mon petit déjeuner préféré (croissant au abricot) (Taken with Instagram at Le Panier)
That is a lot of diacritical marks for 1 little croissant.
GPOYW: Dr. T.J. Eckleburg Edition (Taken with instagram)
Sunday afternoon. (Taken with Instagram at IAD - Concourse C)
My first Steelers game. Here we go. :D
Special order. (Taken with Instagram at Iron Horse Tap Room)
Sunday afternoon in the air. (Taken with instagram)
C’est si bon. (Taken with Instagram at Watson Kennedy)
Today’s Polaroid theme: close-up filter. (Taken with instagram)
Back in Bellevue with Super Stoked (Cherry) Vodka Coke. (Taken with instagram)
Progress: 10 down, 30 to go (list)
Which: Persuasion, Jane Austen
The shortest read time (2 days) and the first saw-the-movie-first of 2011. I’ve seen parts of the Shouty Rochester¹ version, but it’s the 2007 BBC version (see also…) which is fixed in my brain. And I’ve seen it enough that reading the book turned into a series of, “oh, I see what they did there with that bit” and “hey! I thought Benwick said that!”
Parts of Persuasion which are great:
- character histories bubbling up via conversation and not info dumps
- Anne Elliot
- second chances that are a teensy bit contrived, yet fully earned
- the book-long reminder to be aware of whose advice you take and why
- Wentworth’s letter (are you kidding me? eek!)
Parts of Persuasion which could do with a punch to the throat:
- Sir Walter Elliot. DISLIKE
So, y’know: will read again. (:
¹ Shouty Rochester = Ciarán Hinds as Rochester in the. most. wretched. Jane Eyre adaptation I’ve seen. There is no humor in his Rochester, not to mention Samantha Morton’s smug (?!) Jane (with too little spine), and so their relationship comes over as mostly abusive and gross.
Tembo trunks! #unintentionallymeta (Taken with instagram)
GPOYW Except It’s Deathly Hallows Thursday and Of Course I Have This Shirt Edition. (Taken with instagram)
First batch of Instagram PostalPix: I like em. Now I must add EXIF-ish info to the backs, as is my (slightly OCD) wont.
I love manchego cheese. I love strawberries. And thirdly, I do so love baguette.
A couple of weeks ago, I got the harebrained idea to try mandarin preserves and strawberries on baguette and it was delicious. I decided I should try more things with strawberries since they’re in season, I saw the bit of manchego in my fridge and that was all she wrote!
- sliced baguette
- extra virgin olive oil
- basil, chopped (chiffonade!)
- manchego cheese
- a few strawberries, sliced
- cracked pepper
You’re wondering about the apples, I’ll get to that in a moment.
Set your oven to 375° and while that heats up (mine takes nearly an ice age, but this prep takes less than 5 minutes), slice up the baguette (8 slices made for a solid dinner) and brush with a bit of extra virgin olive oil.
Slice up the basil and manchego. I recommend putting the manchego on top of the basil; it’ll melt over the basil and into the bread, so the basil won’t go slip-sliding everywhere when you bite into the fruit.
Pop the slices on to a baking sheet and into the oven for 5 minutes. Slice your strawberries (not super thin).
After 5 minutes, pull the toast, and top with the strawberries. Return the toast to the oven for another 5 minutes.
Pull the toast, plate it, grind some pepper over the slices: EAT. (:
Alternate: instead of strawberries, try granny smith apples and jamón serrano (or ibérico). Whoa.
