TheSnackHound

You know the old playground song “Found a Peanut,” don’t you? Just in case you want to get it firmly lodged somewhere in your cranial lobe, here is a sample of just some of the many, many verses** (**Of course, it goes on to talk about dying, to be told that its not your time, and then going back down to your body and then finding a peanut again.  Alas, the kids at our school were underachievers and never even got to the point about the doctor even entering on the scene.)

Found a peanut, found a peanut,
Found a peanut just now,
Just now I found a peanut,
Found a peanut just now.

Cracked it open, cracked it open,
Cracked it open just now,
Just now I cracked it open,
Cracked it open just now.

It was rotten, it was rotten,
It was rotten just now,
Just now it was rotten,
It was rotten just now.

Ate it anyway, ate it anyway,
Ate it anyway just now,
Just now I ate it anyway,
Ate it anyway just now

Well, I did find a peanut just now, too.  It is on a Caro-nan vintage basket purse.  As you can see, it is portrayed with exact realism and in exact proportions to the skyscrapers and quaint historical buildings of Savannah, Georgia.  Is the peanut smiling, or does he have enormous teeth that he/she/it refused to get braces for when it was just a mere bud on a peanut plant, if that is how indeed smiling peanuts start out.  it is much less scary than Mr. Peanut, if you have an irrational fear of monocles.

 If you would like to check this peanut out for yourself, this vintage purse is currently for sale on Etsy.  That is, if you hurry up before the peanut growers association of America finds him and takes him back to the lab where smiling peanuts have mutated and start to desire using canes and wearing top hats.

I spotted this skirt online recently, and it made my imagination run wild like things usually do. First I had a rather unpleasant flashback to when I was fourteen years old. I was completely mortified when my dad bought my little sister a Happy Meal.  That doesn’t seem so bad does it?  Well, some may argue that it was terrible because it was years before the “healthier options” at Mickey D’s and she was probably getting well filled with preservatives.  The really bad thing was that she ate it at PIZZA HUT!  That was the time frame when the Hut was still using red and white tablecloths, hence the tie in with my memory.

I tried to point out a sign that said “No Outside Food or Beverage,” but I could only find a sign about taking a fresh plate up to the salad bar.  Drat, not even the Law could help me.   Being a teenager is hard enough, but having your baby sister eat something from one restaurant at a completely different restaurant is the equivalent of being put in the stocks, 18th century style, in the town square, or dying right then and there.

Of course, there are much happier thoughts and memories.  Fashion wise it reminds me of the large scale flannel shirt I had in the late 80s.  I loved that shirt, except for some reason it was made to tie.  Why would you want your midriff showing in the fall and winter?  I have no clue.

I think that I should buy some of these and it should be my signature look for the whole theme of this blog.  However, I will have to stop wearing it when I get into the Cougar years of life.  I have a ways to go, so maybe the term will be thankfully gone by then.  I could be walking my dog in the park, and see some young men having a picnic.  I could lay on some really creepy pick up like like, “Hey boys, the picnic’s over here…”

Thankfully, I am in love with a great guy who is of an age corresponding to my own, and I really feel that when the time comes, I will bypass the whole Cougar experience because I don’t need to meet anyone.

This skirt is available at Talbots. Not sure if it is in their store, but it is online. I have a shirt that has a similar pattern. No, I would not wear them together. That would be a bit much.   I just was surfing around in my spare time and pretending I had won a shopping spree.   Actually, that is not quite true.  I didn’t have any spare time at all.  I am totally ADD and have way too much to do, but was distracted by bright objects.

In fact, I was very surprised it was from Talbot’s.  There was a freestanding store in Marblehead, Massachusetts, which is a very “old money” water side town in the Boston area.  Ever since I popped into that store, I always got the impression that the shop had classic clothing for sure, but it mostly appealed to the well heeled slightly older woman.   I really have been changing my tune lately.

