Michael and Jaspenelle

Summer Coolers

With the hot weather setting in, I was wondering what everyone’s preferred summer drink is that you have to keep around? Ice tea, lemonade, punch or something uniquely yours? How do you make it?

I love strawberry lemonade but I have no clue how to make it. I looove ice tea too, I normally keep it around but honestly I have pretty much been a water guzzler lately. And cranberry juice (I have a bladder infection.) Heather Bullard has a tasty sounding cooler on her blog, which mixes cranberry juice with Squirt. Might have to try that, though I try to avoid carbonated beverages.

Twittering, Phone Numbers, Placenta Recipes, and Tundra

I have succumbed to Twitter.

When it was shown to me a couple months ago I saw it as a waste of time. Maybe I still see it that way, but its allure has finally sucked me in (Solitaire has the same effect on me actually.)

If you have an account, add me, I’ll return the favor!

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I am compiling a phone list of people to call after the baby is born. If you want to be called email me your phone number (don’t forget the area code, or the country code if you are out of the US.)

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I am posting this for the potential amusement (or disgust) of my friend with whom I just got off the phone with: Placenta Recipes.

You could totally cut this one with vodka, that might help ride you of the thoughts of your cocktails contents… I dare someone to name that potential mixed drink.

Before anyone gets any weird thoughts - I will not be eating my baby’s placenta.

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I love Tundra.

Dietary Bitchiness

If we didn’t eat anything they link to cancer, aging, diabetes etc, we would all starve to death! No salt, no carbs, no sugar, no red meat, none of these fish, no dairy… (I am sick and cranky today, so pardon the mini rant.)

Whatever happened to “everything in moderation”?

Sometimes I want to punch these dietary Nazis I run across. On the news today, they had one (not as bad as most) talking about how sugar (any kind, from refined to fruit!) is bad for your skin and causes aging. You know, this guy makes me want to eat more sugar because he had horrible skin! It was stretched over his bones like a zombie (of course that may be the face lifts, so healthy…)

Of course fruit is my favorite food group too, so that may be the source of my annoyance.

Currently I love grapefruit drizzled with a little honey, sometimes I will eat several a day, but I am decently sure that is a pregnancy craving since it only started a few weeks ago. Otherwise I adore soft fruit, nothing done to it. Just organic and picked when sun ripened. Peaches, strawberries, blueberries, yum! I love pomegranates too, especially made into a dressing over a fresh spinach salad.

My grandma use to make jam business, all natural products and it was delicious. More then the jam though I just liked sneaking handfuls of fresh fruit from the storage bins… I am sure she knew I took them, the blueberry stained lips must have been a dead giveaway.

Sooo, what are some of your favorite foods?

Stuff

OMG the Golden Compass comes out Friday *le fan spazz!* I can’t wait! Hope it does the book justice, though I have heard that they downplay the book’s Gnostic themes. I feel they are not anti-religion but rather invite readers to think about their faith (which cannot possibly be a bad thing.)

Anyhow, fangirling aside, my lower back in killing me, totally throbbing pain, I don’t even want to move. So I blog instead, obviously. And I have a question for any of my French food connoisseurs blog readers:

When I was little and lived in France I ate this dish made with cheese and potatoes. The cheese is melted in this special little heating machine (that can sit on a table) on these little lipped spatulas and then poured over tiny potatoes and eaten. The cheese was pale yellow and quite softly and it tasted oh so good - I think it had lots of peppercorns too. So what is this food called?

Cuz I am so craving it now.

EDIT: Raclette, that is what it is called!