Happy Recipe Posting of the Day

[orichalcum]

For Easter:
Cadbury Creme Egg Muffins

Yes, that's right, a cadbury creme egg embedded inside a vanilla muffin....it's calling your name.Eowyn

Also, a lazy hamantaschen recipe

Happy Dog Moment of the Day: Eowyn joyously outracing the other golden retriever at the dog run.

Sad-puzzling moment of the day: How exactly does someone lose a 125-lb Newfie? I mean, I'm sorry for the owners and I hope they find their dog soon, but really, it's not like they run very fast, or you can just steal one and tuck it in a handbag. And, um, not exactly inconspicuous.

Comments

[ladybird97.livejournal.com]

You like the poppy filling? Wow. More power to you, I guess. I prefer the extremely nontraditional strawberry jam and chocolate chips :)

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Wow, yeah, you totally beat me in hamantaschen points. I can't stand the poppy filling.

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, as a kid I used to eat out of my mom's poppy seed jar in her spice rack. She was convinced I was going to get tested for drugs at school and come out positive for opium.

Also, I'm a traditionalist. If it's not poppy, apricot, prune, or maybe raspberry it's not a hamentaschen. I still refuse to eat any bagels besides poppy, sesame, garlic, onion, or cinnamon raisin, so at least I'm consistent.

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

Cinnamon raisin...for the Sephardic Jewish tradition?

Poor stoned little meepo...

[meepodeekin.livejournal.com]

My basic (mostly subconscious) principle seems to be: If my grandmother's bakery in NJ sold it when I was a kid, it is ok. They had cinnamon raisin. I actually don't like raisin's much, so I'm not a huge fan, but they do pass "valid tradition" muster for me.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

Weirdly, you would actually test positive for cocaine, not opiates. Weird but true.

My mom used to make danish every easter, and I never liked the poppy filling in those either. I was an apricot girl all the way. Hell, my mom made danish while she was in early labor with me, so there were snacks for once the doctor arrived (yay Amish country where you could still be born at home _with a doctor attending_ in the 1970s.)

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

They probably let her eat, too. Let me tell you, 22 hours of labor with nothing but clear fluids is Not Fun. I so deserved my cafeteria chocolate chip cookie the next afternoon. :)

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I'm just not gonna quote the line from an episode of Scrubs I saw the other night, regarding why you might not have liked the outcome if you _had_ eaten solid foods during that time. But yeah, I bet that was not fun. Just thinking about it is making me want Gatorade really badly, actually....

[stone-and-star.livejournal.com]

Come on, you don't think those of us who went through childbirth classes (and labor!) are ignorant of the possible consequences of eating during labor, do you? Even the clear fluids are not risk-free.

(I actually smuggled some food into the hospital in my bag to eat during the early stages. And by the end, hunger was not the physical sensation bothering me the most.)

(Okay, I should stop talking about hunger while I'm fasting.)

[orichalcum.livejournal.com]

True enough - hunger was mostly irritating somewhere around Hour 15.

But yeah. :) I just realized that I could give gifts of fresh hamantaschen to both my babysitter's kids and my independent study student tomorrow, fulfilling that particular mitzvah. :)