Non spoiler Comic Com footage

http://insidetv.ew.com/2013/07/18/sherlock-comic-con-benedict-cumberbatch/

Despite what Ben the huge goof says, no spoiler for Sherlock. Spoiler for character ID in Star Trek (bit does anyone not know that at this point?). Martin earns his sardonic reputation.

I've either been dumb or ethical. I'm not actually sure which.

I just spent $25 to soothe my conscience. From the moment I saw this quilt I wanted to make it. Not as a quilt, but as a knit project - I can see exactly where to start to make this entire thing in one piece.

Since it's in a book with instructions, I figured that if I bought the book, I had essentially bought a license to make the thing... no matter *how* I wanted to make it.

The book is meant to sell fabric, but to be honest, a lot of those patterns are knittable.

In which I buy cookbooks. Unsurprisingly.

I have a thing about cookbooks. A thing that M thinks should land me on Hoarders, only they're all shelved. In the two full-length bookshelves it takes to hold them.

Anyway... I bought Vegan Cooking for Dummies because the whole vegan part of VVO is still eluding me. Especially after bringing home an entire bag of vegan cookbooks from the library, I still found more interesting vegan recipes via a close reading of a Jewish cookbook I already had.

I bought a Nigella one because I'm slowly collecting the entire set.

But the one I think I'm going to have the most fun with is Southern Living's Off The Eaten Path: Favorite Southern Dives and 150 Recipes That Made Them Famous. A lot of the recipes need pre-made processed food, but even so this is exactly the kind of quirky that acts like catnip on me. I am going to find reasons to make the apple walnut bourbon chutney! And a simple substitution should turn the Roasted Brussels Sprouts and Oyster Mushrooms with Sherry vegan.

But there are a surprising amount of lobster recipes from these supposed "dives."


Also, tomorrow after the JASNA tea, I'm going to try a new thing. If it works, Martha Stewart will have seriously changed my life and eating habits. (If it doesn't work, I'll've ruined $4 of linguini and baby spinach, so no real biggie.)