this is what I do on my days off

[threeplusfire]

I can't be the only person who makes cookies on a Saturday afternoon while listening to Apoptygma Berzerk cover one of my favorite Marilyn Mason songs, VNV Nation, and Razed in Black. Can I? Maybe this is just the suburban-too-shy-to-even-hang-with-the goth-kids-and-too-tan-anyway self rising up again after ten years. But I can think of few afternoons so nice as this - in my kitchen barefoot and swaying back and forth while I try to cream butter and sugar by hand to make chocolate & peanut butter chip cookies. If only every day could be this easy.

(Note: if you're nutty enough to cream butter by hand cause your friend is using your KitchenAid mixer, make sure the handle of whatever you are using is comfortable. Ow.)

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Comments

[halfacork.livejournal.com]

My computer is actually in the table eat here part of the kitchen, where we don't eat, or I do, it's all about eating in front of the computers. But. Anyway.

Cooking and I are. Well.

I made your pie!

[delchi.livejournal.com]

Oh hell yes, I want to share a kitchen with you! Crank it up!

[katen.livejournal.com]

I sing in the kitchen, usually along to standards. The singing isn't pretty and neither is the cooking.

[brienze.livejournal.com]

I always have the tv on... CNN Headline until I practically have the repeats memorized, or cooking shows TiVo's gotten that don't hold enough interest for me to watch with undivided attention, or things like What Not To Wear or Biography or Inside the Actor's Studio (which, this reminds me, I need to go give some more thumbs up, because I hardly ever get those). Or Aladdin, Into the Woods, or a Goo Goo Dolls concert DVD if I feel like something I can sing to.

My parents always watched the evening news during dinner (the concept of a formal meal where you politely talk about everyone's day and ask to be excused when you're done is completely alien to me). I guess their idea of 'noise in the kitchen' just stuck.

music

[schmidtybooger.livejournal.com]

I actually chose my cooking music based on what I'm cooking. Edith Pilaf for french food, Neko Case or Old 97's for southern comfort food, etc.
There's something so soothing about making delicious food and swaying to good music.

[ladyofthelog.livejournal.com]

Man, I have totally cooked whilst listening to VNV Nation, possibly Apoptygma Berserk as well! (I can't say for certain as to the last, but the crazy ex played AB frequently and I definitely cooked freqently, and I often listen to music while cooking.)

[nimlowyn.livejournal.com]

Tori Amos and conversation with my fella, mostly. :D