If you’re anything like me, then you love mint juleps. The sugary mint. The bourbon. This is how it’s done. Ingredients (makes 2): 1/4 cup mint 1/4 cup sugar quality bourbon Pulverize the mint and sugar- I used a pestle but you can use a food processor or even the blender. You can get a [...]
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Imagine this, Gentle Reader. It’s Spring. The windows are open. From downstairs comes the slow, gentle, unending pealing of Bach. And then the stench of charcoal smoke. You freeze in horror. You run to close the windows before it’s too late. But it is already too late. Sound pollution. Smoke pollution. What is a girl [...]
Last night I thought it would be enjoyable to make Patatas Bravas, a Spanish dish with fried potatoes and a tomato-mayonnaise sauce. Or rather, I thought it would be enjoyable to eat the potatoes, but frying them always takes an annoyingly long time. Unfortunately, it turned out that we had a pantry full of nightmare [...]
Our favorite expression- grody- probably comes from the British grotty (pronounced the same way |ˈgrätÄ“|). Brit., informal unpleasant and of poor quality : a grotty little hotel. ORIGIN 1960s: from grotesque + -y. In a sentence: Throw out that grody (grotty) cheese sandwich and order a pizza. Isn’t language fun? Now the question is really [...]
I’ve had an insatiable craving for a Bento Box (spelling?) dinner for about a week, so tonight we ventured out to the local Japanese restaurants. Japanese restaurant 1 was closed. Japanese restaurant 2 was full of prom-goers, and was actually one of those steakhouse places, where they throw the food at your head and which [...]
Well it’s really more of a dog Elizabethan collar thing, but whatever. I’ve never seen one quite like this. Three people complimented me on it on the way out of the hospital. It’s only fair to say that Vet Student Hilarie chose this thing, and not me. But it is extremely stylish, and I’m quite [...]
Hillary Clinton is competing for the Democratic presidential bid, of course, and today Miranda informed us* that there is open voting for Hillary’s theme song on her website. Now, that is pretty cool except the choices of songs are all wrong. I get it, I get it, all the songs have something to do with [...]
So today I was grocery shopping and noticed that the grape tomatoes were the same price for organic or non-organic. And after a minute of confusion about this weird turn of events, I went ahead and got the non-organic kind. I don’t know if the whole organic thing has just stopped seeming real to me [...]
I’m guessing Nadira A Hira, Fortune Writer-Reporter has not read Douglas Coupland or Christopher Buckley novels, or she would know that the current twentysomethings are part of Gen W (Generation Whatever), not Gen Y. It doesn’t seem to have occurred to her that her own experience does not sound representative of the whole generation, as [...]
I was amused* because I overheard the following conversation at Qdoba: Sample Conversation Between Qdoba Workers (in Spanish) Worker A: She got WHAT? Worker B: A mole burrito with … guacamole. AND sour cream. Worker A: No. Oh my god. Of course, they were talking about my sister, so that was less funny. I wonder [...]
1. Obviously, Shakira rocks, so there you go. 2. Britney’s Baby One More Time tour and Rocky Horror meet Amelie in a purple wig. I mean, isn’t that what we have been waiting for in pop star stage attire for our entire lives? 3. The Toyota Prius (2:32 minutes in) – as far as I [...]
Today I was at the grocery store, purchasing bagels. Bagels are of course a fraught topic because a. they now contain 3 times as many calories as in 1970, when bagels first came on the market and b. they have been repackaged. Same Great Bagels! New Great Package! Or something like that. My question is, [...]
Four leaf clover found in the same lawn as the occasional dead fish.
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