Wednesday, June 24, 2009

And Recipes, Too!

A flurry of emails between the divine Diane von Austinberg and me throughout the day (which I barely was able to squeeze in while working like a dog, slaving away, hardly able to look up from the grindstone, etc. etc. etc...) included the following from Diane:

speaking of food (as we so often do) here's my new favorite summer salad: corn, toasted walnuts, feta, olive oil, lime juice, with a little black pepper.

Doesn't that sound fabulous?

So now I've gone from Brazilian porn stars to Barbie dolls to recipes. To paraphrase Neil Patrick Harris:

This blog could not be gayer
if Liza was the mayor
and Elton John took flight.

6 comments:

  1. This blog could not be gayer
    if Liza was the mayor
    and Elton John took flight.


    Or if Paul Lynde and Charles Nelson Reilly made a posthumous appearance.

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  2. I channel them both regularly.

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  3. I might just have to make that tomorrow! Just uncooked corn kernels cut off the cob?

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  4. No, boil the whole ears first, then scrape the kernels off.

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  5. mmmmm.....me loves corn in salad and have to have the walnuts for a bit of crunch!

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  6. by the way, I finally made this salad....though I had to substitute pecans for the walnuts not on hand.

    Delicious!

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