What's making you happy today?

[DanaC]

I just did three speedtests and got 0.46 mbps!!!!

[Clodfobble]

I'm in the home stretch. I made it through today, I can make it through 12 more like it.

Just two more insanely hectic weeks with the stepkids, then a week with a big ol' blissful nothing to do--no camps, no drivers ed, no packing lunches, no nothing--and then school starts. Hallelujah.

[glatt]

[orthodoc]

Too funny. That's always been one of my favorite commercials.

[Sundae]

Originally Posted by Lola Bunny

Now I want to know how deliously decadent Sundae chocolate taste like. Girl, can you kindly share the recipe? Thank you!

Original post is here.
Recipe is here - UK measurements, sorry.
I read pretty much all the comments the first time I made it, because it is a financial commitment, as opposed to making a carrot cake or a coffee (flavour) and walnut cake. So I tweaked it according to my needs.

If you make, please post a photo, as I know yours will look far more beautifuller than mine. You have such exquisite attention to detail.

[Lola Bunny]

Thank you for reposting the recipe and thank you for not scolding me for being lazy to look your original post.

[Clodfobble]

Oooh!

Today I learned about a canned coconut milk that truly contains no additives, meaning my kids can eat it and I don't have to hack apart my own damn coconuts to get coconut milk for recipes.

It's the little things.

[BigV]

you say coconut milk, and I immediately think "curry"; the very epitome of something with the opposite of minimum ingredients.

[Clodfobble]

Your impression does not necessarily reflect reality, though.


Ingredients in a common curry blend:

Cumin seeds
Cardamom seeds
Coriander seeds
Turmeric
Dry mustard
Cayenne

Plus meat, rice, coconut milk, and say another 4 for veggies... equals 13.

Ingredients in Mrs. Baird's white bread:

WHEAT FLOUR
MALTED BARLEY FLOUR
NIACIN
REDUCED IRON
THIAMINE MONONITRATE (VITAMIN B1)
RIBOFLAVIN (VITAMIN B2)
FOLIC ACID
WATER
HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP
YEAST
SALT
SOYBEAN OIL
CALCIUM PROPIONATE (PRESERVATIVE)
MONOGLYCERIDES
DATEM
CALCIUM SULFATE
CITRIC ACID
SOY LECITHIN
POTASSIUM IODATE
SOY FLOUR

Equals 20, not even counting the stuff you were gonna put on the sandwich. In fairness, 5 of those are vitamins required by law, but a curry still comes out with fewer.

[Sundae]

I'm with Big V in that a curry from scratch uses the most ingredients of anything I cook at home.

I don't put all that rubbish in bread when I make it.

[orthodoc]

I'm very happy and proud tonight because my oldest son completed his first century ride today in the Bike to the Beach charity ride for Autism Speaks. My son has Asperger's Syndrome and is an attorney with the USPTO. He's been involved in road biking for a number of years.

My son volunteers with a school that has a large population of disadvantaged immigrant children. He teaches them math and science and provides a male role model for children in 3rd to 5th grade. Two days ago he was one of the staff members on a school trip to Six Flags (!) - and survived to tell the tale. It sounds too patronizing and motherish to say that I'm proud of him. I am just filled with joy and admiration that he has taken time from a new and stressful job situation to do things that have been difficult in the past, and that are so important to others.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by orthodoc

I'm very happy and proud tonight because my oldest son completed his first century ride today in the Bike to the Beach charity ride for Autism Speaks. My son has Asperger's Syndrome and is an attorney with the USPTO. He's been involved in road biking for a number of years.

My son volunteers with a school that has a large population of disadvantaged immigrant children. He teaches them math and science and provides a male role model for children in 3rd to 5th grade. Two days ago he was one of the staff members on a school trip to Six Flags (!) - and survived to tell the tale. It sounds too patronizing and motherish to say that I'm proud of him. I am just filled with joy and admiration that he has taken time from a new and stressful job situation to do things that have been difficult in the past, and that are so important to others.

Awesome. But: not patronising to be proud of your son for anything. And nowt wrong with 'motherish'.

[Lamplighter]

I'm very happy and proud tonight because my oldest son ...

One of the very best feelings in the whole world !
. It is to be remembered in the darker times.

[Sundae]

Yay for your son, Ortho.
Parents are allowed to be proud of their children's achievements.

I'm happy because Mum is very happy with me at the moment:

Partly because I've been training and I know she worries and frets when I'm not working, as well as being fed up with having me underfoot. I've not been very helpful with housework during the heatwave either; both of us are just too hot to do anything useful after about 10.00.

Partly because she knows I am working. It turns out I am on a steep learning curve and she appreciates that; she can tell her friends I am not just stacking shelves.

And partly because I am bringing home yummy food
She was so diasppointed today because I was Rotisserie training (stand-by for photos of burns after 08/08 when our strore opens) because she was really hoping for some chicken. Cheeky mare, we didn't even get to taste it. She loved the filled baguettes I brought home last night.

Oh and she has decided not to take Wolf's Chocolate Banana Bread out of the freezer.
Tony and Eileen are coming in a fortnight and she wants to save it for them.
I was gratified she didn't want her own recipe Banana Bread frozen - she just wanted to plough through it.
But I'm equally gratified that she wants to save Wolf's recipe loaf for company, having sampled it. 'Tis obviously the good stuff.

[Sundae]

An addendum to my moany post about my new employers (Mildly Irritated thread) yesterday.
I had my first day training in my actual, real, proper branch today.
There are glitches, but I was happy to be there and felt really fired up.

I can't say I won't be moaning again when I come home on Wednesday (08.00-18.00?! OMG!) but I am excited for the store opening on Thursday.

Helped set up the Meat & Fish counters today.
I got halfway through and experienced the feeling of being overwhelmed, that it could never be finished ever and I didn't know what I was doing.
This is the point in moving house where I sit on the floor and cry.
But I was working with Raj who has years of branch experience, is a Meat & Fish Specialist (and very proud of her counters) and as well as transferring to Aylesbury she has voluntarily seconded to four other branch openings.

So I kept it buttoned because I didn't want to sound too negative and the feeling passed.
I was in safe hands.

I'm not working tomorrow and am almost a little disappointed.
Because Raj has the Meat & Fish counters looking organised, even if everything still needs to be wiped and washed and wiped again.
Whereas we didn't touch Deli at all.
The girls will do it in my absence tomorrow.

Back Weds for set-up and more Rotisserie training.
And tasting