I usually watch video podcasts while I eat lunch, because it's pretty much the only time I'm willing to sit (mostly) still and stare at a screen without interacting. One of the videos I watched today was Cook's Illustrated's Four-Cheese Lasagna episode.

If you love to cook (I mean REALLY love to cook), you might want to think about subscribing to Cook's. Brett and I subscribed for years and found it amazingly interesting and educational. Pros: each issue is stuffed full of helpful info & recipes. Cons: it's mostly text, so if you're a visual person like me it might feel more like reading-for-homework than reading-for-pleasure. Also, each issue is STUFFED FULL of info, so this is not a magazine that you can flip through for an hour and be done with. We decided not to renew our subscription just because we never had time to finish reading them cover-to-cover.

That being said, I love their podcasts. They contain the same sort of information you'd get from the magazine, only in quick blips of video. If you want to watch them for free, you can do so in iTunes.

Back to my point: today I watched the Four-Cheese Lasagna episode. It looks delish. Rich, fatty, completely unhealthy, and mouth-wateringly, soul-cradlingly, delish. If you figure out an equally delicious, 100% dairy-free way for me to make this dish, I will give you one MILLION dollars*. Now that I've had some time (almost a year!) to adjust my diet, my milk allergy usually doesn't feel like much of a constraint, but food like this...well...boo. :(

Also making me bitter about my milk allergy today? Oddly enough, this:


Don't worry, no one was hurt. Yesterday morning a train derailed about 20 blocks north of my house. It derailed because it hit a semi that was parked across the tracks:


Remember the episode of The Simpsons where Homer comes across a jack-knifed sugar truck and ends up shoveling up all the sugar to keep for himself? When I heard about this accident, my first thought was that I hoped no one was seriously hurt. My SECOND thought was, "I wonder what was in the truck..."

Guess what was in the truck?

Can you guess?

I bet you can't.

PIZZA AND CHEESECAKE.

(sonofabitch!!!)

Also, completely not related to milk at all, but kind of in a way related to the train derailment since it happened closer to her house than mine: my friend Kim has a new blog. I've also updated her link in my blogroll on the right. CHECK IT OUT! :)


* you will not actually be paid.

 Courtney said...

First time I looked at that first picture, I thought it had to be doctored, no way that a rail could bend that way.

All the pizza and cheesecake is proof that god has a twisted sense of humor.

Also, why is something called Cooks Illustrated text-heavy? Because this seems counter-intuitive.

3/18/2008 6:34 PM  



 Cat Jackson said...

I know, right?!? They have a lot of actual illustrations though, so maybe that's why? who knows. But it's a really good magazine! :)

3/18/2008 10:52 PM  



 Kimberly said...

When my brother called and asked me about this and I was like..."What train wreck?" and then I looked online and SAW the dang thing...I kept saying, like nine hundred times..."How did I not hear that?" Because I hear the trains all the time...even in the middle of the night...how did I not hear THAT happen? It's really weirded me out...because, as you know, it's all about me.

And, on a not completely unrelated note because you mention it in your post as well, thanks for the plug of my new ILLUSTRATED blog!

3/19/2008 1:07 AM  



 Cat Jackson said...

I say "I know, right?" waaay too much, but: I KNOW, RIGHT??? I keep thinking the same thing!!! Like, I can hear that a train is driving by even if I'm in the kitchen with the dishwasher on and stuff; HOW DID I NOT HEAR THIS???

The only thing I can figure is that since most normal trains don't wake me up anymore, and most normal trains (especially in the middle of the night for some reason, wtf?!?) LAY ON the horn like CRAZY while passing over those intersections, maybe my brain heard all the horn-blowing and brake-screeching, and metal-bending and semi-shredding, and was just like, "Meh. Not important enough to wake up for."

It's like all those years of trains passing through town like, "HOOOOOOOOOOONK! HONKHONKHOOOOOOONK! HONKHONKHONKHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONK!!!" For NO APPARENT REASON, has tricked my brain into thinking that it's just not an alarming noise.

Though, once when I was little a fire truck showed up at our house in the middle of the night complete with lights, sirens, and half a dozen firemen running around our living room (long story), and even though my bedroom window faced the driveway, I stayed sound asleep the whole time. So who knows.

3/20/2008 2:32 PM  

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