Bierox, German for "SO DELICIOUS IT HURTS"

For today's entry (which I'm doing on time if I finish this post in the next half hour!) I will be sharing my favorite recipe. Most of the people who read this know that I love bierox. That is how I spell it, I have no idea if this is correct. After googling it, apparently it is Bierocks. I think this is nonsense, since "x"s improve everything (for example: xXMeggyBXx looks way cooler than MeggyB) so anyway, Bierox/Bierocks is a german meat pocket thing. It's bread dough wrapped around cooked onion, cabbage and ground beef. It goes well with mustard (spicy brown or yellow, none of this honey mustard bs) and beer (any kind of beer as long as it's not dessert beer).

Since the recipe that we usually use in my house is somewhere upstairs and I am lying in bed downstairs snuggled in my blankets because the heat is not on I will just google a recipe for you...

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bierocks+recipe

aaaand:

This is the one I decided would work, the very first link.

Ingredients

• 2 (1 pound) loaves frozen bread dough, thawed
• 1 pound ground beef
• 1 onion, chopped
• 1 clove garlic, crushed
• 1 1/2 teaspoons salt
• 1 1/2 teaspoons lemon pepper
• 1 small head cabbage, chopped
• 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
• 2 teaspoons caraway seeds
• 1/2 cup melted butter

First off, you should make your own damn dough. That's half the fun. I can't remember the recipe off the top of my head, so you can just google a recipe for bread dough or pizza dough (it's the same thing essentially). Secondly, we never use garlic, lemon pepper, caraway seeds or Worcestershire sauce. I guess this is supposed to be more savory, and thus the added flavors. For the legit (read: the one that i eat) version just don't use that stuff.

Directions

1. Saute beef, onion and garlic, salt and lemon pepper in a large skillet over medium high heat, until beef is browned. Add cabbage, Worcestershire sauce and caraway seeds. Cook until cabbage is limp; drain liquid from mixture. [ We cook the beef and the onion and cabbage in two different pans. Cook the onions first until they're translucent. Then cook the cabbage. Cook the beef in a separate pan and DRAIN IT then let it cool so it doesn't cook the dough when you go to make the little pockets. add the onions and cabbage and beef together in a giant bowl and mix well so that there's a good ratio of vegetable to meat. the ideal ratio is 1:1. ]
   
2. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C) [I have no idea if this is right. it probably is]
   
3. On a lightly floured board, roll each loaf of dough into a 12 inch circle. Cut each circle into 6 wedges. Spoon cabbage/beef filling onto center of each dough piece, dividing equally. Pull three points of each wedge up to the center and pinch to seal. Place bierocks on a lightly greased cookie sheet. If desired, brush dough with melted butter or egg wash (1 egg white with 2 tablespoons water).[this sounds about right. my favorite type of bierocks is the one that there's a lot of filling and just a thin dough exterior. Ones that are mostly dough and a smidgen of filling are tasty too, but only when cold and kind of sticky)
   
4. Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes, or until golden brown. Serve hot, or wrap and freeze for heating later.

Or for midnight snacking, breakfast, second lunch, a pre-dinner snack, second dinner, dessert...I love bierocks and eat them at all times of the day. I also love them cold. It's probably not good to eat them cold, but the bread part gets sticky and delicious if there's enough filling to thin it out. That sentence doesn't make much sense unless you've had bierocks before. So really, you just have to make them and learn all the ways to enjoy them for yourselves.

Okie Dokie, so that's it for today! Tomorrow is a self portrait! Good thing I just got my hair cut :)
<3 Til tomorrow,
MeggyB

Too much awesomeness for one entry.

So yesterday I didn't even bother to turn my computers on except to change my facebook status and to check the weather. Which means I forgot to write the blog for day 9. All that means is that you get to read two VERY interesting entries in one day! Hooray! (hopefully I'll keep up from now on)

So without further ado, a list of my favorite bloggers for day 9:
I'm going to list my favorite 5 blogs in no particular order.

