sun, sky, sleep.

[harborshore]

At the cottage. We have a little bit of internet, which is nice. I had some tiresome news, which was less nice. More tilting at the windmills of Swedish university bureaucracy, woot.

But I sat on the cliffs in the sun today and unraveled a couple of the really knotty thesis knots, and I played tennis and I cuddled with my cat, and I wrote about 800 words of a story, edited a friend's medical school statement that she sent me last week, and I got somewhere with the translation I'm working on (and will be paid for!). All in all, I can deal with the tiresome.

Also, my favorite meme is going around again.

Gacked from torakowalski:

Ask me my Top Five Whatevers. Fannish or literary or otherwise. Any top fives. Doesn't matter what, really! And I will answer them all in a new post (or in comments). Possibly with pictures.

PS: ♥

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[harborshore.livejournal.com]

Ha, okay, so I couldn't figure out how to respond to this question without narrowing it down, so here goes (and feel free to ask other specific ones, such as Top Five Pastas):

Top Five Favorite Baking Recipes (in no particular order)

1. The following Peanut Butter Chocolate Chips Cookie Recipe

1 3/4 c. sifted all-purpose flour
3/4 tsp baking soda
3/4 tsp salt
1 egg
1 1/4 c. brown sugar, firmly packed
3/4 natural peanut butter
1/2 c. butter
3 tbsp milk
1 tbsp vanilla
chocolate chips, eyeball it to your liking

1. in a small bowl, combine flour, baking soda and salt.
2. in a large bowl, combine sugar, peanut butter, butter, milk, and vanilla until well-blended.
3. add flour and chocolate chips to wet mixture, stir until just combined.
4. form into balls on cookie sheet, flatten somewhat.

bake at 375F for 10-12 minutes or until just set and beginning to brown. remove from oven and let cool on the sheet for 3-5 minutes before removing to let cool on a wire rack.

recipe claims it makes 24 cookies; i make 1/4 recipe at a time and get 8 per batch, so that would be 24 huge cookies or 32 more reasonably-sized ones. 10 minutes in the oven is perfect for my 1/4 batch of 8.

2. This recipe for soft oatmeal cookies

3. These Chocolate Cookies

4. This cake, except I make the filling using instant coffee stirred into a paste with about three drops of water or so instead of vanilla sugar

5. Vanilla Roasted Pears--MY GOD.

[sansets]

Oh my GOD - I want to go and make them all now! *bookmarks with glee*

And since you offered - how about your top 5 favorite one pot/pan/dish recipes?