Recently, they launched a campaign based on a cliffhanger video where a young woman confesses her unnamed indulgence in a church confessional. It was recently revealed that the woman’s red chair confessions were her new found addictions to Talbots. They have long seemed to be a fairly conservative company that took few risks, but they seem to be working on capturing a younger demographic. I am all for more young ladies wearing classic lines rather than doing the whole trollopy look. It took me a couple years to know that is how I looked.  That was when I thought “curve flattering” meant wearing something so tight you would have thought you were wearing a space bag.

Can you believe that the spike heeled boots are something they have there?  I would expect to see some sensible loafers and basic pumps, but they have me surprised here.  I am going to have to get out more often.  Oh, yeah, they have a website.  I am going to have to stay in more often.

Oh, what cute fabric! I love green, especially lime green, but I also like sushi. Sushi has lended itself to much artistic interpretation over the years. Just search “Cat Sushi” in the search box on my site, and you will see what I mean. I think this fabric would make cute cafe curtains. Maybe I should cut out the individual little sushi pieces and make magnets. But wait, let’s take a closer look…

Let’s see.  I guess it is not just a solid, honest piece of fabric.  These towels that are a special shape for hanging are great. I have seen them gathered or narrow in the middle, so when you loop it through your fridge handle, it doesn’t get all bunched up.   However, I have never seen them with elastic in the middle.  Maybe I am going to take yet ANOTHER closer look.

This must be one of those new cool pack covers that you can wrap an ice cream sandwich in. Sushi isn’t a frozen food, so why would they put sushi on it?

Oh…don’t tell me…I think I see what it is now. Don’t tell me that they put Sushi on a diaper.  Well, what goes in must come out, right? This is actually an offering from Cloth Couture Diapers.   I would call this style “Baby Sushi Butt,” but of course they have the more elegant “Sushi Sashimi” name.    It is sold out right now, but you can always order a Cherries and Rainbows or the ever popular Robot Butt theme.

I remember my friend’s mom wiping down the stove with my friend’s dad’s old underwear. This is cute enough for you wanting it to be seen outside of the diaper bag, but it’s too cute to get oven cleaner all over it for sure.  Well, why do diapers have to be ugly?  You have to wash them, so you an aesthetically pleasing pair may just outweight the non aesthetically business of babies.

Cloth Couture offers great giveaways and discount codes all the time, so if you have your own little Sushi Butt at home, you could just find yourself up to your diaper buckets in great freebies.  In fact, they do give you a free detergent sample with every order.  So you know THAT diaper you just ordered has a way to renew itself from its ordeal with Baby.

I just love everything Carolyn’s Kitchen has to offer. I blogged about a giveaway another blogger was having for the Cupcake Apron, but unfortunately, I didn’t win it.  It has been awhile since I browsed around the website, but I decided that I must thank Carolyn West, or whoever her website blurb writer is for the quote that speaks to my soul:

“So whether you’re a gourmet chef or can’t boil an egg, nobody will even notice when you’re wearing one of Carolyn’s hot and spicy apron sets.”

A-ha!  Light dawns on Marblehead, as they say in Boston.  This is exactly what I have been waiting for all of my adult life.  I am far from the master of the kitchen domain, but sometimes I think with the right shoes or the right tools, you can either fake your way through pretty good or just look pretty good doing it.  In fact, I may decide to spend hours dolling myself up to mentally prepare for making my next “ugly but tasty” cakes.

Imagine my glee when I got a special “flier” in my mailbox about the new Safari So Good collection.   The collection comes in zebra, as you can see here, and Wild Cat, which is a cheetah-like print.  Carolyn’s aprons are retro inspired, and many have the option of also owning matching gloves.  What is truly another cool added bonus, is that the gloves that are to be had at Carolyn’s are not merely just wallflowers, but are completely functional and ready to dive into the suds!  I have a photo of the “Rock and Roll” gloves before that I think would look wonderfully outrageous with the Safari apron.

