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Take THAT, Birth of Man!
Happy News, children!
Kiss Me Like You Love Me is now available for order placing and review leaving. Especially review leaving. So, if you've read the new book and have some choice words to leave, you should now feel free to do so.
If you're ordering a book because you can't make it to either of my upcoming events, you might want to give it a day or so. Amazon has not gotten the info from Ingram yet, so there's no blurb. Also, the third party sellers will NOT give free shipping like Amazon can, and the price will likely be better too if you wait. Monday is my prediction, but I can't swear to that.
If you are trading me a review for a free book, you'll want to have the review posted before my Book Release Party on Feb 23rd. And of course, you should NOT feel obligated to leave a positive review just because I'm giving you a book. Just be honest. Goodness knows I'm honest with all of you's...
In other news, LOST has become annoying. I don't give a rat's ass about Kate's internal struggles and all this Sawyer/not Sawyer nonsense. I don't care who she sleeps with, and I don't care how isolated she feels by her crimes. Nor do I care what her special relationship is with Clare. Sayid being all shocked and horrified by his being tortured? It makes me like him less, and I don't want to like him less. It also makes me fear that they're going to kill him off. If they are anything like The Sopranos, people will start dropping like flies during the last season. Sayid needs to make sure he does not go the way of Michael Imperioli. For serious. I know I've said this before, but this business of everyone knowing exactly how to knock someone out with one hit to the head is far fetched. The fact that no one has died as a result of that is even more unbelievable. Funny, I have no problem with a black smoke monster, time traveling bunnies, alternate realities, and dead people coming back to life as something other than zombies--but things like unrefridgerated ranch dressing and these hits to the head tend to trigger my shenanegans alarm. LOST, it's your last season. Just tell us what we want to know and get on with it already.
FYI, peanut butter brownies with jam are utterly fantastic. H is digging them hard core. It's a regular peanut butter brownie (would anyone else like a bite of banality? ... I would.) recipe, but you smear in some strawberry jam in the top, pushing it into the batter a bit, but not much. I have an awesome co-worker who doesn't like chocolate. I know, right?!? But he inspires me to find non-chocolately things that are still delicious. Chocolate is to baking like cheese is to regular cooking--it's the thing you add to make sure it's tasty no matter how badly your screw it up. These brownies, for example, are dense and fudgy because I forgot to add baking soda. Imagine how good they'd be if I made them right!
My bro is coming for dinner on Sunday. I'm planning to make chicken with spinach, feta, and mushrooms, wrapped up in phyllo, and topped with a tomato relish. And roasted cauliflower. That should prove tasty. Sara Moulton taught me that you can just cut heads of fresh cauliflower into big slices, brush with some sort of nut oil, and bake in the oven until tender. Mmmmmm. Not sure what's for dessert yet. Whatever it is, I am confident that a Krusteaz mix will be involved.
Kiss Me Like You Love Me is now available for order placing and review leaving. Especially review leaving. So, if you've read the new book and have some choice words to leave, you should now feel free to do so.
If you're ordering a book because you can't make it to either of my upcoming events, you might want to give it a day or so. Amazon has not gotten the info from Ingram yet, so there's no blurb. Also, the third party sellers will NOT give free shipping like Amazon can, and the price will likely be better too if you wait. Monday is my prediction, but I can't swear to that.
If you are trading me a review for a free book, you'll want to have the review posted before my Book Release Party on Feb 23rd. And of course, you should NOT feel obligated to leave a positive review just because I'm giving you a book. Just be honest. Goodness knows I'm honest with all of you's...
In other news, LOST has become annoying. I don't give a rat's ass about Kate's internal struggles and all this Sawyer/not Sawyer nonsense. I don't care who she sleeps with, and I don't care how isolated she feels by her crimes. Nor do I care what her special relationship is with Clare. Sayid being all shocked and horrified by his being tortured? It makes me like him less, and I don't want to like him less. It also makes me fear that they're going to kill him off. If they are anything like The Sopranos, people will start dropping like flies during the last season. Sayid needs to make sure he does not go the way of Michael Imperioli. For serious. I know I've said this before, but this business of everyone knowing exactly how to knock someone out with one hit to the head is far fetched. The fact that no one has died as a result of that is even more unbelievable. Funny, I have no problem with a black smoke monster, time traveling bunnies, alternate realities, and dead people coming back to life as something other than zombies--but things like unrefridgerated ranch dressing and these hits to the head tend to trigger my shenanegans alarm. LOST, it's your last season. Just tell us what we want to know and get on with it already.
FYI, peanut butter brownies with jam are utterly fantastic. H is digging them hard core. It's a regular peanut butter brownie (would anyone else like a bite of banality? ... I would.) recipe, but you smear in some strawberry jam in the top, pushing it into the batter a bit, but not much. I have an awesome co-worker who doesn't like chocolate. I know, right?!? But he inspires me to find non-chocolately things that are still delicious. Chocolate is to baking like cheese is to regular cooking--it's the thing you add to make sure it's tasty no matter how badly your screw it up. These brownies, for example, are dense and fudgy because I forgot to add baking soda. Imagine how good they'd be if I made them right!
My bro is coming for dinner on Sunday. I'm planning to make chicken with spinach, feta, and mushrooms, wrapped up in phyllo, and topped with a tomato relish. And roasted cauliflower. That should prove tasty. Sara Moulton taught me that you can just cut heads of fresh cauliflower into big slices, brush with some sort of nut oil, and bake in the oven until tender. Mmmmmm. Not sure what's for dessert yet. Whatever it is, I am confident that a Krusteaz mix will be involved.