Triple Threat: Three of my Favorite things at the same time.....its a good thing

Amy Sedaris was on Martha Stewart's Talk Show and shared her recipe for Lil' Smokie Cheeseballs from her book "I like You" (which is gonna be my next book purchase for sure....long over due).



Here's the video from Martha, and the full recipe.

Lil' Smoky Cheese Ball

2 cups shredded smoked Gouda cheese, room temperature
2 packages (8 ounces each) cream cheese, room temperature
1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, room temperature
2 tablespoons milk
2 teaspoons steak sauce
1 cup toasted chopped walnuts or pecans
Crackers, for serving

Place Gouda, cream cheese, butter, milk and steak sauce in the bowl of an electric mixer fitted with a paddle attachment. Mix until well combined. Transfer mixture to refrigerator. Let chill overnight. Roll cheese mixture into a ball. Place nuts in a shallow dish. Roll cheese in nuts to fully coat. Serve with crackers.

I want you inside me

I love Döner

and that's this little guys name....i want him!

Taco Bell- Bacon and Snakes?

There are eight items on Taco Bell's new breakfast menu including a guacamole bacon grilled burrito, a sausage and bacon grilled burrito, a bacon and egg taco, Cinnamon Toastadas, and Bell breakfast potatoes.

"You can get a bagel or croissant and egg sandwich anywhere - our menu is unique and differentiated," said Toledo franchisee Don Unruh. "We got Grilled Stuft Burritos, breakfast Crunchwraps and Cinnamon Toastadas."


Pranksters at a Texas Taco Bell had drive-thru employee Bryant Simmons running for the border when they threw a 3-foot long Python at him through the drive-thru window.Simmons has a fear of snakes and this one hit him smack in the chest. But a spokesman for the Taco Bell in Round Rock, Texas said Simmons was physically unharmed, just really shaken up.

I called it! This IS one of the best bacon cheeseburgers I have ever had...hands down!

Fast Food News is reporting today that Wendy’s Baconator has proven to be a big success, selling 25 million burgers since it debuted in July

Wendy’s Chief Executive Officer and President Kerrii Anderson describes the Baconator as:
“One of the most successful new product introductions we’ve had in some time.”

In case you are wondering.... Here's the nutrition facts for just 1 Baconator: 830 calories, 460 calories from fat, 51 grams of fat, 22 grams saturated fat, 2.5 grams trans fat, 170 mg cholesterol, 1920 mg sodium, 35 grams carbs, 1 gram fiber, 8 grams sugar, 57 grams protein.

Be careful what you ask for...

I received an email in which someone asked "If anyone knew of a place that has very formal ball gowns" and that any recommendations would be greatly appreciated...Welp....besides Sears, I don't have a specific store in mind but I do have some style suggestions:

What you should be watching at 10 pm tonight

Grab some bourban and some cigarettes....trust me.....you will need em

Oh Heidi Heidi Heidi Heidi

http://youtube.com/watch?v=assiWFOy-Lg

KC Update of the day- she leaves me speechless

Amazing as always:

UPDATES FOR MY GIRLS WHO ARE RIDING ON OUR FLOAT!
PINK MAMMOTH LOVE FEST 2007!!!!!we are setting up, and building the float tommorrow...if you are not working and you wanna help call me and i will let you know where to meet us..4pm looks like the time we will start..if you are coming down to be a part of pink mammoth please wear pink from head to toe.the more pink the better.. the more ridiculously pink the better..and you can never wear to little clothes...or to many pink accessories...hahaalot of people dress in feathers, fur, sequins, and all that jazz..so BANANA REPUBLIC WILL NOT WORK......the meeting time for us all who want to be a part of the pink mammoth float is 10:30if you can make it to my house by ten am then meet us at pier 70, you can park your car there till midnight, so if you are driving from outta town thats perfect...if you have any questions call my celland i look forward to spreading the pink love all over the love fest..he heheheyeah..the count down begins....

Hopefully she will approve of what i have picked out. Fingers crossed!

Sounds like a cream dream

Here is a review of Roundtable's PRIMO SUPREMO PEPPERONI PIZZA which I will be ordering on Saturday. I thought I was excited before...but after reading this, Saturday couldn't get here any faster!! I will post my review after we try it. I have high hopes. Roundtable has never failed me in the past. Although, unlike the dude who posted this review, I highly doubt we will have any leftovers......

"I will tell you right now, this pizza embodies everything that is wrong with western culture.

The pizza is double stacked. Double cheese and double pepperoni with pepperoni sprinkles, red onions, tomatoes, and Parmesan cheese on it. The crust is made up of those round table garlic twists, but instead of just being cheese and garlic, they also add copious amounts of chopped pepperoni and ranch dressing.

