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No Bradley effect here!

October 29th, 2008 · 7 Comments

The moment I’ve been daydreaming about for MONTHS finally arrived:

In equally important news…
I am famous! My Barack Obama cake made it to yeswecake.com! Check it out!!!

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Tags: Food · Politics

The fruits (actually, mostly vegetables) of my labor

September 1st, 2008 · 7 Comments

Most exciting thing ever:

I GREW THOSE EARS. And they were d-fucking-icious!
(sorry for the poor image quality—took these photos with my cell phone.)
Behold the other vegetables of my labor:

You can’t really see them very well, but I’m holding a giant cucumber in one hand and a bunch of carrots in the other.  Calla is frolicking in […]

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Tags: Food

It happens

June 26th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Went out to dinner tonight with my roommate. Our waitress was a bit of a space cadet. This manifested itself in the form of her taking forever to remember what the specials were (”Ravioli stuffed with… um… kale? And… pecorino cheese? And um… we also have a… ); entirely neglecting salt, pepper and parmesan; and […]

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File under: Things that seem like a better idea than they are

May 20th, 2008 · 12 Comments

Tri-colored pasta is disgusting. And yet, I always end up buying it, for one shameful reason:
It’s bright and pretty.
This is a problem because:
a) It loses its luster once you boil it. What was once bright and pretty on the grocery store shelf almost instantaneously becomes dull and mushy.
b) It tastes awful. “Tomato” and “spinach” may […]

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Kind of like the Safety Dance except without safety and not much dancing

October 18th, 2006 · 10 Comments

Today my student fed me a dish called “Ukraine Food.”
Basically, it was a bunch of cut-up spaghetti topped with two large meatball-type-things, although they in no way resembled the pork/beef hunks that my Italian grandmother can craft—these were lighter, softer and mushier. Sofiya told me that they were made of turkey, beef and sour cream, […]

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Tags: Food · Life