who knew i’d ever enjoy the company of a cat that much!
i made poached pears today. i keep forgetting to buy an orange to experiment with this, but essentially its 3 simple steps:
1. peel and core the pears while…
2. half a cup of sugar, 2 cups red wine, 1 cup water (more wine?), 3-5 cloves are coming to a simmer
3. simmer pears in liquid until desired consistency and color reached with lid on
(4 optional: to get a thick sauce to pour over the pears, simmer half the time with the lid off. or something like that. i just wing it, and it works.)
tasty, easy, and little effort, other than the peeling and coring, but i can live with that for the high class style of eating a poached pear off a tiny white plate.
Lawrence is doing well. cuddling on the couch is normal, he is sleeping ON the couch now, has a favorite chair (director’s chair), and rubs up against our legs regularly. he still bites and scratches in play, which makes me look like i climbed over chicken wire. but its a small sacrifice to waking up to a cat nuzzling at your chest!
also, i got an ear infection day before my first exam. i’m not really considering it luck as its (a) hassle (b) an extra exam to write at the end of the year, ruining my brilliant plan of having 3 exams per semester and graduating with 8 half credits (due to a full year movie course).
is the desired color of a poached pear… black?
noooo
its a really pleasant reddish pink. since i was simmering mine down for a while they came out red-wine color
but i didn’t like how it came out in contrast to the surroundings.
Your hands probably look like mine, then. Forearms…..well not so much. WE SHOULD LIKE POST PICTURES OF OUR INJURIES LOL. At school, some people even asked me if i was a cutter, to which I replied with a chuckle and “nope, I have an iguana.” That immediately changed them from concerned to OMG KAWAII KEKE.
Speaking of peach…..I’ve wanted to ask you this but I kept forgetting. What was that peach wine that your father let me try? I told my parents about it recently and they were like “peach wine wtf?”
haha
that’s russian gangsta wine, a.k.a bottle it yourself type. i’m sure that if you go to a local wine store they will have some kind of interesting non grape wines.
voila:
http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/reques26.asp
and here is a description of a peach wine from NYC:
http://eastcoastwineries.blogspot.com/2006/03/chateau-renaissance-peach-wine.html
you people suck, that pear photo is genius and will win me pulitzer, oscar, and nobel prizes combined.
;)
Oh, THAT is a peach? =P