When I’m not drawing pictures or drinking beer, I also like to cook. This past weekend I threw a dinner party; here are some pics of the grub:
Cucumber Salad Canapes with a Spicy Lime Vinaigrette. Served with Serrano Cocktail from Imbibe Magazine
Chilled Tomato and Watermelon Soup with Key Lime Granita and Cilantro Garnish
Mango Jerk Seitan with Truffled Golden Beet Slaw
Barbados Black Bean Cakes with Mango Salsa
Key Lime Tart with White Chocolate Mousse and Mango Sauce
In case you want to make any of these tantalizing treats on your own:
The canapes were a variation on Andrea Meyers Cucumber Salad. My only change was that I put everything in the salad but cucumber. Then I cut my cucumbers into 1 inch rounds and scooped out some of the seeds to create little cups for my salad.
The black bean cake and salsa recipes came from the Vegetarian Times cookbook. The seitan and slaw recipes came from the two cookbooks put out by Horizons. The soup and dessert were from the Millennium cookbook.
I actually did not have much luck with Millennium’s mousse recipe. I made it once before and it came out okay, but this last batch was a disaster. Luckily my girl saved the day and made some fantastic mousse using some white chocolate chips and whipping cream. She sort of followed this recipe.
I guess being so fuzzy and cute comes with the drawback of having static electricity as your arch nemesis. I know my fuzzy friends are not looking forward to winter. They get a big zap every time they try to get a head rub. Then they usually stare at me accusingly, as if I’m the static master.
Some nights are just rougher than others. Sometimes you’re grabbing a pint at your favorite local pub, and others you’re tearing up the town hitting every hot spot in the city. The latter situation is usually the kind of night that leads to waking up the next morning with a pounding headache and you wondering where the heck you left your Visa check card. Two headaches for the price of one!
Thank goodness modern technology has stepped in to solve this problem. With the new TabbedOut ap, you can open and close your tab right from your phone. Convenient!
This spectacularly handy ap is only working in a few cities at the moment, but once they’ve got it hooked up in Charm City, I’m definitely sold.
I finally got around to getting some new art online. Apologies for the lack of new designs, it’s been a busy summer. Below are the newest creations. I hope you dig them:
In other Ex-Boyfriend’ish news, Fall is coming! To keep you warm and stylish I’m looking into ordering some long sleeved tees. For the guys, I’m looking at American Apparel’s 4.3 oz cotton long sleeve jersey. For the ladies, I’m look at Bella’s 3.5 oz cotton long sleeve crew neck jersey. Both are fairly light weight cotton and nice for layering. Let me know what your interest level is like and if I get some good feedback I’ll make these available. If you know of some better blank or have other comments, let me know below, or just reply to the poll below.
In the meantime, here’s what the blanks I’m considering look like:
There’s a lot of disappointment inherent in living in the modern age, or as I like to call it, “the era when all the lies our parents told us about the future come home to roost”.
I like to think of myself as a futurist. Well, not a futurist per se, but a fan of futurism. I like to think that eventually we will get all those wonderful toys Q dreamed up for James Bond, the gadgets at the beck and call of The Avengers, the Justice League, Starfleet, and the Rebel Alliance. Futurists are the people that actualize all that sci-fi goodness.
I had dinner last night with my cousin and a friend of his who, when asked about his job, replied “Well, I predict the future.”
What the what?! Who talks like that? Better yet, why can’t I talk like that?
But it got me thinking about the never-ending wish list my wife and I have containing all the fantastical future-tech that Science has as of yet not provided. And how maybe it’s time that Science stop wasting my time and money detailing the differences between shaken and stirred martinis and confirming that yes, we as a society treat attractive people better than unattractive ones. We have real crises at hand here, Science! Namely, AIDS, cancer, and where’s my f-ing hoverboard?!
10. An effective cure for baldness that also cures excessive and unsightly body hair.
9. A pill that gives you six-pack abs that you can wash down with a six-pack of beer while sitting on the couch.
8. A cure for getting old.
7. Hoverboards
6. Flying cars
5. Jetpacks (or some sort of hydrogen fuel cell/mag-lev alternative)
4. Laser guns
3. Androids/robots that are more or less indistinguishable from people.
2. Time travel
1. Teleportation
You’re on notice, Science. Get to work!
What about it, you guys? What’s missing from our list?
(Thanks to Jarrett C. for his invaluable help in compiling such an epically awesome list!)
It was impossible to decide on how this clip should be classified—Thirsty Thursday, or Fuzzy Friday? You know, a philosophical conundrum for the ages. The kind of unanswerable question that would have prompted Socrates to fill up Uncle Scrooge’s money bin with hemlock and swim around in it.
Cue the “awws”! The photo below was captured during a pipeline explosion in Nanjing, China, which killed 13 people and injured 300. What you see is a monkey saving a small puppy from the explosion by carrying him to safety. So cute! Just one more reason to love critters.
Well, this is simultaneously depressing and awe-inspiring. Lester Hutt of BevShots had the brilliant idea of creating photographic prints of booze droplets as they appear when magnified 10,000x. The resulting abstract masterpieces are enough to make any creative type want to curl up in the fetal position, lick the booze right off the slides and cry, because honestly — how can we possibly compete with nature?
Even the most infrequent visitor to my online store (and this blog) knows that Iheartzombies. In fact, I’m in the midst of reading S.G. Browne’s Breathers: A Zombie’s Lament, a fantastic novel narrated in first person by a zombie.
So of course, as soon as I found out about the wonderful new service provided by My Zombie Insurance, I just had to spread the word. I think we can all safely say that were pretty in-the-dark about how much property damage is attributable to zombies over the course of a given year. One could be forgiven for even going so far as to call us… brainless.
Also, big up’s for that killer (pun not initially intended, but it works, so it’s now retroactively intended) slogan: Zombies don’t care. We do.™ I don’t know about you guys, but I am all over this. Like zombies on brains.
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