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Foto Friday: words in pictures 8 August 2008 10:21 am

Posted by Tracy in : geekery, good news, events, travel, pictures, meta, news, friends , add a comment

Wordle is a shiny applet that takes a big list of words and arranges them into a pretty collage-thing based in part on the frequency words appear (users can mess with the fonts and colors and tweak layouts). It’s a fascinating game, and yesterday I spent a very long time giving it all the tags I’ve ever used on TracyFood posts, with the following result (finally saved a few minutes ago, after lots and lots of the aforementioned tweaking):

Click through for a larger version; I think it’s pretty awesome. But another awesome thing happened yesterday, (more…)

(Late) Monkey Monday: many goodbyes edition. 5 August 2008 11:56 pm

Posted by Tracy in : pictures, garden, weird, work, Morning Glory, people, eugene, friends , add a comment

I’m posting this super-late on Tuesday, the day of my last Morning Glory paycheck. Last Wednesday was my last day at work, and it was a good one, and I don’t really know what else to say about it. Instead, I will try to write about my time at the café in more general (and even more glowing) terms…. but not today. (more…)

Recipe: Cheddar-Scallion Drop Biscuits 22 July 2008 8:11 am

Posted by Tracy in : baking, America's Test Kitchen, cheese, recipes, vegetarian, friends , 3 comments

Fun fact! Scallions are green onions; it’s just another one of those East Coast-West Coast dialect differences, or that’s what I learned from this nifty guide to the allium family on Culinate. Drop biscuits are a fun and easy variation on classic buttermilk biscuits, which I have only fairly recently learned to appreciate. This post is for Mom and Dad Boothe, who gave me the subscription to Cook’s Illustrated which brought me the recipe that produced the biscuits that were so delicious last Monday (as well as a different recipe, which convinced me that biscuits were worth eating at all). Here’s hoping good recipe-sharing karma spills over into our apartment-hunting these next few days! (This post was written early Tuesday morning and scheduled for automatic posting some time during our flights to NYC; I hope it worked.) (more…)

Monkey Monday: sugar high edition (with pictures!) 16 June 2008 9:48 am

Posted by Tracy in : family, pictures, baking, dessert, friends , 1 comment so far

So Piett and Jen’s visit provided me with an opportunity to use up some of the ridiculous overstock in our pantry, which quickly turned into an excuse to make what Peter and I refer to as “a big, dumb dessert” — in this case, white cake with strawberry-almond filling and buttery white frosting:

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Friday FAIL: in which I am a lousy 1930s spouse. 6 June 2008 4:33 pm

Posted by Tracy in : silly, random, weird, feminism, friends , 2 comments

First, I know no one is surprised. Second, I swear this is almost relevant: there’s lots of questions about food and eating. Finally, full disclosure: I left blank all the questions about wife and/or husband treatment, as I have neither. I should maybe go back and pretend all those questions say “partner” but honestly, I think I’ve wasted enough time on this already.