Matisse and California Dreaming

Today in art class we studied Henri Matisse and his famous cut out style of art. Here is one of his more popular works Icarus:

He called his style of art drawing with scissors. The rules were the kids could only use solid colored paper, glue, and scissors--absolutely no pencils (though they asked me many times). It was a pretty fun and hopefully informative lesson.

There were some that were even better than this (in my opinion), but the kids wanted to keep those.

I recently submitted an application for a PR intern position with Porter Novelli in California this winter. I received an e-mail informing me that I will be contacted soon to schedule an interview for October 29th. If I get the internship I think I just might take it. It's a paid, full-time position for winter semester, and it would be valuable experience in my career field. Of course that would mean moving to California which freaks me out a little, but it would certainly be an experience to remember!

One last thing. I finally got around to making bread pudding. This is the recipe Jessica sent me:

4 cups French bread, cubed

3 large eggs, beaten

2 cups fat free milk

1/2 cup granulated sugar

1/2 teaspoon almond extract

21 ounce can peach pie filling

1/2 teaspoon cinnamon

2 tablespoons brown sugar

2 tablespoons sliced almonds

1 1/2 teaspoons butter, sliced into pieces

Preheat oven to 350 F.

Coat an 11x7 inch baking pan with cooking spray. Spread bread cubes in pan. Whisk together eggs, milk, granulated sugar and almond extract. Stir in pie filling, reserving 1/2 cup for use as a topping if desired. Pour mixture over bread cubes; press into bread with back of spoon.

Combine cinnamon and brown sugar and sprinkle on top of bread mixture. Add sliced almonds and dot with butter. Bake 50-55 minutes until knife inserted in center comes out clean. Serve warm with peach pie filling on top if desired.

As usual I had to tweak the recipe to fit my needs. I used a jar of apple pie filling my mom made instead of the peach. I was also incredibly low on sugar so I would be surprised if I used even 1/4 of a cup. I also omitted the almonds and almond extract.