These are plain. I’m out of bread, too lazy to make more, and wanted egg salad for supper. Egg salad on crackers sounded like a good plan. Yum!
This batch took more water (almost exactly 1/2 cup), probably because it had no cheese. I changed the recipe on the earlier post to reflect that the water amount will vary. Just add water until it looks knead-able and roll-able. If you over-do the water, add more flour. It’s very forgiving.
Harriet frequently sprawls on the couch with her head hanging off the edge and lips a-floppin’. It doesn’t look comfortable, but it must be.
I wanted a something, but didn’t know what. Cookies? Brownies? Bread? Crackers! So I hunted down a recipe and went to work.
The recipe is easy peasy:
1 cup flour
1/4 teaspoon salt (I lowered the amount from 1/2 teaspoon because I added cheese, which is salty)
2 tablespoons cold butter
1/4-1/2 cup water (more or less as needed)
4 ounces or so of shredded cheese
1 tablespoon coarsely ground garlic powder
cornmeal
flour for rolling out
Preheat oven to 400F and lightly cover a cookie sheet with cornmeal.
Dump the flour and salt into a bowl, then use a grater to shred the butter. Add it slowly and toss with the flour so that each strand gets coated separately. Add about half the cheese. Add enough water to bring everything together, then turn out on a floured board and roll it out to about 1/8 inch thickness (thinner = crispier). Place onto cookie sheet, sprinkle with the rest of the shredded cheese, then score with a knife or cut into pieces with a pizza cutter.
Bake for about 10 minutes, until lightly browned. Remove from oven and place on a cooling rack. Then NOM.
Oh, must you tell me all your secrets
When it’s hard enough to love you knowing nothing
We’re living four flights up
But I swear right now it feels like underground
I think of this song whenever someone I know over-shares. There’s been a lot of that this week, so this song has been flitting in and out of my head.
I don’t think I posted this one. I’ve been listening to whole album pretty much non-stop for a couple of weeks. (How did I miss this when it first came out? I must live under a rock.)
While I like the whole album, I think this is the weakest song on it, so I’m not sure why they released it as a single. Oh well. If I ran the world, things would be different!
I received a hood ornament from a Mack truck in a Christmas gift exchange several years ago. He makes a nice bookend.
Harriet’s personal sun spot has finally returned to it’s proper place on the patio, which means that spring is officially here.
War Pigs
As I was looking at my referrer stats today, I noticed some suspicious traffic from a pet website. I visited the site and looked around and found that they were using one of my photos. Most of my images are Creative Commons licensed for non-commercial use, but this was a commercial website. I contacted them and explained that as their website was clearly commercial (they had a shopping cart and were selling products, for crying out loud; it was not at all ambiguous), their use of my image was in violation of my license.
I got a message back from them saying that, while they’d removed my image, they had not violated my license, as they weren’t selling products with my image on them. Um, yeah, that would be a flagrant violation of my license, but that’s not the only way to define commercial use. Placing my image anywhere on their commercial website is, you know, commercial use, as it’s meant to drive traffic and ultimately garner sales.
The worst part of it, though, was that they’d chosen a terrible photo. If you’re going to steal something, at least make sure you steal something nice.
red paper boat 