Gobble, Gobble!!!!

Wishing you and yours a tasty and Happy Thanksgiving!  I might be a little too excited to consume copious amounts of The Gravy.

Would it be wrong to put it in a mug and slurp it through a straw?

Peace, Love & Gravy . . . er, Turkey.

Things I Covet: Nerd Alert

I'm not a big fan of perfume - it would be fair to say I hate it.  It makes me sneeze.  My eyes water - I tend to look like someone hit me in the face.  It's bad.  And not all together attractive. 

All that being said, I think I may have to order some of this:

Perfume that smells like my favorite place on earth - uh, what? 

Read the blurb from Shelf Awareness about "In the Library" - The most popular scent in perfumer Christopher Brosius's "I Hate Perfume" collection is "In the Library," which smells like old, dusty books. "My work is really about things that really do smell wonderful, but don't have a lot of the properties that commercial perfumes do," he said. NPR's All Things Considered noted that Brosius "blends and bottles all of his scents by hand in his workshops. The process may be labor-intensive, but it allows him to create singular scents that can't be mass-produced."

I need a bottle of this - stat.  Not sure what it says about me that I want to smell like old books; now if Brosius made a perfume that smelled like a freshly sharpened Mirado Classic #2 pencil . . . swoon.

Things I Covet: Sexy Beast

This mixer right here . . . this mixer is a sexy beast of a machine.  It's the Ferrari 308 GTS of kitchen appliances (FYI - a Ferrari 308 GTS is the car Tom Selleck drove in Magnum PI). 

Nail polish finish.  Candy apple red (yowza!).  Traffic stopping.  Beautiful glass bowl.

I swoon.

Me thinks I need this mixer.  It would bring me endless amounts of joy.

And cookies.

There would be lots and lots of cookies.

Wanderlust

wan·der·lust (noun)A strong desire to travel. 

Example: "I am a woman consumed by wanderlust."

I'm itching to travel and experience other cultures. 

To get lost in a cacophony of strange languages & fumble with strange currency. 

To LIVE. 

I have a bit of trivia for you. 

Did you know you could fly to Europe for less than you can fly to D.C.? 

It's true.

I swear on my pocket sized German dictionary.

Now if you'll excuse me . . .

I am going to go price stalk Lufthansa, KLM and Air France flights.

Edna Mae's Doctored Up Applesauce

My glorious grandmother, aka Edna Mae, makes the world's best cheater applesauce. 

Only, you wouldn't know it was cheater applesauce.  

Unless you do like I do, and ask for the recipe.

To which Edna Mae laughs in an oh, so particular way.  

A way letting you know that the "recipe", isn't really a recipe.

But more of a cooking gesture.

Edna Mae's Doctored Up Applesauce

Ingredients:

1/2 cup packed brown sugar

1 teaspoon lemon juice

cinnamon

nutmeg

46 ounce jar of natural, unsweetened applesauce (I ♥ Musslemans)

Directions:

1.  Dump the jar of applesauce into a pan.

2.  Slowly heat, adding the brown sugar and the cinnamon and nutmeg to taste.

3.  After the applesauce is warm, remove from heat.  When it's completely cool add a teaspoon of lemon juice, stirring well.

4.  Dump it back into the jar you bought it in and stash in the fridge to devour later.