Who Needs Sleep?

An exciting new addition to my small-but-growing cookbook library!

My roommate (who ran the Marine Corps MARATHON last weekend) has already requested PW's maple scones, which I will make this weekend - because in my book, anyone who runs a marathon deserves whatever kind of scones she wants. Also, this coming Sunday is the NYC marathon, which runs right up 4th Ave here in Brooklyn, which means I can pretty much forget about leaving the house that morning anyway. Baking scones (and eating said scones) seems like an excellent way to pass the time, does it not?

Meanwhile, a renewed interest in soups has led me back to this book, which some friends gave me as a college graduation present (again: not the Iowa College for Grandmas. My college most decidedly did not offer Home Ec or anything of the sort, unless you wanted to create an independent study in that vein, in which case, go right ahead! Extra credit - not that we give "credits" - if you grow the vegetables yourself, or at least get them from the CSA).

Where was I? Oh right. Right where I usually am. Book:

The friends I visited last weekend had made this soup, and we polished off the leftovers for lunch on Sunday. It was so good, I decided I would make it myself, because who needs originality when you have something that works? I put "make soup" on my calendar for this coming Saturday.

However. I am (in)famously impatient, so when I got home at ten o'clock tonight, groceries in tow, I thought, Why wait till Saturday if you can do it now? (This is the exact opposite of my attitude toward math homework, which fortunately I have not had to do since my junior year of high school.)

So, the components of Deborah Madison's Winter Vegetable Chowder (p. 189-192) are simmering away on the stove, because I have the patience of...actually, I don't know of anything more impatient than people. I have the patience of a human with extremely limited patience, is what I have, but also, I have soup! Or will have, tomorrow. Which is in 32 minutes.

What I'm reading: A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole

What I'm listening to: Clarity, Jimmy Eat World