A Hopeless Romantic
>> Monday, February 21, 2011
Or maybe just a fool for meatloaf. Whatever.
1. meatloaf on mashed potatoes
2. gravy and fried onions on top
3. pink ketchup filled heart
Nothing Like the Smell of Tuna in the Morning
>> Thursday, February 17, 2011
1. tuna salad made with lemon juice, capers and roasted peppers
2. more capers
3. more roasted peppers
4. seeds held together with a little bread
Speaking of tuna; did your mom always refer to it as tunafish? Like one word? Mine either.
You know what isn't nice? Of course you do. Tuna (or tunafish) packed in water. All this time I thought I didn't like it. Then I bought some packed in olive oil. Oh. Yeah. That's better. Here's something else that isn't nice. Making tuna salad in the morning. Tuna salad prior to 9 am is not pleasant, it is not delicious, it is nasty. I don't care what it's packed in. (Unless maybe it's cocaine.) Especially if you don't wash your hands particularly well when you're finished and then get to enjoy the smell of canned fish all the way to work. I suppose you probably wouldn't compulsively sniff your hands the entire commute to see if you could still smell it. Me either.
Also? I love capers.
Forgot My Lunch
>> Monday, February 7, 2011
1. lettuce wraps from Sun Asian
Ever since watching True Grit this weekend all the voices in my head are speaking in that weird stilted contraction-less speaking pattern from the movie's dialogue. This is particularly fun right now because I'm reading The Curlew's Cry (Mildred Walker) about small town life in Montana at the turn of the century. No, really, I love it!
Kickin' Ass
>> Thursday, February 3, 2011
and takin' names!
Okay, overstatement.
But please to be noting the lush faux woodgrain awesomeness of my somewhat cleaned off desk. Yes, work was worked.
1. filet slider on a pretzel bun
2. cole slaw
3. fruits
A Working Lunch
>> Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Literally. Flame added to protect the (not so) innocent.
1. teryaki salmon
2. pan roasted teeny potatoes
3. garlicy green beans
I started trying to read a contender for worst book o' the year (Persuading Annie : Melissa Nathan) but gave it up for some Big Love. Next on the pile is The Truth About Forever, teen fiction for the win!
Speaking of Teeny I'm -very- disappointed that the Hendrickson's keep misplacing their second oldest daughter. That child can not be at camp this whole time. Hope Hollis Green didn't get her.
Speaking of Big Love, I'm so sad that it's the last season. Hopefully HBO is working on a new Sunday night series featuring Jewish nuns running a boarding school. That would be sweet!
Old School Taco Salad
>> Monday, January 31, 2011
1. taco salad
2. tangelo
When I was growing up there was some fast food place in the next town over, can't remember anything else about it but I do remember the taco salad. I also remember loving that taco salad. They served it in a rectangular shaped aluminum foil container. After much trial and error I think I've come up with a pretty close copycat recipe.
Layer the following items in a bowl or foil dish.
Lettuce
Corn chips
Chili
Chopped onion
Cheese
Jalapeno slices on the side
Eat with a plastic spork.
OMG, I almost forgot to tell you what I've been reading!
The Wednesday Letters by Jason F. Wright
Seven pages in the wife dies in bed of a heart attack and by page eight the terminally ill husband gives it up and dies next to her. It was downhill from there. No, actually it's kind of a cute book. The husband wrote a letter to the wife every Wednesday the entire 40 some-odd years they were married. Their adult children find the letters after their death and through them find ... redemption? At least that's what you're led to believe from the -letter- pasted in the back of the book from one of them. I don't know, it was Cute. Capital C. I'm over it.
Clearing the Aisle by Karen Schwartz
Classic chick lit but I loved it. Know why? It was a Jewish wedding with lots of juicy little Jewish wedding details. I love that shit. There's always those certain things that continue to fascinate. Judaism, polygamy, nuns and boarding school are mine.
Chasing Harry Winston by Lauren Weisberger
Not her best effort.
Over That Too
>> Tuesday, January 25, 2011
Well people, I think I'm souped out. I've explored the full range of ready to eat soups that Fresh & Easy has to offer as well as some traditional open can and plop it out soups not to mention a few homemade varieties. Luckily I still have the world of crackers to conquer.
1. seeded cracker
2. goat cheese
3. peppadew
Tune in tomorrow for Chicken in a Biscuit and Nutella!
Also over? YA serial fiction.
I finished the first two books of the Hunger Games series and finally read the last of the Twilight series. Maybe in a another year or two I'll be ready for Mockinjay, but for now? Pretty much done.
The best book of the year so far is a tiny little thing called Prayer for the Dying. The entire thing is written in second voice which would normally annoy the hell out me but it really works for this book. I think it helps to create a sort of barrier from the horror of what's happening to the characters allowing you to love the experience of reading the story. It's just beautifully written; lyrical, languid, almost poetic assuming of course you can get past the macabre theme.
The reviews are definitely mixed.
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