paragiraffe (posts, bookmarks and photos)

Bookmark: Why 34 is the best age to have a baby | Mail Online

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 00:58:07 -0400

Great news!

Bookmark: Fancy Fast Food

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:54:49 -0400

Ha, this is amusing (via yewknee).

Gnocchi

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 23:06:15 -0400

Today was a rare and welcome off day from baseball. With our ample free time, of course we came right home and made gnocchi and tomato sauce, both from scratch, for dinner. This is the kind of crazy stuff you get to do when you don’t have kids or responsibilities.

For the tomato sauce, we had a white onion, a couple of ripe tomatoes and the ever-present garlic. I loosely followed the 15-Minute Tomato Sauce recipe from Chez Pim. I ended up having a lot of onion for the amount of tomato I had, which I really didn’t see as a problem.

Shaun has made gnocchi a few times, and I’d say this is still a work in progress for us. I followed the gnocchi recipe on 101 Cookbooks. I wouldn’t serve it to guests yet, but, you know, I’d eat it.

And the apartment smells like an Italian kitchen now. Score!

Photo: Gnocchi

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:55:35 -0400

With basil and parmesan cheese

Photo: Gnocchis

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:55:34 -0400

Photo: Tomato sauce

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:55:33 -0400

Mostly onions, which is fine by me.

Bookmark: everybody likes sandwiches: baked mini corn dogs

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 18:15:21 -0400

Does this sound like a 4th of July plan or what?

Bookmark: The Nike Experiment: How the Shoe Giant Unleashed the Power of Personal Metrics

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 22:22:34 -0400

I can't go without my Nike+.

Bookmark: Flip Flop Fly Ball

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:52:19 -0400

I'd buy the shapes of major league ballparks one as a poster.

Bookmark: Jones, Cox, O'Flaherty ejected in finale | braves.com: News

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 10:18:21 -0400

I guess it's easy to win when you pay off the umpires (with ejection video!!!).

Photo: Pops and Kitten

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:20:23 -0400

Photo: Happy 50th birthday, Kitten

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:20:23 -0400

Photo: Waiting for the birthday girl

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 22:20:22 -0400

Alcatraz

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 21:18:38 -0400

So there’s just this one thing I wanted to tell you about Alcatraz, which I learned on my tour of the island.

In 1969, after the facilities had been closed as a federal penitentiary, a group of Native Americans decided to take a stand and attempt to live the island, in protest against the land taken from them by the government. They claimed rights under an old treaty allowing them to occupy abandoned federal property.

Alcatraz Island is not a very friendly place to live. All of the occupants later left the island, but the standoff brought a lot of attention to relations between Native Americans and the US government.

Bookmark: Down-Home Celebrations - With This Burger, I Thee Wed - NYTimes.com

maura@paragiraffe.com (Maura Chace) — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 10:20:11 -0400

I think it would be fun to have Mexican taco buffet (tortillas, lots of different fillings and sauces) for a wedding dinner, except I'm kind of against buffets at weddings. Tough.