Me? Scheduled to post? Gosh. What an honor.
So, I ain't got nuthin' prepared for y'all, because, again, I only got, what, zero notice!?!? But you're probably pooped from that 122 commenter, anyway, and could use a nice relaxing Thursday. Fine work!
I had a 21 ingredient salad from the gourmet pantry yeperday. $4.93! I'm going to try to duplicate it exactly today. I like a lunch challenge.
Does anyone like croutons on his or her salad? Because I think that shite is frackin’ ricockulous.
Uh, happy peking duck day?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
82 comments:
romaine
spinach
chicken
cauliflower
broccoli
mushrooms
onions
jalapenos
chick peas
black olives
sunflower seeds
pepperoncini
egg whites
beets
green peppers
red peppers
artichokes
baby corn
blue cheese
balsamic vinaigrette
black pepper
Dipso, you know when Lady A (or whomever) says, at the beginning of the month, "Hey everybody, schedule's posted!" THAT's your notice. It's like how when you get a ticket - the ticket is your first notice.
Salad sounds yum, but it's cold so I'm not sure I'm going to venture out. I feel certain I could beat your 21 at the Whole Foods salad bar, but it would cost me a small fortune to do so.
Good idea, peeP. It's a salad bar challenge!
HT, next time I come to DC I am going to absolutely pummel you into a fine powder. That's YOUR notice.
THANKS DIPPY!!!
Stellar job! Seriously, your salad fixins are topic enough cause it sounds like the shizzle!
I always go over board at salad bars and buffets. And I dig the croutons...especially buttery garlic ones. Anything that adds crunch, so bac-o-bits and sunflower seeds are the bees knees also. Oooh..and that Salad Toppins stuff from Mccormick with a mish mash of crunchy goodies.
Lunch today will be leftover soup that I made last night, based on the same recipe (I think) that LC brought over last week. Unfortunately I had no meat to put in it, just a lot of veggies that I needed to use up.
I effin' dare you, Dipso. Hey, don't we have a conference on my home turf coming up?! You can try to "pummel" me there! MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Dipso...Lyle the effemenate heterosexual? Wha???
Are you trying to tell us that sometimes people assume you're gay, but you're really not.
I don't assume you're gay... well I didn't until I read your salad ingrediants. Egg whites are totally gay.
Today at work, I am surprisingly being undersupervised. So I just spent almost an hour contacting all the people at my former place of employment to beg for money for my fundraising effort.
I'm raising money for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society so that my Godmother doesn't die :(
No but seriously, I'm running an olympic distance triathlon and I have to raise 4.2 grand.
salad bars actually scare me. i feel like they are a breeding ground for bacterial growth.. all those soggy vegetables and fixings sitting under incandescent lights for days at a time...
ugh
All this salad bar talk has got me salad horny. Going to SOHO.
Helio you need to have a fundraiser...talk to HT!!!
Jo, I like your terminology and will adopt it as my own.
I'm new term horny. I can't wait to use it.. Awesome, I just did!
I like croutons so much that I prefer to sprinkle vegetables on my bread. Some people call these sandwiches.
I don't have an m-ish distrust of salad bars, but I tend not to frequent them unless I'm in a cafeteria setting where it's already paid for by someone who isn't me. Maybe I just haven't thought through and verbalized my avoidance of them in the real world.
I am surprised, however, to find that the only ingredient I would veto from dipso's list is black olives. 20 for 21? I feel good about that. Add in the croutons (I prefer housemade ones, which are really just squares of stale old bread, but there will always be a soft spot in my arteries for the Garlic & Herb sort that Pepperidge Farm put out when I was a kid. I don't even know if they make them anymore. I only buy croutons when I'm feeling fancy and shopping in fancy grocery stores that have fancy croutons that are more like aforementioned housemade sort.)
"Feeling fancy" = "getting ingredients for a dinner I am hoping will get me laid"
Not sure wfl today. I need to get out of the office for a bit, though. Shit's getting deep around these parts. Not really, but I think I want Chick-Fil-A today.
I forgot to mention yesterday that I was really proud of myself when I walked out the door in the morning. I took my rested-and-refrigerated-pot-roast out of the fridge and put it back in my Crock Pot-brand Slow Cooker to soften up for one more day. Before I left, I put a dollop of wasabi and a beer over it. It was delish.
I'm reading horny. I will go to a lunch venue that will allow me to sit and quietly read my book for a while.
But I have to swim and run tonight so I'll have to get food that is good fuel.
No idea what I'm after, so I'll have to relate what I end up getting after the fact. No point in speculating. Ooo Kung Pao spaghetti, maybe I'll get that.
