1. A good recipe for orange marmalade. I’d like marmalade recipes for blood oranges, grapefruit and Meyer’s lemons. The recipes need to be superb because I love orange marmalade. I like it bitter and I like to smear it on a baguette and put some sharp cheddar on top. I like marmalade out of the jar and on a spoon and I’d probably just stick my entire face in a vat of it if it was bitter and sweet and citrus-y. I have the canning equipment, I just need the recipe. Internets?!?
2. My headache. When you grow up an only child, you have make believe friends. You talk to the voices in your head because, more often than not, they’re the only people speaking to you. My headache, which I’ve had since Monday, is like one of my only-child-made-up friends. I took a fancy prescription pill for my little friend (I don’t actually have a prescription, but my friends are fast and loose with the pills) and it helped for a day and then my invisible-headache friend returned and was like, “What. Is. Up. melissalion???” And I was like, “Whoa, you are very persistent.” And he (yes, this headache is male) was like, “I’M YOUR BEST FRIEND FOREVER AND EVER AND YOU LOVE ME.” And I couldn’t say anything because this headache has gone all Single White Female on my brain and I’m scared, Internet. *hold me*
3. Thanksgiving is drawing near and Stever’s family is coming to visit. I am making the entire dinner from scratch because I’m a controlling perfectionist.
4. On the flip side, I’ve had no inspiration in the kitchen lately. Two days ago, I sauteed sweet potatoes and soyrizo, warmed up some corn tortillas and called that dinner. Last night? Nachos. I told Steve that tonight he should look forward to cheerios and milk and maybe some sugar on top if I’m feeling FAB-U-LOUS.
5. I have very good friends. Online and in real life. I started crying in the car yesterday when I thought of all of you. I don’t know how I got so lucky.
6. This headache has made me soft.
7. I think Ignite Portland burned me out on myself. Is it possible to change my name for a few days
8. Other stuff.
9. Maybe I’ll get a complete night of sleep during Obama’s presidency? Maybe? I hope.
10. My new project.
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November 17, 2008 at 7:28 am
ken
why are you getting headaches?
do you have a history of migraines?
i know nothing of orange marmalade. i don’t even know what separates the marmalade from the jam from the jelly from the preserve.
how do you plan to cook the entire turkeyday feast with no kitchen inspiration??
November 17, 2008 at 9:05 am
Kiala
I hear you about the kitchen inspiration. I mean, I do not consider nachos to be a meal, but Dane does so last night I added some broccoli and frijoles negros on the side a la Melissa Lion.
What I am saying is that you inspired ME. SO there. Pbbbbtttt.
November 17, 2008 at 9:30 am
Kristen
God I wish I had a marmalade recipe for you, but I am not very handy in the kitchen.
Could your headaches be related to your lady days? My friend Doris (I know. Bummer of a name for a 40 year old) gets terrible headaches and it’s related to water retention and hormones. It might also explain why you’re tearing up because you love us so much.
I love you too Melissa Lion!
November 17, 2008 at 10:13 am
Robert
I’m getting nosebleeds!
You should buy a new cookbook to inspire you. One that specializes in something, like cooking with WINE.
I bet everyone’s mom has one of those signs in their kitchen that says “I love cooking with wine! Sometimes I even put it in the food.”
My mom does.
November 17, 2008 at 10:45 am
CamiKaos
for the first time in like 10 years I am really and truly all excited about Thanksgiving… but only because I get to spend a couple days in a hotel room and walking along a cold windy beach. I’m looking forward to hearing about your lovely dinner though.
November 17, 2008 at 11:10 am
k8
Okay, just because we’re in the getting to know each other stage, I might just google recipes all day long and send them to you. Because I get paid to do nothing all day, but still have to sit here and I LOOK for things to google.
And I have a recurring invisible friend headache as well. At the first sign, I take 6 advil (doctor suggested) and lay down until it’s gone. If I don’t do that, I’m screwed for days on end.
November 17, 2008 at 1:14 pm
apollocreed
I’m sorry you cried because of me.
November 17, 2008 at 7:34 pm
traci
Ummm, try a chiropractor. If that doesn’t work, I’m pretty good at some reflexology stuff (my daughters call it chinese finger medicine) that would probably do the trick. Headaches suck.
November 17, 2008 at 8:50 pm
Boldmama
I don’t want to scare you. I had a friend who had persistent migraines and they thought she had MS. I am telling you this because it ends up she didn’t, and acupuncture cured her of her woes. And if you ever get a recipe for that marmalade, post it. I have a sack of blood oranges going to waste in my fridge. Next stop, teach classes in Seattle, I’ll take one.
And um, cooking an entire Thanksgiving while taking care of a toddler and stoking the fires of your career and your creative muscle at the same time? Of course you have a migraine!
November 18, 2008 at 11:09 am
k8
Here’s the thing about the marmalade recipes. They’re all just oranges, lemons, some rind and sugar. Basically you just make it up how you want it to taste.
Get crazy with it!
November 18, 2008 at 11:15 pm
stoogepie
I buy Welch’s Grape Jelly. It’s an ethnic thing.
We do love you. But crying while you drive is not a good idea. Allstate will back me up on this one.