Dreaming Paris

but I came across a link to this blog called Cake Wrecks . Truly some wrecks there.

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Copying from Miz UV

1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

My own twist-since I’m now vegetarian, just take it for granted that I wouldn’t eat any meat, but I’m not crossing it out unless it’s a meat that I wouldn’t have eaten even when I did eat it.

1. Venison (and squirrel)
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp (not absolutely certain)
9. Borscht
10. Baba ghanoush
11. Calamari
12. Pho
13. PB&J sandwich
14. Aloo gobi
15. Hot dog from a street cart
16. Epoisses
17. Black truffle
18. Fruit wine made from something other than grapes (I like these better than grape wine, actually)
19. Steamed pork buns
20. Pistachio ice cream
21. Heirloom tomatoes
22. Fresh wild berries
23. Foie gras
24. Rice and beans
25. Brawn, or head cheese
26. Raw Scotch Bonnet pepper
27. Dulce de leche
28. Oysters (but only fried. I’d never eat these raw. blech.)
29. Baklava
30. Bagna cauda
31. Wasabi peas
32. Clam chowder in a sourdough bowl
33. Salted lassi
34. Sauerkraut (with bratwurst, of course, and now I find fake bratwurst to cook w/it)
35. Root beer float
36. Cognac with a fat cigar
37. Clotted cream tea
38. Vodka jelly/Jell-O
39. Gumbo
40. Oxtail (but only in soup)
41. Curried goat
42. Whole insects
43. Phaal (I love curry, but in moderation)
44. Goat’s milk
45. Malt whisky from a bottle worth £60/$120 or more
46. Fugu
47. Chicken tikka masala
48. Eel
49. Krispy Kreme original glazed doughnut (I love Krispy Kreme doughnuts)
50. Sea urchin
51. Prickly pear
52. Umeboshi
53. Abalone
54. Paneer
55. McDonald’s Big Mac Meal
56. Spaetzle (Yummmy!)
57. Dirty gin martini
58. Beer above 8% ABV
59. Poutine (highly unlikely that I would ever want to eat it, but it’s not in the would NEVER eat category)
60. Carob chips
61. S’mores
62. Sweetbreads
63. Kaolin (I don’t eat rocks and dirt, thank you. There must be some mistake on this one.)
64. Currywurst
65. Durian
66. Frogs’ legs
67. Beignets, churros, elephant ears or funnel cake (I love deep fried pastry w/conf. sugar)
68. Haggis
69. Fried plantain (meh)
70. Chitterlings, or andouillette
71. Gazpacho
72. Caviar and blini
73. Louche absinthe
74. Gjetost, or brunost
75. Roadkill
76. Baijiu
77. Hostess Fruit Pie
78. Snail
79. Lapsang souchong
80. Bellini
81. Tom yum
82. Eggs Benedict
83. Pocky
84. Tasting menu at a three-Michelin-star restaurant (only because I have no idea what this means)
85. Kobe beef
86. Hare
87. Goulash
88. Flowers
89. Horse
90. Criollo chocolate
91. Spam
92. Soft shell crab (the only crab I can stomach is deviled crab)
93. Rose harissa
94. Catfish
95. Mole poblano
96. Bagel and lox
97. Lobster Thermidor (I feel about lobster the way I do about crab)
98. Polenta
99. Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee
100. Snake

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found at Sour Grapes.

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I figured out a way around the picture problem. Of course, I can’t use the picture uploader that comes w/Wordpress, but oh, well. Everything else seems to working fine, and though they’ve gone backwards in some respects, it’s still a decent blogging program. People are complaining, so I imagine they’ll iron things out in the next build.

Yeah, so the map looks good now, and not like how I described it in my last post.

Anyway, I have exhausted myself in updating everything that I can update on my blog. The only thing I haven’t done is create the template that I really want, but that’s for another time and place. This one’s working fine, and I like the clean look of it.

So, you’ll notice some new plugins over there to the side, and a bit of rearranging. After an exhaustive search on what’s available these days, I made my choices. And I even created a nifty little player so I can listen to my favorite songs. And you can, too! I can’t promise you’ll like them, though. Check out myfabrik.com. Really cool! You can use it for any kind of media that you want to show off (pics, movies, music, etc.), and they host the files. I had to tweak the code, though, so the player would fit in my sidebar. I thought it might produce horrendous results, but it came out quite nice.

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you might like it again if you use twitterfox. That is, if you use Firefox as your browser. You can just click on the twitter icon and everything comes up. You can add twitters as you go. You don’t even need to go to the twitter site. From the look of things, I’d bet Towse uses it.

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found at sour grapes

The only reason I scored as high as I did in science/math is because I work in a Tutoring Center that gives away the periodic table on cards, has a graphing calculator attached to every table, and I’ve listened to numerous math and science sessions and typed up the comments on them using math and science symbols. But do I know how to use any of that information? Heck, no.

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Go see it. It’s a keeper. Romance, action, humor, all well mixed with an entertaining story. Definitely a fluff piece, but an enjoyable fluff piece. Except for the Ukrainian side kick who couldn’t hold on to his accent and sometimes swallowed his words, making it hard to understand what he was saying.

When I first saw a movie with Matthew McConaughey, I wasn’t sure I liked him because of his southern accent, but he grew on me, and now I think he’s a cutie. Okay, so he was always a cutie physically, but even though I live in the south, southern accents aren’t my favorite.

I’ve always loved Kate Hudson, just as I love her mother.

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You Are a Strawberry

You are friendly, outgoing, and well liked by many people. You are popular, but there’s nothing ordinary or average about you.You a very interesting person, and you have many facets to your personality. Sometimes you feel very conflicted. Your different sides of your personality pull at you. You are a very sensual and passionate person. You are fiery… you can’t help it. In general, you keep your passionate side under wraps. You are only wild in private.

What Type of Fruit Are You?

snatched from Miz UV.

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