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thistlechaser) wrote2010-08-09 08:57 pm
thistlechaser) wrote2010-08-09 08:57 pm
My new cookbooks... aren't ||| And WoW
For some reason, America's Test Kitchen has been emailing me stuff. As I like the show quite a lot, I haven't minded. (If you've not seen it, it's like Good Eats, just on PBS. Lots of science, recipes, and toss in reviews of foods and cooking-related stuff.) One of the emails offered me a special on "cookbooks" (or so I must have misread...) All of the recipes and stuff from 2009, and as a bonus you'd get all the ones from 2008 for free. Never giving up hope that I might one day successfully cook something, I ordered it.
Finally, after six weeks (five weeks alone just for shipping them to me!) they arrived. They're not cookbooks... It's the Cook's Illustrated magazines, a year's worth (six issues), bound in a hard cover. On one hand, this isn't a terrible thing. The magazines are packed with info. On the other, it's not a cookbook, and the cover is fugly as hell (looks like it was supposed to have a slip cover maybe).
I'm not going to return them, there's so much information in them! And there are a good number of recipes, it's just not at all what I was expecting.
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In WoW news, I finally finished up Netherwing rep. It was the first rep I ever did, so I had horrible memories of it (plus I hadn't known about collecting eggs until I was nearly done, and I was low level enough to get XP the whole time). It was better than I remembered, but not in any way, shape, or form fun. Mostly it was an issue of time -- I tried to get it all done on my lunch break, so I could do relaxing/enjoyable things after work. This meant no lunch, plus no doing other things I often do on my lunch break (like grocery shop).
Keen is at 88/100 mounts. He needs to finish CE rep (89), get the one from the angry blue ladies (90, just started that daily again), and the one from the egg (91, 0/400-ish!). That'd leave 3-4 jousting ones he still needs (UGH), and H-CoS drake (95 or 96), then the rest would have to come in Cata. I really, really, really, really don't want to do jousting dailies again though, so that might be the deal breaker.
Finally, after six weeks (five weeks alone just for shipping them to me!) they arrived. They're not cookbooks... It's the Cook's Illustrated magazines, a year's worth (six issues), bound in a hard cover. On one hand, this isn't a terrible thing. The magazines are packed with info. On the other, it's not a cookbook, and the cover is fugly as hell (looks like it was supposed to have a slip cover maybe).
I'm not going to return them, there's so much information in them! And there are a good number of recipes, it's just not at all what I was expecting.
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In WoW news, I finally finished up Netherwing rep. It was the first rep I ever did, so I had horrible memories of it (plus I hadn't known about collecting eggs until I was nearly done, and I was low level enough to get XP the whole time). It was better than I remembered, but not in any way, shape, or form fun. Mostly it was an issue of time -- I tried to get it all done on my lunch break, so I could do relaxing/enjoyable things after work. This meant no lunch, plus no doing other things I often do on my lunch break (like grocery shop).
Keen is at 88/100 mounts. He needs to finish CE rep (89), get the one from the angry blue ladies (90, just started that daily again), and the one from the egg (91, 0/400-ish!). That'd leave 3-4 jousting ones he still needs (UGH), and H-CoS drake (95 or 96), then the rest would have to come in Cata. I really, really, really, really don't want to do jousting dailies again though, so that might be the deal breaker.
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