Herbs, food, and things pt 2

I'm sure you spent the last few hours incessantly refreshing the blog for the conclusion to the riveting Herbs Food and Things cliffhanger. Well Reader, thanks to boredom and chronic insomnia you're prayers have been answered. Take a deep breath and feast your eyes on the foraged delectables below.




Dandelion lead tincture
Dandelion root vinegar
Bitter greens grilled cheese (dandelion and bittersweet)




Herb infused honey
Thyme
Thyme and rosemary
Lavender
Saffron and cardamom
Rosemary
Lemon and ginger




Batter-fried dandelion blossoms




Spruce beer (alcoholic...tasty) and Spruce beer (soda...completely undrinkable)




Fresh picked nettle
Nettle tincture
Dried nettle (tea)
Handmade nettle and a reverse pesto (cream reduction w/sundried tomatoes, toasted pine nuts, garlic, and nutmeg)

Ahhh so that pretty much covers my social life for the past three months. I want to keep a record of the awesome shit I create, so when I'm having a loser moment I can have visual proof of some of the amazing things I create, and remind myself that I'm pretty darn great.

Random thoughts:
I wish I had a eccentric adventurous companion who'd be willing to take a road trip to the nudist camp in VT. Points if said companion's hot.

Beautiful Creatures is a terrible movie. No, Twilight is a terrible movie. Beautiful creatures is abysmal. The fact that it boasts four Oscar winners is mind-boggling.


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Herbs, food and things pt 1

I'm in the middle of a 9 month herbal mentorship with Margi Flint of Marblehead. Below is a pictorial account of my adventures in herbs, cooking, and general awesomeness in the kitchen.




Oscar party: Fig and juniper pizza, porcini shortbread, nettle party dip, and chamomile liquor




porcini cookies




Chamomile liquor




Leaf litter caramel (leaf litter: decayed leaves found on the forest floor in the dead of winter)




Pine and black pepper gingerbread

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Location:Train Station--trying to look important on my cellphone.

It's been awhile

Why hello Reader, it's been a long time, three years if memory serves. I've abandoned you for a new love, who I affectionally call Twitter. She's low maintenance, easy, and discreet. She has listened with rapt attention as I described countless trips to Dunkin Donuts, she's introduced me to underused internet slang such as 'Epic' 'Rachet' and 'SMH'. I've taken her on numerous adventures nationally and abroad, and she's stood by me during my lows, of which there have been many, but alas that wasn't enough dear Reader. I wanted more....and along came Facebook.

Facebook is everything Twitter isn't. She's in your face, overbearing, and tacky. She's the girl who drinks too much at parties, rocks big hair, heavy eyeliner eyeshadow and a full set of acrylic squared-off Jersey nails, and won't shut the hell up. Why keep Dunkin Donuts rants to 140 character minimum, when you can flesh it out to an entire paragraph, include a picture, and have people 'like' and support your mediocrity. The perfect companion...or so I thought. It became too much, Reader. The hourly updates on the conditions of a 'friend's' uterus, the pressure to 'like' someone's relationship status...I had to leave.

And so I'm back. It's just you and me forever my Love.


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Location:On my couch

Who's a Bitch?

She's A B**** At The Movies

Love this.... 

New Years Resolutions (Part 2)

As you know, I'm not normally a big holiday person, but that being said I LIVE for Jan 1st. I love the idea of setting goals and starting fresh. So I began the year with one goal, to quit my job. Then some latent Type A crazy took over and my one goal turned into a chronological 3 page outline, complete with a scheduled amount of time and money will dedicate to each goal and 2 pipe dream business proposals.

Crazy? No little voice in my head, i prefer to call it driven...yeah, driven.

Four (out of about 60) goals have already been put into motion.

1) I quit my job. It was a long time coming, but life's too short to be miserable.

2) I bought the website www.joelovesmarycherry.com--more on that to come.

3) I'm quitting smoking. "I've smoked from 13-22 then picked it up again last year. Now I'm down to 1 cig a week.

4) Back to working out/dieting on a regular basis.

F-you, F-you, F-you...Your Cool, F-you, I'm out!!

I'm quitting my job on Friday. I could go into details, but I won't--ok, ok don't beg or twist my arm or anythnig. Lets just say...

1)I'm not, nor will I ever be a sales person

2) I will not allow myself to be crapped on. Especially by management.

So I drafted a mock goodbye letter to my buddy a few weeks ago, and i'm itching to send it to everyone the company. Because I need half way decent references...and I'm a big chicken, I'll send it to you, Reader insead.

Hello Fellow Ba****ers.

It's been a long and difficult struggle working here day after day, with little to no commission. Even harder to see people come in and make assignments in 3 months or less. But alas, water under the bridge. I will be moving on to greener pastures, those pastures can be found in **Singapore/southern France where i will be residing for a month or more, living the post college dream. So please think of me as you book your next assignement, as I will never ever think of any of you again.

Fuck you,

Angie

**When I wrote this I was going to tag a long with my boyfriend on one of his business trips., and leave directly from Barton to an exotic local. Needless to say that's not going to happen, even if we could afford it.

New Year's Resolutions (Part 1)

Thing's I will Never Do

By Mae West

(Undated)

1. Take another woman's man. Not intentionally, that is. Even thought all;s fair in love and war and it ain't no sin.

2. Try to be anyting but myself at all times, publicly and privately, except on the stage or screen, for that's where acting belongs.

3. Cook, bake, sew, wash dishes, peel potatoes, eat onions, or bite my nails.

4. Wear white cotton stockings or join a nudist colony.

5. Like opera, number thirteen, yodelling, cold spaghetti, rats, snails, men who shave their necks, or over-ripe banana's.

6. Care for people who whistle in dressing rooms or checks that bounce as high a the stratosphere.

7. Play mother parts, sad parts, dumb parts, or a virtuous wife, betrayed or otherwise. I pity weak women, good or bad, but I can't like them. A woman should be strong either in her goodness or badness.

8. Go nuts about classical music, sandwiches, cigar smoke, places that smell like hospitals, and black nail polish.

9. Get excited over night clubs, contract bridge, fan dancing, bobby sox, the stock market, badminton, or bust developers.

10. Be thrilled to death by orchids, anonymous love letters, souvenir postcard folders, earthquakes, slave bracelets, or beds with hard mattresses.

11. Be bothered by Scotch money-lenders or boys who lisp.

12. Believe the worst about anybody without complete proof nor will I believe that it's useless to struggle against so-called Fate-the phony!

13. Walk when I can sit, or sit when i can recline. I believe in saving my energy - for important things.

14. Write a story that is unsophisticated, because I believe that innocence is as innocent doesn't.

15. Marry a man who is too handsome, a man who drinks to excess or doesn't carry his liquor like a gentleman,, a man who is easy to get, easily led into temptation-unless I do the leading.

As printed in Mae West "it ain't no sin" by Simon Louvish