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#113 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

March 31, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, food, health | 10 comments

I’ve been trying to slowly edge towards more healthy lifestyle choices (VERY slowly) and thought I’d see if V8 was an option for getting extra vegetable servings into my diet. NOT going to happen. This stuff tasted terrible. And I don’t really know why…I mean I like vegetables…and I definitely like tomato juice which seems like the base of the drink…but it is NOT like tomato juice…and there is a truly horrible aftertaste. I am liking the new V8 fusion though, which is fruit and vegetables and tastes much more like fruit…so far I’ve only had the Tropical Orange as Pomegranete Blueberry always seems to be sold out near me and Strawberry Banana and Peach Mango are obvious no go flavors for me (see: here). There is also an Acai Mixed Berry flavor, which has potential, but I also haven’t seen that one in the store and will need to check the ingredients when I do.

I know this is riveting Monday morning conversation…what can I say…I’m a riveting person.

#112 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

March 28, 2008 in awesomeness, cartoons, comic of the day, comics, food, health | 17 comments

Sadly, if I do in fact have a sensitive or refined palette, it is totally wasted. I despise and will not tolerate onions, thus a HUGE selection of foods are off limits to me, even whole types of cuisine sometimes. I can almost never order a soup in a restaurant (definitely gonna have onions) and while I’ve found things I really like at Thai and Indian restaurants, navigating the menu is always a bit of a challenge. So this palette of mine, refined or no, is wasted on me. I’ve branched out much more in my adulthood, often with thanks to Adam (I now like roasted brussel sprouts and about a thousand other vegetables I never would have tried without his guidance) but onions remain a hated enemy, I doubt I’ll ever get over it.

Randomly I also hate and will not tolerate: bananas, mushrooms (although I’ve made an exception here a few times in the last year for portabellos with not disastrous results), peaches, apricots, and plums (long story), as well as red grapes, pumpkin, coconut, and cooked carrots.

Any kind of food that you guys despise? Does it limit you?

#77 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

February 8, 2008 in cartoons, comic of the day, comics, food, health | 4 comments

Some of you suggested this very idea this week, and it’s true that cleaning is certainly a better workout than just sitting around watching old episodes of Law & Order, but it’s not a REAL workout and I know this because I generally don’t sweat too much…I just get tired and grouchy. Also, a few of you (ahem, TK42ONE) suggested I put on weights or something while I clean, thus maximizing my cleaning/workout time. While I admit this would certainly maximize my time, I do have to ask, just how much do you WANT me to hate cleaning? Because wearing weights while I clean (which I already hate at like, a ridiculous level) takes me like right over the edge into going insane land.

As a sidenote, can we all please notice how much more attractive I have drawn myself when I am thinking about cookies…versus exercise. Coincidence? Oh, I think not.

Lastly, guess what I have to do at some point today…that’s right…dust bunnies the size of my hand are currently roaming freely across our hardwood floor…

#70 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

January 30, 2008 in comic of the day, comics, food, new york city, sandwiches, seafood, urban lobster | 4 comments

It’s true, though I love a lobster roll, I didn’t actually discover them until June of 2007, when Adam and I went on a trip to see Ween in concert in New Hampshire (amazing show). While in New Hampshire we went to Maine specifically to visit a restaurant we’d read about called Haraseeket Lobster in Freeport Maine. That was my first lobster roll and I proceeded to eat them all weekend at any location that I could get my hands on them…and ever since that trip I have been looking for excellent lobster rolls here in the city.

Urban Lobster has become my favorite new NYC eatery, specifically for it’s amazing lobster roll. It’s on the lower east side (LES), so it’s not exactly convenient for a meal anytime since we are on the Upper East Side (UES) – only 90 odd blocks away – no problem! But since it is NYC everything is a pretty decent bus or subway ride away, and the East Village area (which is only a few blocks from Urban) is one of my favorite places to go on weekends, so it has pretty much become what I crave everytime we leave our neighborhood. I suppose it is a good thing I can’t just order it anytime I want or I’d be looking at even MORE weight gain…not to mention I’d be broke…it is lobster people…even though it’s in sandwich format it’s not exactly cheap.

#55 Comic of the Day

January 9, 2008 in comic of the day, comics, food, relationships, seafood | 5 comments

It’s true.

#21 Comic of the Day

November 22, 2007 in comic of the day, comics, food, holidays | 5 comments

Happy Thanksgiving!

I don’t know about Adam, but I’m going to try to starve myself so that we can have a shot at eating a tenth of what we prepare today…I at least need a taste of everything, after all that slaving. That’s another thing, after spending all day in the kitchen preparing the food, I always find I’ve got less of an appetite for it. I guess just looking at food and having your hands in it for hours on end is not so great for the appetite…good for the figure…not so good for the appetite.

I decided to make butternut squash souffle instead of sweet potato souffle, mostly due to a shopping error, and it’s a first time for that, so we’ll see how it turns out. The homemade dressing (my mother’s recipe) is really the thing I wait all year for…mmmm.

Anyway, have a Happy Thanksgiving everyone, I hope you are all lucky enough to be with loved ones, be it friends or family…and if it’s the latter I hope you are able to retain your sanity and maybe escape from them later today to a quiet corner with a book…