Missour-Chee

Check out what they call crackers in Missouri. Nip Chee? Van-O Lunch? Captain's Wafers? Oh, Missouri.

Happy Thanksgiving

"Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues,

but the parent of all the others."

-Cicero

Robot Sandwich Faceslam

This commercial makes me cry laughing every time. Carl's Jr., you're welcome for the free publicity garnered for your chicken sandwich from me, a vegetarian. Sorry PETA.

(Coincidentally, Robot Sandwich Faceslam is an amazing band name.)

The Artful Dodgers

A week or two ago, Tom and I were invited to go to a Dodgers game by a very generous Latham & Watkins associate. Our seats were in the "Dugout Club" which means that we had sweet seats and, arguably more importantly, unlimited food. I ate until I could eat no more and then I took two bags of Cracker Jacks for the road. The Dodgers lost, the stadium caught fire, and a broken bat nearly impaled us... but did I mention the unlimited food? All in all, it couldn't have gone better.

3.14

Happy Pi Day, y'all!

Photo by Larry Winger

Vegetarian Enchiladas

My dear friend Cara did a post about my Vegetarian Enchiladas on her food blog, Bundt Cake for Breakfast. I don't mention to that to brag (although it's awesome) but I wanted to share the recipe so you can try it yourselves at home, if you should wish. It is a recipe I found on a website, but with a few amendments, it was the best recipe Tom and I have ever made and probably the best enchilada I've ever had. I hope you love it, too.

Photo Credit: Cara Sandberg

Hi-ho!

These are incredible. Even Statler and Waldorf could find no fault.

Via Cupcake Creations.

Thanksgiving!

After a disastrously long drive home from Orange County after Thanksgiving last year (11 hours!), Tom and I determined that we should hold our own gathering in Berkeley this year. We were joined by our dear friends Courtney and Mikey, who did half the cooking for our fantastic vegetarian feast. While it would have been nice to be with our families, we made do and had a great time.

So full.

From this picture, it would be reasonable to assume that we only had lemons, cranberry sauce, and non-dairy butter spread for Thanksgiving. Thankfully, this was not the case.

Mmmm... sweet potatoes, stuffing, Tofurkey, carrots, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes.

My list of things I am thankful for does not include seeing this facial expression.

Can We Make Spoons?

Well, based on the poll results, I have been duly chastened for my macaroni spoon proclivity. With the exception of the sassy person who selected "Pick A or B" (I have a strong feeling I know who did that, by the way), I am all alone in the spoon column. I do have some news for you Status Quo Sallies... it's on the box! It's not that weird.

Xtreme!

Winner!

Best sour candy EVER.

Attention Berkeley Residents:

I have some truly wonderful news. It's corn pizza time at Cheeseboard again.

Friday's pizza (04.30.2010): Fresh corn, onions, chile pasilla, mozzarella and feta cheese, garlic olive oil, cilantro, key limes.

Uncomfortable Childhood Memories, Part 1

Orange You Glad You Didn't Say Banana

Although my childhood height and physique suggested I would be a great dancer, my coordination did not concur. Nevertheless, my parents enrolled me in jazz, tap, ballet (with private lessons!) and gymnastics classes over the course of several years. Based on the number and variety of classes, their theory must have been that the dance style I didn't completely suck at was just one genre away. "Perhaps hip hop," they must have said with palpable disappointment. When I was in 3rd grade (and, in the interest of full disclosure, Ist-12th grade as well) I was always cracking wise. My gymnastics teacher, let's call her Ms. Anderson, was teaching us the proper form for round offs and a girl in the class piped up, saying, "I remember learning that you should try to brush the imaginary cobwebs off the ceiling with your toes!" Without a moment's hesitation I said, "Who taught you round offs?! A BANANA?!" At this time the studio grew tense and quiet and the girl just squeaked out, "Actually, it was Ms. Anderson."

Image via Natalie Dee

Pepe the King Prawn, ok?

"5 easy payments of $3.99?"

Flat Bread, Not So Flat Abs

Tom and I have made this Butternut Squash Flat Bread with Cheddar and Pine Nuts twice since I spotted it in REAL SIMPLE magazine last week. Try it for yourself, or come on over for dinner because more likely than not we're ready to make and eat it again. It's so good.

Greetings From Sausalito, CA!

