Weekly Randomness for Friday, April 29, 2016

News that made me stop what I was doing to look it up.

• Sounds like I shouldn't feel guilty about donating those super-well worn old t-shirts.
• I've never thought about the idea that it's harder to think like an eighteenth century servant than we realize. 
• Access demands accountability. Food for thought: could it change the way we think about engaging in conflicts? 

Weekly Shits n' Giggles

• As if I needed another reason to visit Japan.
• Philosopher-turned-musician Boethius' "The Consolation of Philosophy"
• My Pinteresting Randomness

Weekend Aims

• hometown Earth Day cleanup and recycling: proceeds from recycling "any electronic item with a plug" will buy trees for the city! 
• More golf, if the weather holds (or at least warms up!)
• Possibly a movie: they're showing Purple Rain for $5 😊

Magnet Monday: Rosalind Franklin

Cheesy Refrigerator Magnet for Monday, April 25, 2016
"disney castle", painted 3D resin, 2011

Work with me on this one. 

This is National Princess Week. Yes, that's apparently a thing. Even Julie Andrews is in on it. We all know at least one Disney princess, so even if you can't tolerate the shameless merchandising that is modern Disney, at least think fondly of your favorite princesses. 

It's also National DNA Day. What do DNA and princesses have in common, you may ask? This magnet! 

In honor of Rosalind Franklin, one of our "rejected princesses*". Without her work in X-ray crystallography, Watson & Crick would never have gotten the credit for determining the molecular structure of DNA. 

This charmer was picked up by our own princess, on a high school choir trip. 

*Rejected Princesses: Women too Awesome, Awful, or Offbeat for Kids' Movies is updated Wednesdays and well worth checking out. 

Magnet Monday features a selection from our semi-vast and ever growing collection of cheesy refrigerator magnets. Without doubt the perfect souvenir. Only slightly less cheesy than collecting snow globes but a whole lot easier to smuggle in your bra. If need be. Which I hope it never is. Unless it's really worth it.

Weekly Randomness for Friday, April 22, 2016

Sometimes it snows in April

Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad

Sometimes I wish life was never ending,

And all good things, they say, never last

News that made me stop what I was doing to look it up.

• Another re-examination of old theories, and another lesson in humility to the data
• A presidential kind of graveyard

Weekly Shits n' Giggles

• Used to be foodie heaven was only during the growing season. Now it's year round if you know where to look. Here's the guide.  
• One-man-band, rather Seussian to me, don't you think?
• My Pinteresting Randomness

Weekend Aims

• Earth Day is our anniversary. Best gift? Go clean up something! 
• Speaking of anniversary, looks like Deadpool!
• Hitting the links for the first time if the weather holds. And hope I don't embarrass the sport...

Have you ever used: Plantain Fufu Flour

I take pictures when I go to the grocery store. That probably sounds odd. I take pictures to remind myself of foods I don't know how to use or would like to try somehow. Maybe that's still odd...

Anyway, I've been exploring alternate starch sources, and on one visit I found this: 

I had no idea what fufu flour is, or knew that you could make flour from plantain. Or maybe I never really thought about it, because now that I think about it, why couldn't you make a flour from dried plantain? It's starchy enough. 

Sources (i.e. Wikipedia) state that it's a traditionally West African food eaten mostly like a dumpling. The term fufu can refer to dumplings made from a number of flours, including plantain. It's often served with soups or stews, and I imagine it would be good alongside anything saucy. 

I found two recipes to start out with, this one seems more traditional, Plantain Pancakes completely not. I think I'll pick up a box next time I'm there and give it a whirl. 

Have you ever used plantain flour? 

Vegas Baby! Magnet Monday

Cheesy Refrigerator Magnet for Monday, April 18, 2016
"Las Vegas", painted vinyl in relief, circa early 2000's

In honor of friends who were married this past weekend in Vegas, by Elvis. 

Happiness and blessings my friends!

This was one of the first magnets in the collection, received from a friend who moved to Vegas and lived for a time (she's still living, just not there anymore...)


Magnet Monday features a selection from our semi-vast and ever growing collection of cheesy refrigerator magnets. Without doubt the perfect souvenir. Only slightly less cheesy than collecting snow globes but a whole lot easier to smuggle in your bra. If need be. Which I hope it never is. Unless it's really worth it.

Weekly Randomness for Friday, April 15, 2016

News that made me stop what I was doing to look it up.

• Everything old is new again. Again. 
• Beautiful, but you're still not building that by my back door
• We could wonder about a lot of leaders in history

Weekly Shits n' Giggles

• Interpretive jiggery-pokery (in honor of the late great himself. I'm inclined to think he would have found humor in ASSoL) 
• Best combination of fascinating and creepy
• Smell-ements... Clearly the authors never suffered the sulfurous after-effects of cabbage... 😜
• My Pinteresting Randomness

Weekend Aims

• Estate saling - for the thrifter in me
• A wee drive for eats at Oakfire
• Finally warm enough to spend some much-needed time on the yard!

Winter Omelet

Nothing beats cold weather like a big breakfast!

Asparagus*, mushroom & swiss cheese omelet with maple-linkies** alongside.

*Yes, I do recognize that asparagus is not technically winter food... but a girl can only go so long with something green on her plate!
Well, something that's supposed to be green. 

**We are hooked on Jones Dairy Farm sausage goods - must try if you can. It's a reason to stay in Wisconsin. Doesn't quite make up for the cold... comes close.

My apologies...

for the stale aroma hanging around here... 


We all get too busy, because life. 

Newness is on its way - thanks for stopping by today!