tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51391768207663526042024-03-13T11:10:52.684-07:00The Danica ComplexDanicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.comBlogger135125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-75493176212766650142013-02-16T17:48:00.001-08:002013-02-16T17:49:44.572-08:00Paleo PancakesIt may have been two years since I posted...
but I still check back on my blog for recipes.
Here's one I'm sick of scrolling through 12 months of photos on Instagram for.
PALEO PANCAKES!!
A.K.A Lembas Bread (but taster)
I also forgot to add "1 c of bananas" to the written recipe in the picture below.
Danica Northend Sheeanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16460460863056926619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-51636946285057445002011-09-14T09:05:00.001-07:002011-09-14T09:22:29.485-07:00I Wrote Down a Dream I Had Pt I I had a dream we visited a gift-shop. The store had an "N" out front – for what, I don't know, but it pleased me to think it was the same letter as the name I had before we were married. At first we thought it odd to meander the isles and see framed prom pictures displayed for sale. They looked like they were supposed be generic filler photos, like in the rows of identical frames at Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-37672829360418414632011-05-22T15:32:00.000-07:002011-05-22T15:32:00.467-07:00The Estate Sale LadySome images from the coolest estate sale ever (cinematographer and model maker)Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-19215531021140601852011-05-20T08:34:00.000-07:002011-05-20T16:30:54.113-07:00Pie of the Week: Grampy's Strawberry and Danica's Banana Pie
My grandparents love me. But perhaps not more than a fresh strawberry pie since that's what they hung up the phone on me for. ;)
It seemed appropriate to stammer loudly into the receiver before *click* "You better send me that recipe!"
And they did! My grandparents love me.
I wasn't sure what to expect for the contents of a strawberry pie. I sort of imagined how gross cherries for cherry pie Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-83081540598848965712011-05-05T13:32:00.000-07:002011-05-05T16:38:41.582-07:00Pie of the Week: My Favorite Color PieI hesitate to tell you the ingredients in this pie.... only because of they walk the "vegetable" line and that might turn some people off. At the same time, I think I'm pretty brilliant for coming up with what to do with my same-colored farmer's market leftovers!Can you guess what my favorite color is?Honestly – it's green... but orange is a very close second!Despite the pound of carrots in this Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-17328269934078392332011-04-13T23:00:00.000-07:002011-05-31T20:46:02.778-07:00I cooked Pistachio Cardamom Sea Salt Brownies.
Last year, when Matt, Malachi, Keiko and I made a trip to Portland for Stumptown, I was 7 months pregnant and in need ofsomething with protein, something with chocolate, and something that would be commemorative of that particular need in that particular place on the particular trip.
And that is how I managed to sniff out some arbitrary (however highly pretentious and forgettable) coffee shopDanicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-294066224911187592011-04-10T23:59:00.001-07:002011-04-18T09:01:15.550-07:00My favorite place in the world: The Huntington Library's Succulent Gardens.
The summer of 2009 (the roughest summer of my existence), Matt & I serendipitously stumbled upon the Huntington Library on Free Day while job hunting around town. Even though we had an entire day of desperate employment hunting planned, we seized the moment and took advantage of the free entry to the gardens. We spent the entire afternoon on the grounds and barely made it through the Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-83019287792343331042011-04-07T17:26:00.000-07:002011-04-07T17:45:16.312-07:00I cooked rainbow pancakes!
This morning I somehow awoke 30 minutes before Petra. Since I've been playing on Pinterest with much of my free time, I decided to put my new found inspiration to work over breakfast! I wanted to make a rainbow cake, but rainbows seems more like a breakfast treat!
