Category: Food for Thought

Food for thought: Another breakfast of champions*…

*need to get out of self deprecation mode. I started taking note of calories and serving sizes while simultaneously make an effort to stop polluting my body with garbage food and lost three pounds 😁

Yes, I drink half the water in that jug for breakfast and dinner, oatmeal with skim milk and banana, 3 eggs with scallion, teaspoon of minced garlic, arrugula, adobo, black pepper, with a side of two homemade sweet potato cakes (pureed with panko bread crumbs),

Food for thought: When your meal looks better than it tastes…

A yummy salad, yummy garlic buns (not pictured), yummy penne pasta in vodka sauce that my wife had and a seafood combo cooked to perfection sitting on top of fettuccine (even though I ordered penne) in what was supposed to be a light white wine butter sauce (I’d say it was closer to bland dish water, or the water they boiled the seafood in. I never EVER add salt and pepper to a meal out, and even that didn’t help, bleech) at Mama Nina’s on Main St Bethlehem, normally really good. People watching on a bench in town.

Food for thought: My buddy Mark celebrates almost turning 50 (that happens Tuesday) and the Summer of Soul…

So, Mark asked people to make a side to go with the sandwiches/wraps that was ordered so I made a version of pasta salad. Pasta with cherry tomatoes, pickled vegetables, summer sausage, sharp cheddar, black and green olives and creamy Italian dressing.

The spread of food, which also included other store bought potato and macaroni salads and homemade bacon baked beans and an assortment of chips, the sandwiches/wraps and Boston cream came came via Wegman’s Grocery Story, the tiny Gluten Free cake for the birthday boy came from Vegan Treats. Mark’s brother Eric is an imaginative mixologist and tea mixed with tequila placed on a 3M light turns the drink from blue to electric light purple.

The party was a mix of 5 lesbians, 3 Gays, 2 Bi’s and 4 Straights. A lot of the people were antisocial. Everyone drank except for Jess and I. A lot of the conversation was about drinking. The highlights of the evening were Mark decided to have wind up toy races (the theme of the party was refusing to grow up, my buddy is also a huge Calvin and Hobbes fan) And I met someone at the party that writes and was interested in me reading their work on the podcast.

I table hugged quietly (ate too many damn chips) for the three hours we were there. It was nice, there was some laughs. But with the weight gain I was on a bit of a downer and seeing a photo of myself the next day that the author posted on Facebook (my wife is still on Facebook), just made me ill and angry at myself from where I was a year ago.

Jess and I ended the evening by seeing The Summer of Soul at The Frank Banko Alehouse Cinema. It was an interesting documentary about the Black Woodstock, it was a shame to experience that film within a sea a aging white hippies. There was one black girl in the audience.

Food for Thought: My brother’s 56th…

Definitely an odd meal…My bro requested I make decadent appetizers so I made Spicy Dijon/Mayo and Smoked Paprika Eggs with Sweet Labanon Bologna Rollups filled with chopped sun-dried tomatoes and onion and chive cream cheese. He also requested two bottles of wine. For dinner we had lame Latin fusion food delivered from this joint called Rice and Beans. A step above taco bell but nothing to praise that’s for sure, followed by a moist yellow cake made with Greek yogurt instead of butter and butterscotch fluff icing with sprinkles made by my wife.

It was a good evening ending on watching one of my childhood favorite vampire flicks. My brother-in-law thought the film was hilarious, normally I have issues when people make fun of flicks but hey the four of us had a great evening that’s all that counts. This was the first time in quite a few decades that we celebrated my brother’s birthday.


eggs and rollups, veggie burrito bowl, cake