Avocado Shopping

We also ought to be banned from buying avocados, as I can never catch that minute between green, alligator-skinned rocks and smooshy mess, and I feel ridiculously wasteful every time I throw them away. We were better off in China, when we would carry our avocados and gouda back from Jenny Lou’s, and then wait, checking the avocados for that perfect sandwich ripeness each time before we went out for dumplings.

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Cutting Down On Coffee

Have you tried the awesome hot apple cider at Starbucks?

8 ) Caramel Apple Crack at Starbucks

I don’t know if the Starbucks in China has this, because I was too busy slurping up all the real-bean coffee and then getting the jitters. I don’t know what’s in it, either. I asked Stick and he thinks maybe it’s sunshine and rainbows and highly addictive chemicals.

Note: This is not a paid advertisement, but if Starbucks would pay me I would totally advertise the Apple Crack. In fact, I’d even call it by its proper name.

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Nerdy Workout Guide

Line 70 is “Become Smoking Hot” is a nerdy workout “guide” from Simpson’s Paradox:

My Workout Routine

10 Go to the gym

20 Overdo workout in an attempt to cancel out unhealthy lifestyle

30 Go home achy and sore

40 Skip the gym because my stupid workout hurt me

50 Feel bad about not going recently and resolve to do a really good workout

60 Go to line 20

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Tomato Paste

I saw this today on Catherine Newman Weekly Blog - Wondertime which used to be Dalai Mama and is now a recipe column.

 

Leftover tomato paste? Scoop tablespoons of it onto a waxed-paper-lined baking
sheet, freeze until solid, then store the frozen lumps in a (labeled!)
Ziploc freezer bag. Or else let it get moldy in the fridge and throw it
out later. Either way.

Dear
Catherine, just because I’m blogging this does not mean I have forgiven
you for abruptly no longer writing about Ben and Birdy. No. I haven’t.
I’m still mad. I followed the adventures of your family since before
Birdy existed and then one day you drop “Hey, I’m writing a cookbook
now!” and stop. Still mad.

Via Pot Roast - Catherine Newman Weekly Blog for 10/20/08 - Wondertime

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Tomato Paste

I saw this today on Catherine Newman Weekly Blog - Wondertime which used to be Dalai Mama and is now a recipe column.

 

Leftover tomato paste? Scoop tablespoons of it onto a waxed-paper-lined baking
sheet, freeze until solid, then store the frozen lumps in a (labeled!)
Ziploc freezer bag. Or else let it get moldy in the fridge and throw it
out later. Either way.

Dear
Catherine, just because I’m blogging this does not mean I have forgiven
you for abruptly no longer writing about Ben and Birdy. No. I haven’t.
I’m still mad. I followed the adventures of your family since before
Birdy existed and then one day you drop “Hey, I’m writing a cookbook
now!” and stop. Still mad.

Via Pot Roast - Catherine Newman Weekly Blog for 10/20/08 - Wondertime

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Swedish Fish

According to Stick, it’s ok to eat all the Halloween candy if he says “Trick or treat” while doing so. I wonder if I should buy a second bag so our real trick-or-treaters can have some.

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Spicy Food

Hot-hot or spicy hot?

I don’t have any complete phrases, or ancient Chinese sayings, but one Chinese word has made it into our everyday vocabulary. Stick and I both use la de to talk about food, instead of saying spicy-hot-not-hot-hot.

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Spicy Food

Hot-hot or spicy hot?

I don’t have any complete phrases, or ancient Chinese sayings, but one Chinese word has made it into our everyday vocabulary. Stick and I both use la de to talk about food, instead of saying spicy-hot-not-hot-hot.

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Simple Diet Advice

I saw this today on Rice-Cooker Gourmet: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants

The awesome Uppercase Woman said this a while ago to sum up healthy eating:

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

She was quoting Michael Pollan, of In Defense of Food:  An Eater’s Manifesto. (He was also part of the discussion in my other post on Chinese cuisine.
Er, I mean on the health benefits of Chinese cooking, I guess on this
blog I should be more specific about which time I talked about Chinese
food.

I really like this simple concept of how to eat better and be healthier.
Via Rice-Cooker Gourmet: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants

Simple Diet Advice

I saw this today on Rice-Cooker Gourmet: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants

The awesome Uppercase Woman said this a while ago to sum up healthy eating:

“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

She was quoting Michael Pollan, of In Defense of Food:  An Eater’s Manifesto. (He was also part of the discussion in my other post on Chinese cuisine.
Er, I mean on the health benefits of Chinese cooking, I guess on this
blog I should be more specific about which time I talked about Chinese
food.

I really like this simple concept of how to eat better and be healthier.
Via Rice-Cooker Gourmet: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants

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