Buffet of Sundries
+ My team (Rock Paper Scissors Lizard Spock Hindenburg) won trivia last night!! Go us! And it was awesome to get to hang with valjean615 for more than a few hi/bye type seconds.
- Barnes & Noble may be in trouble. While I tend to much prefer local indie bookstores to corporate chains, Barnes & Noble was the first bookstore to strike wonder into my young heart as a wee thing. The (now defunct) Kings Plaza B&N was a bright, airy space with shelves that reached to the ceiling and ladders. To my young eyes, it was huge, and awe-inspiring. And, my parents never seemed to mind when quasisonic and I wanted stuff from there. Alas, any bookstore is many years gone from that rat trap of a mall, but when I think of B&N, I don't think of that big green behemoth that exists now - I think of that beautiful store with its beige-and-brown bags featuring the renaissance illustration of a man and his books. So this makes me a bit sad.
* I probably don't need this but it's SO pretty. ::adds to wedding registry:: I am unsure how I will fit into my kitchen if I get all of the crap I want on my registry. When I was a kid, I thought housewares/kitchen stores were boring, and considered it a huge deal when my mom FINALLY let me go to Barnes & Noble myself while she shopped at Lechter's next door. Now? I'm nutty for housewares. Yet another case of "You'll change your mind when you're older" actually being true.
- I'm with Gawker on this one. These k-cups seem FAR more wasteful than traditional coffeemakers.
+ The Rockefeller center greenmarket is back! \o/ I have been celebrating its return by consuming many of Millport Dairy's whoopie pies. The whole stand makes me miss our yearly trip to Lancaster County. And if the booth wasn't quite so mobbed, I might ask the nice Mennonite man running it where in Lancaster they were. Oh, Kitchen Kettle - I miss you most of all.
* I have a bumper crop of zucchini I'm trying to figure out what to do with. Some will go into this stir fry I like, but I'm trying to decide between making more zucchini fritters (time consuming but awesome) or just cutting them up, coating with olive oil and spices and roasting them. Hrm. That may win.
- Dear Food Blogs: Yes, I realize it's an awesome time of year for vegetables, and you all have giant freezers with lots of space, but some of us do not, so giving me soup recipes in 90+ and very humid weather is not of interest to me. Also: I know this may come as a shock to you, but not everyone has a back deck and a barbeque.
+ Today is CSA day, and among the goodies in my vegetable share is a cantelope. Now, silly me, I thought cantelope was a fruit, but not according to my CSA. Not that I'm complaining - I LOVE cantelope. It's just amusing, and every day I'm less surprised that my CSA's abbreviated name is FFS.
- Barnes & Noble may be in trouble. While I tend to much prefer local indie bookstores to corporate chains, Barnes & Noble was the first bookstore to strike wonder into my young heart as a wee thing. The (now defunct) Kings Plaza B&N was a bright, airy space with shelves that reached to the ceiling and ladders. To my young eyes, it was huge, and awe-inspiring. And, my parents never seemed to mind when quasisonic and I wanted stuff from there. Alas, any bookstore is many years gone from that rat trap of a mall, but when I think of B&N, I don't think of that big green behemoth that exists now - I think of that beautiful store with its beige-and-brown bags featuring the renaissance illustration of a man and his books. So this makes me a bit sad.
* I probably don't need this but it's SO pretty. ::adds to wedding registry:: I am unsure how I will fit into my kitchen if I get all of the crap I want on my registry. When I was a kid, I thought housewares/kitchen stores were boring, and considered it a huge deal when my mom FINALLY let me go to Barnes & Noble myself while she shopped at Lechter's next door. Now? I'm nutty for housewares. Yet another case of "You'll change your mind when you're older" actually being true.
- I'm with Gawker on this one. These k-cups seem FAR more wasteful than traditional coffeemakers.
+ The Rockefeller center greenmarket is back! \o/ I have been celebrating its return by consuming many of Millport Dairy's whoopie pies. The whole stand makes me miss our yearly trip to Lancaster County. And if the booth wasn't quite so mobbed, I might ask the nice Mennonite man running it where in Lancaster they were. Oh, Kitchen Kettle - I miss you most of all.
* I have a bumper crop of zucchini I'm trying to figure out what to do with. Some will go into this stir fry I like, but I'm trying to decide between making more zucchini fritters (time consuming but awesome) or just cutting them up, coating with olive oil and spices and roasting them. Hrm. That may win.
- Dear Food Blogs: Yes, I realize it's an awesome time of year for vegetables, and you all have giant freezers with lots of space, but some of us do not, so giving me soup recipes in 90+ and very humid weather is not of interest to me. Also: I know this may come as a shock to you, but not everyone has a back deck and a barbeque.
+ Today is CSA day, and among the goodies in my vegetable share is a cantelope. Now, silly me, I thought cantelope was a fruit, but not according to my CSA. Not that I'm complaining - I LOVE cantelope. It's just amusing, and every day I'm less surprised that my CSA's abbreviated name is FFS.