Food
Posted on March 30, 2009
I love food. I don’t want to marry it, nor am I addicted to any one special kind of food. I just love food. Not sure I am a foodie or not. Recently attempts have been made at a food review website. Writing and food seem like a good mix. Growing up lower middle class limited my fine dining experience. I remember my first meal at the Blue Chip club in Cincinnati. Nervous about forks, my tie and what to order for the brunch meal.
These days I am happy to say that I am equally comfortable at the Oakwood Club or the Dixie Diner in New Lebanon. For all the food I love, and recently I have been eating more salads and seafood, than burgers and steak, I can not make a decision about food. This is not a problem for most people, but at least 5 times a week I am eating out with someone and a decision has to be made.
This is the one decision I hate to make. I don’t care, Asian Fusion, Classic American, Deli or Diner, Italian or Pizza joint. I don’t care. I have a friend in the same category. When we eat he is quick to eliminate the one place that we understand is sometimes not appropriate. His requirement? A good bacon cheeseburger. I may be having a great pasta dish, or a pizza, or even a good salad with seafood piled high, he wants a good bacon cheeseburger.
To avoid the decision making process I have begun to implement a new strategy. It goes like this:
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My first video
Posted on March 28, 2009
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Coffee
Posted on March 14, 2009
When I was a kid it was imperative that I could make my parents a cup of coffee. In the early 80’s my parents were instant coffee drinkers. The formula for mom’s morning drink and my father’s were different. As different as they were I suppose.
The water for their coffee was heated using a teapot. Tea was reserved for the flu. But hot water is essential to the instant coffee’s success. My mom’s coffee was always a heaping teaspoon of the Maxwell House instant, heaping teaspoon of sugar (kept in a covered bowl on the kitchen table, there was no dining room or dining room table, and a splash of vitamin D milk.
My dad’s cup of joe was different. Since he was a truck driver, he was accustom to the coffee served in diners and truck stops. At home his coffee was a flat teaspoon of the instant powder and a splash of cool water from the faucet. On the occasion’s that I would be with dad for breakfast a restaurant or diner, or even a fancy restaurant like Frisch’s he had his own coffee ritual. It went like this.
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another lame meme
Posted on March 13, 2009
1. Who was your FIRST prom date? Angela Kaskocsak
2. Do you still talk to your FIRST love? Yes
3. What was your FIRST alcoholic drink? Probably that horrible wine my uncle made that my parents kept above the kitchen sink.
4. What was your FIRST job? Camp Counselor
5. What was your FIRST car? Green 1973 Chevy Beauville Van,sat 12 comfortably.
6. Who was the FIRST person to text you today? Sandra
7. Who is the FIRST person you thought of this morning? A potential donor to KV.
8. Who was your FIRST grade teacher? Mrs. Davis.
9. Where did you go on your FIRST ride on an airplane? Cincy to Dallas to Denver.
10. Who was your FIRST best friend & do you still talk? Brian Neal and occasionally yes we do.
11. Where was your FIRST sleep over? probably grandparents house or a cousins house.
12. Who was the FIRST person you talked to today? Melissa
13. Whose wedding were you in the FIRST time? Jeremy..whats his last name….it was a grand Catholic affair..in Owensboro Kentucky. A great time.
14. What was the FIRST thing you did this morning? Found my unfinished bottle of Coca Cola.
15. What was the FIRST concert you ever went to? C&C Music Factory with Gerardo.
16. FIRST tattoo? Fraternity letters. Sig Tau.
17. FIRST piercing? 10th grade.
18. FIRST foreign country you’ve been to? California Canada
19. FIRST movie you remember seeing? Some horrible thing at the drive in. My first real movie was Empire Strikes Back with my dad at the Dayton Mall.
20. When was your FIRST detention? 7th grade. Week one. Mrs. Kincer.
21. What was the FIRST state you lived in? OH-IO
22. Who was your FIRST roommate? Steve..a real jerk from Owensboro Ky.
23. If you had one wish, what would it be? The ability to work without a need for income.
24. What is something you would learn if you had the chance? To speak Spanish.
25. Who do you think will re-post this first? who knows
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