What I want to cook this week

Butternut squash and coconut milk rice, though I think I will substitute sweet potatoes for the squash

Momofuku Milk Bar's cornflake cookies, because the crack pie was so dang good

Favors I want at my wedding

If Pretty Boy and I ever actually get around to having a wedding.

Monogrammed sugar cookies, though I would probably use icing instead of stenciled decorating dust

 
Cookies in envelops

 
And my favorite: pie boxes.  I think I might just have to make that one happen.

What I need help with

Oh, universe, help me with the risk-taking.

"The daring are angels and geniuses and demons and divas and clowns, and sometimes also patsies, stooges, and fools. Daring is not safe. The impresario Serge Diaghilev said to the poet and painter Jean Cocteau, 'Amaze me.' He did not say, 'Reassure me,' 'Tell me I'm right,' 'Admire me,' or 'Stay in line and you'll get a nice pension.' ... Art demands daring. It demands the new, the untested, the unproven. And if you try, you will at some point fall on your face, just like the first wearers of impossible shoes."

~Joan Juliet Buck, Harper's Bazaar

What I watched this weekend

Pretty boys being manly in the absence of my Pretty Boy.

Chris Hemsworth as Thor.

and this guy as Captain America.

What I want to cook this week

Tomato soup with poached eggs from marthastewart.com but without the bread

 

Honey almond meal muffins from roostblog.com

Crack pie from Momofuku's Milk Bar, via latimes.com, to welcome Pretty Boy home after a week and a half in Texas away from me