Now, you know I love my wife. But... As much as I say she's perfect, she has flaws. A love of Twilight and boy bands, among other things, but she has a particularly annoying habit of being picky about her pizza. Alas, I cannot afford to spend $40 anytime one of us has a craving for pizza (and the new Pizza Hut flavors are right out), nor do I want to endure the queasiness that Little Caesar's usually brings us. So I've been trying to compromise with her by having frozen pizza on hand for these cravings, but she's been so against it! It's a trick finding a pizza she likes, so we've been experimenting. Today, we're trying the rather tasty-sounding Bon Appetit: Pesto & Pepperoni. (Picture not mine)
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Well, we don't go all the way to Wilcox for pumpkins just so they can LOOK PRETTY. We like to carve pumpkins! Not only is this a fun tradition for Halloween, it also adds a dash of personality to your decor. PLUS, did you know dogs love pumpkin?!
"Glad, as always, to oblige my friends and neighbors..." ~Beadle Bamford, Sweeney Todd So, good news, bad news in the Gold household. Bad news is, a friend and neighbor of ours moving away (Noooooo!!! Who will we have drunken hobbit game night with now?!), but the good news is -- as it always is with moving neighbors/friends -- THEY ARE GIVING AWAY FREE SWAG. Speaking as someone who went from small loft apartment to renting a room to having my own small apartment again, and a good eight moves in the first two years I moved out of my parents' place (I was a veritable gypsy!) I know all too well how frustrating it is to fit your life into boxes, and sometimes, you just gotta let things go. THE NICE THING IS, said neighbors were also foodies, albeit recently of the vegan variety. Something about a documentary on America's slaughterhouses. Call me heartless, but I just love steak too much to burden my mind with what atrocities some Green Peace social sciences major has decided to splice together into a documentary to scare America into eating vegan. I don't have to be a film student to tell you that documentaries are incredibly biased as a rule. But I'm also a bit too selfishly invested in my upbringing, and the culture of food that has always been a part of my life. My dad's side of the family is corn-fed Indiana hick, with a good dose of country cooking, fish fry and personally shot venison, and a generations old Italian sauce recipe that I'm told was acquired from a mafioso nonna and taught to my grandmother as a girl. My mother's side of the family is Puerto Rican with roasts and rice, generous spices, sweets and savory in stolen, modified recipes, too much pork and coconut and rum, and big parties with too much food and music and laughing. And my wife is Filipina, which is just as bad, only with the soy sauce, fish sauce flair of Asia tossed in, with pancit and lumpia and a bunch of other tasty things I can't pronounce. Now, I have nothing against people who prefer to eat vegan, and I'm even going to make sure I point out how most of my recipes can be modified for vegan, vegetarian, gluten free, etc. diets, because I know enough people that do it that way. (I've another vegan friend who makes an AMAZING hummus that I will have to steal and share with you guys) I also have a friend who is allergic to dairy AND gluten, and she is a challenge to feed -- my dad would go to make big breakfast for slumber parties (eggs, bacon, hashbrowns from scratch...) and she'd bring her own grits. It's always a trick trying to find a way to feed a party of people knowing there are dietary limitations (like my grandmother's need for splenda in her baking and maizena for my diabetic grandfather), but when I see a way that'll help you modify a recipe, I will endeavour to do so (like in my Thai curry recipe, where I noted that it makes a rather wonderful vegetarian/vegan dish, to those so inclined). All of which is a distraction from the fact that A NEW VEGAN THREW AWAY THEIR ROASTING PAN (their ROASTING pan!!!) AND GAVE IT TO ME INSTEAD. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, that gorgeous cage-and-dish that makes Thanksgiving turkeys a thing of beauty. As a young newlywed, I will walk by them and sigh longingly, and someone just gave me one, as well as a wok (ACTUAL STIR FRY! HUZZAH!), a large glass mixing bowl (which will be PERFECT for Cookie's baking), and a few other goodies, including another tote bag (an excellent way to be a little more green in your life -- tote bags instead of the plastic bags in grocery stores! You can grow a nice collection of them with almost no expense, actually -- most fairs and festivals will give them away as promotional gifts. Only downside is, you have to go grocery shopping with plastic bags every ONCE in a while for doggy clean up bags...), and a nice veggie/cracker tray for party-making. I was so excited, I had to share. ALSO, Cookie and I spent most of our day driving out to Wilcox to visit Apple Annie's to continue our tradition of picking our own pumpkins for Halloween. BEHOLD, PICTARZ. Anyway! I'm going to try and put up some more backlog entries (read: go through my Instagram and make entries for them, hehehehe...) and give you guys some more nummies to look at. AND THANK YOU FOR ALL OF THE VIEWS! All of you are BEAUTIFUL.
~Mr. G My wife was in the mood for Mexican, and lately we've been exploring the East end of Tanque Verde. Not only does it have a pretty spectacular GameStop, it also has a Rancho Rustico, and she insisted I try it.
Today we went to the Tucson Meet Yourself folklife festival, a food faire that happens every October here in downtown Tucson, showcasing the varied ethnicities you can find hiding in this always-surprising town.
"Statistics prove that you've one birthday! That leaves you with 364 UNbirthdays!" ~March Hare
Today is a very special day for my wife and I, because, you see, we are both quite fervent Alice fans. To celebrate the date (10/6, much like the measurement on the Mad Hatter's hat) we are celebrating #HappyHatterDay with exactly what you would think: TEA. Now, our morning usual is Earl Grey for myself and Lady Grey for the missus (in due course), but we had someone bestow some Bigelow EG on us, and if I bought myself more Twinings (as is my norm) I know I would never drink it, so I'm suffering through. The Maria shortbread cookies (something that is definitely my addition, as I grew up eating them as a child -- they're dirt cheap, too, which is a delightful bonus) make WONDERFUL tea biscuits, and it's just the perfect sort of thing to have as a snack while you marathon Alice In Wonderland. We start with the 1951 cartoon, naturally -- Ed Wynn is my favourite Hatter, and the one I based my @ReginaldHatter on Twitter off of. Wife actually has a collection of 1951 Alice snowglobes as well! We're very proud Carollians. |
Brunch w/ BlakeHalf-boricuan, half-corn fed Indiana hick. Stir in a taste of the southwest and serve in LA, on the rocks. #BrunchWithBlake #FoodPorn #LAFoodie Archives
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