I'm doing 37 things
Who would have thought that corn and black bean soup could be so good? This one’s a keeper!
fiddlestix80's Life List
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1. Not let the things I can't do get in the way of the things I can.
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2. Learn to play ukulele well enough that I can transpose songs by ear.
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3. Become more knowledgeable about immigration and refugee issues/policy.
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4. Not allow past failures or perceived shortcomings to determine my present or my future.
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5. Go up in a space shuttle, squirt orange juice into a big floating blob, and drink it through a straw.
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6. Stay connected with old friends.
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7. Only eat the desserts that I really, truly enjoy.
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8. Discover the perfect recipe for double chocolate chip cookies.
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9. Write a book that other people will want to stay up all night reading.
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10. Become an eccentric old lady. Live life like Mrs. Pollifax.
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11. Take part in a mystery weekend at an old mansion or on a train.
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12. On my 80th birthday, go skydiving for the first time.
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13. Find a Chinese restaurant that has the really good crispy noodles instead of the mush I usually get when I order chao mian.
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14. Quit my muggle job and get back to a life I can recognize myself in.
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15. Wear a hoop skirt just once, and figure out how they used to manage normal things like walking through doorways and sitting in chairs.
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16. Write a letter to my nephew on his first birthday.
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17. Take climbing lessons.
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18. Go hang gliding and find out what it would be like to fly.
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19. Try out 43 new recipes...again!
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20. Ride on a zip line.
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21. Raise my future children to be healthy, balanced people who know they are loved and who face the world with integrity and compassion.
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22. Go on a photo safari and see lions, giraffes, and elephants in their natural habitat.
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23. Go to Mongolia, learn to play the morin huur, spend a night in a yurt, and find out if fermented horse's milk tastes as awful as it sounds.
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24. Learn to sing like Ella Fitzgerald.
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25. Learn to play the spoons.
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26. Learn to play "Blue Skies" on the ukulele.
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27. Work my way through Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream recipe book one delicious recipe at a time.
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28. Settle on just one foreign language and learn to speak it fluently.
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29. Make raisin and cardamom ice cream.
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30. Ride a camel.
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31. Imagine what a happy future could look like.
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32. Cook something with real vanilla beans.
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33. Learn more about Byzantine art and iconography.
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34. Learn more about Turkish music.
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35. Learn to play the saz.
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36. Remind myself that the world is bigger than the tiny corner of it that I see every day.
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37. find a hairdresser who actually knows how to cut curly hair
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Recent entries
It started out as an entry on my 43 things. I read a book, but then one book wasn’t enough. Now it’s turned into applications for PhD programs. So I guess it will be a long time before I finish this goal!
I made double chocolate cookies and divided the dough into 4ths. I left one portion as plain chocolate. The other 3 portions were experiments with spices—one had 1/4 tsp of cayenne, one had 1/4 tsp of cinnamon, and one had 1/4 tsp of curry. After baking, I decided none of the flavors were strong enough. So I tried again, this time adding a square of melted baking chocolate to my recipe. I doubled the amount of the spices in the spice portions. I also added a little cinnamon to the cayenne cookies in an attempt to replicate the flavor of Jeni’s Queen City Cayenne ice cream.
The results? Stay tuned until after baking…
And the results are in. These cookies are all much tastier with more potent spices. The chocolate cinnamon ones are particularly good. And the cayenne/cinnamon ones taste just like the Jeni’s ice cream flavor!
