5 things about me …
Ali, the top chef over at cleaner plate club tagged me for a meme, and so in keeping with the food theme, here are 5 things about me, the culinary edition.
1 – I don’t like mushrooms. I am really good at picking them out of dishes, but I did go through a period of time where I told the waitstaff I was alergic to them, to impress upon them that a mushroom shouldn’t even share the same air with my plate. Last night, I tried to get my 5 year old to try something on the table besides her beloved chicken wings with duck sauce, I even promised her I would eat a muchroom if she did, but alas, she failed to take me up on the offer.
2 – I love and miss seafood. Raw, steamed, grilled, baked in the oven or in seaweed at the beach, I love seafood – but I’m alergic to oysters. I found this out on my first valentine’s day date with my (now) husband. Unfortunately for him, I found this out after he paid the bill. The longer story is much funnier, but you’ll have to buy me a sushi role to hear it.
3 – It is hard to live with carnivores. If it didn’t roam the earth, darling DH doesn’t have room for it on his plate. The sounds of teeth on bones echos through our dining room as I’m constantly casting off my naugthy bits of beef to the ravenous horde. You’d think my husband’s family descended from a tribe of lions instead of generations of Ivy League educated humans.
4 – Until two years ago, I was not capable of eating any food with a hot pepper based spice (I could do wasabi for some reason – mustard based). Then one day, on a whim, I put one slice of a jalapeno pepper on a plate of roased veggies and my tongue exploded. Suddeny I was craving spicy, I suddenly got Indian and Thai cuisine. Life was now in color.
5. At the end of every Grateful Dead show, I roamed the parking lot looking for a “kind veggie bagel” a bagel with a thin smear of cream cheese, cukembers and sprouts, maybe onions and tomato. It was the perfect food to eat while wandering the lot looking for the perfect hair hand or beaded earings. The coolness of the cukember combined with the sweet cream cheese, softened my throat after a night of being in a smokey arena, and the bagel gave me energy for at least an hour of dancing in the drum circle back at the camp site.
I am going to tag Greg, and hope he’ll tell us five things he loves to cook …
Cheap Houses
Boston.com has a link up today featuring what they call cheap houses, houses under 300K in the Boston area. The first house they show is a 3 bed, 1.5 bath, with 1,400 sq. Listed at $299,900
For well under $250K, you can move into this home on my street, the house has 5 Bed, 2 Bath, 3,820 Sq. Ft. on 0.22 Acres, with views of Mt. Greylock, walk to school and town. That is also one of the most expensive houses for sale in town. This one, for $175 may be one of my favorites right now.
We have high speed internet access, independent coffee shops, a thriving art scene, a growing economy and great restaurants near by. We don’t have any traffic to speak of, crime is fairly low, and the sunsets are spectacular. We also have a growing number of tech jobs that we can’t fill locally.
I have a dream that our town, the birthplace of Susan B. Anthony, will someday become a haven for lesbian couples with children, that I’ll see rainbow bumper stickers on the back of subaru wagons lining the streets, but I would image that more straight couples would be welcome here as well.
How much house are you getting for your dollar? What kind of life would you live if you weren’t working just to pay your mortgage?