So I took Friday off for Samhain, did the grocery shopping, carved a pumpkin, roasted the seeds, made two pumpkin pies, and built a fire in the fireplace from scavenged wood felled by Gustav (I did the same with Katrina wood in 2005 - feels appropriate) all while listening to my now-traditional Samhain CD - Loreena McKennitt's The Visit. Did my ( Read more... )

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So I was drinking some generic grocery store 'cola' earlier and the can said 'no sodium' And sure enough, it was listed as zero on the nutrition label. How can you have soda without sodium??

Never order Papa Johns pan pizza again. Their hand-tossed is excellent, but their pan sucks. What a waste of $20.

New Orleans. You drive down the interstated toward New Orleans and it's like this progression of destruction. First it's few branches down, then it's a few trees down, then it's lots of trees down, then the trees down outnumber the trees still standing. Saw a house on its side 20 feet from its foundation. It's clear the emphasis has been on ( Read more... )

Pumpkin pies are baked and cooling. Next comes the pumpkin carving itself.

Guinness. Makes me wish I liked the stuff.

I may complain about the South for many reasons, but food isn't one of them.

New Orleans barbeque shrimp and mashed potatoes with gravy for luch.

Heaven.

1) My bread has a grain. And yes, I'm aware of the punnish nature of that sentence. But really. You know how wood has a grain? My bread has a grain. All the little bread molecules are lined up in a swirly pattern. It is very disconcerting. Tastes normal, though ( Read more... )

I had Vietnamese seafood and rice noodle soup for lunch today. It was yummy. There is enough left for dinner some time this week -- not tonight, because that's just too much squid for one day ( Read more... )