I am in a bad mood of epic proportions today (not helped *at all* by the fact that I forgot my lunch and had to settle for the cheapest edible thing in the cafeteria, i.e., massively underwhelming pizza), and so was going to avoid the blog today, but I have to add three points:
1. Croutons=Useless. If I'm going to knock back a bunch of carbs w/ my salad, bring me some fresh bread or a nice, crusty roll or some garlic bread. Anything, really, besides sad, dried up, possibly weeks-old bits of what used to be bread.
2. Did anyone else watch Idol last night? That chubby kid in the red Hawaiian print shirt was, um, mentally challenged, right? Was anyone else appalled by the producers' decision to put him on?
3. Continuing the TV tip, my lunchtime web browsing tells me that it looks like Matthew McConaughey (sp?) will be starring in a Magnum, PI, movie. HT, thought you would want to know.
Sorry for the excessively wordy post guys. That is all.
Perhaps serendipity, but I got a salad even before reading the post, WITH croutons, thank you very much.
Unfortunately my work salad bar doesn't even have 21 ingredients, which I'm disappointed in. But they did have alfalfa sprouts today, so I was happy about that. I also got three different kinds of cheeses going, which I consider a victory.
I'm very pro-crotoun.
They also have recently added those peppridge farm little goldfish things to the mix, which are a nice substitute/addition for crotouns.
GG, I don't know how I feel about that last thing. I need to think on it. My first instinct is sadness and anger.
I do not know what to do about food today. It's really cold. I'm not sure I care enough to go outside.
I go back & forth on croutons. I guess it depends on them. I hate when they are mushy. I'm not a big fan of the pumpernickel, either. But when they're good, the delish.
Crouton story about why I will never entirely abandon them: In college right after I had my wisdom teeth out some friends said "Hey, let's go off-campus to eat! At Chili's!" so I said "I'm sure I can get a soup or something" b/c I was starving after eating nothing but mashed potatoes (from a box, no doubt) & milkshakes for like a week or something. They had a veggie soup, which I figured would be soft & mushy enough for me, but in the meantime everyone else had gotten appetizers/salads, etc. So my friend didn't like croutons & I sucked on them until they were soft & I could swallow them. It was a very sad meal. For me.
FL is more jamabaliar. And I just thought of the sherry peppers sauce I have at home that would probably improve it immensely. I shall try it with my dinner jambaliar & report back tomorrow.
Oh, on the crouton point -
in theory, I am pro crouton, in practice, not so much. They're usually too big to fit in your mouth with a healthy forkful of salad (unless you're LT - you should have seen her with the spider roll last night...) and they get soggy quickly. I mean, I like toasty bread and all, but if I'm going to carb up my salad, I'm either with GG on the bread, or I like to throw some plain rotini or other pasta on there.
"I sucked on them until they were soft" - There's a joke in there somewhere, but I'm taking the high road today.
Oh, I didn't see American Idol, but sadly I taped it. I can't wait!!
Mmmmm . . . Matthew McConnaughy (whatever). Hm. I wonder if he'll grow a fabulous 'stache like Tom Selleck. Magnum can't be clean-shaven. At the same time, MM seems like the kind of guy who only grows scraggly-type facial hair. Maybe they'll get a lip wig for him.
GODDAMNIT I HATE BLOGGER!!!!!!!!!!
DDDDDDDDDDDDIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!
romaine
red cabbage
carrots
cherry tomatoes
red onion
raw mushrooms
jalepenos
cheddaer cheese
roasted shrooms
roasted sweet onion
cucumber
feta
tomato salad (chopped t's marinated in vinegar)
black olives
sliced eggs
broccoli
green peas
celery
tarragon chicken
apples
greek dressing
balsamic vinegar
22
If they're crunchy, you can't spear 'em with your fork! If they're soggy, who the fuck wants em!?!? GARrgh!!
Mama Dipso used to make Waldorf salad. Baby Dipso'd have NONE of that! (I might like it now, though.)
and peanuts & raisins!
24!!!
I like salad on top of my pizza, preferably with ranch dressing and hot sauce of some sort. And I'd throw croutons on it also. Is there a salad bar somewhere with pizza as a topping? I'm so there.
I don't care if Matthew MchonneeHEEEY is hollywood and commercialized...he is f'ing hot hot hot.
grapes!
