the holiday season is KILLING me. first of all I want to bake everything in sight and also make lots of festive drinks. all my other cooking-inclined friends are in the same situation, though, so there's no one to give any baked things to who actually wants MORE of them.

oh also I'm trying to get back into shape when every weekend between now and the new year is booked up with some sort of function that is framed in gluttony. this seems like it might be difficult! so instead of baking things I'm just going to make a list of things I'd like to bake and then if you want anything on the list you can tell me and I'll make it. you just have to be willing to keep me away from it!

Things I will make you:

homemade marshmallows

smores bars

rolo cookies

chinese milk bread

crack pie

spinach cheese dip

turkish delight

butter caramels

korean tacos (I need to find the right pepper paste)

sour cherry brownies

that ridiculous stuffed pumpkin/squash from dorie greenspan

southwestern rangoons (this is a recipe I'm developing)

tarte normande (basically apples in frangipane)

profiteroles

that's all I can remember right now, but I know this list is WAY more huge.

sooooo.... I just realized...

that my desk is the trapped dinner corner. this week is pretty much one of the weeks that happens every month or so when I work 16 hour days and don't sleep well and never leave my desk chair. right now my desk has papers strewn about two giant coffee mugs, and random tupperware that was formerly full of random food items that didn't go together.

now, truth be told, I could have avoided some of this by actually not procrastinating, but that's never been how I operate, and my brain didn't seem to want to turn over a new leaf now. the longer the week goes on the more frantic things will get, but it has to be done by friday, and once it's done then I intend to have a spectacular weekend.

but yeah... I am literally trapped in breakfast lunch and dinner corner this week. it's no good.

why so hot, outside?

as much as I love summer I feel that it's time for it to end. this is not to say that I want winter. I just want it to be cool enough for me to not sweat out my bangs. right now it's the sort of hot that is the counterpart to the cold in winter that makes you only want to venture out of the house once at most. I've made my trip for the day.

Basically if it's not the rain keeping me inside right now, it's the sun and unrelenting heat.

but this weekend is labor day-- a symbolic end to the summer if nothing else.

I don't really eat in the corner...

...but sometimes you don't wanna go out either to get something already cooked or the proper things to make something eat. Given the apocalyptic weather that has been doing a number on D.C. this summer, sometimes you'll wanna go out or be missing something with that certain je ne sais quoi to make your meal complete. when you're trapped, nothing is out of the question in dinner corner. I'm not going to write about dinner all the time though. I'm pretty sure that I consider my whole apartment dinner corner. now you get to hear about what it's like to be trapped in here!