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Irish Seafood Chowder

I guess my post on Ireland was very.... um completely useless.
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Rotting Pears~

So about a month? three weeks? ago i bought a box of little cute snack sized pears. By a box, i don't mean boxes that may or may not be offered in grocery stores (do they sell pears by the box in grocery stores? I'm so out of touch with produce actually sold in stores because now that i'm a super apple/pear snob at this job of mine.... hehehee) but the box that i speak of is a wholesale sized box of pears. yeah. 158 pears nicely wrapped and packed in a pretty little case ready to be added to 48 other little cases stacked together on a perfect little pallet ready to be shipped on a semi truck with 19 other pallets full of the same cute little pears.

yup. i have 158 of these suckers to eat however i can. When they were less than ripe they were perfect for the juicing- oh my. delicious! a little tangy and a bit too tart with granny apples but a nice balance of acidity with beets and celery. yumm.

fast forward three weeks later. They're ripe now. Oh how they're ripe. they're almost to the mushy point. So juicy, so many pears, so little- no- NO time!!! i'm handing these babies to my little dog like it's christmas every day. the greedy sucker thinks the treats will end so he keeps hiding them and then i have to find them and toss them before they rot!! argggghh!!!

My mom and i eat like 7 pears a day.

ok, that's a lie. my MOM eats 7 a day. i look at 7 and guiltily don't eat any.  Why?

I'm not all that partial to pears.

True story.

So why did i buy a case of these bastards?

Meh- i was getting super hyped about the juicing :) and they're super cute. fits right into the palm of my teeny little hand teeheheheee..

After giving about 25 of them to a friend, and another 25 to another friend, and consuming about 40 in the last week and tossing a few of the bruised and rotted ones, we're down to about 40. My remedy is to just smoothie and salad the CRAP out of these guys..

Just found a recipe for an oats and pear smoothie. sounds DELICIOUS.

ingredients
ripe pears
milk
6 oz yogurt
1/4 cup oats
5-7 ice cubes
ginger
1/2 tsp cinnamon
pinch of salt

directions
blend all the shiz together until smooth.

I'm thinking breakfast tomorrow instead of my juice. in fact, i'm thinking breakfast every day until i get rid of these damn pears.  I'll be using raw milk and probably subbing ice cubes for frozen bananas and leaving out the yogurt for a little bit more milk.

For dinner? That's right!! pear mixed with some pear, garnished with slivered pears and topped with a healthy dose of pear!! wheeeeeeeeeeeee!!!

No dinner is more like kale salad with pear, cranberries, Gorgonzola and some white wine vinaigrette and a side of roasted brussel sprouts and pears. Chicken will have to be involved as my brother is going to be involved :) I'll work it out... lots of pears!!


I'm thinking maybe a pear and Gorgonzola pizza for tomorrow night. prep the pizza dough tonight as there is no gym with this month long flu. blech. so over it already.

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Come Boot Cha!!



WHAT IS THIS!?

it's a beverage. actually spelled Kombucha.

I shun this drink because this pretty little bottle full of VILE tasting fermentation is $4 a pop!! ARRGGHSHSH!!??!?!

This I told my long friend Crooz as she was describing how her babies were molding. (wtf??!?)

That's right. I thought, (WTF?!?!? BABIES?!? MOLD!?) but articulated aloud, "Ugh I tried komucha when I lived in New York and I think it's a silly fad that is completely overpriced for it's pretty little jar."
http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/g-hlth-100415-rombucha-2p.grid-6x2.jpg
yeah, this crap.


DAMMIT ME!! another case of super quick judgment call. this time- i was wrong. From my one HORRIFYING experience with store bought kombucha, I had condemned all the wonderful bacteria that had never even met my belly or done me wrong!

I am shamed. and I know better now.

Kombucha is a kind of sweet tea that has been fermented. It has been around forever even before the pretty labels. I was referring to it is the name of the company that rapes peoples' wallets for vinegar tasting fluid (see above). But the reality is that Kombucha can taste wonderful and be ridiculously good for your daily probiotic/bacteria intake and it'll make your tummy smile!!

