Mish-Mash

pomegranates

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I love list-making as a warm up. The trick is not letting it go on too long… I’m not so good at that part.

– Casey passed along this link from the Wall Street Journal this morning with the caveat that he hadn’t had a chance to read it himself yet. I confess I only skimmed it. Doesn’t look like there’s anything new there, though. No mention of the “controversy” surrounding the Minx line, which is probably responsible journalism, though I do tire of “COMICS AREN’T JUST FOR BOYS!” and “CHECK OUT THIS NEW THING CALLED MANGA!” headlines. Seriously, is this still news? (See also the ubiquitous “THEY MAKE COMICS FOR GROWN UPS NOW!” newspaper article.)

– Amy discovered these sweet and potentially-offensive blouses. Love.

– 25 weeks pregnant. Woo hoo! 62% of the way to the finish line… (Had a check up yesterday and apparently the baby’s measuring a little bit big, which is unsettling… though, it occurs to me that I was having my check up about a week late — I wonder if that was taken into account? Anyway. Nothing to be done about it. Thanks to the ovulation predictor kit and travel schedules, there’s no chance we’ve got the date of conception wrong, so… baby’s just big, I guess. I’m going back to writing my food down and hoping things even themselves out at our next visit. Oh! And we’re doing the 3D sono next time. That should be fun.)

– Rebecca asked me to make a food specific food list. I didn’t repeat anything from the first list, so even though cioppino is one of my favorite things ever, it doesn’t appear below:

1. Aunt Polly’s low calorie crab salad;
2. BLTs;
3. Braised collard greens and pork chops;
4. BUFFALO WINGS! (How did I forget?? Of course, I’m not allowed blue cheese during pregnancy, which puts a bit of a damper on things);
5. Cappuccino muffins from the cart in front of 388 Greenwich in NYC (Scooter’s on the Plaza makes a reasonable facsimile);
6. Cheese toast made under the broiler with Colby and yellow mustard;
7. Chicken livers, or specifically, the pan-fried liver and gizzards plate from Stroud’s;
8. Chocolate-covered strawberries;
9. European butter on dense grainy bread;
10. French toast served with something spicy or salty;
11. Fresh hot everything bagel with cream cheese, tomato slices, Tabasco sauce, salt and pepper;
12. Fresh, homemade whipped cream;
13. Gooey hot panini sandwiches (the only thing close to a craving I’ve had during pregnancy has been a generic desire to eat sandwiches);
14. Grainy mustards;
15. Lemonade cake (family recipe);
16. Onigiri and pretty much anything in a bento box;
17. Pomegranates;
18. Salt and vinegar kettle chips;
19. Savory rosemary cake from some coffee shop on the upper west side. What was the name of that place? I can’t remember;
20. Sharp cheddar cheese;
21. Steak au Poivre with crispy French fries;
22. Sturgeon;
23. Sweet grape tomatoes;
24. Tuna salad from Captain Quackenbush’s on the drag in Austin, served on a small whole-wheat bagel. I don’t know what they put in that tuna salad, but it was awesome. Someone once told me it was celery salt, but I don’t think that’s right. Is that place still open, I wonder;
25. Vietnamese soft spring rolls (Though, strictly speaking I’m not allowed sprouts or cold cuts during my pregnancy).