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Salads: you can’t go wrong with strawberries, goat cheese, walnuts, and balsamic. Or apples/pears with blue cheese and walnuts. I love walnuts in salad, can you tell?
Big Momma: Hugs. My parent’s cat Dash will always be my Baby Kitty. She would curl herself around my neck like a scarf and let me walk around to do whatever and she was my shadow. It was sad after I moved to the West Coast, every time I’d visit, her coat would be a little more faded as she aged. I was very upset when she died.
Now we have Mimi, and as much as I love the other three, she’s MY cat.
I love the animal stories too. And thank you for all the salad ideas! Whatever I make, if anyone asks me where I got the recipe from, I’ll say “This salad was brought to you by feminism.”
Totally old subject, but still more interesting than Brandon: Mac & Cheese!
My husband loves it, and an easy but delicious thing he does is grab one of those ‘mac and cheese in a box’ (Annie’s is his favorite), and cook some vegetables in it–edamame, tomatoes, and spinach are all great. Then, instead of adding milk or butter to the powdered cheese, he adds Greek yogurt with salt, pepper, and fresh basil.
It doesn’t take really any longer than just making it plain, and it’s SO GOOD!
Thanks hellkell. I love my Molly and Lola too. All the kitties, really.
Just never mix vodka with a Capri Sun. (College drinking was…interesting for me.)
Nah, you have to mix Capri Sun with Captain Morgan for that really classy college drinking experience.
Wow back to you Cassandra.
This just makes me a bit sad. I’m on meds that forbid drinking. Not that I’m huge into it anyway, but hubby misses it.
Fortunately, I have awesome friends. When drinking breaks out, they make me mixed non-alcoholic drinks so I don’t feel left out! 😀
@emilygoddess
That might actually be worse and I thought nothing would top it. Thankfully, I am finally grown-up enough to not want to try. 🙂
I’ve never had Captain Morgan. Is it really that bad?
LBT, this is why EANABs are important. I learned that in college (from a professor, actually): Whenever you serve booze, you’re supposed to also serve Equally Attractive Non-Alcoholic Beverages, so in case someone present doesn’t drink it’s not like “You can have a cabernet sauvignon…or a diet Coke.”
RE: katz
Yeah, I love that idea. Unfortunately, I never really encountered it until I was hanging with my current crop of friends. Until then, I’d just sit awkwardly with my water. (It doesn’t help that even when I COULD drink, I never much cared for the taste.) But now I have friends who make me delicious fancy drinks out of various kinds of juice, syrup, and seltzer water! 😀 Delicious!
Sometimes EANABs are nicer than the alcoholic drinks! They’re always cheaper. Hee hee.
I’m loving these ideas for mac and cheese, I’m just hoping it’ll be okay to eat with my stupid fatty liver! I’d like to try that recipe.
I figured out last night part of what it is that freaks me out about cooking – partly ‘cos I never learned it at home, but partly it’s that it takes me right back to high school and doing Home Eco lessons in an atmosphere were everything had to be done right first time, under time pressure, and for marks. Way not to get people to enjoy learning the skills involved. I still feel like cooking’s something I’m being watched and judged for, and I hate the fact that if it’s stuffed up, the food’s wasted. It also doesn’t help that Mum’s even less adventurous with food than I am, and more than likely to show only polite approval of anything different (even pasta’s outside her usual preferences).
It makes it all the stranger when I know that these inhibitions are gone on the other side. I mean, last night across the veil Mr K and I spent most of the day in the kitchen, cooking fruit to preserve and with roast beef roasting for our dinner.
Right; “I just don’t feel like it” should be a perfectly acceptable reason not to drink and you shouldn’t feel like you’re being punished with boring beverages as a result.
One of the things I like about oolong-hai drinks is that if someone doesn’t want booze you can just hand them a glass of tea without the booze, and it’s not a big deal or something that makes people feel awkward.
@CassandraSays
I hate any rum that isn’t coconut-flavored, so I really hate it. The boyfriend likes all rum and he thinks Captain Morgan is fine. So…maybe it’s that bad?
RE: Kittehs
I’ve become recently sadly unadventurous with food. Partly due to budget, but also due to coming out of the ED slump; new food is always harder for me to buy, and isn’t worth the lunacy that sometimes ensues. But macaroni and cheese with vegetables and yogurt is BOSS. Also well-balanced and approved by my meal plan! *thumbs up*
I do tend to prefer dark rum and Captain Morgan seems to be white rum, at least the bottles I’ve seen in bars. Overall though I’m clueless about rum, since I never make drinks with it at home and only order it with certain kinds of food.
Oolong-tinis are the best.
Here’s the Baby Kitty Dash in her favorite spot.
@LBT
Yogurt, cheese, and noodles are a great combo! My mom makes this dish with a yogurt-based cheese sauce and mushrroms. It was one of my favorite things as a kid. (My sister won’t eat mushrooms so I also associate it with her spending dinner elsewhere, which was fun when I was little.)
Mushrroms? Gah.
Aw, fluffy kitty scarf.
I have hope that the Biscuit will continue to be a shoulder cat like she was.
Mushrooms are good, but they pretty much absorb the flavors that are around them. Adding stuff like sun-dried tomatoes WITH them though… mmm-MMMM!
Eventual size is key here, too. Main Coons are gorgeous, for example, but I don’t know that I’d want a 30 pound shoulder cat.