Peanut Butter Cuppage

Over the weekend I made these dead-easy peanut butter cups from a recipe out of my new copy of Everyday Food, a publication from Martha Stewart Omnimedia. Although “Martha Stewart Omnimedia” sounds creepy ominous, Everyday Food is a great little mag, and I’ve been a subscriber for a year now, and recipes like Easy Peanut Butter Cups really make it pay off. If you want to attempt the recipe, keep about four extra ounces of chocolate on hand; I had trouble with the chocolate sticking to the microwavable bowls I was using, and so I wound up nuking up more chocolate to melt in order to scoop ‘em over the peanut butter. Also, my cups wound up a little mottled, but I liked the look a bit better than that of the conventional Reese’s cup. I skipped the peanuts on top, too.

PS: I went onto MarthaStewart.com to look for the chocolate peanut butter cup recipe above, and the front page had this little feature on cupcakes… and the photo/decoration of the cupcakes make them look like breasts with nipples! Okay, the big red dot is a little off in colour, but I guess you can be the judge. In any case, I have a new idea for decorating cupcakes.

Counter Culture

Today I called in sick, and during my day of guzzling tea, dipping into my Pooh-sized stash of honey, playing Final Fantasy X-2 (oh, have I mentioned I’m a complete dork?) and generally festering around as a sick person does, I was reading an article in my latest issue of BUST magazine about Candacy Taylor’s multimedia project called Counter Culture: The American Coffee Shop Waitress. The article features a small sample of Taylor’s work documenting the mature diner waitresses that bring us food and coffee, tell us about their ex-husbands and put up with our shit along the roads that criss-cross America.

You can see Taylor’s waitresses and read what they have to say about serving coffee and other things at CareerWaitresses.com. There’s even audio clips, which truly makes Taylor’s work “multimedia.” You probably won’t look at your local IHOP waitress the same.