sooo---to update you on whats going on..my laptop is causing me problems and sinc ethen blogge rhates me and dont lets me coment..i wonder if there is a relation between those two things..
aside that i mainly well and busy..thats why i come in only shortly today(actually i wante dto make a thank you post but that has to wait till..uhmm..a few more days..dont hate me) and instead of this i join the eyecandy monday for the first time and make your eyes happy with a bbw (which is porn for big beautiful woman) because you know me..i like curves...not exclusively but especially ..so viva la big girl:-)
so..usually i dont do this...i really dont...i never do..speak about my birthday or announce it..that is...and i wanted to do it this way again this year..but someone* told me how awful people are who hide their b-days or keep them undercover...i dont have a problem with getting older..i see it pretty much as what it is..a natural process....but having my b-day doesent mean much to me..that might have reasons back in ym childhood but in generell its just not an important day...since midnight my phone delievers sms from family and friends who want to be the first to say happy b day danielle...and i love texts and stuff..but...i dont feel birthdayish..i never do..i m never exited or anything about this day...maybe i dont have the b-day-gen....
but still...even though i had other plans i ll have some friends over at my place tomorrow...i ll have fun and a good time..maybe i ll even call it a b-day celebration...but there will be no snoby fancy schmancy dinner ..there will be pizza and beer..yes..me! pizza and beer because i dont feel like standing in the kitchen and prepare a 3 or 4 course meal like i usually do for dinnerparties... i just wanna have a good time and talk a bit...have some drinks...my actual plan was to spend the night on my own at my fav sushi place and eat as much california rolls as i could...but hey..there will be more b-days to do that:-)
now that its time to go back to bed...i might be a bit exited ...not that i would admit that..but maybe i really am..not particulary about my b-day...but about that new decade which is to come...about new people i ll meet..about new places i ll see...about things i ll leave behind me...and about the good things which are in front of me waiting to be discovered...there are a few blogland people too who i so would like to have at my house tomorrow...for drinks..for food and all night long talking...for sure...i ll think of you:-)
ha..i m loading a pic of a b-day cake up to illustrate this post...which reminds me of my cousin ninas b-day a few years ago..back when i wasnt able yet to bake..i always was good at cooking but never was a baker..i am still not a good one...my cousin dirk is the bakery magican...and so back then i made a huge onion pizza for my cousin nians b-day as a replacement for a cake..with her name on it...written with huge pieces of ham and bacon..:-)i wish i still had a picture of that:-)
* that ass-kicking someone , of course, is our beloved jo..:-)
so..i think i allready wrote about this one before but i have to do it again.."this one" in this case is a book ..a book about literary tattoos...and i m very honored that there is a photo of one of my tattoos included in it as well as a mini piece of me written about the meaning behind my tattoo ...
but lets see what the publishers eva and justin say about this pretty baby:
The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide is a guide to the emerging subculture of literary tattoos—a collection of 100 full-color photographs of human epidermis indelibly adorned with illustrations and quotations from Pynchon to Dickinson to Shakespeare to Plath. Beloved lines of verse, literary portraits, and illustrations—and statements from the bearers on their tattoos’ history and the personal significance of the chosen literary work—The Word Made Flesh is part photo collection, part literary anthology written on skin.
In its pages you’ll find favorite lines from novels, illustrations, portraits, and passages of verse; you’ll also find all kinds of testimony about the inspirations behind the tattoos: favorite books of childhood; commemorations of triumphant (or tragic) moments in lives; affirmations of friendship; drunken whims that might have (but didn’t!) become cause for regret; a phrase or an image that just seemed too cool not to keep close forever. so..why i write about it again has several reasons..first that i m so happy happy happy that i m included in this wonderful project..second that it will come out soon and third..i got the cover !!! isnt it pretty? i totally love it:-) i mean..i really cant stop looking at it and can not wait to get the book in my fingers..:-)
but i m so deep under a duvet of work..its insane..in an hour mini2 arrives...and on sunday leave to spend some time on a ..well..raft...yes u heard right and i ms till not done with my work..:-( there is so much i want to write about....so much things on my mind...aside all the work that isnt very usefull...especially a special person i miss a lot...thats why a song for you...which fits our situation so well...and which i love so much...
i so wish you could hang with me...as the friends we decided to be ...and to give us the friendship..the support we need...doesent taht song fit so well on us?
Will you tell me once again how we're gonna be just friends If you're for real and not pretend then I guess you can hang with me
When my patience's wearing thin When I'm ready to give in Will you pick me up again? Then I guess you can hang with me
And if you do me right I'm gonna do right by you And if you keep it tight I'm gonna confide in you I know what's on your mind there will be time for that too if you hang with me hang with me
Just don't fall recklessly, headlessly in love with me Cause its gonna be All heartbreak blissfully painful and insanity if we agree
Oh you can hang with me
When you see me drift astray outta touch and outta place will you tell me to my face? then I guess you can hang with me
And if you do me right I'm gonna do right by you And if you keep it tight I'm gonna confide in you I know what's on your mind there will be time for that too if you hang with me hang with me
Just don't fall recklessly, headlessly in love with me Cause its gonna be All heartbreak blissfully painful and insanity if we agree you can hang with me
Just don't fall recklessly, headlessly in love with me Cause its gonna be All heartbreak blissfully painful and insanity if we agree
Oh you can hang with me Hang with me
so my lovely ones...you will not hear much from me during the next weeks because i m away with minis...first the raft..then the beach..then paris..but inbetween i ll come home now and then for a day or two to feed you pictures and words and love from my hands...i m a bit snetimental today..maybe its just the whole work,...and the fact that mini2 comes home today who i havent seen in such a long time..and to know that i have theminis now for a few weeks again together..tht i ll read good night stories to them..that we will cook together...have a great time...go swimming..go to paris...lay on the beach too...that i ll look for them when they sleep...that i ll hav ethem close to my heart again...its a bit..you know...i m just a old sentimental person...and the knowledge of the change...the evolution in me...the travel..the search...if this life is a highway..then my soul is just a car..so maybe i ll just keep on driving...or rather walking like the divine may moon told us to..to walk for our life to become sane, and whole again..to heal and be happy..i think of you all....