25
ugh.. you know when you are having a shit day and your lunch just makes it shittier...
welcome to my thursday.
after that mini-rant on the evils of salad i threw another round (or two) in the chamber of my personal botutoxin russian roulette.
i got food from the "asian buffet" in our downstairs cafeteria... yeah.. on thursday they will serve up a couple entrées and maybe three sides and label it buffet... "label it?" you ask? yes.. i was wondering what "chinese steak tips" actually were so i asked for one of them to try... the response i got was "no mang, you only get one entrée and two sides".
BUFFET.
well thank god he pointed me to the errors of my way because i'm pretty sure i'm going to be sick as shit with the meager amounts of General Tsao's Chicken and Lo Mien i was allowed.
How do you screw up GTC? they sell fucking bottles of the sauce in ever fucking grocery.. you guys have a mother fucking deep fryer, why the hell is the skin all soggy? and that is a steam table you have those on right? why the FUCK is my food room temperature.
oh, and when you make lo mien, canned mixed vegetables really don't do it. in fact they make me want to vomit.
i hate the taste of canned wax beans (yeah.. canned wax beans in lo fucking mien)
i think i'll go vomit blood all over their prep tables in defiance
Hearts of Palm are an excellent salad addition.
Sometimes I'll mix warm pasta in a salad also, I like the contrast.
Skiing a couple years ago I had one of the best salads I've ever had: baby spinach, feta, pine nuts (or maybe walnuts? I forget what kind of nut), and strawberries with a balsamic vinagrette. Soooooooo good.
I love hearts of palm. And pine nuts. And shredded fromage. I love the extra crap. This is why I love "salads" like Cobb. Yum.
My friend Standing Bear told me that putting hearts of palm in salad is crap, because it's rabbit food. Then he taught me how to make them with butter and bacon.
Lunch is decidedly not salad. Chipotle is delicious.
George: Because, as you know, a penny saved is a penny earned.
Ben: And a stitch in time saves nine!
George: A fool and his money are soon parted!
Ben: Never eat spinach with a stranger!
I just saw The Illusionist and...eh.
"50 watts per channel, babycakes."
Lunch was in fact the Kung Pao spaghetti ith shrimp from CPK (California Pizza Kitchen)
M, I was thinking you were going to say that the lo mein they served you was actually yesterday's spaghetti from the Italian Buffet, and I was fixin' to go Ewww, but then I realized that I just went out of my, waited for 15 minutes, and paid extra to get "Kung Pao" Spaghetti. And unlike you I will not vomit blood anyplace. I loved every bite of it.
And I admit that yesterday my inflamatory comments were wrong. It's not Whiskey and Burbon that only pussies drink. How dumb of me. Only pussies eat salads. Yeah, You heard me.
Here, here, Sunshine! Let me tell you, Chipotle is not for pussies.
I haven't been this uncomfortably full in a long, long time.
dipso, you know how I know you're gay? You're from the North!
You know how I know you're gay?
You eat a salad ... a salad with no meat on it.
HT, beware the Chipotle!
Not only is it actually filling ... but it is spicy too ... so it makes you feel even more full than you actually are (I don't know if that is the gas it produces or there is something biochemical).
Oh Snap!!!
Dipso, you know how I know you're gay?
You call other people homo all the time ... that and you look like someone in a gay 80's movie with Ralph Macchio.
:) (you can thank LC for that last one)
Oh .. I had the Ultra Burrito from the "New York Deli" downstairs ... it is Roach Coach(TM) faire but it wasn't half bad ... enough Rooster Sauce and you don't taste the bug droppings.
HT, you know how I know you're gay?
You munch Lettuce all the time.
Actually that was the next post. LC told me to "Git r dun" earlier ... I'm going to use blogger for a while still but we will host it ourselves. ... plus it will help me get all the content over ... and be a good transition. So by tomorrow we will be on our own server.
KewL?
I used salt and pepper.
27
I have barely been a casual observer of the development of the new OWFL joint. I just figured I'd learn how to get there when it came down to it. Is it really coming down to it as soon as tomorrow? Shit. I never learned how to get there.
Help, tech support, help.
No, PeeP, that means you're gay. A big, gay Whore.
So Diz, what you're saying is that tomorrow, instead of typing in theoriginalwhatsforlunch.blogspot.com, I can go to www.theoriginalwhatsforlunch.com and there will be our blog?
That's it. I'm getting everything the GP bar has to offer tomorrow! Even chocolate pudding.
Yeah, I would have figured that out. Only one person's ever told me I look like Johnny before.
I actually got a Matthew McCongnahey once -- that might be a bit of a stretch.
I got an Eddie Money once, too. Now that was spot on!
"Oh snap"? I guess I just figured out who helio is.
