On the To Do list: making Advokaat.
Webtender – evaporated milk, eggs, vodka, lemon, sugar, vanilla extract
Recipezaar – egg yolks, extra fine granulated sugar, vanilla extract, brandewijn (Dutch brandy)
eGullet – egg yolks, sugar, vanilla sugar, dutch brandy, water
Bigosbar – scroll down for: eggs, sugar, vanilla essence, vodka
A lot on my plate – egg yolks, sugar, evaporated milk, lemon juice, brandy
Brew Plus – scroll to end for: fine sugar, vanilla pod, water, egg yolks, vodka
In case you somehow missed the boingboing post, the astoundingly talented missmonster has created a really awesome werewolf costume. It’s really great, and while this is cool on its own, she also took a lot of pictures during the process and posted a killer instructable. I love making halloween costumes, so seeing how someone puts together something like this is really inspiring and great. Finally, check out missmonster’s werewolf journal for even more pictures and details.
Thanks for all the thoughts. We’re doing fine, for a little satellite explanation of the situation, see below:
It’s been a strange, horrible day. We’re safe and watching our city burn through the eyes of local news coverage. They’ve reported 300,000 people evacuated so far and the fires aren’t the least bit contained. San Diego is burning. My school is closed and will remain so at least through Tuesday (it’s Monday night, technically Tuesday morning as I write this) and Christy was off today as well. She compared it to a snow day: you don’t have to go to work but you also can’t really do anything. Our part of the city is remarkably normal; just quieter than usual as we all hunker down, stay off the highways, and avoid using cell phones while we watch TV. A short, twenty or thirty minute drive away, the Witch Creek fire blazes on. People are evacuating to Qualcomm Stadium, just down the road from us. The TV tells us the chaos is everywhere but other than the smell of smoke in the air most of today was just a normal, beautiful (if hazy) San Diego day. Only in the past few minutes have I seen the fire crest over mountains in the distance. At first it seemed a bright orange sunrise lighting up the horizon six hours too soon. Now it looks like lava coming down from a volcano or beacon fires lit in desperation.
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As per request, I recently embarked upon playing with the Rob Roy. This drink is very simple, pretty much the Manhattan of the scotch world. Now, I’ve made many a delightful Manhattan, and the proportions normally stay more or less the same. Unfortunately, with a Rob Roy, all such bets are off.
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This is another one of Christy’s special “sketches” made by putting oil pastels on top of india ink and then scratching down with a razer.
This is the first one she’s done that wasn’t about people. Instead, she took pictures of the lilies around our apartment complex through the winter, and then based the sketch on those. It’s pretty fun, and she knocked it out from scratch to finish this afternoon!