hey y´all (as ms moon says:-)..how are you doing? i m all under the pile of my work again..its like running in a hamster wheel..dunno if that makes sens eto you but thats how it feels like somehow:-) i m busy finishing two stories...another article and also prepare the questions for two interviews which i ll do pretty soon...each one with a special person/lady and i m sure u´d be exited to read them....so..i keep the good stuff rolling in:-)
asid ethat i enjoy the sun on my balkony...i really do..i love the heat...just suffer under the persons* arround me who suffer under the heat and dont stop to tell me they do...i mean..whats wrong with you guys??? in winter you hate the cold..and want sun..in summer you hate the ehat and want it cool?????
i m also writing on a critical post for this blog..involviong a crytical view on certain society related things...i hope to finish it today..its not very long..its just the problem that i dont have enough time...damn...anyway...u ll hear me later...:-)
* you should go and ask ms moon how it is to liove somehwere where its really hot AND humid...not just the bit warmth we have here in germany
cooking like whores..that is! pasta to be exact...
and where do the whores cook the best pasta? yes..italy of course..where else? first i wanted to write a little erotic intro about a prostitute in sicily..about the narrow and pictureske street she lives in..the bordello with its old and crooked stairways...the room with the narrow bed and the small window which leads out the backyard..red flowers on her window bench and a thin dog who lives in a shet behind the house...
BUT..i dont have time for that intro today so i just go straight to one of my fav pasta dishes pasta alla puttaneska...my grandma teached me how to cook this..she went with her sisters to italy each summer when they where still young girls..back then when it was very chic to go to italy for summer..to rome, capri and the costiera amalfitana....since my grandma and her sisters where total ladies they were shocked when the yfound out the meaning of " alla puttanesca" but still they were already under the spell of this spicey and simple dish..and so they would sit in the restaurants and just write it down intead of saying it..not looking at the waiter..blushing and bursting into laughter as soon as the waiter would leave their table...
if you ask one how this dish got its name u will get many answers...some will tell you its because the italian whores invented it because its quickly done so they were able to cook it between two clients....others will tell you its because the prostitutes werent allowed to go shopping before night and when all " good women" already had been shopping their groceries...so they ha dto buy what was left..but thats not true...to go back to the real deal about the pasta alla puttanesca we have to go back in time to sicily..actually its a typical dish of the so called cucina povera..the "poor kitchen or kitchen of the poor?"...back then..in 1950 the bordellos and whorehouses used to be property of the state/country...they were called " case chiuse" which means "locked/closed house" because the doors had to be closed all the time to prevent the neighbours from beeing hurt or terrified by the sinfull life of the whores..the normal italian housewife goes to teh market everyday to buy all the things she needs to feed her bambinies fresh and nice..but the "state employes" couldnt do that..their time was so limited that they were allowed only once a week to leave the house and go shopping..so they had to be inventive and see what to cook with goods and foods which lost longer..and so this dish was created based on things which are in stock in every italian kitchen...
so..lets check our ability to behave like a whore..in the kitchen!!
we need:
pasta..usually they use spagetthie for this but i prefer i penne rigatte for this sinc ethe sauce gets attached better to them then you need capers..a jar full ..the salty ones..not the thingies in vinegar..those have actually nothing to do with the real stuff 2 red onions, chopped anchovis as much as you like cherrytomatos oregano, dried or fresh olives as much as you want sugar, a tea spoonfull oliveoil 2 garlic cloves sliced into small..slices! a red chilli pepper , two if you like it like i do
now you heat up the oil in a non-sticking pan..dont make it too hot..i know this dish known for beeing done quick..but i cook it like a sugo and let it cook very slow.. chopp the onions, garlic and the chilli and put them into the warm oil..heat up a bit.. boil for about 6 minutes until the onions get that glassy consistens..now add the chopped anchovis..stirr it all with a wooden cook spoon... now cut the toamtos in halfs and add them into the pan..then follow oregano, olives and capers...stirr it well...
boil meanwhile the pasta in hot saltwater
add some more salt and black pepper into the pan..
thats all u usually do for this..but since i alwas like to add my own twist i add some redwine vinegar and sugar into the pan..cook some more...make it cook low until the sugo starts to be a bit thicker and get a creamy and soft constitens...
now put the pasta into a bowl..but the sauce all over it..stirr it with two spoons and pour some parmigano over it..add some basil ...perfect...:-)
