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	<title>Troll Cave</title>
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	<description>The Care and Feeding of Barbarians</description>
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		<title>You have angered me; feel my wrath!!!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To Whom it May Concern:
Your teas are a disgrace. Either that, or your advertising is a crime. I&#8217;ve yet to find a single one of your &#8220;fruit&#8221; teas that didn&#8217;t taste hibiscus with only slight, mild aftertastes that may or may not reflect the claimed flavor of the tea. This fact is unfortunately backed up [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://etherealland.com/trollcave/2009/02/19/you-have-angered-me-feel-my-wrath/</link>
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		<title>The Best Brownies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
I know I claimed it was against my religion (or something like that) to tell people what was or was not the &#8220;best&#8221; of anything. So. . .
(1) I didn&#8217;t name them this. It&#8217;s not my fault, I swear!
(2) Even if I had named them this, I would make an exception for these brownies. You [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://etherealland.com/trollcave/2008/06/27/the-best-brownies/</link>
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		<title>Pie Party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[No pictures as proof, but I recently hosted a pie party. This is where I provide the dough and apples, everyone brings their own pie plates, and we peel and cut apples till everyone has their pies. I made enough dough to use up about 5 lbs. of shortening and 7 lbs of flour, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://etherealland.com/trollcave/2007/10/25/pie-party/</link>
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		<title>Macaroni and Cheese</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Though this is technically a non-meat meal, somehow it gets full pass from the barbarians. I think it&#8217;s because it has pasta in it, and though I&#8217;ve never quite understood the redeeming qualities of pasta, they appear to be quite powerful. (Barbarians will even eat fish if it&#8217;s a pasta sauce. I&#8217;ll have to share [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://etherealland.com/trollcave/2007/08/05/macaroni-and-cheese/</link>
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		<title>Practically Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here we are, back to our regularly scheduled program: food. Mostly dessert. Not because I mostly make dessert (much to the great disappointment of the horde), but because it takes a looooooonnnnng time to take all those pictures. The barbarians generally know that they are lucky to be getting dessert at any time, so they&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://etherealland.com/trollcave/2007/05/01/practically-perfect-chocolate-chip-cookies/</link>
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		<title>On Feminism and Toilet Seats</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the age-old complaints of woman against man has been that man leaves the toilet seat up.
I have never, ever, ever understood that complaint.
Yes, I am female. And yes, I have been the victim of toilet seats left up. In fact, I probably lowered more toilet seats in my first year of potty training [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://etherealland.com/trollcave/2007/04/17/on-feminism-and-toilet-seats/</link>
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		<title>In the Bleak Midwinter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[hope in the dark


waiting


light pours in


drink it up


radiant


* * * *
Yes, I know I broke the mold. I couldn&#8217;t bear to post them any smaller, and I&#8217;ve been meaning to adjust this template wider. Maybe this will actually get me to do that.
A new camera has entered the household, and it makes it very easy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://etherealland.com/trollcave/2007/04/15/in-the-bleak-midwinter/</link>
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		<title>An Ode to Wooden Utensils</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or rather, a complimentary list:
*They don&#8217;t melt.
*When you leave them in a pot, they don&#8217;t get hot and burn your fingers when you come back.
*If you drop them in the gravy by accident, they float.
*They don&#8217;t get bent out of shape when you apply stern pressure.
*When you lick the chocolate pudding off of them, it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://etherealland.com/trollcave/2007/04/09/an-ode-to-wooden-utensils/</link>
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		<title>Economy: A question of Value</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You have lived the life of a nun: no doubt you are well-drilled in religious forms;&#8212;Brocklehurst, who I understands directs Lowood, is a parson, is he not?&#8221;
&#8220;Yes, sir.&#8221;
&#8220;And you girls probably worshiped him, as a convent full of religieuses would worship their director.&#8221;
&#8220;Oh, no.&#8221;
&#8220;You are very cool! No! What! a novice not worship her priest! [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://etherealland.com/trollcave/2007/03/21/economy-a-question-of-value/</link>
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		<title>Pancake Purgatory</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last weekend, I was making pancakes to send to a relative. Multiple barbarians came by and said things like &#8220;Yum!&#8221;, &#8220;Yay!&#8221; and the like, and all were met with &#8220;These aren&#8217;t for you&#8221;, which was responded directly with snarls and grumps. Finally I said if someone else made the batter, I&#8217;d make pancakes for lunch. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://etherealland.com/trollcave/2007/03/10/pancake-purgatory/</link>
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