1) The Bloggess : Why should you click this link? Because it leads to hilarity. The Bloggess is a married with a child woman with a sense of humor that is one I can appreciate. Also, James Garfield is the shit. If you want to know what the hell that means, read her blog. Believe me, it's worth the time you'll spend checking out the links in her entries to understand some of what she's talking about.

2) Cake Wrecks : It's a blog about scary cake decorating disasters with funny commentary. The application of MST3K style commentary on anything is sure to win my heart.

3) Pink is the New Blog : One of two gossip blogs that I read. Not every day, but if I'm feeling like wasting an afternoon doing nothing I sit and catch up on all the crap that I shouldn't care to know about but secretly do. The benefit of this blog is that it is not PEOPLE, which means it was written by a man. Win.

4) The Superficial : Staunch feminists beware, this blog is written by a straight man about celebrities (which means most entries are "so and so's boobs" or "so and so is in a bikini"). But with these headlines and the several photos of so and so's body is a scathing commentary that, I suspect, is meant to be a condemnation of people who actually take this shit seriously. I find his commentary hilarious and thus can overlook the blatant objectification of women's body parts. that makes me a bad feminist, but I'm okay with that (because who doesn't want to see Emma Watson's almost nip slip?!)

5) Regretsy : If you've ever been to etsy.com you'll know that there are some treasures to be found. This is not the site for that. Regretsy, as its name would suggest, highlights all the weird and horribly bad things one can find on etsy. April, the author of this blog, is sarcastic and snarky and thus funny. If that doesn't work out, a lot of the images speak for themselves. With all this craziness comes an entire set of memes that one must learn from reading from the very first page to the most current one. The website is a year old, so that's a lot of reading to do. But not to worry, you can still understand what's going on without doing that. Just remember, whimsicle fuckery [the typo is on purpose] is the name of the game.

After thinking about the 5 blogs I've linked I can see that I like snarky commentary and lols for my internet reading material. I hope you do too :3 <3

And now, for a letter to someone that has hurt me greatly/who I would like to die in a fire.

Dear Stephanie Meyer,
I fucking hate you. Now, I'm sure you've heard this all from other radical heathens before, but hear me out. It pains me to admit this but I loved your series, I loved it so much I re-read each book several times and wished that I had my own Edward Cullen. I was 18-19 years old when I read it too, not some impressionable 13 year old girl. I am deeply embarrassed that I wasted my precious time on your crap novels. I am even more embarrassed because I know I will go see Breaking Dawn Parts 1 and 2 (you ripped that off from Harry Potter, you bitch).
Since you're a fan of lists as "edgy new literary techniques" I'll make one in the middle of my rageletter to you.
Reasons I don't like your books anymore/Why they should be burned and your right to publish things revoked
1) You are a misogynist. You might be asking yourself "wait, I'm a woman how could I hate women?". I don't know Stephanie, but it's clear from reading your books that women are meant to be subordinate to their male partner (and no lesbians are allowed either). This is probably partially influenced by your being a Mormon. A psychoanalyst might claim you hate yourself and that is reflected in your writing. This can't be true because the female characters in The Host were strong and capable (although Melanie did "need" Jared). But seriously, all the women who are attached to men are happy and content and all kinds of nauseating and boring adjectives. The women who do not have a "mate" are Victoria (who is a villain and hell-bent on killing your mary sue) and Leah Clearwater (who you call a bitter harpy numerous times and blame her for the ending of her relationship with Sam even though Sam imprinted on Emily and Leah had no control on that).

Which leads me to my next point:
2) Women in your stories do not do anything, things are done to them. There is no female choice in ANY of your books. Bella is TOLD by Edward to do things and she does them or he just forces her to do what he wants (kidnapping, removing cables from her truck so she can't drive it, standing guard around her house, he uses sex as a way to get her to marry him, he uses his "dazzling" ability to make her forget about why she's arguing with him). Rosalie and Esme are not given a choice by Carlisle to be turned into vampires rather they are just bitten to save them because they were so beautiful and innocent. Imprinting is the best example of this because all the wolves are Male (except for Leah and you make sure to point out that she is a genetic dead end because she is female and a wolf) and when they imprint it is automatic and there is "no choice". To make this seem less horrible, you claim it's true love and they're soul mates and all kinds of shit so that it doesn't seem like these females (because you have wolves that have imprinted on INFANTS) are being held hostage by crazy wolf obsession.

