Posts from ‘October, 2011’

Charity Chili

Take it from someone who uses recipes like a cane as she limps her way through the kitchen: you don’t need a recipe to make chili. It’s just a mishmosh of ingredients thrown into a pot and cooked down until the feeling’s right.
It’s meant to be flexible and unfussy. Sometimes I brown some beef, sometimes [...]

The Best Thing I Heard on the Subway Today

One guy to another guy: “You gotta make sure you make time for your girl during the week because if you don’t, come the weekend, she won’t be your girl no more.”
Preach it.

Things I lost in the move

My favorite necklace. It’s from my aunt and it’s two disks with my initials on a delicate silver chain. I may or may not have had a nightmare about it the other night in which my sister tried to replace it with this gaudy charm necklace thing and it was so wrong.
My dignity. Embarrassingly, I [...]