Got some motherfucking Krispy Kremes last night! We made a special trip into Seattle to get them! Not a terribly long drive. Equate it to a trip to Fairmont from Clarksburg. For the Krispy Kremes, it was totally worth it! I had one (more like four) for breakfast this morning. Gonna be a good day! Praise Krispy Kreme!
I know I promised a nice cheerful holiday post, and Ray-Tard kept distracting me. However, today I am prepared to be a holly jolly cheer spreading machine!!
Since Jessie and I are going to be alone for Christmas (and it might possibly be the last time this is possible because of possible future rugrats), we decided to be a little decadent with ourselves. First of all there are the Five Feasts of Christmas, which started yesterday. Yesterday we had a mustard and herb crusted standing rib roast with a fresh vegetable casserole. It was awesome. Tonight is ham and the famous green bean casserole. Some other feasts are going to be:
Tomorrow- Roast chicken (Ina Style) with roasted butternut squash and mashed potatoes and gravy
Saturday- Braciola…I’m not sure what side dishes I’ll have with this yet. Maybe some steamed asparagus.
Sunday a.k.a. Christmas Eve- Cheese Fondue. This will be served with Genoa Salami, Crusty bread, and gorgeous cremini mushrooms!
Christmas Day- Not including all the cheeses and fruits and sausages that will be set out, I am making a Stuffed pesto torta for breakfast. For dinner we are having a Pear Cranberry Salad, Lamb, and potatoes au gratin (the good stuff not the boxed crap.
Of course cookies will be ever present. Sugar, gingerbread, and chocolate chip are our selections. We are also going to have rice crispy treats with the bottoms dipped in chocolate.
What will keep us Merry the whole time, being stuck in the apartment together with no distractions? Lots of alcohol. I plan on having some nice festive cosmopolitans each night before dinner, and some nice holiday coffee afterwards with a shot or two of Bailey’s. Or maybe some White Hot Chocolate with a shot of white chocolate liqueur. We basically agreed to stay pretty much snoggered, just for the hell of it. We almost never drink and when we do it is maybe a little shot of something in coffee or a glass of wine with dinner. We want to stay jolly! VERY JOLLY.
So I am going to enjoy this Christmas! I am going to be jolly and happy (and still mindful of family and friends absent) as well as celebrate the true meaning of the holidays. I just want to be an ass about it for once. I didn’t want to be the sensible one, I wanted to be the one stuffing my face and drinking so much that every Christmas commercial suddenly becomes high art. This quite possibly could be my last time to do this, so I’m gonna live it up!
So have a very Merry Christmas everybody. Eat more than you know you should, have a little extra drink, and laugh a little easier. Don’t let intellect or appearances get in the way of a good time and be sure you tell your loved ones how much they mean to you. I wish all of you a wonderful and memorable Christmas and a safe and raucous New Year. God Bless and peace out.
OK, I have a confession to make. Let me say in advance, Steph, if you are reading this, I am sorry and I hope we can still be friends despite this difference.
I HATE RACHAEL RAY! HATE. HER. This is something in which I am not alone. If you google her name you come upon MANY pages that are dedicated to people that hate her. I don’t go there because these people are kinda vulgar (and I’m not ^-^) and they hate her waaaaaay more that I do. However, it does not change my feelings.
It didn’t start out this way. Rachael Ray is one of Food Network’s superstars so they air her shows all the friggin time, and since I watch food network both when I’m making dinner and when I’m working out, I can’t seem to get away from her. When I first started watching her, it was in the earlier years of her show. She had nice dark hair and looked like a hyper little Italian girl. Nothing wrong with that at all. She also had these really cool ideas, like with the garbage bowl and all that. Then she started getting on my nerves, even in the background and I couldn’t figure out why. So I started paying attention. You know what I found out? She is the most abrasive, obnoxious, annoying person on Food Network!
First of all, she is REALLY LOUD! A trait that is not favorable in someone WHO NEVER SHUTS UP! Secondly, she is repetitive ad nauseam (to the point of making me very annoyed). If you watch her show “30 Minute Meals” more than three times, you will understand what I mean.
She is all about time and making a real home-cooked meal in under 30 minutes. That is a genius idea, especially for working people who don’t have a lot of extra time. It promotes better eating habits and health. I can respect that. I just hate Rachael Ray, so I’m going to keep ranting.
In an effort to save time, I guess, she uses abbreviations for things, like EVOO for Extra Virgin Olive Oil, and GB for Garbage Bowl. This would be nice if she only ever said EVOO, and GB, but NO! The idiot says everything. Example:
“Let’s get some EVOO, Extra Virgin Olive Oil in the pan and chop our onions and discard the waste in our GB Garbage Bowl.”
After the first two or three times she says it in an episode, you kinda fucking know what EVOO and GB stand for! She does this in every episode! Drives me insane. But that’s not the end of it. Every time she uses Worcestershire Sauce, she has to say how wonderful it is and go on to describe all the ingredients inside. EVERY TIME! And Worcestershire sauce is used a lot in her show. And every time she uses any kind of citrus in her show she first has to explain how the zest has more flavor than the juice and secondly has to remind you to put the citrus in the bloody microwave for about ten seconds to get the juices going so you get more.
She also never says “delicious”, she says “De-lish”. That annoys me simply because I hate her voice and all made up words coming out of her mouth make me quite frothy.
I understand for time purposes she has a limited amount of food she can make, but I honestly would not be interested in making any of the food she makes. She has stupid names for just about every recipe she comes up with. Like last night, she made something called “Not-Sagna” which she said was basically the same ingredients as lasagna except it was all thrown together in one pot. EW! It looked gross too. She also makes a lot of stews and soups, but she never calls them stews or soups, she calls them “stoups” because it’s too thick to be a soup and too thin to be a stew. That makes me wish I could throw a shoe at her.
And she never makes desserts…she tries to, but I would never eat them because it is basically ice cream piled on top of something. And every time she does find the time to make a dessert (ice cream on top of something) she has to tell you about how she worked at a Howard Johnson’s and worked the Ice Cream counter as a teen. Every. Time. I remember one time she said she was gonna make Tiramisu for dessert, I was really impressed with that so I watched until the end because I’d like to make a quick and easy Tiramisu. Do you know what she did??!!? She took Nilla Wafers and poured hot coffe over them and put a scoop of ice cream on top. Did I miss something? Can you explain to me how that is supposed to pass for Tiramisu?
She also needs to get someone to dress her. She is a very pretty lady, but she wears really funky makeup. And her hair gets worse and worse as time goes on. She also wears really tight shirts that do not flatter her at all. She has a big butt (NOT A BAD THING, LOVE THE BIG BUTTS), but she always tucks in her super tight shirts and wears horrific belts, so it makes her look fat, which she isn’t. The worst thing is the tight shirts. Rachael Ray in all her curvy loveliness lacks breasts. So when she wears these tight fitting stretchy looking shirts, it looks like she has man boobs! It’s awful! And it makes her head look enormous as well. A nice fitted button down shirt would do wonders for her. I guess she feels like she is showing off her figure with the tight shirts, but it makes me cringe. Man boobs. Seriously.
Anyway, I had to get that off my chest because it will make it easier in future posts when I make a side comment about how annoying she is, all will understand my feelings.
