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Who Cares What Nation’s Restaurant News Thinks? Here’s My Top 10.
On the same day the New York Times wrote about Pop-Tarts World, the Huffington Post added this blurb from a Nation’s Restaurant News report on America’s favorite restaurant chains. Cheesecake Factory topped the list. And while some of my favorite … Continue reading →
Filed under books, cheesecake, entrees, grilled cheese, ice cream, Mississippi, pie, UCLA
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My Top 15 Wacky Cookbooks (With Bonus Optimistic Prologue!)
I love wacky cookbooks. And, strangely, despite the carnage of last week — that left me sans part-time fake-gambling gig *and* full-time job prospects *and* hope — I’m feeling rather optimistic now. I’ve been kicking around an idea for a … Continue reading →
Filed under Alaska, blogs, books, Brooklyn, entrees, ice cream, Mississippi, parties
Tagged as 101 Things, 101 Things to do with a Dutch Oven, A Man A Can A Plan, Alaska, Amazon, Amy Sedaris, bachelor-bait recipes, Barnes & Noble, Being Dead is No Excuse, Ben & Jerry, Ben & Jerry's Homemade Ice Cream & Dessert Book, Ben and Jerry, Ben Cohen, Bible Belt, Book of Spam, chicken wings, cookbook, Debbie Brown, diet, diet book, Dip into Something Different, Dutch oven, Ethan Becker, faith, Fatso, Fiesta at Rick's, financial solvency, fondant, fondue, Forking Fantastic, Hooters, Hooters Cookbook, Hungry Girl, I Like You, ice cream, Irma Raumbauer, Jerry Greenfield, Jinx Morgan, Joan Cavanaugh, Jodi Citrin, Joy of Cooking, Judy Perry, Late Show, marbles, Melting Pot, Mississippi, More of Jesus Less of Me, Mountain Man Breakfast, Naughty Cakes, Netflix, Not Afraid of Flavor, out of print books, put the party back in dinner party, rabbits, Real Housewives of New Jersey, Rick Bayless, rom-com, rummage sale, Sad Sallies, Sad Sally, Saucepans and the Single Girl, Save the Assistants, Skinny Italian, Tamara Reynolds, Teresa Giudice, The Little Black Apron, This is Why You're Fat, Tubby, Two-by-Four, wacky cookbook, weight loss, weight loss guide, Zora O'Neill
Ode to Big J on her 30th Birthday…
Oh, my oldest childhood friend who in junior high dubbed herself Big J; (…which my mother swore you’d regret someday…) We’ve known each other since the third grade; and lost a plate in the oven once while Bagel Bites were … Continue reading →
Filed under birthdays, Mississippi
Tagged as apes, Bagel Bites, Big J, Chinatown, Costa Rica, Emerald Isle, Irish Rovers, James Joyce, masks, Mississippi, monkeys, muffin mix, turtles, Ulysses, Valentine, zipline
“Attagirl, Sandra!” v. “Stupid Jerk!”
I am sad about Sandra Bullock. And I know — at least on some level — it’s a ridiculous thing to say…but, at the same time, I’ve sorta felt a certain affinity with her…at least as far as relationships are … Continue reading →
Filed under Brooklyn, feminism, Mississippi, Ole Miss
Tagged as A Time to Kill, Barbara Walters, Barbara Walters Oscar Special, Betty White, Blanche Devereaux, Blind Side, Blind-Sided, career, Carrie Fisher, Dave Letterman, David Patterson, Dorothy, doting husband, Eliot Spitzer, Esquire, fulfillment, Golden Girls, Hall of Fame o' Bad Men, husband, identity, Jesse James, John Edwards, Leigh Anne Tuohy, marriage, Meg Ryan, Mississippi, New York Times, Oprah, Oscars, pigs, posterchild for the Lonely Man, Rose, Sandra Bullock, schlub, scum, tattooed chicks, text messages, Tiger Woods, trysts, Us Weekly, wedding announcements, When Harry Met Sally, Why Men Cheat
St. Patrick’s Day with Mike Meyers, Judy Garland, Hal, Mal, Jill, Lance Romance, a Whole Lot of Tammies and One Single Barbie.
