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i blog, knit, cook, take pics of poop, shop, play on the internet.

Reading and writing are my hobbies.

I love poop too! Youre a fecal artist if you ask me chopsuey!!!

I love singing, going to concerts (lots of concerts), video games and baking/cooking.

I love making art. Not poop art though, I prefer painting instead.

Although I did write and illustrate a book about all the weird places my brother has poo'd ...and turned it in during college as one of my art projects.

shopping, decorating, baking, cooking, jeeping with my husband.

Reading, art, learning to crochet, traveling, hiking, camping, biking, experimenting and trying new recipes in the kitchen, and trying all sorts of new things.

Hosting parties (do it about once a month), decorating, crafts of any kind, and yoga.

Reading, cooking, shopping, & entertaining friends.

@yoursilverlining: Cooking meals from novels has never ever crossed my mind... but that sounds awesome! Can you give examples of some meals you have cooked?? I'm so curious!!

@daniellemybelle: thanks!
@sweetchic: Sure! So how it works is when I read novels, I just pay attention for references to food or meals, and chart them down. Then, I research the meal described in the context of the novel. Say, for instance, its a novel set in or written in the 1800's in New England and they talk about making maple syrup and baked beans. I will try to figure out what would have been authentic recipes for that time period and place, and then I'll either use a recipe and make the food described, or I'll make up my own recipe. That would be an easy sort of example.

The Game of Thrones series by George RR Martin is great for this game, he describes tons of foods and meals. One scene described a "fish stew". So, there are several ways you can go - like...would the characters be eating a creamy stew like clam chowder or more like a bouillabaisse, or something else entirely? I figure out the context of the land/people/culture in which the fish stew was described, research their "real world" cultural counterparts, then I make fish stew. In that case, I made a bouillasbaisse.

Another fun one was "white soup" which is the only reference to food found in Pride & Prejudice. It isn't described in detail at all, its just a passing remark. So I research what "white soup" is, in the time period when Pride & Prejudice was written. I try to determine what class differences their might have been to white soup (i.e., what meats might the wealthy have used, vs. the poor). I try to find authentic recipes either from online sources, or at the library. Then I made white soup (which is a soup made of meat broth and almonds - not a creamy white soup like potato or something similar like I had first assumed).

I also like to find really old restaurant menus and make the food served back in the day as well.

I like researching and cooking, so this kind of stuff is super fun to me.