As y’all have noticed, I have lacked the will and the fluff to blog on a regular basis. My severe lack of happy is also affecting this, to the point that even Hubby has asked when I will get back to blogging. So you know it’s serious when he has noticed. Lately time has not been on my side, what with school stuff, work stuff, and itty bitty surgery (I’m fine, no worries). No sweets and no wine make Aggie a grumpy Sith, so what is left?
That’s right: YORLING!!!
For those who are new or don’t know the history of the term Yorling, it simply means whim shopping. Our blogger friend Mitchell over at Center of the Anomaly used to go by the nick “Enas Yorl”, and he is famous for whim shopping. He takes whim shopping to a serious level. Now, I’m not insane enough to shop for stuff I do not need. Mostly. But the other day I got a postcard from the Le Creuset™ Outlet advertising two wonderful things: a sale, and the new color, chiffon pink!!! And there on the bar was a Christmas gift card from my parents along with a birthday check from my parents ( I am lazy and wait until the last possible minute to go deposit anything), and on top of that, I had noticed an obvious lack of a large round Dutch oven in my collection. It was like Kismet and Karma decided to take some pity on me and align the planets and stars.
Meet Gigi, my 5.5 quart round Dutch oven. She is lovely, and is on display awaiting her christening this Sunday when she will be instrumental in making bread. Yes, you can make bread in a Dutch oven. I have a big French oval Dutch oven (heh, French and Dutch) but the round lends itself to more even heating. The best part of this was I had enough in my gifts and the sale that I only paid in the double digits. I count it as a win.
Chiffon pink…. cotton candy and fluff. And perfect for moi 😀
March 5th, 2015 at 2:52 PM
Dan used to work for Pottery Barn. I miss the discount at Wms-Sonoma. He only bought a couple of Le Creuset items before taking the severance. (Stupid single mom who needed the job more even though Dan was hired first)
March 5th, 2015 at 3:04 PM
Maybe next year he can be seasonal? That way you can get the discount 😀
March 5th, 2015 at 3:07 PM
I’d have given you a Dutch oven for free.
heh.
😉
March 5th, 2015 at 8:06 PM
That’s just wrong 😛
March 5th, 2015 at 4:49 PM
I love our Le Creuset pans. I have a black one and an orange one, Retail therapy feels so much better with you hit a sale ” 🙂
March 5th, 2015 at 8:07 PM
Yes, I *heart* me some retail therapy 😉
March 5th, 2015 at 6:32 PM
I too am rather good at Yorling. I’ve been having to restrain myself lately though. Too many house expenses coming up this spring and too much tea festival to pay for. But winter makes me want to retail therapy in the worst way.
March 5th, 2015 at 8:08 PM
I think we three should have founded a club, and called it Yorlers Anonymous 🙂
March 5th, 2015 at 7:01 PM
Mitchell should be so damn proud that he spawned that term.
Love the oven but the color isn’t man-card friendly. It will look good with your collection though.
March 5th, 2015 at 8:09 PM
A man secure in his masculinity would use that pot.
Yes, I laughed as I typed that 🙂
March 5th, 2015 at 9:49 PM
Pastels are an automatic deduction of at least two ManCard corners. A pastel dutch oven full of queso would reduce that to one corner, but still….
March 6th, 2015 at 10:27 AM
What about ribs? Or buffalo wings? Would that take care of both corners?
March 6th, 2015 at 1:18 PM
Wish it were so, but the pastel accounts for the mandatory loss of at least one corner. Hate the rules, not the ….er….judge.
March 8th, 2015 at 10:46 PM
*rolls eyes*
March 7th, 2015 at 3:44 PM
Indeed I am sir!
*Doffs hat and bows*
I still owe you a mushroom.
March 5th, 2015 at 9:47 PM
For some reason (not that I would *ever* equate a Sithy to Morticia Addams), this quote popped into my mind when I saw the pic:
Morticia: [confronting Debbie in her house] You have gone too far. You have married Fester, you have destroyed his spirit, you have taken him from us. All that I could forgive. But Debbie…
Debbie Jellinsky: What?
Morticia: …pastels?
March 6th, 2015 at 10:26 AM
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!
March 7th, 2015 at 3:39 PM
Very nice! That’s a serious chunk of cookware.
I too have been yorling. Here’s two in one picture, my new Fancy Hat, and the butterfly sculpture in the background
March 8th, 2015 at 10:48 PM
I *heart* the hat!! Love that zipper embellishment 😀 And you know I want those butterflies like BURNING!!!
Also, you look very handsome 😀
March 9th, 2015 at 1:45 AM
How do you keep the coals on the lid, without a vertical lip?
March 9th, 2015 at 9:47 AM
Simple: you get a Lodge™ Dutch oven 😀
Actually, I bury them rather deep, so the coal has no place to roll off. Been a while since I have done so, though 🙂
March 9th, 2015 at 4:55 AM
I think I understand “yorling” but in my case it’s early 20th century sporting rifles. In weird calibers.
March 9th, 2015 at 9:47 AM
Whatever flicks your Bic™ 😀