I ate one slice and was done. It was way too epic, way to much. It'll sit in the fridge at work and maybe I'll eat a slice tomorrow for lunch and cry myself to sleep in my office."

Holy Crap! I was reminded of why Halloween is so Spoooooktaclur

So I am gonna let you in on a little secret…… Sometimes when I am really craving something sweet, I will go to ice cream places and ask for a “sample”. Now, I always ask to “sample” a flavor that I already know I love but I pretend that I have never tried it before. Usually it tends to be Bubble Gum (IF I am that lucky) or something with Peanut Butter Cups or if I am at Baskin Robbins, it is always Daiquiri Ice and at Rite Aid (fka Thrifty’s) its always Chocolate Malted Crunch and Butter Pecan….. So I get my sample on those little spoons and I pretend to be trying that flavor for the first time…I usually make comments like” Oh…ummm…huh….that’s pretty good….but can I try ….” Then after I have “tried” all of my favorite flavors I make a face like I am not that impressed with the ice cream (although deep down inside I am super stoked) and then go, “Okay…thanks but I think I am good” and walk away.

So when I went to go buy a Diet Rockstar a few mins ago….this scenario just happened. Its not my fault the Longs has a Dryers Ice Cream inside of it. So normally at this Longs I “sample” BG (bubble gum…they have the blue kind….ca-ching!!) Yeah…I have done this here before and the person who helped me could barely see over the counter so when he had to scoop my sample he had to reach really far and I felt really bad because I knew I had no intention of ever buying a scoop. But today they didn’t have Bubble Gum but they did have “Birthday Cake” and “Pumpkin”!!!! So I asked for a sample of both (did my whole little spiel) and the girl put the flavors on one little spoon. I was like “oh wait…don’t mix them.” And she said “I don’t have any more spoons this is my last one.” …um... chickie babe…I can see the whole box full of spoons that you just pulled that out of…..The Birthday Cake was actually really good. Didn’t taste like bday cake but it was yummy. But today, it was all about the Pumpkin.

This brings me to why I love Halloween time. I basically love anything to do with Holidays and most of the seasonal products that go along with it. But Halloween in particular is so amazing due to the CANDY! I love Halloween candy. I love the Fun-Size candy bars- I love how everything is orange and black and I especially love when they make your favorite kinds of candy in “Halloween shapes” because you know what that means? That candy is FRESH!!! You are guaranteed that the pumpkin shaped Reese’s is fresh since they only make it one time a year (compared to normal ones…who knows when those were made)….So here is listing of RAD Halloween Candy I just saw in one visit to the Grocery Store:

Peppermint Patty Bats
Peppermint Patty Pumpkins with orange filling
Reese’s Pumpkins
M&Ms in black and orange with pumpkin faces on them
Candy Corn (dont try the Hershey Kiss Candy Corn...super nasty...and I like most things that resemble candy corn)
Those little Pumpkins that are made out of the same stuff that candy corn is made of
Cotton Candy Spider webs
Carmel Apple Suckers
Mixed bags of candy with multiple verities (for example….one bag with a mix of Reese's, junior mints, kit Kat….are you kidding me?)

Put your hands up in the air if you are excited about the new season of the Office starting tonight

Hey Yo!

Best Quote from last night's Top Chef and a sample of why I love Tony Bourdain

"How did you maded it?" -Eric Ripert of Le Bernardin (guest judge) when asking Hung what went into his elk dish.







From Tony's Bravo blog on last night's Rodeo Episode:

"Back at the ranch -- with the country's premier seafood chef in attendance -- it was time to cook up a whole mess a' elk for some rodeo dudes. Why, exactly? I don't know. Is the rodeo a major sponsor? I doubt it. While former rodeo clowns constitute a major part of MY show's demographic (they like to watch on satellite from their meth labs), I don't really know what they were doing in the semi-finals of a cooking competition. It was confusing. Not just to me -- but to the contestants. Were these REAL cowboys? Or post-ironic cowboys? Dale and Hung seemed particularly baffled; Dale not sure if they'd show up in ass-less chaps demanding Bellinis -- and Hung simply deciding to cook for the judges. Casey, a Texan, appeared comfortable and in her element, while Brian embraced the beast in its entirety, putting on his suspiciously-at-hand cowboy hat (what did he have THAT along for -- all season?), startin' a campfire of burning sage and morphing seamlessly into Walter Brennan.