'Twas a pretty simply concept to execute, all I did was added food coloring (about four drops) to 3/4 cups of pancake batter Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-82477811736829251282011-04-03T14:34:00.000-07:002011-04-05T15:02:38.425-07:00I learned that it's record cold in Michigan this winter! And that means there are icebergs on Lake Michigan...My parents recently moved to Michigan after finishing seminary in MIssouri and Kansas. Both of them are California, born and raised, as are their daughters. Their adventure to the midwest has been a family-wide experience and even their brothers and sisters, intrepid as they are, cannot admit to ever having visited (or even wanted to ever visit) any part of the country beyond the Sierras! But Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-2364429998306810092011-03-29T23:20:00.000-07:002011-03-30T00:28:04.356-07:00I found out Adam Wallacavage has a show at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City!My heart is pounding and I can barely type...I love Adam Wallacavage's cooky, turn-of-the-century-turned-tentacle chandeliers (I had another post on his earlier work and, myself am working on some sculpture) and I am enraptured and flabbergasted that his newest works are down the freeway from me in Culver City's Corey Helford Gallery!His latest is truly breathtaking. I cannot appreciate enough Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-86000432293221977622011-03-26T09:19:00.000-07:002011-03-30T07:48:03.838-07:00Ashley Made me a Happy Birthday!
A month ago I sent Ashley a cigar-box birthday package full of wax-paper wrapped goodies to remind her of home and of her passions - instant snow, multi-flavored local honey sticks, a tree, and - the crowning piece - a prism! (Ashley loves triangles and colors - how could she not own a prism?!)
What I got back for my birthday package was even better!! Beautifully illustrated sea-creatures Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-69053201315405320602011-03-14T11:55:00.000-07:002011-03-30T00:18:08.364-07:00I cooked some dang good pizza too late for Pi Day.var switchTo5x=true;stLight.options({publisher:'db51377f-f654-4f28-9800-fdd629dcd730'}); (Photo courtesy of The Petit Chef - who included figs in their pizza!)I missed Pi Day (3/14) – what a shame! – so I am backdating this entry commemoratively. Every year since I first discovered π Day I manage to miss it in favor of my enthusiasm for the Ides of March (3/15). Oh the conflicts of multiple nerdyDanicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-67752296610959632262011-01-06T22:04:00.000-08:002011-01-06T22:37:36.427-08:00I found an incredible set of post-WWII photos.
One of the perks of working in storage facilities is cleaning out the abandoned units. You would think its the kind of job that belongs on Dirty Jobs, and often it is (one time we had a customer who's doggie hotel went bankrupt and as a result he was able to keep is stuff in storage for 3 years without paying OR accessing it... this included dog food that attracted crickets which attracted Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-27779875224946073032010-12-27T09:44:00.001-08:002010-12-28T15:30:02.310-08:00I cooked eggnog (the cooking is, apparently, optional).Re-appropriated glass milk bottles from my two favorite dairies!At last week's Pasadena Farmers' Market I bought a pallet of eggs from a local guy (not as good as my mother-in-law's friends' eggs, but definitely tastier than any store bought eggs I've tried!). This week, I had not baked enough pies or cookies calling for so many eggs to consume them before our trip out of town to the folks. Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-86098923691992227002010-12-21T22:16:00.000-08:002010-12-22T07:12:28.443-08:00I made a biscuit wreath.I love biscuits and I love wreaths so this was a ridiculously and easy joyful craft for me!I first saw the idea on A Semi-Homemade Thanksgiving, but after scouring downtown San Luis Obispo for leaf shaped cookie cutters, I settled on some fun shapes that the Sheean household already had at hand.The only ingredient needed for this quick n' easy, pretty biscuit wreath is Pillsbury/Trader Joe's Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-4479948061227380812010-12-15T09:36:00.000-08:002010-12-15T09:41:57.475-08:00I made an Elf Yourself movie.Its not Christmas without dancing Sheean elves!Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-50761058085092926242010-12-09T12:40:00.000-08:002010-12-09T13:31:50.320-08:00I made a cuttlefish!
Dear reader,
If you are not Casey Fay, you may read on.
Otherwise, you are going to have to turn back now because the following post is about the incredible Christmas present your girlfriend got you.
