The Bunny Box

Well, I yet again feel the urge to share my shabbos cooking escapades with one and all, so here they are: Today, I'm making a simple dinner for Yaakov and myself. I've made a gefilte fish loaf with hot sauce and ground red pepper and other spicy things to give it some serious kick. I've got two challahs baking in the oven, which we can only pray come out as fluffy and tasty as they did last week. I used the same recipe, only this time I added a teaspoon of vanilla (and took out a two teaspoons of water) in the hopes to make it a little cakier. However, vanilla doesn't seem to do well in the bread maker, so it came out like a thick batter, and I had to add flour and run it through the dough setting again. Obviously, this led to it doing a ridiculous amount of rising, so I'm hoping that won't make the challah too...whatever too much rising does to it. Finally, when the challah comes out, I'm putting in some flanken which will be on a "bed" of po...

Almost died watching this episode. It was the suspense what did it... http://www.hulu.com/watch/124/kitchen-confidential-rabbit-test#x-0,vepisode,1 Cute fluffy bunnies are NOT DINNER! And anyway, they're not kosher. Ever noticed that the only animals which are kosher are incredibly NOT CUTE. Ewww...cows...

If I were on facebook doing status updates today, this is what they would look like: Sara... ...had pancakes for breakfast (a la Yaakov, thank you sweety!) ...made some important phone calls ...is working...again... ...is in pain from her PE class yesterday and can barely walk. ...has officially been married TWO YEARS! Happy Twa-niversary Yaakov! :) ^_^ :D F'reals! But because tonight is Tisha B'av, we'll be celebrating our Hebrew anniversary next Tuesday instead. Presents welcome. Have a meaningful and easy fast, and remember to mourn hard.

I don't know about the rest of you, but I've been encountering a lot of people who are going into panic mindsets over the current situations in the world. These people are sure that we're headed to World War III and a second holocaust, and they've even assigned each of our current world leaders roles, matching them up to the leaders present in the 1930's and 1940's. "So and so is the new Hitler, and this guy is Neville Chamberlain, and that guy is FDR (who, just in case you didn't know, ignored the situation in Europe as long as he could, even once he knew what was going on)." There's talk of nuclear warfare against Israel and worldwide anti-semitism, there's fear of a complete economic meltdown, universal Muslim takeovers, and high cholesterol. And with all that fear going around and the people at Fox News fanning the flames, there are also an immense number of people who don't seem concerned enough. I've heard these people comp...

This is going to be a really boring post, because I just had the urge (most likely an old facebook habit) to share some completely insignificant information: what I'm going to cook today. So, here goes... I've had a bread machine since I got married two years ago, and every time I've tried to use it for my old challah recipe, it fails me miserably. However, I just found a recipe for bread machine challah in the Kosher Palate (sp?) and I've decided to try it today. I also have a brand spankin' new food processor that I got as a "free" prize for buying way too many raffle tickets for the Oorah auction. It looks and feels high quality, but having never had a food processor before, I don't really know how to tell. Well, today I'm going to break it in to make a potato kugel for third meal. Yay! Finally, I've been drafted to make dessert for Izzy and Karen's potluck dinner tonight, so I'm going a little boring because baking really isn...

I've now spent nearly 12 hours as a recluse. I'm getting the shakes. Food has lost all taste. I'm hungrily eying my neighbor's dog. I've started speaking to my stuffed rabbits...Oh, wait...I've been doing that for years. All told, it's not so bad so far, and I imagine it will only get easier as the days go on. I have to admit, I wasn't at all prepared for the extent to which people would be shaken by my decision to leave facebook. I was prepared for the comments on my status about how I shouldn't leave, because how could we possibly keep in touch!? What I wasn't prepared for was going to a party and having everyone there greet me with, "Why are you deleting your facebook?" Suddenly, I began to feel like some kind of social freak. After all, why WAS I leaving facebook? I have to admit, most of my reasons may not make sense to other people. Everyone assumes I'm leaving because of addiction or a need for privacy, but that...

Well, I decided to post this when I found myself compulsively starting to type "facebook.com" into the address bar on my browser. I'm already starting to get the sweats...or maybe my ac just isn't turned up high enough. Either way, there's a long road to recovery ahead.

Tomorrow I embark upon a journey--a journey into a world which is largely unknown in today's world. Tomorrow, I delete my facebook account. What lies ahead is anyone's guess. Who knows how many friends will go the extra click to keep in touch with me via email. I know it may seem a lot to ask, but I know that they are strong people, and I have faith in them. This blog is being reinstated to help my friends cope with the loss of my status updates. I'll try to write on here about once a week, even if all I have to say is, "Work, school, life." Well, wish me luck on my journeys. And don't forget to keep in touch. :)