Menu For Hope: Go 15k!
December 24th,
12 am, PST.
Hey you!
Yes, you!
See that deadline up there? The one just 32 or so hours away? That’s the deadline for this year’s Menu For Hope campaign. So… whaddya waiting for?
The food blogging community’s lined up some seriously cool gifts (including our own Belly Timber Island Insanity Package) to make this far more than just your every day fundraiser, and don’t forget — all of the donations go to Unicef and are specifically earmarked for Kashmir earthquake relief. So… if you haven’t had a chance to check out the gifts and donate… go! (Cracks whip!)
Ah, I wish we could be around to watch the total climb up to $15,000 (and I think it will), but alas, we’re on the road for two days, hauling our exhausted asses down Interstate 5 to visit relatives in Portland, and then hauling our exhausted asses back up here — bright and early on the 25th so Chopper can cook dinner at the restaurant for silly people who want to eat out on Christmas Day.
Who are these silly people, anyway?
Well, never mind them.
Oh, and about these holidays…
I finally figured out what’s bugging me so much about being around food bloggers during the holiday season.
It’s the dairy products. They’re everywhere. Puddings, cream-filled pastries, cheeses, egg nogs… no, no, please, not egg nogs!! Aaaaaauughhhh. It’s enough to make me want to throw my hands over my ears and sing lalalalalalalala I can’t hear you till January.
Seriously, you’re all wonderful people, I’m sure, but you’re killing me with these dairy products.
(Yes, the Holiday Season is the worst time of year for the lactose intolerant. In the summer, we’ve always got sorbet. Now? We just stare longingly at platter after platter of scrumptious, untouchable food and drown our sorrows in mulled wine.)
Mmmmm…. mulled wine….
So, just ‘cuz, here’s a gratuitous food photo of sushi. Neener, neener.
December 22nd, 2005 at 5:51 pm
Milk sushi! Mmm…
December 22nd, 2005 at 6:40 pm
Fiend!
December 22nd, 2005 at 6:41 pm
Mrs. D–
I hear you, baby. It’s gluten for me, but it’s the same process. It’s like the entire world is filled with baked goods filled with cream. Blah.
I did just make a tef flour banana bread that didn’t require any dairy. Wait, can you eat eggs?
December 23rd, 2005 at 8:17 pm
Found you on the food bloggers map I loosely coordinate…that is one GORGEOUS shot of sushi. But you can’t “neener, neener” me, as I live in Santa Cruz.
In fact, I’ll see your “neener, neener”—I can’t raise you.
I love your use of italics.
Hey, I’m making a dairy-free dish for our Christmas Eve seafood extravaganza: Shrimp Escabeche with Blood Orange Mojo.
Lovely photography, and for that, I thank you!
Happy holidays.
December 24th, 2005 at 2:11 pm
Mrs. D and Chopper, I wish you both a happy (and dairy-free) holiday season! Sorry to hear Chopper has to cook on Xmas day…”who are those people?” is a damn good question. Also, I look forward to reading more of your hysterical posts (and photos) in the new year. Til then, I’ll toast you with a glass of soy eggnog (yech! Is there such a thing?). Cheers!
December 26th, 2005 at 1:41 pm
Happy holidays to you, Mrs D. and Chooper Dave, and thanks for all the good reading you have given us this year.
December 28th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
Hey Shauna! Eggs are fine — it’s cow milk proteins that do me in, and I looooove a good banana bread!
Hey Tana, thanks! That shrimp escabeche looks great. I’m bookmarking it and sending it Chopper’s way.
Thanks, Brett! Turns out Christmas Day had forty two crazy people eating dinner at the restaurant. Not as nuts as the 80 or so for Thanksgiving, but still…! Soy egg nog… that sounds yech even to me. Tis why I stick to mulled wine. Or a nice bottle of Tuaca.
Thanks Gracianne! A happy holidays to you, too and thanks for hanging out around these parts!