I'm Totally Awesome Enough

Lately, I found myself reading quite a few home design blogs. I also find that quite a few of the bloggers that I follow post pictures of their beautiful homes. Well, y'know what? I've totally got a nice enough apartment, and we've been keeping it reasonably clean. I want to show off, since it's been a while.

Again Rimi, this will be a bit picture heavy, although not as badly as the last one.

LIVING ROOM PICTURES IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER






DINING ROOM PICTURES IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER






And that's the two main rooms of the apartment! The other rooms were not pretty the day I was taking pictures, so they'll have to wait for another time. I also find that the living room and dining room are the most "put together" of all of our rooms anyway.

Pictures!

R, you must have been pulling your hair out with my lack of pictures, the number of times you've yelled at me for it! (Oh I still forgot to photograph blanket shawl, but I will do that later.)



A while back now, I made a whole bunch of turmeric-colored pasta. So tasty! (Although the turmeric was kinda funny...) But it turned out that stereotypical 70s mustard yellow color, which I love! And yes, that is a trombone slide used as a drying rack.



That first night I served it with olive oil and cheese.



The second time (after I froze the pasta), I cooked the pasta with frozen peas, fried up some sausage and served it all with feta on top. Super tasty!



And me being crazy! I have a lot of cleaning to do today (note my lack of doing it right now :-P), I haven't showered yet, and mysteriously wound up watching a whole bunch of youtube videos from an Indonesian Muslim girl on wrapping hajibs in pretty styles. (That girl is beautiful omg) Since I'm too lazy to pin it in place, I just wrapped the ends of this turban underneath itself and it's been holding out for about 3 hours. I have to say, my head is warm! (Considering my hands, feet and nose are cold, I like this.) I've always been super jealous of those girls that wear headcoverings, mostly because I'm really lazy about my hair. Black girls, Muslim girls and Christians "dressing plain" often wear head coverings, and I've always felt super selfconscious whenever wearing just a bandana even. I don't see myself wearing this outside of the house, but it's fun to play with.

Also on the line of turbans, check out this amazing pic:



That is who I want to be when I grow up! Her name is Beatrix Ost and the pic is from Advanced Style.

Pictures From Last Week

Leftovers from this dinner

All of the remaining pictures will be from this meal.



The pile of basil and oregano -- I already chopped the rosemary, it was a 4" stalk.



All of the herbs chopped and ready to go into pasta dough.



A little comparison between the hand sliced and the machine sliced pasta. Guess which is which.



A nice pile of pasta!



Frying the garlic scapes in some olive oil.



The chard all chopped and ready to be briefly sautéed.



My ghetto pasta drying station.

There are no pictures of the final meal, but after sautéing the chard until it wilted, I tossed the drained pasta with the veggies, olive oil and a little of my homemade ricotta.

I also have about 1/3 lb. of my pasta remaining -- soon to be cooked!