I don't know on what range cowboys get frequent hankerin's for Gorgonzola -- but I'll leave that till later.I'm sorry to fixate on this -- but in my long experience of travels and frequent book tours, REAL cowboys these days are more likely to be found eating at Chili's or Cinnabon than gnawing on elk jerky. But what do I know about the mysterious ways of television?" -Tony Bourdain

Hey There Little Buddy

I was just complaining about there being nothing good to blog about... (I am waiting to read Tony Bourdain's blog on last night's episode of Top Chef before I write what I thought of the episode) and then I came across this......

let me introduce you to Abby.... the new freakin baby otter at Sea World!! I have lived in San Diego off and on for years and never had any desire to go to Sea World....I think it's pretty cruel to have sea animals in captivity when the real ocean is like five feet away...anyhoo...I digress.... But now that this little bundle of joy has arrived, I think I may have to go to Sea World and pay the two million dollar admission fee just to see this lil baby.

I really no longer have any reason to be sad that I don't live in the bay area and therefore cant go to the Otter Exhibit at the Monterrey Bay Aquarium (although I still check their live otter cam pretty often... dont' ask....)

If I had a theme song..............

Long Overdue

Stay Fresh Reclosable Tray.........

Good Idea....yet those of you who don't finish an entire package of Bacon at one sitting don't deserve to eat it

So after a run and some Yoga

This is what I will be watching tonight. I want Casey to win and I really hate Hung...no scratch that....I kinda want to kick him in the face. I will for sure have something to say about the show tomorrow...it will in no way be even half as good as Bourdain's TC blog....but I will give it a go..

My Future Best Friend

As many of you know, I recently purchased BaconSalt.

So has this dude... He has his own blog: I heartbacon something......where he blogs about all the various foods he has tried Bacon Salt on...below are some of my favorites.....this duder needs to be my new best friend..for reals....almost scary.

Reeces Peanut Butter Cups with BaconSalt
September 14th, 2007
I tested a few products with a friend’s bottle of BaconSalt. The first thing to come to mind was BaconSalt Reces Peanut Butter Cups. I purchased a king size package and sprinkled about a half teaspoon of BaconSalt on each one. I had never tasted BaconSalt before, so I just closed my eyes and ate the whole thing in one bite! Angels began to sing and light shone from the heavens. If only I had used one of the new Elvis-themed peanut-butter-banana Reeces cups, it would have been even better. It was the greatest food expernce I’ve had since chicken-fried bacon!
I also talked a few coworkers into testing this new food creation. Hopefully they will comment below. I will post pictures as soon as possible.

Addicted to Bacon Salt?
September 25th, 2007
Could it be possible? Are your kids passing around baggies of BaconSalt to make their cafeteria food less crappy? I just realized tonight that I’ve totally ignored all the web RPG games I play at night to relax because of BaconSalt. Lots of people forget about their personal lives for EverQuest or World of Warcraft, but for BaconSalt? Hell yeah! I’m watching a Travel Network TV show about chopped beef sandwiches, and all I can think about is how awesome it’d be with BaconSalt.

Your Inbox will Thank Me

So if I happen to have your email address and there is a slight chance that you like either:

a. bacon

2. pizza

c. beer

d. weird shit that I find funny from doing Google Image Searches

e. baby animals

f. all of the above

Then you have probably received like a butt load of emails me. So to save you time from digging thru your inbox, sorting through all of your emails and deciding which ones from me are actually about something important, I decided to start a blog......... here is the email exchange between me and my sister that started this ball rolling:

From: Megan

To: Courtney

you should have a blog with all the rad shit you find instead of emailing it you canpost it.i bet it'd be amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


From: Courtney

To: Megan

totally...i should how do you set one up? is it easy to post?


From: Courtney

To: Megan

http://Midirecvd.blogspot.com



From: Megan
To: Courtney

Subject: my blog is killing me and i havent even posted anything

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

we need to get you a background image or something (for behind the text.) want me to do your layout? or tell me what you want and I can make it look cool?

From: Courtney
To: Megan

remember how I told you that there is always a kid here...someone from office services daughter? ....she is like 9

she is sitting in the kitchen sticking her finger under the HOT water from the water fountain thing.....going AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

From: Megan
To: Courtney

wwwwwwwwwwwwwwow

From: Courtney
To: Megan

she is sitting in a rolling chair with her sweatshirt over her head i couldnt even make this shit up

From: Megan
To: Courtney

this is blog materialand KC updates all of it!!!!!!!!!

From: Courtney
To: Megan

i cant have that be my first posting or can I

From: Megan
To: Courtney

it's your world!


From: Courtney
To: Megan

you mean...its my blogosphere!


From: Megan
To: Courtney

it has begun

SOOOOOOOOOO Game on!