Archive for August, 2009
Friday, August 21st, 2009
Look what showed up overnight! Rice! Loads & loads of rice! I swear…it wasn’t there yesterday. No really, I’m not kidding…it wasn’t there yesterday. And now it’s EVERYWHERE!!! But I know what part of the plant the rice comes from now…[my sing-song voice] …and so do you! I’ll just let you bask in that knowledge for [...]
Thursday, August 20th, 2009
 Ok…I’ve been up every morning trying to catch this commercial on video & I finally got it! (They only play it between 5 – 8am.) This is actually 3 minutes of what is about a 7 minute info-style commercial. While the infomercials at home are usually hour-long paid programming spots, here they condense them down [...]
Wednesday, August 19th, 2009
While I wish I could claim this recipe as my own, it’s not. I stumbled on it one day while searching for granita recipes online. A granita is kind of like a coarse snow-cone. It’s made of sugar, water & whatever flavoring you like – I use juice ’cause it’s easy. (And if you’re like me, culinarily-challenged [...]