Those of you on the Facebook may have seen by now the below photo making the rounds from the page "I fucking love science" (seriously, that's the name of the page). This is absolutely awesome. Anybody care to try this? This photo is completely theirs and not mine. That and I think it's looking at me.
Since I've been on hiatus, I didn't get to comment on Pete Wells' wonderfully awesome takedown of Rachael-Ray-on-crack-with-a-beard's Guy Fieri's new Manhattan restaurant, Guy's American Kitchen. But if you have not read it before, you have to read it. Favorite section:
Why is one of the few things on your menu that can be eaten without fear or regret — a lunch-only sandwich of chopped soy-glazed pork with coleslaw and cucumbers — called a Roasted Pork Bahn Mi, when it resembles that item about as much as you resemble Emily Dickinson?
When you have a second, Mr. Fieri, would you see what happened to the black bean and roasted squash soup we ordered?
Hey, did you try that blue drink, the one that glows like nuclear waste? The watermelon margarita? Any idea why it tastes like some combination of radiator fluid and formaldehyde? [Wells 2012]Makes me want to stand by the window to watch, and then go somewhere much better to eat. Assuming NYC is no longer underwater.
Oh what the hell? I've posted it often enough but you just can't watch this train wreck enough, can you? Imagine what she would do for Boxing Day? Get a cake, put it in a box!
For Aunt Sandy and her... waitaminute, her Hanukkah Cake! Yes, video of it is finally online!
The title of this post is the most recent moderated comment that I received from some online academic paper writing website (if you don't know my opinions of the proprietors of those sites: they deserve the wrath of a thousand infernos. Okay, maybe just a hundred).
Do spammers REALLY think I'm so dumb or desperate for comments that I will deliberately publish de-contextualized comments that lead to spam sites? I'm not, though the brazenness is actually becoming amusing.
I saw this at the Bel Air Wegman's the other night:
Awake the Dormouse, folks, Sandra Lee is having a tea party.
I should officially smack myself right now (beat y'all to it, City Paper) for even uttering the phrase "Royal Wedding" on this blog. However, I just could not pass up this absolutely gorgeous photo that purports to be the official wedding cake for today's big fête in Westminster Abbey. It comes from Twitter tweeter Robert Popper:
I should post the photo myself but I'll let you click on the link. Sumptuous! Simply sumptuous!!!
It comes full circle: the Stations of the Cross, Peeps-Style. I love how they do up Station VI,
Veronica Wipes the Face of Jesus". Trust me, you'll love it too.
I'm getting dangerously close to not being thirty-something anymore (that's one way to put it), and my mother still buys Easter candy for my sisters and me. I'm not really into the whole "Easter candy" thing anymore. I haven't been for about 20 years now. Of course, there is a small handful of Easter candies I will still go for again and again. I will never turn down a good old Mary Sue Easter Egg - you know, the vanilla butter cream variety. With rising prices, however, I'm not buying so many Cadbury Creme Eggs (though I would buy a few just to do what those guys from UNottingham did in that awesomely geeky video in the last post).
And of course, there are those Peeps. That's the other Easter candy I cannot avoid despite my better judgment. It's something you look at and you're all like "Bee-yotch, I don't need you." And then you eat one and before you know it you have devoured the whole damn package (Fool, please. You know your ass needs me!) I have been known to kill an entire package of 20 Marhsmallow Bunny Peeps in the course of two or three hours, before it ever gets to that much better "Hard Peep" stage. It's an addiction I know I will never escape. I wanted to do one of those Peep Dioramas that are so popular. Won't happen. The Peeps will all be eaten before it ever comes to that.
Unless you do the tried and true "Blow up a Peep in the microwave" thing and it goes, well, kind of wrong:
Not exactly the Easter equivalent of that song where Santa Claus visited the baby Jesus in the manger, is it? But get a load of Judas Peepscariot!
Linked from the Photobucket site of Kevin Berth
In like a lion and out like a cold, wet lamb: that's March for you. Just a few items as we ease slowly into spring.
1) I recently boiled peanuts (you'll read about it in a few weeks). It's hard to find raw peanuts in this area, though you can find them at Giant. I have decided to try growing them myself. I've rented a second garden plot in the city, which I hope to start clearing this weekend. Most of it will be for straightforward vegetable and herb planting, while a section of it will be purely experimental. We are about as far north as one can go and still hope for some success in growing peanuts. Let's see how it goes.
2a) I spent this past weekend in Rehoboth with a large group of friends (Some of you are reading - thank you again for a fun weekend! I'm already looking forward to next year). I ate out at a few places. One place where the cupcake trend hopefully continues is the Cake Break on First Street. For $6 (each for $3) I got two fascinating cupcakes.
My favorite one was their Guinness cupcake: a cupcake with Guinness Stout baked into the batter, and topped with frosting infused with Bailey's Irish Cream. This was evil. Evil, I tell you. And so good. The other cupcake was their Rehoboth Beach cupcake which I must only describe as "adorable" (oh God, I hate myself for saying that). It was made to look like a crab crawling out of the surf onto the sand. The crab tasted good too.
2b) While the best food was that which my friends made (again, kudos on the gumbo, Jim & Ralf), the best restaurant food I had came on my way out of Reho. La Tonalteca (note: their website is less than impressive) is a southern Delaware franchise of Mexican restaurants that had some pretty good Mexican food, some of the best I have had this side of the Mississippi. I got one of many of their lunch specials, an enchiladas poblanas, two enchiladas covered in mole poblano.
Everything about the enchiladas was delicious - these were no warmed over sorry excuses for enchiladas. As for the rice and beans: even in California, it is rare for me to find rice and beans that are worth eating, much less finishing. The rice was fluffy and soft and the beans were smooth, and neither was too salty. This may be a go-to stop on my way out of Rehoboth the next time I head down, especially at $6 for the whole thing.
3) A few weeks ago I saw the cleverly named Naanwich from Sukhi's, at Whole Foods. The one I got was a simple helping of tandoori chicken inside a folded-over piece of naan bread. While I wouldn't buy this all the time, it is convenient and tasty, the chicken soft and flavorful enough to not be a waste of time, and the naan pleasantly soft and chewy.
4) And finally, this from Churchville, Harford County:
And remember: Haste makes Waste Waist... get bigger!
