I can't eat peppers even though I like them because they don't agree with me. Some people say lacking an enzyme, others that they are part of the nightshade family. Bell peppers are in everything when you go out to eat. At home I just replace them with chilies, having fajitas for dinner with anaheims instead.

Zucchini is the devil and I won’t even eat it in homemade chocolate zucchini bread. I could manage other vegetables growing up and love many like green beans and broccoli but I have never cared for zucchini. There is something about the texture and no one in my family has ever cooked it well. Hours of standing in the…

Thanks to everyone for bravely sharing their stories and pain while spreading the love. I just had a good cry and don’t feel so alone.

I have homemade pickled asparagus, green beans, carrots, and garlic to bring. I need lots of veg in my Bloody Mary.

Pineapple upside down soaked with dark rum is my favorite! And I never make it for events my mother will attend.

I am ticked off when I am somewhere I usually get to relax and there is a loud talker, bad music, or a crying baby. Couldn’t care less about the breast feeding but why in hell is your kid messing with my atmosphere? I am around a lot of kids noise at work and live across the street from an elementary and a middle…

I'll take Robson Green. Off to watch Wire in the Blood while waiting for next Sunday.

Pagliacci is my guess.

Goat, sheep, and buffalo milk are different from cows milk. I don't remember how exactly but many people can consume these dairy products who can't do cow dairy. Just like some people can do aged cheese but not a young one.

I love Ikea stuff, I can afford it, but hate how large it is and all the screaming children and adults. Recently went by myself for the first time and had a blast. I made chai lattes with rum and drank them on the bus ride while double checking my list against the catalog. When you get to Ikea get a snack at the exit…

Catan has caused table flipping fights in my family. The game is fun but damn do we all want to win.

I love Russell. Might be a bit churchy but he goes to Seattle Children's Hospital almost every week to see the kids. And he has adorable dogs.

Queen Mary Tea Room? Probably not the Georgian at the Fairmont, not locally owned. But have you taken the Clipper up to Victoria and done tea at the Empress? Off season the clippers is inexpensive and the tea is lovely and fun.

Lord save me from the after church grocery crowd. I have to change my schedule for the summer and work Sunday’s and even here in the great unchurched NW it sucks.

Love the Zaya 12 year.

I have hosted adult egg hunts, they are the best. Depending on if I planned early the cans of beer were either spray painted or just had stickers and bows. Plastic eggs had a prize written on a slip of paper, didn’t want to have neighborhood kids find booze. The prizes were airport bottles of booze, 22’s of good beer,…

I have a friend allergic to mayo, some reaction that happens when everything is mixed. She can eat all the components just not mixed together.

French style potato salad with vinegar, olive, and feta cheese as the dressing is amazing. You add kalamata olives, herbs, veg and such. Mayo, even vegan, is gross.

Block party day a few years back my roommate has the wheels stolen from her car. We were new to the neighborhood and had been excited to meet the neighbors and this gave us a really good story, a jack, and three cinder blocks.

Working at a grocery store a coworker hurt his back lifting a flat of mushrooms. Talking less than 10 pounds of weight caused him to miss work for months.