This weekend, Tom and I went to Sausalito on the way home from Point Bonita Lighthouse (more on that later). Apparently I had been there before when I was a teenager but it wasn't even remotely familiar to me when I looked it up. Now, having returned, I know why. It's not a particularly remarkable place. Yes, it's coastal (but what isn't around here?) and posh and quaint, but I didn't see much beyond that. It reminded me of dozens of other beach cities and communities I've been to like Laguna Beach and Coronado Island, specifically. All nice, all beautiful, but all with little to do but window shop and buy overpriced ice cream and trinkets. As I see it, if you're in the Bay Area and looking for something to do with a day, whatever you'd choose to see and do in San Francisco is much worthier of your time, energy, and money. Take that, Sausalito!

Pi!

Hope you all had a lovely Pi Day yesterday. Tom and I made an Apple Pi Pie and shared it with some dear friends Cara, Phil and, later, Pat. I have concluded that Pi Day is a lot more fun when you add an "e."

Please disregard the serious case of creepyface that possessed me. Tom seems to be able to handle himself in the presence of pie.

Phil and I saying goodbye with our signature move, the Pit Five.

Me, posing super natural-like with the Pi Pie. Thank you for the pictures, Cara!

Apple Pie

With spring around the corner, I think it's time for me to start making one of these per week again.

How LOSTies Make a P.B.J.

Jack
1. Gather ingredients
2. Point gun at ingredients and shout “HOW DO I MAKE A SANDWICH OUT OF YOU?!?!?”
3. Breathe heavily through your nose as though you were about to hit ingredients
4. Give up and make the sandwich yourself, and eat it bitterly

Kate

1. Make separate sandwiches, one with peanut butter and one with jelly
2. Take a bite of the peanut butter sandwich, declaring it the best
3. Take a bite of the jelly sandwich, declaring it the best
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 ad infinitum
5. Follow peanut butter or jelly sandwich into grave danger

Sawyer
1. Throw the jar of jelly at wall, sneering “I don’t need no sandwich”
2. Call the mascot on the jar of peanut butter lots of clever nicknames
3. Huff and puff and stomp around and grumble a lot
4. When no one’s looking, make perfect, even, symmetrical peanut butter and jelly sandwich and sit in a corner, enjoying every bite

Locke
1. Sit idly by, believing that the ingredients will find a way to make a sandwich out of themselves
2. Lose faith and make the sandwich anyway
3. Realize that you were the instrument by which the ingredients chose to make a sandwich after all
4. Run around the room and grab everyone’s knives, insisting that their sandwiches will do the same in time

Hurley
1. Make sandwich
2. Eat sandwich
3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 ad infinitum

Sayid
1. Procure 23 milligrams of uranium-20
2. Set hadron supercollider to eight megajoules
3. Program a sandwich-making macro using Cobol or Visual Basic
4. Act all tough-like

Desmond
1. Eat sandwich
2. Call the sandwich “brother”
3. Place peanut butter slice over jelly slice
4. Spread jelly on the other slice
5. Spread peanut butter on one slice
6. Take two slices of bread, a jar of peanut butter and a jar of jelly

Ben
1. Steal someone else’s sandwich
2. Claim you coerced them into making the sandwich for you all along
3. Say you’ll tell them everything if they make you another sandwich
4. Stare at them all creepy-like

Libby
1. Lay out plans for one of the most intricate, fascinating, and delicious sandwiches of all time
2. Just as you start making it, get shot

Danielle
1. Apply peanut butter
2. Disappear for eight months
3. Apply jelly
4. Disappear for eight months
5. Eat sandwich

Claire
1. Mmmmmmm, peanut butter

Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse
1. Make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
2. Have someone take a bite, then tell them it’s a baloney sandwich
3. Make up a whole bunch of other shit, then say you had planned it all along
4. Buy a few yachts

I straight stole this from my friend Cara's blog, but it was too funny to pass up and I know she'll forgive me because I'm taking her to In-N-Out before we watch LOST tonight. In-N-Out heals all wounds.

Via Examiner.com.

Sub-par-way

So did Subway just decide it had mastered the sandwich and that it needed to move on to another food completely? Well, I've got news for you, Subway. Bad news. You are not good at sandwiches. So maybe you should focus on the war at home and leave pizza out of it. Oh, yeah, that reminds me, The War at Home also sucks.