Archive for Month: May, 2010
Hummus Cures Everything, Especially Roasted Red Pepper Hummus
Ingredients:
- 1-16 oz can of garbanzo beans (I grew up calling them chi-chi beans)
- 1/4 cup liquid from can of chi-chi beans
- 3-5 tablespoons lemon juice (depending on taste; I like it very lemony)
- 1 1/2 tablespoons tahini (kinda expensive, but lasts a long time)
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed (I didn’t have nearly enough on hand, so I supplemented with garlic powder)
- 1 roasted red pepper (you can make them yourself, but I buy mine at BJ’s)
- 1/2 teaspoon salt (Kosher rocks)
- 2 tablespoons olive oil (none of that EVOO Rachael Ray crap necessary)
Combine everything in the food processor (which for us is also the place where Michael makes salsa magic happen) until thoroughly mixed and smooth. And enjoy!
PS– the hummus can be kept in the refrigerator for up to three days. It never makes it past the second day in our house.
PPS– Remember this, “Beans, beans good for your heart, the more you eat, the more you fart. The more you fart, the better you feel. Let’s eat beans at every meal.”
PPPS– If you wanna kick it up a notch add a chili pepper or some cayenne powder.
PPPPS– Serve with pita bread, pretzel chips, tortilla chips, or eat it with a spoon; you decide.
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Return the Love
Five readers will be selected, at random,
to receive a $50.00 Western Union Gift Card!
If you are selected, your mission—should you choose to accept it—is simple:
Spoil that special mom in your life {be it your mother, step-mom, grandmother, aunt, best friend, or wife} in honor of Mother’s Day!
Western Union’s new “Return the Love” campaign is centered on celebrating mothers and encouraging loved ones to give them the perfect gift. As part of this campaign, Western Union has also set-up a Flickr group where [you] can share photos depicting motherhood. Also, each week, Western Union will select photos from to display on the their home page.
To be entered, all I want you to do is tell me what you would get for your mom this Mother’s Day. Winners to be announced on Mother’s Day!
[Disclosure: Western Union sent me an Mother's Day gift -- a $50 Western Union gift card. What mom couldn't use $50? They also sent me some additional $50 Western Union-branded gift cards to extend to my favorite moms (my readers!) on Mother's Day!]
You Have My Consent and Sky’s the Limit
Can you believe it’s been a year since you last donned the crisp white shirt?
Out on Mondays, in on Saturdays; it was a schedule we seemingly got used to
Now it’s time to train ourselves for this agenda once more
Seeing you in the shirt, though, is definitely a thing I love
Epaulets, wings, your flight kit in tow; you are the pilot who flies circles around my heart, &
Nothing can top that feeling, in the depths of my belly, when you return to me
That being said, I’ll always be here waiting for you to come home
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I incorporated “Consent” into my writing, for 100 Words, a little differently this time. I was inspired to do it like this because when Michael talked to the chief pilot about taking on this new job he told him that he’d have to talk to me about it before taking it. I—of course—gave him my wholehearted consent. I’m excited about Michael’s new job. I wish him the best, vowing to always be waiting in the wings, beaming with pride. This past year’s been difficult, but it’s also been a blessing. I love you, Michael. Full throttle, baby.
Daily Cup of Love
If you know me, you know that I love coffee. You know that I really don’t function without—at least—one cup of the black elixir in the morning. You know that I love to grind my own beans. You know that my favorite coffee mug is a TABASCO one I got on my honeymoon in 1995. You know that I am particularly fond of iced coffee from that place with the green straw. You know that I’m not loyal to one brand of coffee, but I am loyal to bold flavor and consistency. And, you know I make one killer pot of coffee.
My love affair with coffee started later in life. There was a time where I would fill up a big, blue cup of ice and Coca Cola (not diet, mind you), getting a big huge dose of caffeine and sugar together. I only started drinking coffee when I would hit a coffee shop, late at night, with a girlfriend, where we’d write poetry in leather-bound journals, smoke cigarettes and laugh at the strange folk we’d encounter.
Those late night coffee trysts turned into morning coffee-computer time. Morning coffee-computer time then evolved into coffee-gab time with a girlfriend, on her wooden deck, in the afternoon or an iced coffee playdate at the park. It didn’t take too long to turn me into a full-fledged coffee snob. I’m talking an I-don’t-even-need-any-sugar-just-give-me-bold-flavor-and-I’m-in-heaven coffee snob!
When I went to Housewares in Chicago I met Bosch. You know Bosch? The third largest appliance manufacturer in the world. Well, they introduced me to the Tassimo, a whole new way to prepare and enjoy coffee. The Tassimo allows you to prepare one drink, of your choice, any time you want—no fuss, no muss! This was bound to make my afternoon coffee consumption effortless. Not only would it be easy to make a cuppa-cuppa, but I could now enjoy an espresso or cappuccino (without the full production of a fancy espresso machine, one which I do not have).
I love this baby! It’s easy to use, and it’s super easy to clean, the instructions aren’t hard to follow, it’s beautifully designed, and doesn’t take up too much counter space.
I love it so much that I’m going to make it super easy for you to have a Tassimo T65 of your very own.
(I’m sorry, but the giveaway is only open to those in the US.)
Just leave a comment and tell me how you take your coffee. It’s that simple. I’ll announce the winner a week from today on May 11th!
Now, if you will, please excuse me while I go make myself a Latte Macchiato!
[Disclosure: Bosch provided me with my Tassimo T65, but I was not paid to write this post or do the giveaway. The opinions and sentiments reflected in this post are purely my own.]
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