Some say the pathway to a man’s heart is his stomach, and maybe by looking pretty foxy slinging that microwave dinner on the table, he will suddenly fall in love with you all over again as the gourmand that you deserve to be. Be careful, because depending on the individual dude you are dating or married to, maybe he will get so confused about your new ability that he will think that a body snatcher came in the middle of the night.

I believe that cooking is not strictly a woman’s domain, but since I am a woman, I can only concentrate on myself.  Maybe there will be a guy’s version of sexy BBQ aprons that come with a special hat that not only keeps the sun out of their eyes while flipping on the grill, but also has a mind altering data chip in them to reprogram them to put the toilet seat down.

Some of these aprons are just too cute and would make good shower gifts, or a mother’s day gift for the hip mom.  I know a hip, sassy gal that is getting married soon, so I think I may just see if the maid of honor thinks that this is up her alley.

Hustle on down to Carolyn’s and check them all out.  The link is right HERE.

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I noticed that between the original Iron Chef and Iron Chef America, Chef Morimoto started wearing eyeglasses in Kitchen Stadium.  It could be that his vision changed, or he was tired of wearing contacts.  I just think that the producers or the costumers didn’t think regular eyeglasses would befit the super hero-like, almost cosplay costumes the Iron Chefs wore.  They just weren’t shazam enough.

Now, Morimoto sports some specs that seem to me to be a modernized version of the authentic 1950s half horn rim like so:

 I am not sure whether all celebrity chefs have stylists, but most chef glasses have leaned to the more studious than tha shazam. Take Alton Brown.  His glasses are more Buddy Holly than Elton John.

I found a few candidates for the old Iron Chef show on the Zenni Optical website. The staff of the Clark Howard show ordered glasses from the site for one and all (but not for me because I don’t know them).  They seemed to be pretty satisfied with their $8.00 frames, so it got my mind on the subject.   These would have been slightly more apropriate, I think, with the outer spacey looking shapes.  I would have said the silver, of course, to match his Kitchen Stadium silver costume.

What do you think?  There are other choices aplenty, but colorwise, and because they were just a little bit different, it would be my selection if they were ever to change the concept of Iron Chef back into a costume pageant.

Our new friend over at Mom Most Traveled is giving away a ruffled vintage inspired cupcake apron by Carolyn’s Kitchen. Who would have thought full length, frilly, girlie aprons would come back in style, considering how unisex things are these days. Actually, I take that back. It really has never gone out of style, and women are demanding it.

Full length aprons are something I should start wearing again for two things. I tend to be the person who is very careful, though inherently accident prone, and I have a penchant for coincidentally wearing white jeans when I decide to have grape juice or chocolate syrup. You know…the one spot that never seems to come out? Also, there is more motivation to pull out some stick-to-it-iveness in putting the right clothes on for a job.

The apron comes with a set of matching gloves for the ubercoordinated. How do you win? It is very simple to enter, just go check out the blog and leave a comment. You must mention an apron style that you like that was not mentioned in the blog posting. And that’s it!

Contest ends July 6th at 9 PM CST.  In otherwords, that’s tomorrow, if the date stamp on this blog posting patches the day you are actually reading this entry.

The whole “tomorrow” thing wouldn’t apply if you are in Australia, as it is already tomorrow from where you are reading.  Therefore, it would be a little over 26 hours from whatever time/day/century it happens to be where you are.

I should have also stated the year….it is currently 2008 A.D (Anno Domini).    Yes, I still like to use the recently out of favor “Year of Our Lord” rather than this A.C.E. and B.C.E. crappola that all the sudden creeped up on us, that despite being a former “almost majored in classics in college” student, I didn’t get that memo.   (B.C.E: ‘before current era.”  Unless it really means “Before Christ’s {physical} Entrance” but I doubt it).

I won’t get into the whole Julian Calendar/Gregorian Calendar/How that Equates to Chinese New Year and how much time until the end of the contest if you are living somewhere on the Moon.

Translation: Go check it out, but hurry!