The other day I got my “time for your dental checkup!” card in the mail, and it made me realize — I don’t think we ever talked about it, but I actually had a pretty bad time with my whole wisdom-teeth removal thing last fall. It wasn’t nearly as manageable and painless as I had … Continue reading
One time when I was growing up, my grandmother went out of town for some reason or other, and my mom took it upon herself to bring dinner over for my grandfather. I was old enough to be perplexed by this, and I asked my mom why she thought Poppo would starve without Grandma there … Continue reading
Can you believe it’s been ten years since that infamous JT-Janet Jackson Super Bowl halftime show? Gosh I feel old. I remember watching that game, including the halftime show, at the crappy little apartment of some of my college friends [side note: I was in college 10 years ago, ughhhh]. Here’s how scandalized/outraged we all … Continue reading
Is everyone else just COMPLETELY OVER WINTER? Since I left Chicago, I figured winter would become a minor annoyance rather than a soul-crushing, five-month-long flirtation with clinical depression, but apparently I was wrong. It’s not that it’s so cold in DC, it’s more like — hey! Don’t you know it’s almost April?? My friends and … Continue reading
oooooooowould we call her chubby? Maybe if she ate enough of these baked brie cups. Which isn’t hard to do! Last weekend my husband and I enjoyed one of my absolute favorite holiday traditions — watching Love Actually. Nothing gets me in a happier, Christmasy mood than that movie. Wisconsin babes! Here comes Colin! We’ve … Continue reading
In the tiny window we have between our butter-and-corn-syrup-induced Thanksgiving comas and the onslaught of holiday parties, Christmas cookies, and booze, how about something light and healthy that still tastes like junk food? That’s certainly what I’m craving these days. And these baked buffalo tempeh wings are absolutely perfect — they were soooooooooo good I … Continue reading
You guys. You guys. These are so good. I don’t even understand why. I mean, I like Swiss cheese. And I like tuna salad. And I like English muffins. But all these things together? What was once merely like is elevated to looooooove. Mutliple-voweled love, in fact. Yikes. OK, let me dial it down a … Continue reading
Remember back when Jerry Seinfeld started dating that 17-year-old girl when he was almost 40? Then remember how he broke up with her, then started dating this woman who had just gotten back from her honeymoon the week before? Then he married the second woman and she wrote a cookbook about how to sneak vegetables … Continue reading
I don’t know about you, but we eat a lot of Fiber One Bars at my house. My husband almost always has one after dinner, and I probably have one most days, too. We like the peanut butter ones. I think it’s a pretty stellar snack – sweet and yummy, reasonable portion size, and actually … Continue reading
I gotta admit – since I’m usually just cooking for two people, I don’t often fuss around with side dishes. I’ll try to find main dishes that include veggies, and sometimes I’ll throw together a quick side salad, but full-on side dishes don’t usually happen in my kitchen. Which is why it’s kind of funny … Continue reading
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