Here is some stuff I have been reading that I thought folks might like:
Mail going back more years than I am willing to admit
1 old printer
2 rennaisance fair hats
3 dead laptops
4 cases of old CDs
5 dead cd-rom drives
6 ps2 keyboards
7 boxes of old games
Approx 100 dead pens
Untold dollars in random change – some of it from foreign countries
Blackmail material against ex-boyfriends 
Art purchased at cons years ago
Costume bits 1/2 your size – but they weren’t when you bought them 
Hair pieces for someone with, ya know, hair
Jewelry that you even forgot you had made
A floor
This is a desert that I’ve made more than once
- 9 egg yolks (extra large or jumbo)
- 1-3/4 C white sugar
- 2 C mascarpone cheese
- 2-3/4 C heavy whipping cream
- 1 17oz package of Ladyfingers (the dry crunchy style)
- 1- 1/2 C Brewed strong coffee
- 1/2 cup Kahlua (add more or less to taste)
- 1 t vanilla
- 1 Teaspoons unsweetened cocoa powder, for dusting
If you can whip cream in your home you probably have everything, both tools and skills, to make this. It technically calls for a double-boiler but i just use a metal bowl that will sit comfortably inside one of my medium size soup pots. I fill the pot with enough water so that when the bowl sits in the pot it covers the bottom of the bowl by about 2 inches. I build this like a trifle in a glass bowl with straight sides. You will need at least one other wide flat bowl where you will dip the ladyfingers in the coffee & kahlua mixture.
- Combine sugar and egg yolks in the top of a double boiler, over boiling water. It will start out being kind of dry and granular.
- Turn down the heat to low, and stir mixture over heat for 10 minutes.
- Remove from heat and whip mixture until it is thick and lemon colored.
- Add mascarpone to whipped yolks. Mix until combined. Set aside to cool a bit.
- In a separate bowl, whip cream to stiff peaks.
- Gently fold into yolk and cheese mixture and set aside. The folding is key – you don’t want this to go flat.
- Mix the coffee, Kahlua and vanilla in a wide flat bowl.
- Roll a ladyfinger in the coffee and then place in the bottom of the bowl where you will build the tiramisu. Repeat, laying the ladyfingers next to eachother until the bottom of the tiramisu bowl is mostly covered.
- Smooth 1/3 of the cream filling over the ladyfingers. Sprinkle cocoa powder over the cream filling.
- Repeat steps 8 and 9 until bowl is full.
- Put an extra thick layer of cocoa on the top.
I sometimes decorate with chocolate curls or if i have extra egg and cream mixture I’ll put it in a pastry tube an pipe it on top. Sometimes I mix up a small amount of ganache and drizzle it on top. Some day I’ll post my WAY easier method of making ganache.
From A Gay Pride Parade for Bigots
“The final insult to oppressed people, is always to make them responsible for the venal stupidity of their oppressors. The bigots core refrain is never “I hate you,” but “Why are you making me hate you?” Left unsaid in all this is why, precisely, some guy in San Fran wearing a thong is so offensive. Instead it asks gay people everywhere to adjust. It’s not enough to be hated by the homophobe, now you must wash his laundry too.” — Ta-Nehisi Coates
Here is some stuff I have been reading that I thought folks might like:
- Repost: Intentionally Choosing – “The point I tried to make in the series was that opponents of legal abortion have not offered these women any alternative, except one.”
- Humor Fail – There is so much i agree with here, not all of it, but the bits about Rape culture and assault being a joke . . . SO THERE!
- CNR – I know everyone out there probably reads XKCD already – but this was just so F*ing perfect. I hope this is the tech support I am not
- You Can Not Win – This made me wonder if the object of the story was jewish or anti-semetic – which seems to be a sentiment born out in the comments
- Yelling “Stop!” – George Tiller, Holocaust Museum, Va Tech, forward momentum and hope
- springy, fluffy marshmallows -YUM!! This sounds like a great thing to try!
