What I've Been Doing in Bed

Now that I'm spending more time downstairs, even if horizontal on the couch, I wanted to let you know what I did in bed for 2+ weeks, mostly with my 'droid "R2D2" and my tv.

And yes, I love to read recipes. Even if I know I'll never cook them.

Thinking about Cooking:

• "French Food at Home": Swiss Chard Tart, Honey Pears, Baked Apples
• "Nigella at Home": Chocolate-Chocolate Chip Muffins, Bread and Milk, Chocolate Croissants, Pussyfoot, Quadruple Chocolate Loaf Cake, Big Pasta Bake with Mushrooms and Herbs, Eton Mess, Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake, Alcoholic Hot Chocolate, Chocolate Cheesecake, Triple Chocolate Brownies, Chocolate Caramel Crispy Cake, Chocolate and Peanut Granola,
• "David Rocco's Dolce Vita": Pasta Pizza, Frittata, Pasta with Ricotta and Cherry Tomatoes, Arancini, 5-Minute Sauce, Pizza Dough, Foccacia, Chocolate Risotto, Drunken Spaghetti, Gelato Affogato, Spinach Risotto, La Ribolitta, Pasta with Butter and Cheese, Tiramisu, La Cecina, Mango Panna Cotta, Polenta
• "Molto Mario": "Heels" with Green Ricotta
• "Sara's Secrets": Vanilla Cupcakes, Peanut Butter Cupcake with Chocolate Chips and Chocolate Frosting
• "Giada's Everyday Italian": Mozzarella Pockets, Mascarpone Cupcakes with Strawberry Icing, Italian Ice, Lemon Mint Cake, Stracciatella Semifreddo, Citrus Semifreddo, Farro with Cheese, Apricot Bars, Homemade Cranberry Granola, Chocolate Raspberry Brownies, Penne in Almond Sauce, Orange Iced Tea, Citrus Cream Smoothie, Breakfast Tart, Almond Pancakes
• "Barefoot Contessa": Lemon Curd Tart, Easy Apple Tart, Penne all Vecchia Bettola, Brownie Tart
• Party Popcorn with Honey Nuts, Rum Raisin Tiramisu
• "Rachel Allen Bake!": Tarte Tatin, Chocolate Cake, Walnut Cake with American Frosting, Basic Cookies, Chocolate Cake, Lemon Tart, Peanut Butter Blondies
• "Melting Pot": Vegetable Couscous
• "Ask Aida": Ginger Rum Poundcake
• "30 Minute Meals with Rachael Ray": Broken Spaghetti Risotto, Baked Pasta Fagioli, Pine Nut-Orzo Salad
• "Spice Goddess": Spiced City Cake, Healthy Roti, Lentil Cookies
• "Aarti Party": Pistachio Pops, Massaged Kale Salad
• "Jamie at Home": Zucchini Carbonara, Strawberry Jam with Rice Pudding, Shortcrust Pastry
• "Indian Food at Home": Kashmiri Pilaf, Kashmiri Tea
• Daisy Martinez: Chocolate Chili Cake

In the Papers (Or on Huffpost, Daily Beast, The Onion, Motherlode, The NYTimes, Karen Maezen Miller, Shambhala Sun, Salon, NPR, KAF blog)

• Mindfulness for Kids
• Marxist critique of Mindfulness
• 4 Myths of Mindfulness
• Green Burial
• Death and Dying
• Pseudo-care and other people's crises
• Blogger: on autism and being a resident "alien"
• Mindfulness and pain
• Walking Meditation
• Making ice cream with a machine
• movie Soul Kitchen
• Sabbath Unplugged
• Citrus-Almond Poundcake
• author David Mitchell's new book on 1799 Japan
• restoring the Morgan
• Parents and college freshmen
• Dexter and sports fishing
• Redshirting kindergarteners
• The I Hate to Cook cookbook reissued

• Ottoman Empire food
• Immigrant cooking in the LES
• Bedsharing for married couples
• Bean Pot
• Vegetarian Torte
• Strawberry Vinegar Shrub
• Grain Pot
• Laura Linney profile
• 18th-century ship in NYC and more
• KAF: breakfast cookies, whole wheat sandwich bread
• Critique of Beloit college freshmen list
• New book on archaeology
• On church and food
• Refutation of the term "Chick Lit"
• Dreaming in Chinese book
• NYTimes Rosh Hashana recipes--France via North Africa
• Cooking with rosewater
• Roger Ebert's new cookbook
• Mark Bittman's sweet couscous
• Southern cocktails on Salon
• Losing your childhood home
• NYTimes Turkish Bean Salad
• Is religious belief evolutionary?
• Dora the Explorer cocktail
• KAF zucchini muffin
• NYTimes vegan three bean salad
• Mary Louise Parker and pot
• From the Onion: Mom locks door!
• NYTimes: Grilled Lebanese Flatbread
• NYTimes: Cooked Grains Salad
• Aqua Fresca recipe
• Eat, Pray, Love and Modern Orientalism
• Cognitive Behavior Therapy everyday
• Unable to watch/read kids in peril?
• Children and Pop Culture Illiteracy
• A son as Snow White
• Sending a child to college (Motherlode)
• When the Courts Scrutinize Parents (Motherlode)
• "Unlabors of Love" by Karen Maezen Miller
• De-Stress your home via the monastery!

Watching (plus all those cooking shows in the first section!):

• Ponyo
• My Neighbor Totoro
• Avatar
• Open Range
• Star Wars
• Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs
• Land Before Time
• A League of Their Own
• "The Big C"
• "The Real L Word"
• "Pillars of the Earth"
• "Spartacus"
• "The Real Housewives of New Jersey" and "Orange County" (and I saw 10 minutes of "Jersey Shore". Ugh.)
• "Sherlock Holmes"