What if you had a great friend who never went home for dinner and was involved in all aspects of your life? A friend who you played on street corners with and invited to Vietnam in order to incubate your music? Now imagine that same friend, was your twin sister. That is sort of what it is like for Brittany and Brooke Graeff. Together, [...]
I live for any holiday that gives me the opportunity to cook foods that I don’t normally try. This year that holiday was Passover. Passover is a Jewish holiday that celebrates Israeli liberation from ancient Egypt and the rule of the Pharaoh (you know the trek that featured Moses parting the Red Sea). Typically the holiday is celebrated by eating unleavened bread. The story behind [...]
Dude walks into a sushi bar, one of those hardcore ones where people are wearing bandanas, there are no forks anywhere to be found and sake is being sucked from a keg. He shouts out to the crowded bar “I’ve got dessert sushi.” Hearing this the crowd rushes forward. He explains that his dessert sushi consists of “Crepe dough, rolled around a peanut butter laced [...]
I was an avid book reader as an elementary aged kid. I would read way more books than any my classmates (and it wasn’t even close). Part of it was because I liked to read more than playing video games or watching television. More of it was that I loved pizza. My elementary school participated in Book-It, a program sponsored by Pizza Hut, which would [...]
After posting this about Devyn Rose’s new video “Want It All” I prepared to move on to the next pack of songs in my inbox, leaving Devyn behind until her next batch of music comes out. Unfortunate, yes, but that is the name of the blogging game. A fun fact sent my way by Devyn’s press agent, Sarah, made me slow down for just a [...]
Indian pudding is certainly not one of the prettiest things I’ve made in my kitchen. Its brown mushy look is reminiscent of something that…well, you can use your imagination to finish that thought. But around these parts we have no one to impress with our visual aesthetics, we are much more concerned with the taste of a dish. And I definitely enjoyed that. This dessert [...]
Broken Anchor’s retro Americana sound debuts in LP form in July. Fresh Lemonade is ten tracks, including the already mentioned “Never Leave Me Alone”. After having the chance to experience the entire album it is hard for me not to agree with LA Magazine’s assessment that “this is Budweiser tallboy music, best heard coming from the stereo of a used Cadillac.” I don’t even drink and as soon as [...]
Are you really here looking for vegan calf testicles? If so, sorry, I can’t help you. There will be no vegan bull balls in this post. So why the title? Well, it is an entry about the best vegan food I enjoyed in the Rocky Mountains presented in little snip(pets) thus the oyster part. I know that since I have returned from Denver I have [...]
J-Fur and I attended our first Bradley Method birthing preparation class yesterday. The Bradley Method is a program designed for woman who are intending to have a natural birth without drugs and C-sections. It places some of the emphasis on the father to act as a “coach” during labor. It all seems a bit hippiesh to me. No drugs. Father as cheerleader. I fully expected [...]
