Weekly update: What I'm baking, watching, reading...

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I'm trying something a bit new so that I can get at least 2 posts a week up. The TMST is fairly simple and I should be able to draft answers ahead of time. I say should...because I'm me and probably won't do that lol

I've also started doing an ongoing draft on the weekend and just jot down what I'm reading/watching/doing or upload pics as the week progresses. Then I just have to add a few sentences/links for the post to be ready to go on Friday. That's the hope anyway. 

So here's what happened in my little corner this week...

After 3 gorgeous days of warm sunshine, we got 1 week (and still going) of cold, rain and snow. Not nice Mother Nature. Not nice. So mostly a week of indoor stuff.

BAKING: 

No-knead Everything Bagel Bread (King Arthur Baking recipe) - this was super easy (although it's a very wet dough to handle) and made excellent toast with a smear of cream cheese. I didn't want to order KA's bagel seasoning because I already had a jar of Asiago Everything Seasoning on hand, so I used that instead. Kevin thinks they would be great as rolls, so I might attempt that at some point. 

Brownies with ube and coconut chocolate bar. I used the base cake brownie recipe from The Fearless Baker by Erin Jeanne McDowell and added swirls of Trader Joe's ube and chucks of a broken coconut chocolate bar. It's really unlike me to feel confident enough to go off the grid but my niece encouraged me to buy the seasonal TJ ube and I have no idea what else to do with it lol

WATCHING:

Season 2 Fargo - Hulu - S2 is a prequel to S1 - I won't say why because it could be a spoiler - but was kind of slow for the first 1/2 of the season and IMO, overly long at 10 episodes. Everything is really picking up & we're enjoying it now (episode 6) but really, it could have been wrapped sooner. There are a few characters I really like though (especially Ted Danson as a cop and his son-in-law, played by Lou Solverson ) & a few people I would like to see die a slow, horrible death lol, so we're in it until the end.

READING: 

I'm listening to Lights Out in Lincolnwood by Geoff Rodkey. 

The entire technological grid shuts down in NYC and from Goodreads: 

"Over four transformative, chaotic days, this privileged but clueless American family will struggle to hold it together in the face of water shortages, paramilitary neighbors, and the well-mannered looting of the local Whole Foods as they try to figure out just what the hell is going on." 

They also call it "mordantly funny" but so far, there's a lot of setup and very little survival or funny going on. But it's not bad so I'll stick with it. 

Spam comments. I was doing my regular search of the spam comment to make sure none of you had been thrown in comment jail and found these comments. They just crack me up. Harsh! lol They were on posts almost a decade old. WTF?

Why waste the energy? Kevin believes it's just bots and they hit thousands of blogs with all kinds of comments just to get a click back. Sorry to disappoint you bot (or actual person) but I just laughed and deleted. 

Finally, As much as I hate my current weather and long for a warming spring - I'm trying to find the beauty in what we have blah. blah, blah 😂 I love how the little raindrop is translucent enough for the pattern of the leaf to peek through.