3) You insert Mormon propaganda into your books like it's your job. And maybe it is. Except you pay the church instead of them paying you. So is that like you bribing god to get into heaven? For those of you reading this, part of the whole LDS church business is a sort of due that members pay based on what they earn. Stephanie Meyer has made millions off the Twilight series and thus the LDS Church has too. That aside, the concept of imprinting also brings up the LDS belief in predestination and soul mates. Before someone is born to Earth they pick their future partner/mate and that is the person they will marry on earth. The diction you use describing imprinting is of possession, predestination and "soul mates". Jacob was DESTINED to be with the half-vampire half-human love child of his best friend and his worst enemy and thus HE WILL NOT AGE UNTIL THEIR KID IS OF AGE. Mmhmm. kay. For Jacob's case specifically this also ensures that Bella and Edward were DESTINED to be together because they HAD to create this baby for Jacob to imprint on. It's all just one predestined storyline. Also, the whole "turning Bella into a vampire" is a euphemism for SEX. Edward won't turn Bella until they're...MARRIED. SURPRISE. NO pre-marital vampirism. Oh hey, replace vampirism with sex and blood with vagina and you're set. "Don't change yourself into a vampire before we're married Bella, think about what it would do to your parents!"... "Don't have sex with me before we're married Bella, what would your parents say?!". So yeah, I'm all for 13 year olds being abstinent but abstinence only sex-ed only hurts the teenage population (this is why we have shows like Teen Mom. not the only reason, but one of many).

So, Stephanie Meyer let me sum it up for you so far: you hate women and love Christ's Church of the Latter Day Saints (and wtf does that even mean, the latter day saints? anyone?). Now, in my previous day's entry I said I was a bad feminist. But I am a feminist. You hate women and make them out to be pathetic if they don't have a "male partner" (read: master). You accuse Leah of being less than a "full woman" because she doesn't get a period (true story, guys). If a woman is defined only by her ability to reproduce then why do you glorify Alice, Rosalie and Esme who cannot have children? (oh, that's right, because they're white and Leah is not) The hypocrisy is just an added bonus to the clusterfuck of shittery that is the Twilight Series. Having a Mary Sue for a main character also makes your novels suck a whole lot because immediately there is NO substance to the character. You try really hard to convince your readers that Bella's a very interesting character but all she does is whine, trip and blame herself for things that were not her fault at all. She is pathetic and you are a horrible writer for using a Mary Sue. Your writing also just sucks. You don't need 5 adjectives to describe that Edward is looking at Bella. That must be why your novels average 400 pages.

In Conclusion, you have destroyed a generation of young readers. I grew up with Harry Potter and was delighted with the magical world JK created. I am enchanted by her characters and the endless possibilities presented in her world. Your characters are barely 1 dimensional and offer little for a reader to work with when trying to understand the character. The world of Twilight centers around this group of "vegetarian" (another reason i hate you) vampires and their little human pet and ALL THE DRAMA that leads to ANTICLIMAX. You spent 700 pages of breaking dawn building up to this EPIC battle between the Volturi and the Cullens/their witnesses/the wolves only for the Volturi to go "okay lol we can see we were wrong, bye". Seriously?! You suck. And not in a good way.
Love (but not really),
MeggyB

p.s: Expect an even longer letter when I have exact quotes and page numbers for you. Oh, and I'll use that leaked copy of Midnight Sun to highlight how you are okay with stalking if you're "in love" (even though in 2000ish pages I've never once been convinced Bella and Edward love each other)





So there you have it folks. Sorry if that rage was too much rage for you, but I get pretty worked up about it. Especially because my little cousin is reading this shit and thinks it's great but I can't explain why it's wrong to her without yelling or swearing.

