Homemade black bean soup with orange-jalapeno salsa on top and handmade tortillas. Making tortillas is a pain, but they are soooo good.

the kids and i went to my bestie's house today, and we grilled whole rainbow trout (that she and her daughter caught themselves). we did some with lemon pepper and garlic, and some with a cajun spice blend. we also made a big pan of roasted veggies .

My pathetic dinner was a result of me skipping out on buying groceries: the last leftover turkey meatball in the fridge with red sauce and romano cheese and crushed up crackers (I had nothing else). Then, instant ramen. Ugh. Don't want to talk about it.

Frozen pierogies and broccoli. Easy 10 minute dinner, because at 4pm the realization we forgot to defrost the chicken moved chicken francese night to tomorrow.

SO glad that it's Sunday! After an awful week (many connections with Boston, though I don't live there now) I spent last night celebrating my birthday with friends. We got stupidly drunk and visited dive bars in my neighborhood, and it turned out that the second place was having karaoke night - the best.

Mr. Mac is…

jerk chicken, sweet plantains and rice and beans! and dogfish head ipa. i cheated though, <3 nyc and the dominican place across the street. they are just so much better at rice and beans than i will ever be, i have no illusions.

I went out for Mexican for lunch, so wanted a light dinner. So, I'm having some Greek yogurt with honey and blackberries, an avocado, and some chips and salsa verde. It's a pretty delicious dinner.

Tell me one more fucking time that rape culture is feminist paranoia. Tell me one more fucking time that rape is related to sex, attraction, and how a woman looks. Tell me one more fucking time that rape is an evolved reproductive strategy. Fuck today.

Guys, give me some ideas for things to do with pretty craft paper. The local scrapbooking store went out of business and had a huge sale and....I may have gotten a little excited. See, I have a weakness for pretty paper. Also, I am NOT artsy at all. Go figure.

I have a serious case of the olds because I can't figure out this new format. Where the hell is Groupthink? How do I get permission to post there, once I can find it? I miss my people...

I read that in Angie Jordan's voice from 30 Rock, like in her "Queen of Jordan" catchphrase, and that made it the best one-word-post EVER.

This week has been shitty both in the WTF is happening in the world? way and for personal reasons. So I am watching anything and everything of Dylan Moran's because that man makes me laugh until I can't breathe.

A CHALLENGER APPEARS

Radioactive spider venom.

Vegetarian Pozole. Pinto beans in place of pork. Not that same as the real thing, but still good.

I am grilling lamb encrusted with herbs, grilled zucchini and mashed potatoes!

i'm making what would've been a pretty decent chicken, pork belly, and veggie stew in my crock pot... IF i had remembered to plug the crock pot in when i threw all the shit in there around lunchtime. (caught my mistake a couple hours later.) looks like i'll be having a late dinner tonight!

Oh dear. Well, here we go. My skin regimen list of shame:

First, use a cream cleanser. The gold standard is an antioxidant serum and sunscreen in the morning (vitamin C is the most effective) and alternating a retinol with AHAs at night. You only seen a simple moisturizer, I actually use Cerave on my body and face. So, here's what I use (I don't have an antioxidant serum…

I usually hate when people use kids for political protests too, but I think it's hypocritical for him to complain, since his law was using children as props to eliminate welfare.