blob

today i feel like a blob.

a headachey, coughy, throat-hurty blob.

and it is so pooey. 

i stayed home from rehearsal and schnitzel lunch and work,

and sat in bed and ate salami sandwiches

and looked at things on the computer.

i wished i could go outside and play,

and maybe go see antony and the johnsons play at radio city.

but i don't think i will do that...

because i feel like a blob.

-yeh :-/

the chicken egg.

 for weeks i lived off eggs prepared in various ways.

it was the most energetic few weeks of my life,

signaled in part by how great my long runs were. yeah!

would you vote that it is possible to eat a different egg dish

 every day of the year?

i would. maybe even for two years.

anywho, i narrowed the possibilities down to four and wrote recipes for them, 

as well as a narrative on my relationship 

with the egg, and they are now published in the wildly beautiful

winter issue of

the violet 

so go get your protein on!

-yeh!

happy new year!!

"happy lunar new year, erryone!"

says one half of me.

the other half celebrated back in september,

and currently my two halves are battling over which new year was tastier.

oh is it close!

because we're basically talking apple donuts vs. dark chocolate sesame balls,

and pumpkin ice cream vs. orange black sesame ice cream.

alls i know is, i am on dumpling hangover after an amazing chinese new year party last night.
{quoth the invitation, "100+ dumplings"}
there were big dumplings and bigger dumplings and gooey ones and
sweet ones... there were ones i had never had before, and ones that got deformed, so by default we deep fried them.
oh it was great!
my favorite non-edible part was the company,
and how everyone had a dslr glued to their face.
it was camera dumpling shoptalk everywhere and i am unashamed to say i loved it.
p.s. who else is super excited that it's dragon year? i would totally have a pet dragon if i was a mermaid.
-yeh!

note to self

dear molly-of-two-days-ago:

if you don't stay in and nurse that nasty cough back to health,

and order the cheap wine to accompany your fried pizza,

and then proceed to accidentally stay out until the morning time

playing bocce ball in brooklyn with rob,

and then make a little stop in times square on the way home 

during a snow storm,

you will wake up the next morning with a full blown nasty cold.

and you will be forced to take shot after shot of dayquil,

chased by about four different batches of matzo ball soup.

 you'll also be forced to stay in and make peanut butter sandwich cookies 

{using the treats truck recipe}

and you will be coughing coughing all through sunday football.

and guess what!

it will all be worth it and your friends will take care of you

and, yes, a complete stranger will give you a high five 

because he thinks you're pretty.

in two days you will be tired and you will have a hurty throat,

but you'll have a fun little grin on your face because this weekend

was magnificent!

-yeh!!

if i had a dollar

if i had a dollar and a piece of sushi for every time i coughed in the past 24 hours, i would be rich with an apartment full of contaminated sushi. 

this red velvet tea isn't doing its job. i think i'm going to have to bring out the big guns today in the form of halls. ohhh sad coughing panda.

-yeh

interview: kyle brightwell

some time during 2008, kyle discovered that if ever i was mad at him {which happened quite a bit}, he could compliment me on my hair and everything would be fine. he got away with stealing a lot of cymbals from my setups that way. regardless of that, he is one of my favorite humans, and i am so proud of him because as of last week, he is part of the boston symphony orchestra! 

here is a little interview with him:

what was the first thing you ate after you won the bso audition?

  mcdonald's, 6am. only thing vegetarian-friendly was a hash brown. regretted it immediately.

did you ever feel like you were going to vom during the audition?

almost constantly.

malletech browns or innovative rusts or the american drum convertabell mallets?

oh you're just asking for it with this one. i strongly endorse all american drum crotale related products.

if you could choose any processed cheese product, such as kraft singles or ez cheese, to be endorsed by, which would you choose?

never had a thing for processed cheese. however, i am desperate to be endorsed by the forever lazy {available by calling 877-291-8657, or visit https://www.orderforeverlazy.com/, or at all bed bath & beyonds}. pelase check out the dope infomercial as well. mckay and i used these to sleep/practice in for audition prep. we think there is something magic in that made-in-china fleece-wear.

 using three words, describe how you felt after that juice cleanse you did in july.

i'd like to make this funny, but honestly, that experience was the best.  accomplished, whole, zen.

who was the best cook in the juilliard percussion department when you were here?

aww molly wants a shoutout.  who else??  the incomparable YEH.

thanks, kyky!!!

-yeh!!!!

{photo by kevin wong}

homemade sno-balls

my favorite thing to do when i'm at a bodega waiting for my friends to make a beer selection is waddle on over to the hostess/tastykake shelf and give a little squeeze to the sno-balls. a little pillsbury-esque giggle is usually the sound effect i make for this action. as a texture obsessor, the hostess sno-ball has got to be the most texturally pleasing object i've ever met. maybe this lends insight as to why boys like boobies so much? idk.

when sno-balls appeared on my chrismukkuh list mum was kind enough to buy me some, which is when i realized how terrible they actually taste. the cake is dry like sand and there is only a pea-sized amount of frosting on the inside. no wonder hostess is bankrupt. but the idea is spot on: sugar inside of sugar inside of sugar coated in sugar? HELL YEAH. so i made my own and they were outstandingly messy but delicious and just as fun to smash as the store-bought kind. so if you're feeling nostalgic and also gastronomic {and if you have butt loads of time and your cleaning service is coming tomorrow} make these! 

step one: the cake

make a batch of chocolate cupcakes using magnolia's recipe.

let them cool,

and then trim around each cupcake, removing about a quarter inch from the circumference.

set aside.

step two: the marshmallow

make a batch of marshmallows using alton brown's recipe,

but instead of greasing and dusting a rectangular pan,

grease and dust a cupcake pan, and add a cup of shredded coconut to the dusting mixture {powdered sugar + cornstarch}.

once you're done whipping the marshmallow, work quickly and fill the cupcake pan half way, and then press a cake into each cup so that the marshmallow rises around the cake {do this one at a time so the marshmallow doesn't set before you get the cake in}.

step three: the frosting

make half a batch of vanilla butter cream frosting using magnolia's recipe,

put it in a piping bag,

and then fill those puppies up while they're still in the cupcake pan.

step four: flip over the pan and enjoy!!!

-yeh!!!!