Til tomorrow my loverly readers,
MeggyB

Ketchup!

KAY. So I'm going to catch up with all the things that I was supposed to do the last 3 days. So, here's the list of what I should do:
DAY 5: A letter to your Crush (23)
DAY 6: List of what you ate today (24)
DAY 7: A YouTube video you find funny (25)
Day 8: A photo of you taken recently (26)

Ready for the longest blog entry ever? Me either.

Dear person who I have a crush on,
We met when I was eleven. I didn't like you at first, especially because you were super mean to people I like. It wasn't until I was 16 that I realized you were a great guy. You were just too snarky in the beginning without any kind of provocation.

It's too bad that you're a fictional character. Seriously, what's up with that? *sighhh* Why can't you be real, Severus Snape?
Love,
MeggyB


Day 6: What I ate today (december 24th)
Since the day for this was christmas eve, suffice it to say I ate a lot. I also had delicious sangria (and coors light, but we won't mention that again). For breakfast I think I had toast, lunch was a lot of snacky foods (veggies, raspberry and brie in filo dough, spinich and artichoke dip, etc) and then dinner was stuffed shrimp, scallops, filet mignon wrapped in bacon, rice, veggies and lots of sangria. then desert was lots of cookies. lots and lots and lots of cookies. and then i had a coma.

Day 7: A video that I find funny

Oooooooh, boy. Okay, so I will share two videos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMKdyhXmBaA

This one is "Too Late to Apologize- King George " As a history geek this video tickles my fancy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhrF0wDiUI4

This is Episode 1 of Sailor Moon Abridged. It is hilarious if you've ever seen sailor moon. I almost peed. Yeah, i went there.


Okay! So now that I've done three very short catch up entries, here's today's.

Day 8: A picture of me taken recently.

For christmas eve my sisters and I decided to wear incredibly scary christmas outfits. I look like david bowie in these photos. If david bowie was female. Since it was taken a few days ago, this is an incredible recent photo! Oh boy :3



as you can see, i am rocking a sweet ass 90s jacket, complete with tuxedo tails and bow where a tramp stamp would be. And yes, those are velvet leggings and scooby doo slippers. It's not the most flattering photo, but none of them from today were because of the crazy david bowie makeup.



This photo is from later in the night when i'd rubbed at my makeup all day. Be jealous of those sweet froot loop necklaces (no pun intended).
There you go :)
<3
MeggyB

Happy Holidays!

In case anyone has noticed, I didn't post yesterday and I probably won't post today either for the 50 day project. I'll catch up tomorrow from where I left off! Yesterday was spent with my family eating lots of food and playing games :) Today will be spent in the same fashion! So, Happy Holidays everyone, I hope that Santa/Baby Jesus was good to you and that if you're spending time with your family it's good time!
Love,
MeggyB

Oh, sweet youth.

That's not to say I'm not still young! But when I was younger I was super cute! Today's prompt is to post a picture of me from at least 10 years ago. I'll do you one better, I'll share TWO adorable pictures :)


this is from when I was...10 or 11? So roughly 11 or 12 years ago! I'm the one on the right in the striped short sleeve turtle neck knit shirt. I loved that shirt. dina's the one on the left, obviously with her fabulous velour flower shirt (i had one too). Gotta love late 90s fashion! Aaand that stunner in the middle is our dog Jagger. He was the shit. Not a fan of pictures, apparently.

And this christmas gem is from when i was a wee little young thing. Maybe 4-6? I have no idea. But look at the hair on Lara! That kid has more hair than I do! What's worse, I have no idea if I'm the one at the top or the one next to Lara. I think I'm the one on the top. Pretty sure. But yeah, aren't we just too cute?

Tomorrow's post will be a letter to my crush. Get ready for that hilarity!
<3 Til Tomorrow,
MeggyB

The subject of this will post will be epic

So it's Day 3 of the 50 day project! Today, I'm supposed to talk about my favorite movie. That is incredibly difficult, since I really like a lot of movies. If there was some kind of genre provided to narrow things down, that would be nice. But really, there's only one movie that I can think of that touches me every time I watch it.