(…even though I’m not sure any of them are/were Irish…) I feel like I’ve been in such a rut lately…and, like Austin Powers, my mojo is gone. But…to carry the analogy a bit further, I’ve been unable to find my … Continue reading →
Filed under books, Brooklyn, chocolate, cookies, feminism, Halloween, holidays, Mississippi, pickles, pie, St. Patrick's Day
Tagged as 3.14, 9 to 5, Austin Powers, barbecue, Barbie, basketball, beignets, Big-Ass Cookbook and Financial Planner, Billy Joel, boiled peanuts, boob job, boobs, Boss Queen, Brooklyn, Brown, career path, Chelsea Handler, chewing tobacco, chocolate chips, Connor, Constance McMillen, Cosmo, Costco, Cutest Boy in the World, Doralee, Dorothy, Dr. Evil, fire ants, Frank Bruni, Free Willy, fried pickles, Good Morning America, green beans, Hal and Mal's St. Patrick's Day Parade, Irish, Jackson, Jill Conner Browne, Katie Lee, king cake, Lance Romance, Levi Johnston, Magnolia State, March 14, Mississippi, mojo, P-Nuts, parades, Pi Day, pine nuts, pulled pork, Red Hot and Blue, Southernisms, St. Patrick's Day, Sweet Potato Queens, Tammy, Tiny Tim, ukulele, Wanda Sykes, Wizard of Oz, wrong side of history, Yale
Going — Pardon Me — Bananas
Well, folks, I’m coming to realize that writing about food doesn’t bring me nearly as much joy as it used to…or maybe it’s that I’ve come to embrace self-involvement and can finally admit that writing about myself is much more … Continue reading →
Filed under bananas, blogs, books, Brooklyn, holidays, pie, pudding
Tagged as All My Secrets That Are Too Late for Pie Day But Are Just in Time for Pi Day, banana bread, banana cream pie, banana fritters, belated, caramel sauce, Caribbean, Crisco, crust, Emeril, empanadas, Florida, flour, foil strips, food blogging, graham cracker crust, hands, hypocrite, ice cold, January 23, lard, Louisiana, make your own pudding, March 14, Mississippi, National Pie Day, Norwegian, pastry blender, Pi Day, pie crust shield, pie lesson, Pie Tips, Popeye's, pudding, refrigerate crust, San Francisco, Social Media for Social Change, Soul Food, Southern, Tennessee, tricks up my sleeve, water, West Africa, whipped cream
This City Will Eat You Alive…
I was watching the Woody Allen flick, “Whatever Works,” last night…and sort of laughed to myself in the beginning when Larry David’s Boris Yellnikoff tells the ingenue transplant Melodie St. Ann Celestine that she should go back to Mississippi because … Continue reading →
Filed under Brooklyn, Modernism, Red Hook
Tagged as baking, beating a dead horse, Brooklyn, career, Darwin, Dwight Yoakam, Elton John, Evan Rachel Wood, fulfillment, glass is half full, I'm Still Standing, ingenue, Julie Powell, Larry David, Marilyn Manson, Melodie St. Ann Celestine, Mississippi, Modernism, New York, New Yorker, On the Origin of Lisa Lacy, On the Origin of Species, one of the gang, Owen Wilson, pride, Rebecca De Mornay, relationships, social awkwardness, stream of consciousness, the city, this city will eat you alive, Vince Vaughn, Virginia Woolf, Wedding Crashers, Whatever Works, Woody Allen
Recuerdos de Costa Rica…Or, Ruminations on Similarities Between Costa Rica and Alaska, Among the Usual Anecdotes
Okay, okay…I’ll stop pretending I know anything about Spanish. (Although I *will* say that it is awfully embarrassing/depressing that after six years of studying the language [...seven years ago...], my vocabulary is limited to a few choice phrases…and even *those* … Continue reading →
Filed under Alaska, beer, blueberries, books, Brooklyn, cake, cheese, cheesecake, chickens, coffee, eggs, fish, football, Mississippi, red velvet, wine
Tagged as afraid of heights, African Queen, airport gift shop, Alajuela, Alaska in the winter, Alaskan Similarities, Alton Brown, Anaconda, apes, Arenal, Arkansas, arroz, Art Deco, Asian-style flank steak, banana tree, bat, bat out of hell, benchwarming, Big, big head, birdwatching couple from England, bizarre showerhead, Black Bart, black Lincoln, blackberry juice, blue helmet, blue velvet, blueberry juice, boundary extension, Budget, buenas, bulls are afraid of horses, bus in Denali, butter and lard, Cafe Milagro, caiman, California State Physical Education Test, Cano Negro, canter, capuchin monkeys, car mechanics, car service, Carrie Bradshaw, cassava, Central