I Am Large, I Contain Multitudes

(Hey, look who got out of rehearsal a few minutes early tonight??)

... While Passover is long over by now, I keep meaning to post the recipe for the cake I tried making this year. I sort of think the one I made a few years back (for which I couldn't locate the recipe this year) was better, or at least bore more resemblance to my grandmother's torte (which on reflection I think was actually walnut, not almond; much more Old World and less Mediterranean). But on the whole it was pretty good. I doubled it to take to dinner on both Saturday and Sunday nights, and it was eminently respectable even among the goyim. :-}

( Passover Banana Citrus Almond Torte )

Note that I also glazed it with an improvised chocolate-cachaça glaze, which definitely bought it some style points.

lyriendel asked me to supply this recipe, because towk, who [it turns out] normally hates chili, approved heartily of this on Sunday night. Admittedly, it's not very chili-ish when it's done, despite consisting entirely of meat, beans, and spices. But it was good -- and the most complicated part of it was looking in 3 different supermarkets for the hechshered cans of green chiles! (We ended up back at Whole Foods, right where I've always bought them.)

( Penzey's Southwest White Chili )

Today I've managed a bunch more work on both book projects. Although I've been getting a later start in the mornings than I should have, I can then sit quite contentedly in my bathrobe and plug away for 6 hours at a stretch. It amazes me how the hard part of this has been remembering to get up occasionally for food and water!

However, I should really get dressed (and out into the freezing dismal weather) soonish, because (a) Ben & Jerry's Free Cone Day ends at 8pm! And (b) contra dancing at MIT, 8-10:30pm!

Oh yeah, and mycroft pointed me to one more thing good enough to share: Baby Got Back, G&S Style (or, I Am The Very Model Of A Modern Major Mix-A-Lot). Almost, if not quite, up there with the Jonathan Coulton version.