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Hedgehog1532




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Graduate from university
Back on track! 2 months ago

I am actually finishing a semester successfully. It’s taken me some time to figure out how to be independent and work and go to school full time and all that. I think I am finally back to my old schooly self (after 2 sucky semesters of scraping by). I am adding an extra semester to allow myself some breathing room. December 2009 is my graduation goal now. Huzzah!

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Read all the books in my "must read" pile
Does anyone else have the habit of reading many books at once? 2 months ago

So I did actually finish reading Dune this week (I really enjoyed it). But I still have 2 Steven King books that I am half way through reading, and yesterday alone I started reading 2(!) more books from my stack (Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and I Am Legend) and began eyeing up a third (Cider House Rules). I lent my copy of Frankenstein to a friend, but that’s another I’m half through. I’m sure what will end up happening is that I’ll cave and go out and buy the next book in the Dune series and begin reading that. ::sigh:: At least with the semester over I will have time to read.

Admittedly this goal is tricky since “must read” piles tend to grow to keep up with items read.

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In charge of dessert. 6 months ago

Tonight we had holiday dinner with my boyfriends parents. They brought ham and creamed spinach which we cooked together along with glazed carrots and mashed potatos. Since they were bringing dinner I said I’d take care of dessert. I decided to bring out an oldie, but a goodie: creme brulee.
I hadn’t made creme brulee in at least a year and I used a recipe for it that I hadn’t used in even longer. I also wanted to include some fresh fruit, but as this is not really the season, I ended up with some red anjou pears which looked best and decided to figure out how to incorperate them later.
I made the custards last night and the recipe came out nicely, though it yields only 4 servings, not the usual 6.

As for the pears I decided I wanted to do something carmelly with them and found a simple method online. OH man, the texture of the pears with the custard was awesome. And the pears could be easliy paired with vanilla ice cream for a quick, elegant dessert.

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