Thanks HT, that was like a backdoor way to help me.
Tech support loves backdoor ways in.
helio loves the backdoor!
GAY!
Yeah Dipso, I found that hiding behind the persona of "MikeySunshine" was about as effective as hiding behind a pencil. SO I decided to obscure it a little.
From the Mind of Mencia
"I can understand gay guys"
'How's that'
"well, sometimes, I'd like to put it in my wife's butt"
I ain't tech support. I'm temp support.
Common mistake. It's ok JO
Eddie Money? Niiiiiice. Who was that guy who thought life was a highway? Tom Cochrane or something right? He always reminded me of Eddie Money. Now he will be inextricably connected to you in my head.
Beware the vanilla pudding at salad bars, Dipso. I had a friend get a big thing of it & she took a big bite before realizing it was . . . mayo!!!! And she hated mayo!! Oh, the hilarity.
If I didn't have more jambaliar at home to finish off before the weekend, I would go to Whole Foods, and show all you gay bitches how to make a real salad. With like 30 things. Oh yeah. I said it. 30!!!
I'm glad I brought homophobia to the blog ... as a good Southerner it was the least I could do.
Actually it should automatically redirect you. In the short term nothing will change with your logins. The experiment with that other site failed miserably because I wanted to see how easy it was to use ... that and who would take to it. Guess what?
I got Phukk all to work and the design was to weird for people. "So...", I says to myself, "So .. what should I do?" I got ahold of M and he suggested some things and then I said ... we could still use blogger but most of our problems are not publishing but ... the hosting that sucks. So I said I would just host the server on my badass connection and servers and then when it came time to move over to some different software we would already be used to the new location.
So, to ease the transition, we will still use blogger but when you browse to http://theoriginalwhatsforlunch.blogspot.com you will be redirected to http://theoriginalwhatsforlunch.com. Not a major change .... when we're really ready for more I will take a cattle prong to you all and then we will transfer it all into Wordpress ... not that ya'll give a shit as long as it works.
There, I said it all ... and in one effin post. Satisified? :)
69 baby!
damn, you guys are fast today.
Helio's not the only one who loves the backdoor--GimletGrandma has a sign by her backdoor that says "Backdoor Friends Are Best." Ah, GimletGrandma. So sweet. So naive.
Just thought I'd share . . .
That'll do Diz. That'll do.
Now MAKE IT WORK!!
Diz, you're inching your way back into my good graces. Good work.
GG, that sign would be SO MUCH FUNNIER (like, falling out of my chair, rolling on the floor, peeing my pants, funnier) if it was your step-grandmother who had it at her house. Oh, the hilarity!
So I just tried the new site, but I recognize that I have no login for that site. What up with that? Will I have to recreate myself (and any other people I may or may not be)? Or will my blogger login be working over there tomorrow?
Do you guys want me to pull the trigger right now?
Helio-gay-lick - no ... no need for new logins .. that is why I held off doing anything drastic .. you can still use your blogger logon.
Sweet huh?
Diz, if that one fellow in your pic is sipping from a foam dome, then you will be my person of the day. No need to pull the trigger until you're ready.
Diz, I say pull the trigger, so we can fuck around over there for the rest of the day, so we're "ready" for tomorrow.
has the trigger been pulled?
Er, testing?
Diz, a little explanation please.
Hey, speaking of peking duck day, my mom said she's going to make one if I help her in a week or so, after she gets back from a trip to CA! Me so excited!!!!
trigger pulling is fast.
i feel bad for all those technicians that will no longer get notified each time we try and post.
"Celebrities beware. The Strap Police are watching"
Oh my jesus. This new site looks so familiar in so many ways. I feel... I feel... I feel like nothing changed at all.
Dude, I know it.
Dipso, what's your secret?
Peep, you know how I know you're gay?
You like to count how many times you get hit.
Yeah, and about 20 from you alone, Peep! Good job!
If we all shut up now, he won't get the satisfaction of breaking 100 replies.
IT'S WORKING! HOOORAY!
I'm glad it worked well ... I was sweating like a whore in church ... speaking of which I think everyone will notice that the new site is faster than LC on a wine binge.
:)
100. Eff you Dipso!
Wait a minute...
Giada is making phyllo croutons...and her boobs look great!
"Eff you Dipso"!?!?!
Czar Josephus!!! Come on, now. Who stood with you during the "Eff the Czar" nastiness? Huh?
It's like magic!
Giada has a great body but a HUGE head...it must make her arms look midgety too.
Hooray Dipso!
106 comments!!!
www.theoriginalwhatsforlunch.com
Post a Comment