Just in case you’re curious, this is what a 23-week-old [~ 5 months, 1 week], 62-pound Bernese Mountain Dog PUPPY looks like. He comes up to the waist of a 5’6″ person. Hooray! These are courtesy of my mom, who I think took so many photos out of sheer shock at his size. Grady spent […]
One of my favorite holiday dishes: Sweet Potato Salad. If I could eat this daily, I would. I’m actually curious to mash it all up with a potato masher and see how it tastes then. Agh. Love it. Anyway. I now ask for this every year, and my mom thankfully obliges. Although, it was almost […]
Well, Thanksgiving is done, done and we’re on to the next one… But first, a recap: 1. I’m thankful Grady survived. By all accounts, he was an angel during dinner. He slept under the table, didn’t bother anyone, and didn’t beg. Yesterday morning before dinner, however, he swallowed one of my cousin Alix‘s socks while […]
Scene: Last night, parents house. Me: Dad, check the oven, I’m making a pumpkin pie! Dad: [turns oven light on, looks] Okay… is this like fake pumpkin? I know how you are.* Me: No, it’s real pumpkin, dad, what else would it be? That’s the beauty of pumpkin pie. I 100% did not tell a […]
[The Inquirer has an interesting post about the deaths at the Philadelphia Marathon yesterday that paints a pretty gruesome picture of marathon running. One runner, a 21-year-old senior at Penn, was participating in the half marathon when he had a heart attack at the finish line. Occurrences like this really put things in perspective: even the most […]
As a vegetarian or vegan it’s easy to feel defeated on Thanksgiving. It’s a time when many of us return home to families full of meat-lovers and resign ourselves to the mashed potatoes and green beans [“resign” may not be the best word – mashed potatoes are awesome], or are forced to bring our own […]
I once attempted to explain what the word “vegetarian” means to me. In doing so, I mentioned the concept of “cheating.” I said that I sometimes do “cheat” and one of those times was last Thanksgiving, when I ate a slice of Polyface turkey at dinner. I realized I mischaracterized my actions by describing them as “cheating.” […]
Thus begins a string of Thanksgiving-related posts. Hey, it’s my foodie duty to cover this holiday to the best of my meat-averse abilities. I may be starting the countdown a bit late, but including today there’s 11 days until Thanksgiving – a holiday that has the same power over many people’s emotions as this song.* For me, […]
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