Quote of the Week 2/14/12

Greetings love birds, and single minglers alike. It is Valentine's Day again, the holiday everyone loves to hate. I think I'm dating the only boy in the history of existence who actually enjoys Valentine's Day. I wish I could get as pumped up about it as he is. Old habits die hard, I suppose (I am the girl who spent Valentine's Day 2010 making a Red Velvet cake in the shape of a heart, iced with black frosting, so the black heart would look like it was bleeding when we cut slices of it to eat. I am not a V-Day kind of girl). So instead of posting a quote from Liz Lemon about today being Anna Howard Shaw day, I'm going to at least try and make the most of it by highlighting the only part of Valentine's Day I ever actually enjoy--the food.

All you really need is love, but a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt.
--Charles Schultz

You can really learn a lot from Peanuts.

Quote of the Week 2/5/12

In honor of the big game, Super Bowl XLVI, this week's food quote is being published on Sunday. This is partly because it's a holiday, and I enjoy highlighting holidays in my blog posts, and partly (or mostly) because I know I'm going to be too busy recovering from tonight's festivities to try and write anything of substance tomorrow. Kathleen and I are throwing a party for the Super Bowl because she's a die-hard Patriots fan, and I like to eat and drink in the company of friends. I'm in charge of the food (I know, shocker, right?) and she's in charge of the alcohol. We make a pretty good team, and I'm pretty excited about it. New Year's Resolutions, Shmoo Years Revolutions. It's the Super Bowl! America's holiday! The whole point is to eat and drink and scream at the TV.... although now that I think about it, that pretty much describes every holiday we celebrate in the Gallimore household. So.

“When your Super Bowl guests arrive, they should find a mound of potato chips large enough to conceal a pony sitting in front of the television. For nutritional balance, you should also put out a bowl of carrot sticks. If you have no carrot sticks, you can use pinecones, or used electrical fuses, because nobody will eat them anyway. This is no time for nutritional balance: This is the Super Bowl, for God's sake.”
--Dave Barry

Americans pretty much use any excuse to eat and drink too much. This is why I'm a patriot.