Buffet of Sundries

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+ 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

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[whtegrlwthehair]

zucchini bread! zucchini cookies!

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Both sound good, although I'm hoping to avoid baked goods and do healthier things with the zucchini. *sigh*

[firynze]

Zucchini bread! You need zucchini bread! Or stuffed zucchini!

Oooh, I covet that bowl. I never knew such a thing existed, and it's probably totally pointless, but ooooh.

Also, you have the best trivia team name EVAR.

(I got a single-serving watermelon with my share this week. I love melon season)

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I was avoiding zucchini bread because I had it in my head that I wanted to be super-duper-carbs-are-evil healthy this week, but maybe I'm just being stubborn and should just bust out the Joy of Cooking already.

ME TOO. Oh, come now - no kitchen item is TOTALLY pointless. I love the design and the multipurposeness of it.

Thank you! It was disaster-themed night. We've been using a variant of it since the Star Wars/Star Trek night, when the last word was Jedi instead of Hindenburg. (It's a Big Bang Theory reference!)

Ooh! That sounds fun! Tiny watermelon!

[firynze]

Dude, it's carbs cut with a ton of veggies. You can do it. :-D

The tiny watermelon is awesome. Perfect size for one person for breakfast!

I love the design on that bowl, but I can't think what I'd end up using it for!

[stacyinthecity]

Wow, BN! I kinda feel the same way about starbucks though, so there is that.

And foodblogs, yes I have the same problem! And agreed on the kcups.

And also, what days/times is the rockefeller greenmarket? I'm just down the street!

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Re: Starbucks - really? How?

The Greenmarket seems to be W-Fri, and I think it's either 8 or 8:30 to about 6 or so. It's very nice, and there are some rotating vendors, too. Mostly it's nice to buy produce on your lunch hour!

(let me know if you decide to go tomorrow...I'll meet you!)

[stacyinthecity]

Yes, lets meet tomorrow!

Starbucks started in Seattle and went down to Portland before it became the monster it is today. It was just starting to get out there in the world when I lived in Portland. I even owned shares in Starbucks in the early 90s and went to a shareholder meeting. Kenny G was there. Michael Bolton was not. So back then, it was the local shop that was just venturing out into the world. I always feel so conflicted about Starbucks now - I prefer supporting most mom and pops (unless of course, their prices and service is crap and they treat employees poorly - the same sorts of reasons I don't like most chains, actually), but back int he 70s, wasn't Starbucks just a mom and pop too? So isn't it just a mom and pop that became hugely successful?

[moobie]

If you pop the foil off a k-cup and dump out the grounds after you brew, the k-cup itself can be recycled.

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Have you tried this?

[moobie]

I do it all the time at home. The hot chocolate ones I usually don't even take the foil off cuz all the powder gets dissolved when you brew it.

I mean, I can't vouch for what the recyclers do with the k-cups after I put them in my recycle bin, but they always take them. :)

[quasisonic]

you can also get a reusable cup and get regular coffee grounds to brew in the keurig machine.

[redesigner]

Sorry, but you'll have to pry my Keurig machine (I'm on #2 now, as my first sadly gave up the ghost a year ago) from my cold, dead hands