I held him for about 30 minutes today and can’t wait to do it again - loving my new nephew Miles :)
Frosting is, of course, a usual feature of most cupcakes, and this is all about sugar and cooking oils. Most Betty Crocker frostings still contain trans fats (and are loaded with sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup). If Betty Crocker is still laden with trans fats, I’d be very surprised that frostings made from scratch are any better, unless they use Crisco that has been reformulated to have zero trans fats.
Hank Cardello, Stuffed: an insider’s look at who’s (really) making america fat, 2009.
Problem: While this book is insight full and heavily researched, Cardello forgets, as many critics do, what actual cooking is. Though he may be able to tell you how many calories are in each popular brand of snack food, and which states instituted which polices to curb overeating in schools, he is unaware that frosting is made, as it has been made for 100’s of years, from of butter and sugar. Butter, which does not contain the harmful types of trans fats found in its partially hydrogenated alternatives.
(via bringtoaboil)
YAY FROSTING! Why do most people look at me strangely when I say I’d rather eat REAL sugar and butter (as part of a “balanced diet”) and just eat less of it than some processed carcinogenic garbage? It really does make sense.
Time for cat massage! This video could not be more perfect. A major whisker watch alert is in effect here!
Me and Ray just lounging. Like my man sweatpants?
Yes. I need these in my life! That is, I did when I was 8 or so.
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What has two thumbs and stayed up until almost 2 on a work night reading posts and comments on Real Climate? ::points to self with both thumbs:: Leanna Jones!
Just arrived back home from home.
There’s certain days that remind me why I ran for this office. Then there are moments like this where I pardon a turkey and send it to Disneyland.
Hearing this on the radio was my official pre-Thanksgiving chuckle.
President Obama (via jaredgeller and poobah) (via david)
I found a lone pack of polaroid film at my mom’s house, together with my old polaroid camera. Should I a) use it while savoring each final moment of polaroid taking (but what to take pictures OF?), b) keep it forever as part of a strange collection of now discontinued technologies, c) wait a little bit and see how much I can sell it for on ebay?
It expired in April of 1998 - Polaroid 600, 10 pictures.
My name’s Stewart Ransom Miller. I’m a serial lady killer.
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