America, cheese sticks, chicken, chicken of the tree, children's TV, Cleaving, clouds, Coco Loco, coffee, Colorado, Costa Rica, Costa Rican bulls, cowgirl, crapshoot, crocodiles, CU-OSU game, Customs, D, damsel in distress, Deadliest Catch, Denali, Dial 7, Doka Estate, don't feed the monkeys, dos cervezas, Eagle Eyes, Eclipse the Horse, El Avion, El Mirador, elementary school, empanadas, en vivo, encouragement, estamos buscando, estamos llegando, falling, family pie crust recipe, feed a feeling, flashback, fog, foreshadowing, Georgia, girls' basketball, Gran Hotel Costa Rica, green landscape, gritar, guava, hace frio, harnesses, hero, horseback riding, hos in different area codes, Hotel Montana de Fuego, Hotel Orquideas, Houston, howler monkeys, humble apologies, I hope they have parking, iguana refuge, Imperial, Ishmael the Guide, javelinas, Javier, Jeff from Jacksonville, Jennifer White, Jersey Shore, JFK, Julie Powell, Kentucky, La Cantina, la cerveza de Costa Rica, La Fortuna, La Princesa, language skills, Las Chiles, leafcutter ants, limes, lines snapping, little bungalow, longshoremen, lost, lost in Queens, loud Englishmen, Manuel Antonio, Marilyn Monroe, Marilyn Monroe-themed bar, meathead American guys, meters, metric system, Miami airport, Mississippi, Mississippi State Bulldogs, monkey hotel, monkeys, mooching, Mount McKinley, New Mexico, new states, New York, New Yorky, Nicaragua, nightlife, Nissan Altima, off-season, one-way street, orange males, orangutans, otters, oxcart, panic attacks, parents, parqueo, Paseo Colon, perfect pie crust, peripheral vision, pickled cucumbers, pineapple, plantains, platanos tostados, pontoon boat, Prince William Sound, private taxi, Puerto Rico, puffins, pull-ups, purse, Quepos, queso palmito, raccoon, rainforest, rainforesty, rainy season, rappelling, rappelling down a waterfall, recollections, red pants, red velvet cake, red wine, relax and enjoy the scenery, rental car, rice and beans, Rio Frio, ropes course, sailors, San Jose, San Ramon, security, si, sixth grade, skeevy, sloth, Spanish, spider monkeys, still more monkeys than people, strange intimacy, sunset, supermercado, surfing, swimwear, Swiss Family Robinson, tadpoles, tapas, Teatro Nacional, Texas, Things To Do Before I Die, Ticos, tilapia a lo macho, Toucan Sam, toucans, tours, Toyota Corolla, tres leches cake, tropical, Twilight, typical Costa Rican dish, typical plate, upper body strength, vacara, Vancouver, Virginia, Volcan Arenal, vultures, water lilies, waterproof pants, what fats bond to, yellow pants, zipline, zipline through the rainforest, ziplining, Zoo Ave
Cue the Lynyrd Skynyrd…
Boy, am I going to sound like a wet blanket, but…the job woes continue, etc., etc. And…as noted in my previous post, I’ve been sad about The Bartender. So…I was talking to my oldest childhood friend and she reminded me … Continue reading →
Filed under appliances, birthdays, frying, Mississippi
Tagged as Alabama, appliances, Atlanta, birthdays, Brooklyn, Chicago, Georgia, jobs, Michael Jackson, Mississippi, New York, Saturn Return, Seattle, South
An Old Bar, A Misinterpreted Sign & Food That Makes Me Verklempt
I met The Bartender at the beginning of the year. And he was funny. And sweet. And he worked around the corner from my apartment — at the oldest bar in Brooklyn! — and so I started spending a lot … Continue reading →
Filed under baseball, birthdays, Brooklyn, cheesecake, football, hot dogs, ice cream, Mississippi, Palin, UCLA
Tagged as 30th birthday, A Time to Kill, Asian-style flank steak, baccarat, bar, barbecue, bartender, baseball, BBQ, beer, Big Fan, birthdays, Brooklyn, cheesecake, childhood, Coffee Talk, Conan O'Brien, Conan O'Brien's Irish Beef Stew, cucumbers with wasabi and rice vinegar, dreams, El Diario, England, flank steak, football, Giants, Good Housekeeping, grocery shopping, grocery store, hockey, hot dogs, Jersey Shore, Jets, John McCain, journalism, key lime cheesecake, lamb chops, Linda Richman, marinate, Mark Sanchez, marriage, meat, meat and potatoes, Mike Meyers, Miranda Hobbs, Mississippi, Mother Hen, Opposites Attract, Paula Abdul, Rangers, recipe scandal, rice and beans, SeamlessWeb, Sex & the City, sherbet, sorbet, Steve Brady, sushi, Thai food, Trader Joe's, USC, verklempt, wasabi powder
