word of the day

SLANGUAGE
totally makes sense but it strikes me as redundant. like the infamous bushism "misunderestimate."

easy peasy

i made pea soup! ok. not major news but super tasty. the thing is, i don't recall ever having had pea soup in my life. i like peas just fine --usually with mashed potatoes-- but i don't mash my peas. but i saw this super quick recipe on "you are what you eat" on bbc america:
onion
bouillon cube
water
frozen peas
dice and sauté onion. add bouillon cube, water and peas. simmer until heated through. blend.
i have a total morbid fascination with this show in which a small, acerbic diet guru bullies "britain's worst eaters" into a new lifestyle of exercise and healthy eating. the best parts are the all-the-crap-you-ate-in-a-week table of shame and the pithy narration. so along the way, the acerbic diet guru (gillian mckeith) drops a couple of recipes for benefit of the audience. thanks, gillian. i had never considered making pea soup before. yum.
one day i'll make gordon ramsay's broccoli soup.

venture bros. quote of the week

"hey man, i gotta go where the blacktion is!"
-- jefferson twilight, blacula hunter.

nostalgia attack

so i was scouring the shelves of the salvation army thrift store looking for something amazing when i found this awesome MOTU thermos. i did not buy this thermos as i have no need for one (irrespective of the big crack in the bottom). but i did have a bit of a nostalgia attack. i never had a he-man lunchbox and it's unlikely that i would have gotten one if i'd asked for it but that show rocked! i currently have season one in my netflix queue and after revisiting disc one i realized two things:
one--those lessons at the end of every episode are oddly random and more lame than i remembered and
two--that the incidental music totally makes that show!