this was not necessary, but I had it on hand to use up)
1/2 C or more sugar
2 T honey
1-2 T cornstarch
1.5 cups oats
1/2 cup wheat flour
10 T butter (or butter-like substance, I used Earth Balance margarine)
1 C packed brown sugar
1/2 t salt
1/4 C walnuts
Preheat your oven to 375.
Put the rhubarb, strawberries, and lemon zest & juice in a rectangular casserole pan, the kind I always think of as a lasagna pan. You could use a smaller pan but my goal here was to use up lots of rhubarb.
Sprinkle sugar liberally over the top of the fruit. Remember rhubarb is very tart and you just added lemon juice to that. What were you thinking?
Add a drizzle of honey, because you heard that honey goes well with rhubarb. Mix it all up.
Sprinkle cornstarch over the top of the fruit, trying to make sure it doesn't land in big clumps on the fruit, but that by the time you're done, you have a pretty significant dusting of the stuff.
Mix everything together until you can't see white from the cornstarch any more.
In a separate bowl, mix the oats, flour, brown sugar, and salt. Add the butter, chopped into small pieces, and cut it in using a pastry cutter (if you have one, which I don't) or two knives, until it looks blended. At the last minute, add the walnuts, because walnuts are yummy.
Sprinkle the oat mixture on top of the fruit. It should cover the top fairly well.
Bake at 375 for 50 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes. Yum!
...
On another making-stuff note, I'm going to try to learn how to sew using LEDs and other electrical stuff. I think this will involve a trip to a Radio Shack, an order from SuperBrightLEDs or some such, some help from friends, and possibly a lot of patience. But I have a vision for a dress that I'm really excited about!
...
Today I feel unreasonably tired. The coffee has not done enough. I blame the rainy weather that makes me want to nap all day.
How are you, lj? Made anything good lately?
Twitter is fun, but does not give much content; that's part of the point.
As far as I know, livejournal has not committed any terrible unethical acts lately or sold my privacy to anyone... So maybe I will post a little more often here.
... [money, meet mouth]
The other night for our veggie burgers-and-salad dinner I made the buns from scratch, because I didn't want to buy them at the store, all full of preservatives and nastiness, and because I'd seen this recipe that
xatharine had posted. I modified the recipe with 1 cup of wheat flour, olive oil instead of canola, and some fresh rosemary. Mmm. And yes, they really only take 40 minutes to make.Last night, dinner was mjadra (Lebanese lentil pottage, I can give the recipe if anyone wants it, it's delicious & vegan) and salad. And I had to make something using the rhubarb we'd bought, so I made a crisp, and it was good. I didn't really use a recipe, so here's what I did:
Ingredients:
2 bunches of rhubarb, washed & chopped; maybe this was 3-4 cups?
1.5 bags of frozen strawberries
half a lemon's zest and juice (probably this was not necessary, but I had it on hand to use up)
1/2 C or more sugar
2 T honey
1-2 T cornstarch
1.5 cups oats
1/2 cup wheat flour
10 T butter (or butter-like substance, I used Earth Balance margarine)
1 C packed brown sugar
1/2 t salt
1/4 C walnuts
Preheat your oven to 375.
Put the rhubarb, strawberries, and lemon zest & juice in a rectangular casserole pan, the kind I always think of as a lasagna pan. You could use a smaller pan but my goal here was to use up lots of rhubarb.
Sprinkle sugar liberally over the top of the fruit. Remember rhubarb is very tart and you just added lemon juice to that. What were you thinking?
Add a drizzle of honey, because you heard that honey goes well with rhubarb. Mix it all up.
Sprinkle cornstarch over the top of the fruit, trying to make sure it doesn't land in big clumps on the fruit, but that by the time you're done, you have a pretty significant dusting of the stuff.
Mix everything together until you can't see white from the cornstarch any more.
In a separate bowl, mix the oats, flour, brown sugar, and salt. Add the butter, chopped into small pieces, and cut it in using a pastry cutter (if you have one, which I don't) or two knives, until it looks blended. At the last minute, add the walnuts, because walnuts are yummy.
Sprinkle the oat mixture on top of the fruit. It should cover the top fairly well.
Bake at 375 for 50 minutes. Allow to cool for 10 minutes. Yum!
...
On another making-stuff note, I'm going to try to learn how to sew using LEDs and other electrical stuff. I think this will involve a trip to a Radio Shack, an order from SuperBrightLEDs or some such, some help from friends, and possibly a lot of patience. But I have a vision for a dress that I'm really excited about!
...
Today I feel unreasonably tired. The coffee has not done enough. I blame the rainy weather that makes me want to nap all day.
How are you, lj? Made anything good lately?