So, guess what?

My friend, as your friendly neighbor DIYer, I'm gonna make myself a nasty looking little Scoby at home to start my own batch of kombucha!! And it will be delectable!! and it will make my tummy giggle!! Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!

I have since apologized and explained to Crooz my idiocy and ignorance. We are planning to make babies together of the scoby kind! we're very proud.
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The Maltese Falcon

So I finally finished reading Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh) that I'd been reading for an inordinate amount of time and then.... well basically I was in shock for a while. Yes. The book was horrifying in the most ordinary way and so i followed it up by watching the film. While the film was jarring and visually assaults the audience attempting to do justice to the novel, the monstrous images that grow in your mind from the words you are forced to read cannot be visually portrayed because everyone knows somebody like what is described, or has heard of someone like whose story you're witnessing, in real life. But everyone knows Begbie to look differently. Everyone has heard of a Mark but he doesn't necessarily look like Ewan McGregor....

Next adventure: The Maltese Falcon. The path I took to discover this mystery novel was a little odd and took many months to get there though i didn't know i was going there at the time. I re-purposed my super movie watching mission and added several more films to the list- one of which was the movie Brick (2005). I loved the style of the film so much that i went to the director's site to learn more about his inspiration and reason for stylizing it the way he chose. Then through a forum, I was led to more reviews and more discussions of this film. Which led me to the vocabulary words "film noir," "hammett," "chandler," and a few others that I have chosen to study a bit of. Researching "hammett" in conjunction with "film noir" led me to "Sam Spade" which led me to "The Maltese Falcon" which happens to be on my Ultimate Reading List as WELL as one of the additional lists of films to be watched and categorized. Bam and bam, wheeeee!!

As you can imagine, i've been knocking several things off of many lists and that makes me abundantly happy (see "wheeeee" above).

What does not make me happy is that The Maltese Falcon story was very much less exciting than I had hoped it would be based on my exciting and fruitful journey that led me to that end. Perhaps it is that being written in 1930, and I being of very late 1980's, I just expect a different kind of mystery novel. However I will say this I have never read a mystery novel that has so much mystery and such precise development and plot revelation as this novel.  There were so many details that just never led anywhere and i guess having details like "i'll ring the bell four times long short long short" and then not ever having it occur or come to light is what confuses me. I've read most of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes mysteries and I've been spoiled by the champ at tying up every loose end and seemingly detached detail. This novel seemed a little loosely created and very quickly twisted to come to a clean ending where Sam Spade is bad ass private detective of the century.

And boy is he!

When I finished reading The Maltese Falcon the next logical step was obviously to track down the original film rendition of the novel and hellooooooooooooooo Humphrey Bogart :)


Well. The film was no different. Which speaks volume of the film for being so true to novel without making a mockery of film or novel. But the sense of unfinishedness and "wtf" was also still there from the novel. And Humphrey Bogart was very bad ass as Sam Spade although.... kind of short? Strange. Either way watching this film some deem the first of the film noir era and watching the novel come to life in a time that I have never seen for myself was definitely something for a Sunday afternoon.
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my problem is...

I always stop and obsess over recipes that are dips or casseroles of some kind! Why why why!? there's only two in my house who will eat anything i make therefore considering dips are not adequate sources of nutrition and sustenance and casseroles require multiple days of eating the same thing or multipe people of eating it once, neither kind of recipes are practical choices for me.
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I just wanna be a foodie~

Is that too much to ask for? I want to read about food, look at food, definitely make the food, then eat the food, then talk about food, and take pictures of food, and write about food! I want to do all of these things! WHY? WHY WHY?!  It's just... that I don't have to time to devote to being a total food junkie.
I don't even have time to be an anything junkie. I just... can't be a junkie of any kind. I consider this a huge failure and a gaping hole in my life. sad.
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