bread and olive oil (recipe!)

* we have big fluffy flakes of the white stuff drifting down today. i'm still not impressed. it's 23 degrees and THAT impresses me. brr. 

* i finished king's /desperation/ last night and ended up enjoying it more than i thought i would. there were a few plot points that made me just shake my head, but it was pretty solid for the most part. next up is /the heaven and earth grocery story/ by james mcbride...i'm a few pages in and so far? yep. definitely yep. 

for reading goals this year, i set the number at 42 total (some of the books i choose really do take awhile to get through) and am going to add some nonfiction in there (feh) as well as THREE booker (mann) prize winners. i may let myself pick something from shortlists, or i may not: i'm a kaleidoscope of unpredictability, yo. 

* i'm spending the rest of the afternoon in the studio doing things. i don't know what things i'm doing, but there you have it. i SHOULD work on january's budget, but i'm sticking my head in the sand on that one until friday. 

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for man_of_snows, zeecha, and anyone else who is interested in making focaccia:

1. watch this video two or three times. the fold part? that's the trickiest and you need to sort of GET what she's saying before you dig in. (srsly, i watched this video about 10 times before i made it and then a few more times while i was making it.)

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