That movie is The Fountain. The beauty of The Fountain is that it takes place in three different time periods. The first is during the early 18th century (I'm guessing. It might actually be the 17th century) when Spain was colonizing South America. Hugh Jackman plays Tomas, who is a conquistador. Rachel Weiss is Isabel, the Queen of Spain. [yeah, i had to IMDB the names] There's some sexy love relationship stuff going on there. Also, there's a crazy Inquisitor who wants to kill the Queen because she's a heathen. I don't know enough about Spanish history to have a clue if this was true. But anyway, Tomas is sent on a quest for the Fountain of Youth. The next time period is the present, in which Hugh/Tommy is a biologist who's working to find a cure for cancer and his wife is Rachel/Izzy who has cancer. SADNESS ENSUES. The third time period is in this weird afterlife type situation in which Hugh/Tommy is trying to reach Nirvana with the Tree of Life (who is actually Isabel/Izzy). Since I buy into the whole reincarnation circle of life deal, this movie appeals to me on several levels. I cried for the last half of the movie, and every time I watch it I cry. The characters are well developed and their relationships are realistic and convincing. I was heartbroken when Hugh Jackman's present time character was heartbroken. This is probably the only movie I've cried so hard over. Seriously. Not only is the story beautiful because it's about soul mates and true love, but the imagery of Hugh's character finding his way to Nirvana is breathtaking. Seriously guys, if you haven't seen this movie you need to.
Gorgeousssss.


<3 See you tomorrow!
MeggyB

I like lists

Day two's task is for me to make a bulleted list of everything that I did today. I think this is an incredibly boring assignment, but will go ahead and do it so maybe tomorrow's will be fun.

• Woke up at 10:45 after dreaming about being asked to drive to my sister's boyfriend's house (which in my dream was 4 hours away) to help them change a tire. Apparently I lived in navy housing at the time and liked to play basketball. I was also prone to hysterical crying jags since that's what I did for most of this dream. I also dreamt I was Hermione Granger trying to get with Fred Weasley while Severus Snape looked on and glared. Good times.
• Had some Kashi Heart to Heart cereal and read fanfiction, checked the webcomics I follow, read up on Regretsy.com and then creeped on facebook.
• I did this until 4:30 pm. (no, really)
• I took a 15 minute nap and decided it was time to get ready for Zumba. So i did that.
  
• I had Zumba from 5:30 until 6:15. I hadn't been in 2 weeks so after the first 15 minutes it was quite painful. But i liked it.
• Got home, showered and had dinner.
• Made AWESOME strawberry lemonade tea with the tea set that my loverly Jess got me.
• Watched Repo! The Genetic Opera with Dina. I originally planned on playing Scooby-Doo Creepy Capers on N64 but decided that Repo! was way cooler.
• And now I'm here. Back in bed, back on the internets. Overall I'd say it was a relaxing adventure.

Tomorrow I'm going ugly christmas sweater shopping with Amanda and Lara. I'm going to make sure to take pictures so that maybe I'll get to share on here.
<3 Til tomorrow,
MeggyB

Hi

College is over, which means that I need to fill my days with something interesting. Meaningful things would be better, but if I did something meaningful every day I'd probably get pretty tired after a week. When I say meaningful I mean doing things like solving world hunger (tell no one).

Extra bonus cool points if you get the (tell no one) reference.

So here I am, fresh out of UConn, waiting by the mailbox for my diploma and a fellow UConn student is doing this as well. I stole it from her. She also stole it from one of her friends. Gotta love the internet :)

So, for day one of the 50 day project is to introduce yourself.

Hi, my name's Megan. I'm pretty sure if you're reading this you know my name since we know each other some way or another and I gave you the link to this blog. I already mentioned that I graduated college, but if you don't know I got a BA in History. That means I can do any number of things, most of which require graduate school. So i guess that tells you what my plan for the relatively soon future is!

