list junk food dressed up for yuppies who are too smart for junk food

actually, i used smoked raw bacon from a polish butcher. definitely better than supermarket bacon, and probably cheaper!

one of the best things about gpoint is picking my own bacon...from a variety of levels.

dudes did i tell you i made yogurt this week?

b/c a friend gave me her yogurt maker
it is good yogurt

i am so tired right now. i probably need some spirulina
but my chapter is pretty much done (am rearranged things but am soon going to get to ah fuckit point) - 31 pages!

i even went and saw a rock show (simply saucer) from 11:30 to, like, 2 am. which in retrospect was kind of a nuts thing to do.

i just feel sorry for people who don't like cilantro (as i once did)

Oh bring it on.

i'll bet there's a News From Lake Wobegon about proper Lutherans who deny themselves the exotic pleasures of pico de gallo

except for the couple who secretly make tacos at midnight in their candlelit basement once each winter

Don't be silly, everyone eats tacos. They're Old El Paso seasoning on ground beef piled into a hard corn shell and topped with jack cheese, tomatoes, and iceberg lettuce. Duh.

Ah, the food of my youth.

is Laurel me?

We'll find out tomorrow!!

fritos on hot dogs with chili = winnnn

Pico El Gallo

i'm not big on cilantro. maybe my mouth is broken. i don't mind when it's a part of a recipe, but i kinda started to get mad when i would go to restaurants and they would just dump it all over my food and i had no knowledge beforehand that they would be doing this. i mean, a garnish is one thing, but a lot of cilantro tends to make stuff taste like cilantro. at indian places i would know to expect it and sometimes i would even tell them not to put it on top, but i went to one of those "gourmet" pizza places once and ordered a regular pizza and when it came to the table it was covered in cilantro!!!! wtf!!! that is just WRONG. sorry. i mean, if it had said on the menu COVERED IN CILANTO i never would have opted for that. but by all means, throw as much garlic into my "smashed" potatos as you want. no problem there.

now i never eat out, so these things aren't a problem anymore.

lol parenthood

wait, rrrobyn... SIMPLY SAUCER?
are they... touring?

my mom is allergic to cilantro in a weird way, it gives her canker sores.

not to derail but i read that think bb linked to yesterday (http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/06/sushi200706)

that market sounds amazing. so does Sugiyama. anyone been there? lauren? bb? shasta? i KNOW Shasta must have been.

i've been everywhere in that article many times. i've known Masa since 1992 (!!!) when he was in LA. Lauren almost had a chance to meet the chef their a couple weeks ago when i went to the pig knuckle restaurant.

sansky, what's your email?

^^^ i figured this would be the case

i had the same reaction as sanskrit, and now i double want to go to japan

i even had sushis for dinner, but the owner wasn't there so i couldn't ask him about how he gets his fish

re: simply saucer - i don't know if they're touring but they did this show for the suoni fest here - it was pretty good! i liked the rock out psych guitar parts more than the straight-up rock - they were nice guys too :)

rrrobyn where kin i hear yer music? is it on a myspace page?

HAHA JEWS DISCARDING BEST PART OF COW

judaism can surely be wacky, but they haven't come up with anything as wacky as that whole breast-feeding your co-workers fatwa lately.

islam 1

jews 0

let's go chosen people!

scott, www.myspace.com/triceratreetops :)
(but we made a cdr recently too that is higher bitrate/quality/longer jams)

"i'm working on it! sheesh, what's the rush already?"

http://www.conncoll.edu/academics/departments/relstudies/290/judaism/rebbeprayer.jpg

cool, rrrobyn! i'll check it out.

such a great band name

i found a healthier alternative for all you vitamin water addicts:

http://www.knudsenjuices.com/products/detail.aspx?groupID=10&categoryID=56&flavorID=416&productID=520

contains actual organic fruit juice (50%) and no added sugar, unlike your coca-cola vitamin water.

and the best part: it's $1.50 for 32oz. at trader joe's, half the price of vitamin water.

that has more sugar/calories than vitamin water

17 g vs 13 g

maybe because the sugar comes from the juice? there's no added sugar in it.

vitamin water's sugar is all additives.

totally guilty of drinking vitamin waters and eating clif bars like they ward off cancer, even though it is a basic marriage of sugar and vitamins. also guilty of being vegan, but i've always been a food-o-matic.

add kettle-cooked chips (mmm) and dreyer's whole fruit bars, it is like diabeetus is an impending doom.

holy gees, that nyt magazine article was great! And totally just well-written, to boot. (There is a cover story that I happened upon in the latest Washington City Paper about the honeybees disappearing, and apparently one of the culprits is...high fructose corn syrup that many of the larger-scale beekeepers feed their bees!)

