What’s Hot, What’s Not #5

I missed a week (or more?) of What’s Hot, What’s Not, but I’m back on track now. Time for the first WH, WN of 2010!
What’s Hot
– (Scroll down and read my first ‘What’s Not’, and then…) Discovering that one’s photo is a top return in a simple Google image search. I wondered how somebody might have come across my peony photo if they didn’t read my blog, so I tried searching for ‘peonies’ on Google Images. And what do you know — my photo is number three!
– American Elf. It’s the comic I most look forward to seeing each day. I love how honest he is about being a dad, and I love how much he adores his wife.
– My new steamer pot. I got it for Christmas and used it today to finally make seitan sausages — I’ve been wanting to try that forever! I used this recipe, and it’s very good. They’re not as dense as store-bought veggie sausages, which is the one drawback. Flavour-wise, though, they’re just right. I sliced one sausage up and sauteed it with some veggies for lunch. I think I’ll have another with potatoes tomorrow, and they’d be good in a tomato-y vegetable soup, too.
– I also made bread with a package of the Mehrkornbrot mix I brought back from Germany. I bought two packs in ’08 and was sad once I’d used them up, so I stashed away several more this past year. Making bread from scratch is hardly any more work, but it’s nice to have all the seeds already in the mix, you know? It said to bake for 45-60 Minuten, but I took it out after 40 Minuten, because it seemed done (it was), and I was hungry for my Abendessen. Bread for dinner!
What’s Not
– Finding one’s photos floating around the internet, uncredited. I was over at Apartment Therapy, looking at some of the recent posts, and I when I saw this one, I had to click to read it in full, because that photo of peonies looked awfully familiar. AT linked to this blog post in way of a credit, which happened to not bother with crediting at all. I started to think I was going a bit loony, because I couldn’t find the photo on my flickr, yet I KNEW those had been my pink peonies, my turquoise Ball jar, my table, and a glimpse of my aqua kitchen walls. I finally found the original post on twelve22, here. So… exciting to spot my photo on Apartment Therapy, but I don’t understand why people use images without so much as a credit.
– Bread for dinner. Okay, it was good while I was eating it, but I sort of regretted my decision half an hour later, when I was already hungry again. I guess bread (even with cream cheese and jam) isn’t a square meal.
– My kitchen floor. I swept and mopped it not so long ago, and it’s already disgusting again. Between the mess that shoes track in (even, somehow, when I take them off at the door) and the general messiness of using a kitchen, the floor is hopeless.
– The state of my house. I think I usually keep things fairly tidy around here, but the holidays + a sore ankle + trying to weed out the stuff I don’t need = a chaotic house. Well, chaotic for me. I’ve been engaging in some ‘relocation’ of junk to the guest bedroom, which was already in a dire state, but I’d rather move everything there for now and tackle THAT project when I’m in the mood to do so. Later.