granola.take two

Yes, granola once again. But it's so good and so easy.

In a few minutes I'm going to head out to Shape Note singing. Can't wait! I've been starting to do this once a month and enjoying it immensely.

Last night I saw the movie Rachel Getting Married with some friends. I'd never heard of it before and it turned out to be a really great movie. You should check it out. {And I was also quite pleasantly surprised to discover Tunde Adebimpe, singer from the awesome band TV on the Radio, playing the groom!}

Have a fantastic weekend! I've got a full to-do list of things to accomplish {hint: there is no way I'm getting all of this accomplished}.

japanese craft books in english!

I just discovered this today on Amazon. I hope they continue translating more of these Japanese books!

granola.

I'm one of those people who really can't stand oatmeal. I mean, the oats themselves are fine, just don't prefer that soggy dish people seem to always make for breakfast. I know it's healthy and all that, but I think it's kind of revolting. Even as a child whenever I had cereal for breakfast, I didn't put milk in it because I hated how mushy it got. (Also my dad would make me drink the milk at the bottom of the bowl and I thought that was disgusting.) So when I make my oatmeal, I like it to crunch. Granola is the happy alternative. This time I used a recipe for peanut butter granola. It uses very little peanut butter, but it's that awesome natural kind (which I think is marvelous). I also added a few raisins in mine. I'm really starting to dig this whole breakfast thing. It has definitely helped me wake up in the morning. I wonder if that's the reason breakfast was invented in the first place? Probably not, but it's a nice thought.

toast and more toast.

I didn't have time to upload pictures from yesterday and honestly, toast can get kinda boring to photograph after awhile. I'm sure if I was a better photographer, I'd find all these cool new ways to make toast look grand, but I'm not. Yesterday I made some white no-knead bread and it was delicious! This could become a bad thing if I make it too often. That just means I'll be eating bread all the time and I don't really need that much bread in my diet! But I have a bucket full of dough left in the fridge and I'm so tempted to put in another loaf today.

toast.

Yesterday I decided to try out that recipe for no-knead bread that I keep hearing about. As I was making it, I discovered we only had 2 cups of all-purpose flour left, so I had to use whole wheat for the remaining amount. I like whole wheat bread, so I was fine with that. But I wasn't sure if it would screw up this recipe as wheat tends to be a little bit heavier than white flour. It worked out just fine and this morning I made toast with blackberry jam. Exactly what I needed to start out the day. The nice thing about this recipe is that you can stick the remaining dough in the fridge for up to two weeks and break off a chunk to bake whenever you feel like bread. Next time I'm going to try it with white flour and see if there's much of a difference. I also found this video that was helpful. I'd like to check out this cookbook too.

nothing special

I decided to just re-heat the left over muffins from yesterday's breakfast. Simple, but I didn't have time to make anything this morning. Lots to get done today! I cannot believe it's almost February. Seems like the time has completely passed me by.

Be well.

donut muffins.

Recipe can be found here.

Feel like a good movie on a lazy Sunday afternoon? You might want to check out this adorable film, Vivacious Lady. You can't go wrong with Ginger Rogers and Jimmy Stewart.

As for me? I'm going to continue sewing and watching movies that I've seen over and over again in hopes that I won't get too distracted by them. I've tried watching movies I've never seen before and work at the same time, but I'm always distracted and end up getting nothing accomplished. Most likely it will be some Ginger Rogers & Fred Astaire films or The Thin Man. They never fail to make me incredibly happy.

One more week until February! Have a fabulous new week and what's left of the weekend.

{On second thought, perhaps My Man Godfrey is in order for this afternoon. :) }

happy belated birthday, annie!

Here's a short video clip from last night. Kind of embarrassing, actually. I always feel like I am so much different when I look at myself on film.


making mimosas from Anna Allen on Vimeo.

Annie was filming and her sister Rachel was lighting the candles. I'm the one making the mimosas. Yummm.