Tag: Food
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Why I Love This Old Apartment Building
Marty’s off to New York for a couple of days and, as H.o.p. was going to be missing him, Marty prepared yesterday a big pot of red beans that would simmer and simmer and simmer and be prime eating by the time Marty was doing the sound check for his gig. So while Marty was…
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Dancin' Fool
Shorty’s has great pizza. And Key Lime pie. I know because we went out there tonight to see King Johnson. That link is to their myspace page where they have some songs up off the 2005 album that Marty mixed. Great fun, funky band. This was one of of their two reunion shows. I love…
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Po'Boys and Paint
There we are driving down Boulevard on our way to get ice cream for H.o.p. and I see a pint-size purple restaurant with a couple of tables outside and customers headed inside and big letters proclaiming honest to god New Orleans PO’BOYS! Marty had already proposed eating out, which I’d nixed, though we were all…
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Loathsome bad cookies
I’m feeling out of sorts. I think I’ve a touch of the flu that’s been going around. Ended up sleeping most of the day, thus H.o.p. had a day off. I took a nap this morning and was surprised to wake up and found how long I napped. Then I took a nap this afternoon,…
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Indeed, Virginia, You CAN Nail Jello To A Wall
Indeed, Virginia, You Can Nail Jello To A Wall AKA “Jello Christ” Which is how art works. First Stelarc makes an art installation of himself, hanging himself from hooks, appending an ear to his arm. Then H.o.p. says, upon glimpsing a pic of Stelarc’s ear, “Let’s make a jello man!” So, he makes a jello…
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Another friendly warning
You know those pot stickers from Publix that your child is insanely crazy about, which make your closet-sized kitchen stink like boiled cabbage for hours after you’ve microwaved them? Well they work a potent magic in the child’s intestines as well. So if that child slides up next to you with a sly grin on…
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Banana popsicle
Just finished eating a banana popsicle in honor of the one banana popsicle I had as a child. It wasn’t the same and I don’t think the cause is solely the intervening years and faulty memory. When I was little and the ice cream man came around in Richland, I’d a friend who loved banana…
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The woman washing cars with a hamburger is funny stuff
H.o.p. right now is excited about any movie that comes out, as long as it’s not frightening. He wants to see that movie “…about mermaids! There’s going to be a movie about a mermaid! I’ve never seen a mermaid!” Then when there was the commercial for the horror film about mutants from the Manhattan Project…
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Ok, how about this?
You see, I typed into a search in Gourmet Foods (at Amazon) the search term “European” just to see what might come up, rather than, y’know, buying everyone Xmas steaks (haha) or something like that. The truffles came up. Too expensive. Next page was this gourmet European item. 10 ounces of Dole European Salad in…
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Now, you have to admit you don’t hate squid as much as you thought you did
“Now you have to admit you don’t hate squid as much as you thought you did,” says my husband. I’ve been going through pictures of new lemur species and the find of the ancient mososaurus found in Texas and the ancient sea monster Dakosaurus andiniensis, reading the news stories to H.o.p. We look at a…
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Pot pies, Patriot Act, and the myth of TV dinners
See the above pic? It’s from some Raleigh North Carolina exhibit, dated 1952 and it is testament to two things. First, it testifies to the fact that people were already eating TV dinners before they came in foil trays. Second, collapsible TV trays existed before foil-packed TV dinners. Had the picture been taken a year…