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Nausicaa ([personal profile] nausicaa83) wrote2013-04-13 08:07 pm

"These days I sit on corner stones and count the time in quarter tones to ten."

What a lovely day! First day of spring, completely unexpected, and I had to take off my coat and sweater and walk around in just my shirt. Loved it. I had my first therapy session in two weeks, so to celebrate I wore my Avengers skirt. Towards the end a nurse came in to ask my therapist something, but as soon as he saw me he stopped on his tracks and yelled "oh my god, that is the most beautiful skirt ever, I adore it, where did you buy it???", and thirty seconds later we were enthusiastically discussing the next Iron Man movie while my therapist looked pretty lost. She calls it my "Spiderman" skirt because it's the only one she recognizes. :D

Back home I decided it was time for some baking (oh yeah), and since just before easter I had bought a new recipe book, all about muffins, I decided to try my hand at making some good ol' fashioned chocolate chip muffins.


The recipe was for 8 muffins, and the pan holds six, I tried to do the fractions for each ingredient in my head, got annoyed, gave up and used six paper ramekins (three each) for the two remaining muffins.


They smell great, and they taste AMAZING. So far my signature recipe was the chocolate brownies, but these cuties take the first place easily. I devoured one in two bites, yum, and now my fingers smell of bakery. Double yum. My plan was to save a couple for next tuesday, for my therapist, but I fear they won't survive tomorrow. I'll have to bake more on Monday. :D

[identity profile] space-oddity-75.livejournal.com 2013-04-13 06:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow, they certainly look fantastic! I'm sure they tasted great, too.

You know, I kept thinking of you today, because I listened to 5-6 episodes of CP in a row to try and get in the mood for writing fanfic, and I desperately wanted someone to squee with at the awesomeness of this series. So, if you felt your ears ringing, now you know why. ;)

[identity profile] nausicaa83.livejournal.com 2013-04-13 07:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Oddio, che cosa adorabile che CP ti faccia pensare a me! Ho un sorrisone enorme stampato in faccia solo al pensiero. *_________*

[identity profile] stardust-made.livejournal.com 2013-04-14 07:48 am (UTC)(link)
Ohh, YUM. Teleportation, why so late? I want to hire nausicaa as my private chef!

(I adore Italian food and now you've thrown in your baking skillses into the equation...It'd be like: a muffin = a drabble. A dish = a one-shot. A meal = multi-chapter fic. I'd be happily paying you that way until the end of days.:D)

[identity profile] nausicaa83.livejournal.com 2013-04-14 07:58 am (UTC)(link)
That sounds like the best deal ever!!!

And now that the weather is springish at last it is time to buy a basil plant. So that I have fresh basil everyday for my pasta. That is a thing we do here, every summer. Yum.

[identity profile] stardust-made.livejournal.com 2013-04-14 08:19 am (UTC)(link)
Yep, make it worse—basil's my favourite herb.

[identity profile] nausicaa83.livejournal.com 2013-04-14 09:41 am (UTC)(link)
Ok, here's a great anecdote from my trip to Pompeii. The archaeologists there found perfume bottles with what was left of the perfume still inside, and used that to make Actual Roman Perfume, and it was basil, because in Ancient Rome basil was used for cosmetics, not cooking.

How cool is that??? I couldn't buy a bottle because it was 50 euros, but it was awesome! \o/

[identity profile] stardust-made.livejournal.com 2013-04-14 12:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Ha! Well, O Tempora O Mores.;)

[identity profile] nausicaa83.livejournal.com 2013-04-14 12:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh well, definitely. :D

[identity profile] capracotta.livejournal.com 2013-04-16 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
Che brava, usi anche il leccapentole! A me l'hanno regalato ma devo ancora usarlo... :)

[identity profile] nausicaa83.livejournal.com 2013-04-16 08:17 am (UTC)(link)
E' stato un regalo di Tati, ed è favoloso!! Il composto scivola via e non si appiccica, rende la vita molto più facile per chi come me era abituata a usare cucchiai di legno e forchette!