Monkey Monday: Happy 2012 edition! 2 January 2012 10:36 pm
Posted by Tracy in : friends,fun,life,monkeys,photos,pictures,tea , add a commentHow happy is my start to 2012, you ask? I think my new tea-making monkey friend answers that question pretty darn well:
Seriously, I cannot even begin to say how awesome a gift this is. (more…)
One more weekend of Open Letters 26 November 2011 4:19 pm
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,cross-posting,friends,fun,ingredients,pictures,random , add a commentToday I found quinces at the farm store down the street from my brother’s place in Vermont!
So I wrote them a little love note at my Open Letters blog. Check it out!
Foto Friday: Turducken, continued. 25 November 2011 10:25 am
Posted by Tracy in : cooking,events,family,food as spectator sport,friends,fun,hot mess,not even vegetarian,people,photos,pictures , add a commentHappy Buy Nothing Day!
I can’t even begin to tell you how hard it was to avoid making comments on Wednesday’s pictures, readers. If any of you clicked through to Flickr for larger versions (uh, correction, saw hover text from Flickr, since I didn’t quite have the technical ability: see below), you may have noticed a touch of verbosity in the captions there… Yup, those would be my efforts to channel away all the text I couldn’t use on a Wordless Wednesday. ANYWAY. In case you haven’t seen enough turducken to last you a year or more (believe it or not, this was Peter and my third such effort), and you didn’t eat so much yesterday that you don’t want to look at food till Sunday or so, eventually this post will be filled with more pictures of the ghosts of Thanksgiving two years past. For now, however, I am still at my brother’s place in Vermont, where neither Internet nor phone coverage are quite reliable enough to post much, so for now I will leave you with some teaser placeholder pics:
Foto Friday: Coffee experiment! 18 November 2011 1:25 pm
Posted by Tracy in : food snobbery,fun,geekery,kitchen gear,milk,photos,pictures,reading,recipes,sundance,taste test , add a commentSo yesterday I posted the following picture to Twitter and Tumblr via Instagram on my iPhone (remember that comic I shared on Tuesday with a character reading news from “this thing I can’t put down to save my life”? Yeah, that’s me. Anyway):
Exciting!
And today I’m going to elaborate considerably on that picture. Because that’s just how I roll. (more…)
TMI Tuesday: McRib edition 15 November 2011 1:57 pm
Posted by Tracy in : comics,consumerism,cross-posting,economics,fangirl,fast food,fun,mystery meat,not even vegetarian,pictures , add a commentFirst and foremost, full disclosure seems in order (and very much in the spirit of Too Much Information): I have never eaten a McDonalds McRib sandwich (TM?) In fact, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen one in the, um, flesh — if something as hyper-processed as the McRib (or, for that matter, McNuggets or Spam or… you get the idea, the list goes on) can still be considered flesh. Maybe it’s like honey in that regard, if it gets sufficiently processed it can no longer be called by that name? I don’t know. Anyway, that seemed like an important bit of information to get out of the way: this post is more about the McRib as cultural phenomenon than anything else. For whatever reason last week seems to have been McRib Week on various and sundry online media I follow, and so here are the items that made me say, “Ok, clearly I need to do a TracyFood post about this,” starting with some hilarious conspiracy theory economics, and ending with comics for people who want to skim past all that boring long reading stuff. (more…)
