Number one: Orangette. Truly, this girl has me wanting to cook like a whirling dervish. (Whatever that might be exactly.) On advice of several other bloggers, I ordered her new book, A Homemade Life, from the library. It's a wonderful mix of stories and recipes and family and food--I devoured it in one sitting and quickly moved on to both her blog and her monthly column for Bon Appetit.
The latter is where I found her recipe for homemade mayonnaise. Holy. Hell.
Our favorite brew pub makes it's own mayo. A friend and I have been known to go and make a meal of it...with a few fries on the side, just to get some veggies in. Is it completely awful that I can now recreate that meal at home?
Honestly, the mayo takes about ten minutes to put together, but the results are so worth it. And if I had a mayonnaise making jar (or, more practically, a stick blender) it wouldn't be any work at all. I used a bit more lemon than Orangette recommends (let's call it the juice of one whole lemon), and per Alton I will store it in the fridge for up to two weeks--if it lasts that long!
Number two: hank&cheef. Yes, I'm still eschewing paper tissues when possible. I really don't even think about it anymore, I've officially made handkerchiefs a habit. (Except for the other night when a visiting friend asked for a tissue. Felt less than hospitable pointing him to the bathroom tissue, but handing him one of my handkerchiefs--even a clean one--seemed kinda...eh. Anyone have a good solution for that?) At any rate, because allergy season is here and because they were super fun, I ordered a few new handkerchiefs.
They arrived today. Completely soft. Completely cute. Although they came all the way from Canada, the company uses the most minimal packaging I've ever seen, so that probably evens out a little, right? Next time maybe I'll just have to order more than three at once--I see some owls in my future!
