You
know that old internet chestnut "Pics or it didn't happen?" This is why
I've kept a blog for 26 years. That's why I know that I had my favorite
burger on April 24 2018--The Cousin Oliver. Veggie patty on a wheat
bun, bitches. Alas, they don't make it anymore, which I found out on
Facebook from Robbie Rist of all people. IYKYK.
That's a lot of peanut butter wasted unnecessarily, in my opinion. Could have "honored" the dead artist, Wim T. Schippers, another way. Like an installation of big blown-up photos of the first TWO times he covered the floor in peanut butter (1967 and 1997) and a free jar of peanut butter to families visiting the museum. Did this really need to happen? More than 800 pounds of peanut butter — enough for around 15,000 sandwiches — has…
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Good morning. Last night I ate a really delicious pear. I woke up thinking about it. I found a digital (iPad) drawing of a pear I did from 2017. This is not my only drawing of a pear. Pears are important, dude. Get yourself a pear today.🍐
Yesterday evening I
was sitting out on the porch with my book ("How to Make a Horror Movie and Survive" by Craig DiLouie ) while Joe was cooking dinner. Gradually, it began to smell like my mom's cooking. I was compelled by the aroma to come inside,
and Joe met me at the door, looking accomplished. "It smells so good, baby!" I said. "You can smell it all the way out here?" he said. Indeed, I could. And this Sic…
This
is my ideal English Muffin. I call this "toasted." Joe calls it burnt! He
doesn’t toast them—he likes them just lightly heated up. Before Joe, a
lifetime ago, I lived with Hub—he also liked them just heated up! I could never get a properly toasted English Muffin outta either one of them guys! Now I just make my own. I
think a witch cursed me when I was born to only love men who were
hostile to nooks and crannies toasted golden…
My husband is Joe Kowalski , an imaginative Gen X polymath and among the most talented people I know. I learned the term "polymath" from Hal Sparks. From Google AI search: "A polymath is a person with deep expertise across multiple, diverse fields, driven by relentless curiosity and the ability to synthesize knowledge from different domains to foster innovation and creative problem-solving." My good friend Diana (she's all ov…
Tonight I made tuna steak topped with nectarine salad over baby mixed greens. It's simple, summery, tasty and under 500 calories. Star Market had frozen tuna steak on sale, so I bought one without a plan for how I was gonna cook it. I looked up a few recipes online and came up with this dish. First I diced two ripe nectarines, a handful of fresh basil leaves, and half a red bell pepper in a bowl, drizzled olive oil, balsamic vinegar, added …
Don't worry, Diary of a Low Budget Superhero won't morph into a boring food blog. I just need to remember this later for tracking purposes and I already have this platform, so: Breakfast was at 10am, and I made a bowl with 1/3c barley, 1/2c mixed berries, and a Chobani "less sugar" yogurt. And coffee with 1 tbsp powdered creamer, which at some point I'll omit because it's all chemicals, but I need it right now. Thank y…
I'm paraphrasing the late Spalding Gray. I forget which of his monologues contains the bit about trying to get healthy and eat right and realizing how much junk is in everything. Today I texted Jenny from the grocery store, tediously reading label after label, "Is there anything more despairing than the first Shop after a weight loss doc. FFS!" Goals So last month at my annual physical I asked my doc if he could refer me to our local…
I needed some things so I went to the store. That's how I found out that there's bacon cotton candy. The package has a cartoon pig holding a thing of bacon cotton candy. So now I know that I am alive in an age where people thought of bacon cotton candy . Now you know this exists. I'm sorry.🤮
He think I'm amazing. He love me so much. If you have a chance to marry your best friend, I highly advise doing so.
Yesterday Joe posted on Facebook about the pizza I made for dinner. People were all "wow!" over how good it looks. But really no need to "wow" this one, guys! Quick pizza is so easy if somebody else makes the dough, and my grocery store happens to have a great ready made pizza dough in the deli section.
I wrote up a Quick Version of a garden pizza, and further down there's a more detailed explanation if you've litera…
It's my 47th birthday. As a Gen Xer with almost half a century of experience, I've come to some conclusions. Here are five things I'm pretty sure about. 1.Guitar Comedy
Hey Demitri, Birbigs, that guy, and that other guy. You know who you are. So, I've given it literally dozens of chances, but I'm afraid it's a no from me, dawg. I love you, but when you reach for that guitar, my brain goes, "Noooooooo!" You're…
On Saturday afternoon, The I Want You opened for the Weisstronauts' annual holiday bash. Joe and I took the opportunity to host a lovely after party. An "after party" that starts around dinnertime? Perfect. These days, that is about my speed. That's not an "aging scenester" thing...yes, I'm aging but even when I was the right age to head out to someone's basement at 3am after band load-out, I didn't. I pr…
"Baby, this soup is outstanding."
"There's a secret ingredient."
"Love?"
"...okay, TWO secret ingredients."
This is only "leftover" chicken pot pie because I use the chicken soup from earlier in the week.
This is a fast prep, and 45 minutes to bake. When you make a chicken soup, use ingredients that you think you'll like in a pot pie later. For example, I love to put a big bunch of spinach in my chicken soup, but if I'm planning on converting the leftover soup into a pot pie, then I won't add the spinach to the whole pot. I don&…
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