Let's talk about the weather.

[bironic]

Twenty-eight hours of snow and counting. Not that it justified everyone running screaming to the supermarket to buy all the chicken before the apocalypse*, but it's not an insignificant amount accumulating out there.

One of my few complaints about living where I do is that it's hard to see just how much snow falls, because there's really just the street and the roof of the building next door to look at. The courtyard gives a better idea; looks like the foot and a half we were promised on the low end.

*Dear Washington Post, the National Weather Service, and other professional news outlets: please stop saying "snowmageddon" and "snowpocalypse" every other paragraph and in place of useful phrases like "the blizzard of December 2009." You sound like idiots.

ETA: OMG, NY Times, what is wrong with you. Apparently a blow with shoulders obliterated Washington, leaving the Potomac an enchanted gray pewter plate studded with aerodynamic ice cream blobs from a lost civilization.


Preview:





Friday afternoon:




Friday evening:




Friday night:




This morning:




This afternoon:










This evening, after the snow stopped:






For some color, the tart I made for deelaundry's birthday last week:

Comments

[synn.livejournal.com]

wow, that tart looks awesome, what recipe did you use?

Over this week and next i will be making:
something chocolate to welcome back a co-worker from surgery (poss. red velvet cupcakes)
Cheesecake (first time... likely a chocolate/plain marble)
King cake

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Mm, I would love some cheesecake right now. Cat was making chocolate cheesecake cupcakes that looked divine, too.

I used this recipe (http://www.joyofbaking.com/FruitTart.html) for the custard and glaze -- took double the custard to fill the crust -- and used a pre-made pie crust. Substituted skim milk with a little butter for whole milk, and used amaretto for the liqueur. Mm.

[synn.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I saw her post with the cupcakes (yum) and would make them for the chocolate thing, but that's for monday, and the cheesecake is for tuesday for someone's b-day, so... too much cheesecake in a two day period.

I do really wonder, though, how hard it would be to make red-velvet cheesecake cupcakes. Because those sound awesome to me.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I seeee. The last time I made anything approaching cheesecake was in like third grade, with a light-spongy cheesecake cupcake recipe out of Kidsday.

[synn.livejournal.com]

snomaggedon? really? I saw that in someone else's post and thought they were just being funny. Not so cute from professional news sources.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Yeah - all over the blogosphere and Twitter... and now all over the media. There is a line, or at least a gray area, and it's been crossed.

ETA: Oh, God, I just linked up there to one of the worst NY Times articles I've ever read. According to the first sentence, forecasters reached for superlatives. I say the reporter needs a little self-assessment, too.

[synn.livejournal.com]

oh god, that article makes my brain hurt. I only made it to paragraph four.

But the picture of the trees by the monument is lovely.

[roga.livejournal.com]

Omg, the photos are so cooool! :D What an amazing progression. And I love the layer of snow on the circular roof, which looks like icing on a cake.

Also NOM TART. Wow. That looks like my favorite desserts from Club Med, except... better.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I just added one final shot for you. :)

[roga.livejournal.com]

Ah, so pretty! <3

[nightdog-barks.livejournal.com]

LOL! I rather like the grey pewter plate, but I'm having a hard time envisioning a blow with shoulders!

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Ugh, it is just so overblown, and the mixed metaphors make my brain hurt. And what other color would pewter be? The Times should know better.

[elynittria.livejournal.com]

Ouch! That NY Times article should win a prize for purple prose.

That tart looks mouth-wateringly delicious. *Envies Dee*

[bironic.livejournal.com]

I love that on top of everything, there's irony in the first line where the author calls out weather forecasters for using superlatives.

[pwcorgigirl.livejournal.com]

For some reason I read your line as "chickens of the apocalypse." :D

The snow is beautiful, except for bringing everything to a halt, and what a tart! It looks gorgeous and so delicious.

[bironic.livejournal.com]

Who are you calling a tart? :D

"Chickens of the apocalypse" would make a great journal subtitle. Or a band name.