Category: Food

Cheez-its in my lab drawer!

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So since I have had at least one lab drawer to call my own, it has contained food in it. I tend to get a bit hangry (hungry/angry…) if I go too long without food and I also love eating so I have provided myself with tasty snacks for years now. Last year, my food drawer became very popular with my lab mates and people actually started bringing in food to repopulate all the food I (and they) ate! It was delicious. The food drawer tends to become a little candy heavy so last time we went out on a late night lab drawer food run (they totally happen… and they are totally cool… we went to Target at 9:30 on Saturday night… and it was awesome… moving on…), I grabbed a box of Cheez-its to go with our delicious candy choices. The Cheez-its were the best idea ever. They didn’t even last the week. I had to run to the store by our house and get more… and here they are… ready to make me happy whenever I go searching through my lab drawer for a snack (which is often)… We are moving our lab next month and I haven’t been able to check out the new desk areas for a suitable replacement lab food drawer… I hope it will work out…

What about you? Do you get hangry? Do you have a drawer of food by your desk at work? How about at home? For fellow CU readers, are you going to come by my desk to get a snack? Should I stock up? ;)

Tale as old as Time

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Cobalt and I saw Beauty and the Beast at the movie theater tonight. It was amazing, particularly because it has been over 10 years since I last saw it. With that movie and Cobalt and I working hard on planning our wedding, love has been on my mind a lot. Apparently love has also been on the mind of our insane Mayan Love Pepper plant which didn’t decide to sprout fruit until long after it started snowing outside. We’ve been dutifully taking care of it, letting it sit in the sun inside our warm house and putting it outside during any warm days. Cobalt even took it home over the holidays to make sure it was happy! Then yesterday, we noticed that one of its only two peppers had turned red, a sign that it is ripe. Just goes to show that you can always find love in the most unexpected of places, in the form of a beautiful girl falling in love with a hideous beast or even in the form of ripe heart shaped peppers in the middle of winter…

Tommy Toe

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Awwww! Baby tomato! The funny thing about this picture is that I took it a few weeks ago and now there is actually a baby tomato in the place of this flower (should have done some time lapse so you could see it morph into a tomato…)! Yay! Baby tomatoes… yum… I love summer. This year we planted lemon cucumbers, Mayan Love Peppers (google them, I can’t find a fun link), sugar snap peas, and strawberries. Then my friend Paul gave me this happy tomato plant and we got some fun herb plants (such as mint and basil and chives!). Wow!
I have to note that this is the first summer I have actually been successful at having a mini garden. I can’t wait for everything to grow up and make tasty fruit! Go plants, go! :D

Portrait: What kind of freak hot sauce did you just give me?

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This weekend I went to the Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show in Albuquerque, NM with Cobalt and his sister. Basically, people come from all over the country (and a few people came from outside of this country) to compete for the tastiest/spiciest hot and barbecue sauces. And then once the judging is over, the public is allowed to come and sample all the goodness/hopefully buy people’s products. Cobalt has gone many years in a row but this was my first time. I went as his personal photography assistant, photographing him eating various spicy foods and then his reactions (I also got to eat my fair share of spicy deliciousness…). This is by far my favorite of his reactions to some crazy hot sauce called the Green Flash. Yikes! Watch out! Apparently this one wasn’t even as hot as another one he tried from Jason’s Mom Hot Sauce which was so hot, it gave him the hiccups for the rest of the show. Geez… Intense. Poor Cobalt…

Cell Phone Picture: Don’t Forget the Shark Treats

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Today’s picture is a picture of my travel buddy Scrarmpl (pronounced Skrarm-pel). Scrarmpl and I have traveled to many states (I used to have an exact number but I forgot now) together. He’s pretty much a stuffed shark version of a traveling gnome basically. Once he even got his own seat on an airplane trip to Ohio (no one was sitting there… I didn’t buy an extra ticket…)! He thought that was pretty sweet. I hope some day I’ll be able to take him on an extra long plane ride to somewhere outside the country…
Anyway, yesterday, Scrarmpl and I were on a plane together again and this time, he really wanted to eat my complementary peanuts. I said no because I wanted to eat them. Luckily, I brought along some goldfish crackers for the trip so I gave him some of them. That actually sounds a bit better for him anyway seeing as he is a shark and all…
I hope you all have great weekends!

Whoa! Look at this, children!

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Today’s picture is a chance to show a funny picture I took of Cobalt and to advertise his wing blog a little. For the wing blog – he updates it about once or twice a week with ratings on different chicken wings served in Boulder as well as ratings of various hot sauces he’s encountered over the years.
As for the picture, Cobalt and I were eating at Wahoo’s Fish Tacos one day and he was reading The Onion while we waited for our food. We sat next to a windowsill that had a bunch of bottles of Tapatio hot sauces sitting on it. I thought it’d be cute if Cobalt read The Onion to them as if they were his children because… well… he really loves hot sauces. You can read his blog to find out more…

Guilty Cheese

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While Cobalt and I were in Oklahoma, we got to go to this delicious Italian deli. It was amazing! So many wonderful smells… Ahhh… salami… pepperoni… and oh, did I mention cheese? (Potassium’s note: SHE LOVES CHEESE)
Speaking of cheese, I was worried that these cheeses in my picture had done something wrong. Look how they are hanging there (and look how many more unoccupied nooses are waiting for more cheese convicts)! Yeesh! Luckily, Cobalt explained that these cheeses are actually caciocavera, a type of provolone cheese that needs to be aged before it gets eaten. So those cheeses are getting all ripe and delicious! Happy! And may I tell you that caciocavera is definitely a delicious cheese. I highly suggest that you try it if you can. :)