If you stumbled upon me because you were Googling yourself and found your name and illustrations on my blog, then you should be totally embarrassed that I caught you!! And that I'm going to tell Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-179464714919559512010-11-22T14:41:00.000-08:002010-11-23T16:01:05.808-08:00Dairy- & Gluten-free Pine Nut PieUnbaked pie - bakes into a pretty, marbly surface!
I know that last week I wrote on my Pine Nut Pie recipe and that this week - if anyone was paying attention to the Pie of the Week widget off to the right - I was supposed to write on a made-up recipe for Banana Nutella, but to be honest, my Banana Nutella Pie did not turn out as well as I had hoped whilst my Pine Nut Pie seems to be improving!
Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-77094102827541174942010-11-19T06:11:00.000-08:002010-11-19T11:33:08.031-08:00I love Mumford & Sons.For a long time I have been trying to figure out how to post about Mumford & Sons. I didn't want to merely refer to them or provide only a simple sound clip. When Ashley came to visit for a few weeks from Indonesia, she brought with her this wonderful band. Matt and I have been listening to it almost nonstop since making the deliberate decision to patronize the band!And now, from a friend of Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-18758847957794022602010-11-16T16:19:00.000-08:002010-11-23T15:25:55.986-08:00Chocolate Chip Pine Nut Pie AND How to Build a Pie (I)I have been hesitant to try this pie... I know what pinenuts (pignoli s) taste like - and I know I like them - but once again I find myself asking, in a pie? I'd never heard of it except as one of the recipes listed in my Pie book. But this book has since gone over-due and was returned to the library this week, leaving me recipe-less. I did make a copy of the recipe... but heck if I can find it.
Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-2887846548808975242010-11-10T23:49:00.000-08:002010-11-17T13:13:14.897-08:00I learned to make Japanese water balloons!A few weeks ago, Ashley put up a series of lovely blog posts what engendered great feelings of whimsy in me. One of the things she mentioned was sending a birthday package to a friend (I would venture to guess it went to mutual friend currently featured in Ashley's blog) that had a bag, with instructions, full of folded origami balloons. I decided I must learn this for myself! And then put these Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-30176757962290226232010-11-07T08:23:00.000-08:002010-11-17T13:13:14.898-08:00Ginger Custard Pie (with Mocha Sauce)
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This was my first custard pie. If you've never made custard or pondered the ingredients, custard is essentially all kinds of cream heated (perhaps with the addition of sugar) and then allowed to cool into a pudding - it just might be humankind's greatest invention.But in a pie? Well... I have to admit that while Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-32967747723160553582010-11-04T14:30:00.000-07:002010-11-17T13:13:14.899-08:00The first thing I ever filmed.I used to be a performing arts geek. I loved being on the stage for band, choir and the annual high school musicals - but when I broke up with my boyfriend my senior year (who was involved with most of these things and, thus, had lots of friends in the same classes as me) I had a really hard time losing myself in these interests with his and his kind involved at equally intimate levels.Luckily, IDanicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-52536386279309029922010-11-01T13:55:00.000-07:002010-11-17T13:13:14.901-08:00Honey Pumpkin Date with 'Mallow Topping
In a nutshell:1) Thoroughly blend all the ingredients together, taking care that the dates are cut to bite-sized bits.2) Pour into your prebaked graham cracker pie crust, distributing date pieces evenly3) Bake at 350 F for 20 min, rotate pie, bake for 25 more min at 450 F4) Remove, let cool, place in the refrigerator for at least 3 hoursjust before serving,
5) cover chilled pie with Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5139176820766352604.post-73471258305118475232010-10-27T00:45:00.001-07:002010-11-17T13:13:14.905-08:00I learned about Japanese mayo.
This weekend we got some Meghan Janssen. In honor of this getting, we made a jaunt to Little Tokyo to look for manga art supplies and prepare our moods for Japanese dinner and My Neighbor Totoro!
The weather rapidly changed from rainy to sunny during the short jaunt down I-110 from Pasadena to the heart of LA. It made for some wonderful pictures:
Upon returning home, unsuccessful in Danicahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06525376448079124648noreply@blogger.com2