It’s Friday, I’m in love. That’s my ringtone, btw. Unless you’re my parents- Moon River, or Brian- Peter Griffin laugh (which is all fun and games until it goes off in the Neiman’s bathroom).
We had the most gorgeous day here in Dallas! It’s supposed to cool off again this weekend- good news for those marathoners- but it was nice to have a few warm days.
After I finished running/blogging this morning, I hopped back in bed for a bit more sleep. Five hours just does NOT cut it. I woke up starving and threw together a nice bowl of oats:
Cooked 1/2 c oats, 1/2 c milk, 1/2 c water and 1/2 of a finely chopped apple, then stirred in 1 tbs super crunchy peanut butter, vanilla and cinnamon afterwards. Kroger had these white raspberries on sale so I sprinkled a few of those on top. They’re good- just a little milder than red raspberries.
Let’s play Where’s Chloe… can you spot her?
Well hello there.
For lunch I had some of the jambalaya that we froze last week:
Along with a random plate of Crunchmaster crackers, Sabra hummus and mini pickles.
Brian got an email with tickets to a sneak preview of I Love You, Man and we had every intention of going tonight, but once he got home from work we decided to just hang out at home instead. I’m usually all about the go-go-go, but we haven’t spent a night at home since Sunday and the couch and tv were beckoning.
For dinner we tried this Giada recipe for Orecchiette with Mixed Greens and Goat Cheese.
It was just okay. Brian like it because it only requires 1 pot and 1 bowl (he does the dishes), but I thought the taste was a little blah. It might have been improved by substituting arugula or spinach for the Italian mixed greens, or maybe adding some lemon juice/capers/crushed red pepper/grilled chicken. But you really can’t ask for an easier dish- and it’s pretty healthy, too. Target didn’t have orecchiette, so I used whole wheat rotini instead.
Not to beat a dead horse (okay, I’m totally beating a dead horse), but there was quite the interesting post on the D Magazine Side Dish blog today. Apparently a lot of other people found it interesting, too, because I think their server crashed. LUCKILY I copied and pasted the post into an email to Brian earlier today. If the server is back up, here’s the link… quite a few, um, colorful comments, too: http://sidedish.dmagazine.com/2009/02/26/casey-thompson-speaks-out-about-top-chef
I guess Casey Thompson sent a little email to one of the D Magazine editors with her side of the Top Chef finale
Casey speaks! And she doesn’t sound happy, folks. I asked her to comment on last night’s episode, and here’s what she had to say:
Carla was not prepared and in over her head. The show did not talk about how the first course (crab) took her half of the friggin’ cooking time that day, I was left to work the rest of HER dishes.
She also did not have a plan. The ONLY thing she had in mind was a cheese course! I would NEVER do a cheese course. And where in the hell did french come from!? She is not even classically trained! It (the show) didn’t talk about how I worked on a sauce for 2 days and Carla forgot to put it on the plate… It didn’t show how the 2nd course (fish) was MINE. It didn’t show how she took the sous vide idea and decided to GRILL it last minute causing it to be tough… And it didn’t show how she WANTED to do the souffles which she does not even know how to make! That was HER food, because it certainly was me asking her how she wanted to do this and that while she was busy picking crab the entire time and making a souffle that didn’t rise!
I am done with TC. I did not influence her. She has NO ideas of her own, oh, except a cheese course.
Wow.
It’s interesting to hear Casey’s take on the whole episode. I suppose if the producers “edited” in the manner she claims, I would probably come out swinging, too… but the note seems unnecessarily harsh, in my opinion (especially given that I’ve read that Carla has been nothing but gracious about the whole debacle) and she seems more angry at Carla than anyone. Don’t kick the gal while she’s down or anything.
Oh, the drama.
(And thanks to Miss Molly for the D blog tip!)
Off to copy some recipes for tomorrow. Hope you all have a fun, safe weekend!
*SURVEY TIME*
Weekend plans?
Tomorrow- House cleaning and chilling with a movie. We’ve been trying to rent Choke for a week…
Saturday- Fort Worth to watch marathon, maybe some yard work (ugh), then we’re having us a little date night. My brother gave us a Terrilli’s gift certificate for Christmas and we’ll probably see a movie or something. Is anything good coming out this weekend?
Sunday- Blogger brunch, then I think my mom and I might hit up that Bits and Bites fundraiser at El Centro… which you guys should attend, by the way 
OOH, thanks for the dish
very interesting…
i’ve done this with spinach, i liked the salty punch of the sundried tomatoes!
Do you feel pressure having that many bloggers reading your blog? Oh my gosh, you are known around the world.
I am pretty sure the truth is somewhere in the middle of what really happen with Casey and Carla. I will have to agree with Casey in that Carla did seem alittle(?) rattled and seemed to be second guessing herself.
I watched Choke last night and thought that it sucked; just a word of caution. I read the book a little over a year ago and was wondering how they would turn it in to a good movie, and let’s just say that they didn’t. I watch tons of crappy movies though so it doesn’t bother me when I add another one to the pile, but if you are making a night of renting a movie, you might look elsewhere. Who knows though, you might really like it.
I will say that it has its funny parts and I do like Sam Rockwell, who does a good job in his leading role. It is just that the source material is very difficult to replicate, and I thought it came across as cheesy and low budget.
haha omg, my bf’s ringtone is peters laugh also. cracks me up everytime it goes off.
That Giada salad looks good….
I read Casey’s response on the Amateur Gourmet. It’s amazing what editing can do. It’s also funny how worked up people can get over things. It sounds like Casey is defending herself, but really – it wasn’t her fault. I don’t like how she attacked Carla. I think it just makes her look worse.
Sigh.
Have fun at the meetup!