Last night I ate mashed potatoes. I love mashed potatoes and have several different ways of making them to suit whatever mood I am in at the moment. Sometimes I use red skin potatoes and leave a bit of the skin on, sometimes it's golden potatoes. I might boil the potatoes one day, roast them the next. Skin on or skin off. I might whip them with the kitchen aid or mash them by hand. Any combination of butter, cream, milk, sour cream or cream cheese may be added, as well as garlic, carmelized onions, oregano, cheese or chicken skin cracklings if I feel the need to gussy them up. Put simply, I am a mashed potato fanatic and connoisseur.
But, I'll let you in on a little secret: I love instant mashed potatoes, too. I would never serve them to guests or make them for a holiday meal, but when it's just Ace and I eating, sometimes I just want the ease of instant mashed potatoes and because I find them tasty will whip up a quick batch. It is my culinary guilty pleasure. C'mon, we all have at least one thing we love to eat in private but don't like to admit to our foodie friends. What's yours?
And more importantly, what's for lunch?
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I would say that if you have an abundance of salad dressing at the bottom of your bowl after finishing the salad, you have overdressed your salad.
Oh boy, I'm the psychic commenter today.
I don't feel guilty about anything I eat. I love my food. All of it and I will shout it from the tallest mountain for all to hear.
That said, I do have a weird salad dressing thing that I feel kind of funny about. I love salad dressing. If I have good salad dressing it isn't uncommon to find me drinking what's left in the bowl when I've finished the actual salad. But that's it. Everything else I eat with pride.
ATTENTION DC WFLERS!!!
HATERTOT LUNCH AT MACKEY'S!!!
TODAY AT 1:00!!!
We may even have some adult beverages...
Jo, that's when you need some fresh crusty bread to sop up the dressing. Mmmmm.
My guilt foods: I'm a total cheese snob ("American" "cheese"?? Ugh! Velveeta?? Double ugh!) But I have a thing for spray cheese. It's been so long since I had any, I can't even remember what it's called. You can make little smiley faces on your crackers. It's so disgusting.
Can we move lunch up to 12:30 to accomodate abs and lachoi?
12:30 IT IS!!!
MACKEY'S LUNCH AT 12:30
we need to make reservations
Jo, can you handle it? I'll meet you there at 12:30, but I need to hurry.
I made a reservation for 6 people at 12:30. me, HT, abs, lachoi, watchdog and uh...reno.
BE THERE ON TIME!!!
Siiiiiiiigh. So jealous. Have fun at Mackey's! :-(
Hm, you know I thought I'd be able to come up with lots of stuff I'm embarrassed to eat, but there really isn't. Ramen noodles? No-my standard hangover cure. Chef Boyardee? Frozen burritos? Eh. Hm, there's got to be something else.
I love those hostess apple pie things.
I also like stove top dressing. I think it's the "instant" foods that I object to, because I think freshly made is so much better. And truly, freshly made mashed potatoes or stuffing are superior to their instant counterparts, but the instant are still good and I enjoy them. But I feel guilty about it. I feel the same way about liking ABBA.
Cuddles, peanut butter, mustard and lettuce? WOW!
Wow, Cuddles, you win.
My little brother used to make even more disgusting sandwiches than your pbm&l concoction. He would go through the fridge and literally put everything on it. One day, a sandwich might be a turkey-ham-cheese-lettuce-pb-honey-sliced banana. The next day it might be liverwurst-ketchup-grape jelly-tuna salad. They were so gross (how gross were they??) They were so gross that even our dog, who was kind of a garbage disposal once took one sniff of it & walked away. I'm fairly certain he doesn't do this anymore, though.
I mean, my brother does do it anymore. The dog is long dead. :-(
DOESN'T do it anymore. Geez, I'm having problems today.
Just plain, straight up sauerkraut room temp. out of the can! I've learned to be careful about eating the whole can though...whooooheeee..that can wreak havoc on one's digestive system...believe me...
7-11 food also...you know how they have their Slev food line...the ones that tell you on the wrapper whether or not to push button 1, 2 or 3 on the special made-for 7-11 microwaves. Oooh...or a combo of both...a special late night treat...nachos with chili, cheese, onions and sauerkraut!!
FLuffer nutters and a big glass of cold milk. But I think, with my baby face, more people will make fun of me than they already do.
I always feel like I'm in a "Life" cereal commercial.
Cuddles, I know what you're talking about so I tried to google it. Is it belle laide, which means literally 'beautiful ugly'? Kind of like sexy ugly, ya?
Favorite foreign word we don't have a counterpart for in english: schadenfreude. Which interestingly, when you put it into this one translation engine, it turns out to be 'harming joy'. Hm Not quite right, but not bad, either.
Fuck DC Cabs.
I have been abused by Yellow Cab of DC on several occasions but today all of OWFL was attacked by the incompetence of DC's cab companies.
Our special HaterTot lunch was foiled when the cab company that pledged to deliver HT to us failed to show up. I await the name of her cab company so we can begin a formal boycott.
Abs, La choi, watchdog, e-que, awreck/reno and yours truly stayed at Mackeys and ate three extra helpings in honor of HT and the new girls.
