Happy Waitangi Day!

This is an interesting sounding name and it is a national holiday from New Zealand. To celebrate, I cooked up some New Zealand lamb rib chops and tried my hand at their "national dessert":  a meringue cake called pavlova.  I like instructional recipes like this one, where we learn the science behind the cooking.  (Which is why I was always a fan of Alton Brown's Good Eats.)  I can say for sure that my technique on baking pavlova needs much improvement, though the end result still tasted very nice.

Remember to celebrate these holidays FTVTL with a little extra zest.  Oh yeah, just  a reminder, we already celebrated the very last Christmas, in 2011.  Not trying to be a killjoy...

BOGO Cobbler

I bought some BOGO blueberries from the supermarket -- hey, it's summer in Chile! Thank goodness for the global marketplace.

I used most of them in this attempt a cooking a blueberry cobbler. It came out tasting delicious, but more gooey than I would have expected a cobbler. I think I'll wait for the summer to try a different recipe so that I can use fresh farm blueberries from Wales.

(January 25)

My sister pointed me in the direction of the page-a-day Doomsday Calendar, and I ordered a copy -- can't wait to share with the blog!

Drops from My 2012 Bucket: Jan. 26, 330 days remaining

Made a credit card payment!

Debt Mission Update: 1 / 11 payments = 9%

Sinfully delicious

Today is Friday the 13th, the first of three Friday the 13ths for the year. I saw a rainbow today; how messed up is that?

I think my company's code repository is trying to tell me something.

So, I decided to cook Shrimp Fra Diavolo (alla Giada) and it came out sinfully delicious. Served on top of Angel hair pasta :-)

If you need some divine inspiration after reading this post, try Tebowie.