I am veg, but generally avoid the Boca Burger spectrum of veg foods. I enjoy the taste and whatnot of the various meat analogues that are available pretty much anywhere these days, but tend to avoid them because of a. priceyness, and, b. although after eating them I feel like I have consumed my needed quota of protein, I also feel curiously unnourished, in a way that I think is only possible after eating a foodstuff that is so processed. Whereas if I eat plain ol' rice and beans, I feel much better overall. At any rate, I can't stress enough how much I think that article was onthemark.

Thing about cilantro is, from my experiences, sometimes if you buy it or consume it, it is past its prime or something, and then has an unflattering nasty metallic taste. I love cilantro for the most part, though. I wonder if maybe some people's dislike is based on being subjected to bad batches and resulting memories thereof?...But I dunno, really.

Go to Trader Joe's and buy the Greek yogurt products on offer. That stuff is soGood!

Oh, also...despite my coming down on the Boca-type products, I can highly recommend the Beer Brats made by the people who make Tofurky. Served with some decent sauerkraut, it is way, way good. Maybe because it is (as their advertising states) made with "real tofu", and not random soy isolates or whatever?
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uh, don't click on the blue text, or death will ensue.

contains actual organic fruit juice (50%) and no added sugar

"actual fruit juice" is highly overrated - it leaves the the healthiest parts of the fruit behind. Sugar comes from "actual sugar cane" too, and corn syrup from "actual corn"

not that this is any kind of shocker or anything but: spending the afternoon in the wound clinic last week really made it clear how much of a problem diabetes is and will continue to be in the country. saw a bunch of older folks with wounds on their feet that flatly refuse to heal (even after months), in part because there's little to no sensation, and ppl keep reinjuring themselves. also in part because of poor vasculature, etc.

i took a digger the other day that earned me some cuts and bruises that'll be gone in a few days. same stuff would hang around for weeks/months in some diabetics. you and i are like wolverine!

shit is going to get worse here before it gets better. noize dads (and nathalie)! don't let yr kids eat shit or they're gonna have their feet cut off when they're 50!

rrrobyn where can i get this cdr? i want more triceratreetops! in fact, i mentioned to ian and lindsay the other night that charalambides show would have been like 300% more awesome had you guys been touring with and opening for them!

yeah i would like a cd-r too

I had some *tofu skin* (the top layers of tofu or something). Shit if I know what it's called, my mom said it was healthy and I thought it was extremely yummy. I'm getting tired of her "It's good because it's healthy" line. Sometimes I don't fucking care whether it's healthy or not, as long as my taste buds (heheh) don't scream murder, I'm happy.

Or sth.

Shit if I know what it's called,

okara (not to be confused with okura)

we talked a lot about umami this wkend for some reason. pos b/c we ate a lot of food and were talking abt food in general, but mostly healthy non-packaged food (so much organic farm-fresh vegetable matter yaay. also steak & sausages - kosher? i do not know.) i learned that putting salt on tomatoes = umami! that is why it tastes so good, the salt addition makes umami

re: CDR : you can get cdr from me :) there are v limited quantites (it is only 20 min long - 2 songs. there is weirdo cover art). you have to do this thing which is called email/facebook/myspace msg tho ooh

i swam in a lake a lot this wkend and also stripped paint off a cottage and painted a bit too - the former is kind of a lot of work, at least in the heat, but it's cool to get a job done. and then there is food/bbqs and gin&tonics/beer and lake to swim in

oh and okay so i do not buy into this yuppie health food junk food but one thing that is good, i have found, is the chocolate bar thing made by larabar - oh, it's definitely dessert-like but it's sweetened with dates and is not full of chemical nonsense

beware of the umami false grail... it usually ends up with MSG and that misses the whole point.

You sure, Steve. I looked it up and it doesn't mention uh... the skin like texture of it. I asked my mom. She'll know. God, I miss that. Really yummy.

Steve, it's called yuba.

putting salt on tomatoes

what a horrible thing to do to a tomato!

you are insane

i mean boring