...and did not anticipate the ripping blow that snuffed out the world.

greetings from under the covers in astoria! today is a perfect day to spend in pajamas, light a candle and scour the internet for recipes. so guess what i have been doing....exactly!
I just joined epicurious. Yet another site where i create a profile, tell people i like to bake and hoard recipes like a starving chipmunk. a chipmunk who LOVES chocolate. and pies, and pastry puff....you get the point.
In other news (is there ever any other news?) i saw Iggy Pop on Friday. it was officially the best show i have ever seen (move over ashlee simpson, you've been replaced....finally?!!). I have never felt so loved by a performer. by the third song he invited the entire audience up on the stage with him. The venue was a little too large to accommodate the whole audience, but enough of them got up, and during the mass move up to the platform, kristen and I got shoved up close enough to the barely dressed performer. 60! that man is 60! i was speechless. especially after the show when i had lost my voice.
one show down, one more to go...we headed across town to Metric (!) who were playing at the Highling Ballroom. I had never seen them, so I was super excited. They were f***ing rad. I heard songs that had been stuck in my head for months performed live, and by a much more qualified singer than myself. I may or may not have had one too many gin and tonics, so the end of the concert got fuzzy, but i do remember Monster Hospital meeting every expectation they had set for themselves. a dizzying mix of rave and rock and jumping and ice sloshing. To round up the evening we got some drunk taco bell (is there any other kind?), missed our stop and when we finally hit home watched reno 911.

Now back to food. Here are a few pictures of flour-less double chocolate cookies i made for Missy's birthday.

This is the set up. (i need some fucking counters!!)
sigh. it's cool.



and the results, sprinkled with powdered sugar:

i had never made flour-less anything before. I found that, for this recipe, it basically substitutes flour for confectioner sugar. Which made for a slightly tacky cookie. kinda sticks to your teeth...which isn't exactly what i was going for. But the middle had the consistency of a dark brownie, which was really good. I know brother bear liked them....so i feel as though it was win.

So once the rain subsides, my big boy and I are heading to the grocery store to prepare meals for the week. no more buying fancy egg salad sandwiches for me....pinch those pennies!!
so pictures will follow. eventually (october?)

xo