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| Lately I have been baking stuff here at the house. I don't know what came over me...the holiday season, I guess. I usually don't like baking. It is too complicated. Too precise. Too many steps to follow correctly, and if you mess up one step then the final product is most likely no good. I seem to be having success though. The sticky buns that I made the other day were ok. A bit over baked, but that was because our oven runs hot. I have also baked in the past couple days coffee cookies, fudge puddles, cranberry and white chocolate cookies, molasses cookies dipped in white chocolate, and chocolate cream cheese brownies. I have come to the conclusion that I have success at baking things other than cakes. I don't do good with baking cakes.
So last Saturday, the 5th, was my birthday. I am now 23. I had asked to have off of work Friday evening. It worked out that I actually had the whole day off. So around 3:00 I think it was, Glen and I went to Baltimore. We visited out cousin, Donna, for a while. Danae was also there for the day, so that was cool to be able to see them both. Donna lives in Baltimore because she works as a nurse at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Then we went over to the Recher Theatre to see Ashes Remain, Broken Solace, Cyrenic, and Set Sail Joseph. It was a good show.
My birthday was an interesting day. For one thing, it snowed. I was supposed to work at 4:00 pm, but chef called and said not to come in because they were going to close early. It was dead in Warrenton and they didn't have much business all day. So I started baking more cookies. I was scooping out the cookie dough onto the trays to bake when the power went out. It was out for at least 2 hours. Turns out that a tree had fallen on a power line. So then when it came back on I finished baking the cookies. Interesting day, but it was good.
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| Exciting news for the Black Bear Bistro where I work. People from the Washington Post have been in contact with Chef Todd the past few days. Today some people came to the restaurant and were taking pictures of the food and stuff. Soon an article about the Bistro will be written in the Post. We had a staff meeting today. Chef said that the last restaurant he worked at, an article was written in the Post about them and they got crazy busy after that. So... maybe the Bistro will get good business after the article comes out.
In other news, youth campout is this weekend. Friday afternoon through Sunday. I am going for some it of...Friday evening and Saturday until 2:00pm because I have to work this weekend. Oh, well. I will be there for at least some of it. Should be fun.
Now to go eat some apple dumpling that I made... with ice cream.
Don't be jealous...
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| Ever since I bout my Suzuki Sidekick I have been having trouble with it. It was working fine for a while, or so I thought. I soon began to notice that if I took a short trip...to church, the post office, etc...and turned the truck off it would not start for a couple minutes. I would have to wait a while and then it would start again. I also noticed that if I took it for a "long" trip...Manassas, Warrenton, etc...it would be fine for the rest of the day. I thought it might be thae battery, so I replaced it. It didn't help. Oh, and the muffler rusted off sometime during all that. I took it over to my neighbor who is a good mechanic. He replaced something on the batter. I don't even know what it's called. Some thing that held the cable to the battery. It seemed to help, only for a while though. It kept getting worse. Oh, and the check engine light came one sometime during all that. One day it wouldn't start at all. So I saved up some moneys and took it to Digg's Automotive. They replaced the muffler and dealt with the check engine light. They said the only thing they could find why it wouldn't start is the shifter was a bit loose and wasn't correctly in park sometimes. So they tightened it. It seemed to help, only for a while though. It did run a lot quieter though thanks to the new muffler. One day it wouldn't start at all. So the other day I messed around with the battery cables. It started beeping, telling me that it had some juice. Still wouldn't start. It started raining so I quite messing with it and went in the house. This evening I messed around with the battery cables some more. I took apart some connection thing that was really dirty and blew it out. Cleaned it a bit. Got the keys and it started right up. Turned it off, turned it on. Turned it off, turned it on. All is well now. Yea! I'm not even a mechanic and I fixed it myself. I think those cables and stuff need replaced though because they are shabby and dirty. At least it won't cost a lot to get it truly fixed.
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| At the Bistro we serve hummus with pita points, tomatoes, cucumbers, and celery as an appetizer. We have a basic recipe and then we play around with it. The other day I made a Grilled Jalapeno and Bell Pepper Red Bean Hummus. We sold quite a bit of it last night. Chef Todd was making his rounds toward the end of the night, talking to people, seeing how they liked the food. He said this one group absolutely loved everything. They had the hummus app and said that it was fantastic.
Kinda cool.
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