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Category Archives: food
Eggo Waffle, Your Holiness?
The first action of Pope Francis was to get all my laundry folded. I found out about the white smoke via Twitter and immediately searched up a live feed, then propped the computer on an inverted laundry basket and started … Continue reading
The politics of beer
Over the weekend, my Patient Husband suggested we might watch Fugitive Alien and have a “Black and Tan.” Now if you’re wondering what either of those are, Fugitive Alien is a Mystery Science Theater 3000 episode, described by the Mad … Continue reading
Pizza and sainthood
On Sunday I ended up at a bowling birthday party, the kind where thirty four-year-olds produce a slow-motion physics video of a bowling ball in realtime. After the bowling they had pizza and cake, and the attending parents were offered … Continue reading
Lost meals and memories
Now that Hostess is out of business, Weird Al can no longer eat his Twinkie-Weiner Sandwiches. I have purchased exactly four (4) Twinkies in the past twenty years (all of them for the Kiddos) and I’ve purchased an equal number … Continue reading
Putting the capital “I” in “irony”
I read an honest-to-goodness “life changing” article when I was a kid, and it came back this week like the Ghost Of News Articles Past. I’m pretty sure the article came from Catholic Digest: a woman writing about how her … Continue reading
In which a pizza place becomes a cautionary tale
Last night at 5:30, I came home to find the power company working at the corner, and every house dark. I turned the Kiddos loose to play on the lawn (it’s ridiculously warm) and found the flashlights, but it had … Continue reading
Great for guzzling!
Being the Mom Of The Year takes a lot of hard work. Last week, for example, I brought my daughter to the liquor store. These little mother-daughter field trips are an excellent time to brush up my daughter on the … Continue reading
He wanted the water too.
I do things Kiddo4 doesn’t understand, but I never realize the disconnect until he says something. For example, while I made him juice one day, he said, “You have to put water under the juice.” I water down his juice … Continue reading
Kiddo4 Suffers A Disappointment
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At 5:37AM, I awoke to a small voice beside me in the dark: “We need a sushi mat. You roll it away from you.”
Thus began my day, although I guess Kiddo#4’s day had begun a minute or two earlier with thoughts about the “how to make sushi” book given to us by my friend Sarah (she who also saved my geeky party.)
I’ve mentioned before that K4 loves sushi and even picked a sushi restaurant over Friendly’s for his birthday. Thursday is (and quite possibly will be forever) “Sushi Day.” During break week, Sarah had taken her daughters to Whole Foods for a class on how to make sushi, and not needing several sets of instruction booklets, gave one to K4.
Who had me read the instructions and recipes to him like a storybook. A wonderful, amazing, glorious storybook in which, at the climax, everyone eats sushi.
Five hours after today’s story opens, I picked him up from preschool and said, “Let’s go buy a sushi mat.” Whole Foods is (guess?) ten miles away, so we hunted around the store until the nice guy behind the fish counter showed us where to find sushi mats. We bought Nori. We bought imitation crab. We bought avocados and cucumbers. We bought a bag of sushi rice.
K4 was so filled with delight that in the car on the way home, he fell asleep.
Never mind. At home, I hauled him and a grocery bag up the stairs…only to discover it takes about two hours to make sushi rice. (Soaking, cooking, steaming/cooling.)
After a brief pout of poutiness, K4 settled for leftover chicken wings, and I had a sandwich.
Tomorrow. Tomorrow will be sushi day. Will have to roll the mat away from me.
Can-can?
This is so bizarre I need to blog about it right now, even though I had another post I wanted to write. I just got home from BJs about fifteen minutes ago. When I went around back to unload the … Continue reading
Seven angels, four kids, one family 