Posts Tagged ‘nonsense’
by UncouthGourmands on May 19, 2010
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Gastrological Astrology
By: Your High Priestess, Nadia Noir
Week beginning May 19th aka DoubleDEntendre
“You look good baby, must taste heavenly/ I’m pretty sure that you got your own recipe/ so pick it up, pick it up, yeah, I like you/ I just can’t get enough I gotta drive through.” –“Carry Out”, Timbaland (featuring Justin Timberlake)
This week is brought to you by Top 40’s pop. Each of the signs is going to get a Top 40s pop song assigned to them based on what the universe wants them to pay attention to. The stars have decided that they’ve had enough of this serious (read: boring) “amuse-buche/five course meal with wine pairing/digestif” bullshit. Mercury is out of retrograde, Mars is in the North …
by josie on May 17, 2010
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I think I can safely say that on occasion, life really hits you over the head with a large blunt object. I’ve been completely enveloped by, what seems like, an insurmountable amount of problems over the past few weeks. I’ve been lucky and, at present, I can’t believe I’m still standing. My aunt actually asked me today if I was all right; my answer was a weepy but simple, “I don’t know.” A more meaningful question might have been: “How do you know if it’s NOT all right?”
After spending 8 years with someone and then having it be over, I can’t help but feel like I spent the past year and a half of my life trying to make an …
by carina on May 13, 2010
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This was initially going to be a post about another one of The Minty’s awesome crawls. This was the Near Eastside Fish Taco Crawl. On this sunny afternoon in April, more than 10 of us were in the Silverlake area trying 5 different varieties of fish tacos in search of the best. I can tell you about each place and show you pictures of their tacos, but there is one fish taco that more than stole the show and that is Ricky’s. So this time around, we will skip to the good stuff and ignore the rest. First though, on a side note from fish tacos, I have an idea that I really want to catch on and I think …
by josie on May 12, 2010
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If you haven’t been to Simpang Asia, you really haven’t lived! It’s recently remodeled and super adorable. When I walked in I thought to myself, “This is a total Carina place.” Why? It’s cutesy, Asian, and orange! Carina had been to Simpang once before with our adorable LA city tour guide, Minty.
These past few few weeks have been an incredible roller-coaster. I feel so lucky to have had a ton of support and great friends. My boyfriend without benefits knew just what I needed – A good bowl of soup! Good friends always know what you need – Often times before you even do!
In addition to the restaurant, Simpang also has an Asian grocery store. Walking into Simpang I felt …
by UncouthGourmands on May 10, 2010
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By: Your High Priestess, Nadia Noir
Week beginning May 10th aka DoubleDEntendre
‘If you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don’t be surprised at what inappropriate port you will find yourself docked.’ – Tom Robbins, Jitterbug Perfume
I preface this horoscope with that quote for two reasons: 1) I am feeling really luxuriously scandalously lazy and almost any worldly insight I have was already written 10-20 years ago by one of my favorite authors, Tom Robbins; 2) Because with the Sun in Taurus (sensuality) and the Full Moon in Scorpio (sex, sex, sex,yay, sex) all of us …
by josie on May 7, 2010
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Edward, our new boyfriend without benefits, invited us to check out his friend’s pizza joint, Lucifer’s, in Los Feliz. Edward has this incredible energy about him. When he lets you in on something he loves, he not only sells it to you with a hush whisper (akin to if you were being let in on a scandalous secret), but he also has these wild facial expressions that leave you in intrigue and want for what he is so eloquently speaking of. So when he told us about Lucifer’s famous chicken pesto pizza with cashews, I was eager to tickle my palate. Anyone listening in on his passionate description would’ve thought he was detailing an old flame. Needless to say, I …
by UncouthGourmands on April 28, 2010
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By: Nadia Noir aka DoubleDEntendre
Biologically and chemically, most men are attracted to luscious curves, voracious fertile appetites, and a keen intellect that ensures the survival of their progeny i.e. the future sperm donors of their lineage. Biologically and chemically, most women are attracted to…chocolate. Horrible cruel and unusual studies that require women to choose between their love of sex and their love of chocolate demonstrate that more than 50% of women actually prefer chocolate over sex. This may mean that somehow scientists need to genetically mutate the male genes to create the perfect man who can both perform reliably in bed AND have detachable limbs made out of fine Amedei Tuscan chocolate. While this option might eventually be necessary for …
by carina on April 24, 2010
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Last year, I attended the 1st 7th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational and I had an absolute blast. There was no doubt that I would attend this year’s festivities. The last time around was also the first time our friend Arun and I really got to hang out and know each other. Arun is the so-called Mayor of Downtown and is a vegetarian that gets such joy from bread, butter, and cheese. He had secured himself as my date months ago and despite a new woman in his life, I was still kept as his official date. I arrived 15 minutes before the event started and the line was already quite long. We walked into the Los Angeles Studios and it …
by carina on April 23, 2010
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The UG Girls can be described as many things but one of our favorite classifications is single. There ain’t no man holding us down, well, if they are it isn’t in a bad way. Unfortunately, it has been a while since that has happened, or as Josie has said, “I am a born again virgin.” Anyway, we knew we had to attend the Sexy Singles Soiree hosted by our two favorite bloggers and Tweetettes: The Minty and Vixen.
Since Josie and I are not the only Single Ladies in the office (you just did the Beyonce finger move, didn’t you?) we brought in our PR and Accounting interns, Lea and Maria. We were also reunited with our first intern ever, Young …
by carina on April 18, 2010
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Photo Credit to RalphAndJenny on Flickr
If you are like me, then you love Fail Blog and it brings you great joy to add new things on Twitter with the hashtag #awesometypos. When these things are food related I often say the phrase “uncouth gourmand” in my head. However, there are certain thing that are beyond a fail and beyond uncouth…they are just wrong.
In a new cookbook entitled, Pasta Bible, under the recipe for Spelt Tagliatelle with Sardines and Prosciutto one of the ingredients had a major typographical error. Was it a misprint on an unusual ingredient that is easily misspelled or confused? Nope, it was on the most common ingredient in cooking, the one that had been written correctly in …
