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Day 1. Any dietary restrictions?
Day 2. Your favorite sweet dish.
Day 3. Your favorite savory dish.
Day 4. Your preferred degree of spiciness.
Day 5. Your signature dish.Not sure I have one. D. definitely has several. He makes a good vodka sauce, beef broccoli, most recently chicken cordon bleu. He's all about taking a recipe and tweaking it ( Read more... ) -
Maybe a 7 or 8
Day 1. Any dietary restrictions?
Day 2. Your favorite sweet dish.
Day 3. Your favorite savory dish.
Day 4. Your preferred degree of spiciness.When I was younger I prided myself on liking food as hot as I could handle it. And I still love a little kick to my food. But as I've gotten more sophisticated with food, I've changed my take on spiciness ( Read more... ) -
Happiness Part Five: Nature and Nurture and Self-Nurture
From Ariel Gore’s Bluebird:
The ancient Greeks attributed happiness to being favored by the gods. A spin of the universal wheel and you were dealt your disposition. Their fatalism is captured in our language: the English words for happiness, happenstance, haphazard, and hapless all derive from the same root-the Old Norse happ, meaning “luck” or ( Read more... ) -
Lesson Eleven: Earliest Japanese Cinema
I temporarily neglected my Movie Project not because I lost interest, but because I just had/have too much going on. But dammit, I WILL find time for everything I love in life even if it means waking up at 5.30am (and napping three hours later ( Read more... ) -
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Day 1. Any dietary restrictions?
Day 2. Your favorite sweet dish.
Day 3. Your favorite savory dish.I gave myself until I was done sweeping my apartment to figure out a response to this prompt. I couldn't do it. It is just simply not gonna happen, me coming up with one answer to this. All the possibilities flood my mind. Panang curry. A good ( Read more... ) -
Pudding Love
Day 1. Any dietary restrictions?
Day 2. Your favorite sweet dish.I’ve got a pretty healthy sweet tooth. Off the top of my head, what does it for me is: ICE CREAM of all kinds especially mint chocolate chip or anything with coffee, sorbet, toffee, Starbucks toffeenut lattes, fresh chocolate chip cookies, Twizzlers, any kind of sour candy like Sour ( Read more... ) -
Happiness Part Four: BABIES
D. returned from Okinawa, and my spirit is unmistakably lifted. I remember years ago an early teenage platonic girlfriend sort of broke up with me in a note. We had been inseparable as high school freshmen, drawing comics and making scrap books for each other. She said in the note something to the effect that she didn't want to depend so much on ( Read more... ) -
On Food
I have noticed that a common theme of my Facebook status updates is food/drink. So it seemed like a good idea to complete this food-themed meme that I came across while distracting myself from putting nose to grindstone (as I too often do).
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On my mind ( Read more... )