So there is this other blog that I frequent a lot (redundant much?). One of the topics that comes up sometimes is the "Great Debate" - top 3 songs from a given artist. Discuss amongst yourselves sort of thing.

Pair that with the old High Fidelity (the movie, which is awesome) mixtape motif, and you have this blog entry.

Top 3 cover songs that were better than the original. Go.

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Alton Brown did a Good Eats recently on Popovers. He claimed it to be the most versatile or useful recipe ever. Or something like that.

So I whipped out my "Baking with Julia Child" cookbook this morning and made some. The recipe is really easy - flour, milk, eggs, butter, salt. You mix it up in a blender. You can bake them in muffin tins.

You'll note the absence of sugar. They are like a roll with giant air bubbles purposefully baked into them. You can add butter, honey, molasses, or whatever you want in the middle.

In the end our verdict was "what's so great about these?" Bland savory dough with very little substance. Meh.

I like to cook. Mostly I like to bake, but time in the kitchen where you can create something that is good is always rewarding. I just spent my lunch hour going through a handful of blogs that I like to read. One is the 37Signals "Signal vs. Noise" blog. They had a link to a cool cooking site: http://www.cookingforengineers.com/

Their recipes aren't lists and paragraphs. It's a chart of sorts. You'll have to go check it out and see what I'm talking about.

A (new) friend is returning from a tour of the Holy Land. She has been posting regular updates to her blog about the adventure.

Her posts got me thinking back on some of the thoughts I've had over the years. There are a couple of people and a couple of books that have really affected me.

First, the books

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Welcome to my side of the tracks. I really enjoyed doing the recap last night.

I made a lot of notes, and got a lot of them out in the recap. I was concerned about it being too long. There was a lot of gravy in those 2 hours.

There was 1 additional comment that I did not include in the recap, but will salt my blog with it. Jeremy strikes me as the guy in "Look At My Striped Shirt" a little bit.

Thanks again.