Other exciting things about me are that I have three sisters and a brother (in-law, but i feel like that makes it seem like we don't like each other. which is not true). But anywho, I have Amanda, Dina, Lara, and Michael. They're all super awesome for numerous reasons. I'm sure I'll gush about them more later. I also have a mom and a dad, Shelly and Bill. They're also awesome. I have been gifted by whatever power that controls stuff (or not) with an awesome nuclear family :)

I have fish for pets. Phineas is my goldfish. he started out grey and is now a gold/orange color. I have no idea if that's normal or not. He also has about 7 other names, but Phineas is the only one i remember anymore. Then I have 4 neon tetras (google it) named Mildred, Reginald, Boris and Svetlana. I also have a cori fish named Dr. Horrible (yes, after THE Dr. Horrible) and two shrimp whose names I have forgotten but I think were Gred and Forge.

I like to read, which means that I'm literate. Yay! I'm drawing a blank for what to really talk about. When I introduce myself to someone new we exchange pleasantries, maybe banter about what we do and then the conversation goes from there.

So how about this, if you read this and want to know something about me that you think would come up in conversation, comment with your question and I'll answer!

Yay!
<3 day one down, 49 to go!
MeggyB

Renaissance (wo)man

It's been more than a year since my last blog post. Not that you would know since I deleted all of the old ones. They were the whiniest most pathetic and drama filled entries since my high school LJ. Seriously.

So this is a new beginning for this blog. I'm following in the foot steps of a friend who is doing a 50 day challenge for her blog. Here are the requirements for each day:
DAY 1: Introduce yourself
DAY 2: Make a bulleted list of everything that happened in your day
DAY 3: Your favorite movie
DAY 4: A photo of you taken over ten years ago
DAY 5: A letter to your Crush
DAY 6: List of what you ate today
DAY 7: A YouTube video you find funny
Day 8: A photo of you taken recently
Day 9: List some of your favorite Tumblrs (Bloggers?)
Day 10: A letter to the person you hate most or caused you a lot of pain
Day 11: Share your favorite recipe
Day 12: We want to see your teeth today / Post a self-portrait
Day 13: Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 14: A song from your childhood
Day 15: A letter to someone you wish you could meet
Day 16: Provide pictures of 5 celebrity crushes
Day 17: A photo that makes you sad
Day 18: Set or share a goal
Day 19: Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 20: A letter to Someone that changed your life
Day 21: Your favorite television program
Day 22: A photo that makes you happy
Day 23 Share one of your current favorite tunes
Day 24 Time to face morph / http://morph.cs.st-andrews.ac.uk//Transformer/
Day 25: A letter to someone you judged by their first impression
Day 26: Favorite books
Day 27: A talent of yours
Day 28: Favorite Places to shop
Day 29: Provide the HEX code of your favorite color /http://www.febooti.com/products/iezoom/online-help/online-color-chart-picker.html
Day 30: A letter to the friendliest person you knew for only one day
Day 31: Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 32: A photo you took
Day 33: What you’re craving right now
Day 34: Your favorite quote
Day 35: A letter to an ex
Day 36: Some hobbies of yours
Day 37: A song that you like to dance to
Day 38: A photo of your parent(s)
Day 39: Zodiac sign and do you think it fits your personality
Day 40: A letter to a deceased person you wish you could talk to
Day 41: Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 42: Bad habit(s) you have
Day 43: A picture of your favorite place in the world
Day 44: Something that fascinates you and why
Day 45: A letter to yourself a year ago
Day 46: Photos of personal things in your life (pets, family, house, etc)
Day 47: Birthday wish list
Day 48: A photo of you right now
Day 49: Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 50: A letter to your reflection in the mirror.

I think it would be a very interesting way of getting to know people if you read all 50 of their posts. I'm doing this for me, and if you read and comment that's very exciting but I don't expect anyone to actually still read this blog.

Day one will be this coming Friday, prepare yourselves! :)
<3
Meggy