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“There’s a point, around the age of twenty, when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” (Ursula K. Le Guin)

Well today is NATIONAL INDIAN PUDDING DAY so I hope you are all out buying ingredients for a pot full!  We simply cannot let that go unnoticed. Actually most of the stuff is already in your footlocker so Here Ya Go, the Yankee Magazine version:

New England Indian PuddingTotal Time: 30Yield: 6 to 8 servings  (ed: or 2 servings)

Ingredients

• 4 cups whole milk

• 1/2 cup cornmeal

• 1/2 cup molasses

• 1/4 cup pure maple syrup   (ed: please use the real stuff)

• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, softened, plus more for baking dish

• 2 large eggs, beaten

• 1 teaspoon table salt

• 2 teaspoons granulated sugar

• 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon  (ed:  use double this)

• 1/2 teaspoon ground ginger   (ed:  use double this)

• 1/8 teaspoon freshly grated nutmeg   (ed:  use double this)

InstructionsPreheat the oven to 300° and grease a 1 1/2-quart baking dish.
Bring milk to a simmer in a double boiler over high heat. Slowly add the cornmeal, whisking to combine. Continue to cook, whisking constantly, for 15 minutes.
Slowly add molasses, then remove from heat. Add maple syrup and the rest of the ingredients and stir until smooth.
Pour mixture into the prepared baking dish, and bake until the pudding is set and the top is browned, about 2 hours. Serve hot or cold, topped with vanilla ice cream or whipped cream. 

ed:  your spices have been on that shelf for years now, they will barely taste at all, so up the amount, show away the rest and replace next trip to the store!  You will thank me. 

Swell start today, eh?  I've been in the kitchen for days now surrounded by cookbooks and little pieces of paper marking different spots trying to put a meal together that is cohesive, gluten free, and do-ahead-able.  Thankfully I have the worlds largest collection of cookbooks and it's reached the point of obsession.  I buy them and then sit and read them.  Then they go on the shelves according to category and are never used again until I reach warp hysteria with people coming to dinner.  Of course I could make Indian Pudding but if you're not from New England it's sort of odd, so I ned to make things without flour and that narrows the playing field considerably.  Going to take a flying leap of faith and sous vide some osso buco and serve it with polenta.  Hope nobody from PETA shows up before I slaughter the radicchio. 

Oh, but what about the studio you ask?  I've hit the wall trying to decide if I should make a fancy Christmas outfit out of some of this pile of built up fabrics but I would need to make a pants pattern and I'm too lazy.  I have a couple of yards of some pretty spectacular embossed three-dimensional silk for a jacket (from a fabulous shop up in VT) and some old velvet that just happens to be the exact same color so chances are I might be able to wear them separately in spite of the fact that to me jeans are dress-up clothes these days.  Just do I want to actually spend the time on them while procrastinating doing what we all know I need to be doing...making art.  Christmas this year will be in Boston and I know the kids will dress up in their best ripped jeans and flannels so I am saying to myself, "why bother?" and thinking maybe I'mm knot myself something that will keep me warm in their freezing houses.  EVERY house is freezing after living in FL so I hope they don't take this personally.  How could they-  they don't even know I am still blogging.  

Heading out to waste more time today rather than producing, not a bad idea since today I woke up with vertigo again.  Not awful, maybe a 4 on a 1-10 scale but debilitating doing anything that needs attention beyond looking straight ahead.  I have to be done here quickly so here s the 

ART PART

The Flying Martha Ornithopter is a mechanical toy that when wound, flaps its wings through the air just like a real bird.|

The simple invention is built entirely from bamboo and Mulberry paper, and released just like a paper airplane. The ornithopter was built by Haptic Lab to honor the very last passenger pigeon, Martha, who died while in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.  

Poor Martha.  Let me know if you make one...