Another success with the Le Creuset: Braised short ribs. Though, we actually used beef back ribs, I’m not sure I would have been able to tell the difference anyway. Oak was so excited about cleaning the pot because everything wiped off easily, even after constant use for 4 hours. Amazing. We visited the Le Creuset outlet in Burlington last weekend. No Lemongrass or Kiwi colored pots there, but I did enjoy the flame.
I was very happy to find a pair of sandals at the Nine West outlet store. I somehow managed to find sandals (dressy ones – not birkenstock-esque guys) that haven’t given me a blister in the first 2 days of wear. I am amazed. The $15 difference between this and a pair of Payless or Walmart sandals is apparently very much worth it.
We’re busy planning a trip to Kentucky and Tennessee for the 4th. Our stops include Dolly Parton’s water theme park, Mammoth cave national park, and some Memphis barbeque. More soon!
Among many other professional cookware items, we received a 5.5 qt round Le Creuset pot (in Kiwi) for our wedding (thanks Mom and Dave!) Tonight we used it for the first time and made some delicious pasta sauce.
Some things to ponder :
How to care for your Le Creuset – very important.
Possible recipes:
Red wine pot roast with honey and thyme
Scented Moroccan Lamb stew
Coq au vin
Glorious one-pot meals
Cooking school: Braising
Poaching 101
For any gentleman readers, let me first say how LUCKY you are that you don’t have to deal with the entire world of beauty products.
I, for the most part, have managed to find out the lines of beauty products that I enjoy. Neutrogena face wash, eye cream, and spf moisturizer. Bath and Body works lotion and shower gel. Sheer blonde volumizing spray and smoothing creme.
So yeah, I was off to Ulta to build my cosmetics supply. For the most part I stick to cheap-but-not-junky Cover girl, with the exception of mascara, which I use Maybelline. I actually brought the current costmetics I have to the store to make sure I get the right colors. So I’ve got the foundation, which I found was almost a little dark. I look at the products, and it turns out they have 2 sub-brands of that particular liquid Cover girl foundation (something like, one protects for SPF and the other protects against shine), neither of which is the one that I used, but in the same kind of bottle.
So, I decide to squirt a little on my wrist (bad Carrie! Luckily I didn’t get caught) of each of them. The shade lighter than my “Creamy Beige” that was too dark seemed completely too light. So, I decide to just go for Creamy Beige because it seemed to work okay before.
Next day: I put on my creamy beige foundation, and it’s a shade too light! Mind you, this is the SAME BRAND, just a shine-preventing formula instead of “smoothing” or whatever I had before. Don’t you think they’d just make “Creamy beige” the same for powder foundation, pressed foundation, liquid foundation in a squeeze bottle, and liquid foundation in a glass bottle? Apparently that is a bit too much for the cosmetics engineers to handle.
I think it would be very tricky if every cosmetics company just had a thing that would scan your face right in the store to tell you what colors to buy. Then again, that would ruin their entire profit margin of women buying the wrong color and then having to go out and buy another shade. Indeed.
I couldn’t help but wonder (pardon my Carrie Bradshaw expression), why do they discontinue beauty products that we get attached to?
