fried pickles. oh my god, they are perfect--fried, salty, crunchy.

buried in family, but poking my head in to wish everyone happy whatever they feel happy about--i hope it is many things for all of us!

there will be posts of substance soon, but in the meantime, i have a bag of little peeled carrots that i am eating (someone, who shall remain nameless, forgot to bring her breakfast today) and they are mostly fine but some of them are terrible. i used to hate raw carrots as a kid and eating some of these, i am wondering if i had an experience like ( Read more... )

for example, today i learned that i don't like twinings vanilla black tea.

in related news, i am desperate for caffeine.

there was a big wave of "food that i hated as a kid is now acceptable, nay yummy" that occurred when i was in my early twenties, say, but i notice that that phenomenon still occurs. i don't think i'll ever want to sit and much a handful of cranberries (does anyone sit and munch a handful of cranberries?) or even have unadulterated cranberry juice ( Read more... )

curried cauliflower really didn't taste good to me, today.

i actually like brownies better without extra chocolate chips in them.

i like my own cooking, but sometimes eating something that someone else cooked is an almost tear-inducing pleasure.

why on earth is there such a thing as fat-free feta cheese?

(i bought it by accident, not having looked carefully at the packaging and used it since i had purchased it. if i had wanted white stuff that tastes of nothing on my salad, i would have bought tofu.)

this is what i've been eating for lunch all week ( Read more... )

i vastly prefer lipton tea to salada when we're talking inexpensive black teas. i didn't know i had that strong a preference.