http://www.stephanieblanco.com

my new food blog

check out kosherfoodies.wordpress.com for your kosher eating needs.

facebook fail!

if there was no subway in nyc... http://frumin.net/ation/2009/08/whats_capacity_go_to_do_with_m.html

indian village has over 200 sets of twins.

iphoto's faces can't tell the difference between me and jessica, my identical twin sister.

i just wrote an article for rutgers alumni news: the beat goes on.

wilco @ keyspan park

i'm excited to see wilco tonight.

cool optical illusion.

i am excited for dave eggers' next two books: zeitoun and the wild things.

the 100 most beautiful words in the english language?

mom-question-quotas

i have a brilliant idea.

i am going to limit the number of questions my mom is allowed to ask me. after a certain number i get to just ignore them.

i don't have to answer questions that i've already answered or ones that i can't possibly know the answers to, but they still count in the tally.

i haven't decided how many questions, or if i should count per day or week, but i'm working on it.

what do you think/suggest?

juice boxes

as if drinking out of a juice box wasn't fun already...these are awesome!

my lobotomy

just read this book and then listened to this segment on npr. quite interesting.

presidential sushi

yum!

best or worst job ad?

maybe this is a good thing to write on your resume?

obama's elf

short video pun.

a skyscraper to clean the environment?

this looks like it could work...

lego

i lego n.y.

snails

hehe.

oops

superbowl, interrupted.

boots

shoes and boots come in different sizes to cater to the different sizes of peoples' feet, but for some reason boots don't cater to people with different calf sizes. sure, some stores sell extended calf boots, but what about those of us who need a smaller calf?

here are some websites for people who want the top of their boots to fit as well as the foot of any shoe would:

duo boots
fitted boots
henry james

http://gothamist.com/2009/01/27/report_jumper_off_manhattan_bridge.php

a sentence using only one word

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

making tortellini

Stephanie and I are going to start a cafe and write about all of our adventures on her blog...well, we don't have the cafe yet, but we can still write about our food adventures.

After watching the Good Eats episode "use your noodle 2" (twice) I decided to try making my own tortellini. I had wanted to try homemade pasta for a while, but I don't have a pasta maker. Alton said I can make these tortellini without one, so I had to try it. Oh, I'm on winter break, meaning lots of free time and lots of experiments in the kitchen. I spent a few hours making this batch, and ended up with a little more than 50 tortellinis (and messed up only 4).

I followed the recipe exactly - I even bought a wedge of Parmesan cheese (I had to hold my breath when I grated it). The recipe called for 3 cups of flour for the well, and I ended up only using 2 of those cups because that's how much the wet ingredients "wanted," and the episode said not to force it.

I now know why when i order tortellini at restaurants they give only about ten - it takes a VERY long time to make. I froze half the batch, and served the other half for dinner.

It was delicious!

Now i'm just waiting for someone to buy me this so I can make pasta all the time (and not spend three hours shaping each all those tortellini).

arrested development

will there ever be an arrested development movie???

i definitely want to call a restaurant to order delivery and tell them i live on butthole road.

the beatles ultimate countdown

i don't necessarily agree with all of these, but i would imagine it was hard to choose. and everyone knows revolution 9 is the worst!

make a sweater from your pet's fur.