A future HT lunch will be scheduled.
Diamond Cab. But, I don't get too angry, it's just part of living up here. Cabs are spotty. It's a lifestyle choice.
Hope everyone had fun at Mackey's. Maybe brunch or something on Sunday? LaChoi is being a dear and chauffering me to such exotic locales as Target and CVS on Sunday, so maybe we could do brunch prior to that? What's that place you Northwesters talk about in Silver Spring? (though, if we went there, that require LaChoi picking me up...)
WTF?!?!? That is just another reason for me to hate DC cabs. I generally refuse to take them, unless I can check out ahead of time where I'm coming from & going to. I refuse to cross zone lines. Hate! Until they have meters, I will not take a DC taxi home. I will metro! It will take me twice as long! But cost me less than one tenth! Ugh, I hate DC taxis. Does any other city in the world have a zone system? B/c that is one fucked-up city, I bet. Thanks, Congress.
Parkway Deli on Sunday would be perfect!!!
The movie "DC Cab" was terrible too.
and by terrible, I mean "awesome".
The casting director who decided to put Gary Busey AND Mr. T together was a genius.
oh, lunch was a Bootlegger from Jimmy John's.
Somebody better step in quick before I have a FOUR POST FREAKOUT!!!!
I love Jimmy John's
I loved DC Cab but I can't remember anything about it. (must resist temptation to go to amazon.com...)
DC happy hour at cafe asia on I street after work.
4 post freakout block on Josephus
Baby sassafras leaves.
I love the words lollygag, succotash, ameliorate and ombudsman.
First wfler to use all four together in a sentence wins a coveted jo-prize.
Cafe Asia? Really? Why? When what is now Singapore Bistro used to be Cafe Asia, they had a good happy hour. But now Cafe Asia, in the new location, while having decent hh sushi, they have shitty drink specials, or at least not as good as those at Singapore Bistro, which kept the hh specials from when it was Cafe Asia.
And, DC Cab was awesome. Not enough midgets though. That was a movie that really could have benefitted from the addition of midgets.
Oh, and I've not eaten lunch, except for a concoction of fat free/sugar free butterscotch pudding, mixed with frozen fat free/sugar free cool whip. It tastes kind of like Baskin Robbins Pralines n' Cream. Sorta.
lollygag, succotash, ameliorate and ombudsman
The ombudsman ameliorated succotash by swapping out the traditional lima beans for cannellini beans, but due to his lollygagging, he could not claim to be the first to do so, since I beat him to the punch.
What do I win?
Congratulations HT!!!
Your jo-prize is on the way!
Cafe Asia was not my first choice for HH. The place I wanted rhymes with "lahvoh lahvoh".
I've never once had the power to override Tahoe Tahoe... who has this mythic power?
I'm going to watch Dead Like Me and eat chicken. Have fun.
The people spoke. I relented. But never again.
Attention beer lovers of Chicago: Fat Tire has officially arrived in our fair city.
Bricks has clandestinely (is that even a word?) carried it for years, but now 22oz bombers of Fat Tire are available for your drinking pleasure.
I actually prefer Blue Paddle to Fat Tire, but all the New Belgium brews are pretty damn tasty.
I think I'll hit Smoke Daddy tonight for some tips and a few 22's of FT.
I'm so confused.
A little pooch named Pickles in Austin, TX has my love of Fat Tire to thank for the substantial donation I made to keep him healthy and fed in his temporary digs, post-Katrina. Having a fundraiser in an outdoor beergarten with cute puppies and beer is the best way I've seen to raise money in a long time.
Sadly, even in the city with the world's largest beer selection (we make up for in quantity of decent bars, with quality, and quantity of frosty adult beverages on offer) we still can't get any of the tasty brews of the New Belgium Brewery. (myself, I like the Trippel, but it seems to be even harder to find than the Fat Tire)
No shit, Brian! That's great news. I didn't even know it was on the horizon. I heard they used to bootleg kegs of it at Piece. Smoke Daddy, eh? Mayhaps I pops in, too, and we can yack about ale.
Is the DC crew really going to Cafe Asia? I may be persuaded to again don clothing and try my hand at scoring a cab, but not for Cafe Asia... Bravo, anyone?
Trippel. Yes, HT! Fuckin' A right. That's it. I need to get some Belgian-style in me. I'm getting excited.
I can't make HH. However, if anyone wants to trek down to the Olde Towne Theatre to watch 'Walk the Line' at 7:15 I will be there!
No, I was confused about the lavoh lavoh or tahoe tahoe and the strike the last word comments. I am in a post lunch haze.
Oh, apparently we're keeping the name of the bar anonymous too. Of course, since Jo is apparently sipping Chardonnay and eating sushi for hh, there was no overrule on the hh destination. And, I'm not putting clothes on again for Cafe Asia, which is not staying anonymous, I guess.
I calm. Just wrote my liquor store buddy and asked him: "Is what I just heard true? And if so, why haven't you told me?" That's all. No specific mention. He wrote back almost immediately, saying:
"If it's the Fat Tire rumor, I don't believe it yet."
He does, however, believe in Bell's Double Cream Stout.
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