dye, dye, die...

I will try to refrain from just posting a link but I found this article too interesting to not pass along.  It sorta makes me wish I could become a European for safer food regulations and just plain better food.. except for maybe Asian food I would miss good Asian food immensely.  

not your mother's ovaltine

I love Ovaltine hot or cold. The vitamin enriched chocolate comfort drink is not that bad for you (other than the loaded with sugar part, terrible dyes and maybe some other things I try not to think about) but it is completely worth the sugar bomb as it is a time machine in a cup that takes me back to youth when sweet Flintstones vitamins were an encouraged thing to devour.. and yes in memory I guiltily still love more than normal vitamins but I may have suplimented my Flintstones with adult gummy vitamins (I recently discovered they use aspartame in Flintstones, it was a sad day for my future children).

retro pizza

Nostalgia, I went to Sir Pizza for nostalgias sake.  I didn't remember the pizza as being good, I didn't remember it beyond just a fun lunch out with my family when I was too young to have developed my eccentric food love tastebuds.

crackeriffic

My current favorite cracker - Kavli.  It's a non-presumptuous cracker that you can top with almost any topping and it will go well.

taste the crunchy

During the early-ish hours for unemployed me (10am) I was hanging out with some friends when I heard my friend Mo eating his breakfast.  This is approximately the ensuing conversation

getting dressed

Salad dressing is so stinking expensive, making your own is not and it's a simple quick thing you can toss together to make your salad 100 times better.  Taking the time to make a salad 100 times better is definitely worth it and really only takes an average of about five to a maximum of 15 minutes and it sounds fancy when serving guest.  

just a little curious

I'm not really a soda drinker.. It's mostly because I have a thing against drinking my calories, but also because I love my teeth.  I do love fizzy water, aka soda water.. But I have to admit I got pretty excited when I saw these sodas at the grocery store.. the flavors sound enticing, and I really love trying new things, or at least new to me new things and they're supposed to be "dry" sodas.. which seems to entail that there is less sugar than the average soda (which will probably still be sweeter than I like).

fused

With the accessibility of different groceries, traveling and knowledge of world cuisine and the interaction between different cultures that has been happening for several centuries I'm not sure if there truly is something that can be considered pure local cuisine anymore.  With the odd exception of a handful of remote areas out there like Alaskan villages where they still eat muktuk and drink seal oil.  Even these remote places in the world people at least have knowledge that there's a world of different foods out there even if they never get to experience it.  

double rainbow - what does it mean

When I first started to learn how to cook I created many plates of beige.  Being a self taught cook nobody told me that when you make white rice/mashed potatoes/noodles, halibut/chicken/tofu and some veggie like zucchini/corn/squash/cabbage/cauliflower then put it on a white plate you'd end up with a large visually unappetizing plate of white (no matter how tasty it actually is, it looks unbelievably bland).  After many more plates of beige than I'd like to admit coming out of my kitchen I eventually made a vow that I would think about making colorful food not just tasty food.  

thiever-ing

Yes, I am known to be that person that walks off with the pen from the counter and not realize it till later when I'm wondering why I have a pen in my hand/pocket.  I'm really glad that places started attaching flowers/spoons/whatever to their pens because it's reduced the number of pens I end up collecting in my car/house/pocket that I really don't need.

true love

I never had a list of qualities I want in a man that I date beyond the fact that I'd like him to have a sense of humor but I have recently discovered a new requirement to win my love.  He must learn to bake or already know how to make what Carlyle called Basque cake.

that is some comfortable food

Have I said how fantastic it is having roommates who love to cook and socialize?  Who else would be okay with having a midnight fish fry on a weeknight (no it didn't happen on a Sunday I just post slowly)?