Please excuse my delay between postings. It isn't that I haven't been keeping up with all things domestic (although, by the looks of my kitchen you'd think I'd completely forgotten cleaning supplies exist), I've just been practically underwater at that other place I go to ten hours a day. It is amazing how time consuming making other people's lives easier can be; no matter how organized or on top of things you try to be. Despite the time-consuming nature of that pesky pay-check producing hobby I've learned a number of things:1) homemade hummous is amazing, 2) "red pumpkins" are just like butternut squash and 3) every hour an egg is at room temperature ages it a day. That last one was something we discovered after the refrigerator was left open overnight because a late night bottle of water was retrieved (and we weren't the first people to Google "can you eat room temperature eggs"!).
In other news, It's getting "cooler" in Doha; and by "cooler" I mean it isn't 120 degree Fahrenheit on a daily basis. Of course, once October hits I'm not thinking things like "hey, it's finally cool enough to go to the beach again" I'm stuck with thoughts of pumpkin pie, sweatshirts, football season and the most perfect baking weather known to man. While it isn't exactly baking weather around here it is, at the least, softball season. And the Embassy softball team (which we play on) is 2-0. In any event, I'm trying to keep up with both softball and baking. This afternoon I added an RBI to my stats and made Curried-Apple tarts which, in my humble opinion, are a pretty great start to, what I lovingly (read: tongue-in-cheek) refer to as, the "Arab Autumn". Click through for the recipe.
