Back at it with the Jams - Jams of the Week 1/23/17

Welcome to jams of the week! First batch of 2017, leggo!

John Splithoff - Sing To You

Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness - Walking In My Sleep

LP - Lost On You

till next time,

Maggie

New Year, New Hands, New Projects

Hello blogworld. I've been neglecting you since before Christmas and I feel sad about it but to be fair, life is crazytown right now. Short recap: in November I had surgery on my left hand to take care of my carpal tunnel and trigger finger. Then I went back to work and dealt with the craziness of the holidays and now I'm back down to one hand as I had my second surgery done Thursday. 

Left hand! 

Right hand, so ugly. Blame the iodine for the orange hand.

So while I've had lots of blogging ideas I can't do jack until I have both my hands back. Which is very annoying. Especially when I decided to binge the Great British Bake Off again and I got a new collection of cookbooks for the holidays and I want to bake so bad! So until I can blog the recipes themselves, here's a preview of my three favorite new cookbooks. 

Patisserie at Home - by Melanie Dupuis & Anne Cazor

This book is so wonderful! I snagged it for half price at HomeGoods where I saw the pretty cover and then started to flip through and fell in love with the illustrations and photography. My biggest pet peeve in cookbooks is when photos aren't given or aren't clear and this book is so useful! It doesn't have the annoying pages on what tools you need or what they mean when they say milk...I know you mean milk.  I think it's perfect for those bakers who take scientific approaches to their cooking. Look at this wonderful little tart for example:

Mary Berry would say those look scrummy I bet. The book has a ton of recipes you might not find in any other traditional american baking book. I can't wait to share some once I have my hands back!

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I'm a huge fan of Anthony Bourdain. I once got to stalk him in Spain with some classmates when he was at El Bulli at the same time as us **insert heart eyes emoji here** lol. Anyways his new cookbook was a awesome present from my good pal Chloe. 

Appetites: A Cookbook - Anthony Bourdain 

an epic collection of Tony's family recipes, the things he likes to make when he's at home. Also includes a butt-ton of sass. For example, don't question Jacques...

Personally I can't wait to make this chicken:

gimme gimme gimme.

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In recent years I've really gotten into my family history and I particularly love the influence of food on cultures. My Dad got me a wonderful book to help me reach out to my German ancestors

Classic German Baking: The Very Best Recipes for Traditional Favorites, from Pfeffernüsse to Streuselkuchen  –  Luisa Weiss

The book is SO thorough with it's recipes; it has sweet, savory, breads, etc. The one draw back to that is it doesn't have a lot of photos, but I figure I can always google. It's endless list has so many things I've never heard of, but I can't wait to try them out. 

So here's to a new year, new me, new hands, and new projects. 

2017's gunna be awesomesauce.

till next time,

Maggie

Jams of the Week 12/8/16

Hi and welcome to jams of the week!

I never listened to the xx before they were on SNL, but I'm glad they were 

because "On Hold" has been in constant rotation since.

On Hold - the xx

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It took me a while to figure out that AWOLNATION was more than just "Sail" 

but since then I've been really digging their stuff.

Kill Your Heroes - AWOLNATION

"Never let your fear decide your fate."

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If this song doesn't make you want to get up and dance I don't know what to tell you.

Come Down - Anderson .Paak

till next week,

Maggie 

Jams of the Week 11/30/16

Hola and welcome to jams of the week!

Big Decisions - My Morning Jacket

You're sweet and sincere, but so ruled by fear

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Move - Saint Motel

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All Night - Beyoncé

Probably in my top 3 songs off "Lemonade"

Till next time,

Maggie

Jams of the Week 11/19/16

Howdy and welcome to jams of the week.

First up, a great take on how to wake up the Wednesday after the world lets you down.

Wednesday Morning - Macklemore

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I have a slight obsession with British rappers...Dizzee Rascal on You've Got the Love? Obsessed. Tinie mentioning J.K Rowling = yaassss. Something about that accent has me hooked. 

Girls Like - Tinie Tempah feat Zara Larsson

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Niall is the best member of 1D, don't even argue.

His solo song is beautiful.

This Town - Niall Horan

honorable mention for the week - Brooklyn, You're Killing Me - Andrew McMahon. 

New song from my boo, but I can't decide if I like it or not! So I didn't include it as a true pick this week.

till next time,

Maggie

Doctor Who Awesome Art Roundup Volume 4

Howdy! Welcome to the Doctor Who Awesome Art Roundup vol. 4! I just finished watching episode one of the "Class" spin off so I'm in a Whovian mood and thought it was a good time to share some more art!

let's start off with a visit to my favorite Whovian artist Alice X. Zhang's newest works:

Probably my favorite ever of Twelve

and

"Remember Me"

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"I think you need a Doctor." 

Sigh...Nine and Rose's relationship is so underrated... via aimekitty 

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Arkarti has some amazing Whovian deviations but my favorite is "The Impossible Girl"

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I'm verrrry tempted to buy sugarpoultry's 50th illustration. I'll be your bad influence, go do it!

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"Doctor Funkenstein" by rapsag

ALSO by the same artist, "Finally someone worth talking to"

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Obsessed with the style of this one, "Rose" by overflow8

and then there's this, I'M NOT CRYING YOU'RE CRYING

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All the Doctors in the TARDIS, wonderfully done by erich0823. There are also single prints of each!

in addition to that there are a few awesome single episode prints and other characters like Capt Jack!

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I wasn't a huge fan of the "The Impossible Planet"/"The Satan Pit" episodes but I love this art of Rose&Ten from it by wondercookies

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Ninth Doctor in mod pop form! via billpyle

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I have to end with "Hold Me" by hazeeel because it's my favorite of the roundup. #Whouffaldi forever.

till next time nerds,

Maggie

Jams of the Week 11/4/16

Hola and welcome to jams of the week!

Roll Up - Fitz and the Tantrums

I Don't Wanna be Funny Anymore - Lucy Dacus

Healing - Paul Janeway

till next time,

Maggie