Under the Skin

Vegetable Salad I love salad. A lot. The downside? When there's only one of you, you'd have to eat nothing but salad every meal every day in order to warrant buying lettuce because it goes bad SO fast. I don't love salad that much. So, I concocted lettuce-less salad the other day. It's a keeper. Lettuce-less Salad! radishes celery cauliflower carrots a TINY bit of onion (because it's a dominant flavor) a bit of olive oil a tad of vinegar (I used balsamic, because I borrowed it from my roommate and that's what she had) salt black pepper Chop it up and go. I'm feeling that a little cucumber would really make this, but I don't have any. So, yeah. It's quite good.

Film Mojo for this Valentine's Day named the nine best screen kisses ever. Hulu editors named the best TV kiss moments of recent tv and made a film playlist of it. And people vote all the time. I indulge the Valentine's Day romance. I believe in romance, contrary to popular belief, but I just think it has its place. And one of its places is in film entertainment. What are the best? The worst? I was given the option of writing an article for this, so I thought I'd take on the endeavor. These were my opinions, not necessarily what I wrote in my article, because some of them aren't the Hollywood classic ones, but my favorites. Before I name the 21 best in my opinion (21 because I like numbers that are divisible by three), I think we need a rubric so to speak. A sidenote though. This is not on the rubric, but after reviewing some lists to inspire mine, I set the standard: heterosexual kisses ONLY. It is just a pre-req to be even considered by the rubric First: ...

So, this is just something that I've started doing recently. Ever since I was a small child, I have hated oatmeal. I used to think it was the taste. But this week, I bought some raw oats for an apple crisp I was making. I just ate some dry, raw oats when I was making the apple crisp, and then I found that I LOVE THEM! It was just the mushy porridge-y thing I hated. Now, I eat them raw. With a spoon. A few drops of milk add a bit of sweetness. Yeah. The internet says there's nothing dietarily wrong with it. I don't know if that's true, but that's my new thing. However, this does not come as that big of a surprise for me. Because I don't have a very strong sense of smell, my sense of taste is kind of basic. Sweet, sour, salty, bitter and umami. Those are my tastes...all other nuances are pretty lost when it comes down to it. So, I've noticed that a lot of my likes and dislikes are based solely on texture. It's just another one.