BasilandFig

So we took the dog to the vet the other day.

And I’d been kind of thinking she was getting a little pudgy because whenever you looked at her from above she looked kind of…tubular.  Like a tube sock, or a sausage in its casing.  Pretty sure dogs are not supposed to look like that.

And I [...]

Do you ever think that Bill and Hilary look around at their lives and all they’ve accomplished and say, “Yeah, but when is Chelsea gonna give us a grandkid?”

The other day I was, for some reason, going to link to the Thai Red Curry recipe I had posted on this site.  That I was sure I had posted to this site because we make it so often, how could it be possible that I had, actually, never posted it?

Because after much searching and [...]

Andy went out of town for the weekend.  Three days he was gone, and in that time I started talking to the dog; tried to rescue an injured feral cat that clearly did not want to be rescued despite his piteous yowling & three-legged hobbling; and I tried to make friends with the crows by [...]

Me: I thought Randy Jackson was a country singer.

My Guy: No.  Randy Travis and Alan Jackson are country singers.

Me: Oh.  Then who’s Randy Jackson?  A baseball player?

My Guy: I think you mean Reggie Jackson.

Later that week:

Me: So, Powdermilk Biscuits isn’t a real thing, right?

My Guy: No.  It’s like [...]

I wish I could say that I was a master of tofu recipes, a guru of soybean curd cookery.

And I wish I could also say that I loved tofu every time I ate it, in every permutation.

And while there are so many different things you can do with it—burgers! stir-fries! vegan cheesecakes!—most all of these [...]

If you are my neighbor, specifically my neighbor on the south side of the house, I would just like to let you know that I am not, in fact, growing marijuana.  But I am worried that you might assume so given all the cords and grow lights and seedling flats so clearly visible in the [...]

We make a lot of pasta around here.  And we also make a lot of casseroles.

So it seems only natural that we’d end up making baked pasta casseroles, too.

One of the first dishes I ever learned to make was lasagna.  I mean, how hard is it, really?  Lasagna just falls into the ‘tedious’ rather than [...]

Pretty certain I will never be a hand model as there is always dirt under my fingernails. Sorry.

Yeah, I know what you’re thinking.  You’re thinking, geez, couldn’t you have posted this recipe before the Superbowl, so that I could’ve had something easy and delicious to eat while we watched the game commercials?

Well, yeah.

But [...]

My Guy: Did I ever tell you about the time I found a person’s leg at the landfill?

Me: Oh my god, you found what?  A leg?  A human leg, like a murder victim?

My Guy: No, it was a prosthetic leg.  It still had the shoe and sock on it and everything.  I was like, ‘Who [...]