This might be a "things that make me go mmmmm instead of hmmmm"! I realized recently that I eat a lot of cottage cheese. In fact when I'm cooking at home I eat cottage cheese with more meals than not. This is a family trait that goes back to my grandmother. At any lunch, supper or dinner meal no matter whether we were having chicken, pork or beef, we ALWAYS had three items. 1.) Buttered bread or toast 2.) Iceberg lettuce with her home made dressing (oil, vinegar, sugar, salt, pepper) and 3.) Cottage cheese.
One family dinner when I was about 10, my cousin and I decided that we would start to mix and match some food items...why? Who knows, we were 10. My grandmother was also famous for her home made dumpling noodles...oh my, I'm craving them right now! Well my cousin and I decided that noodles over cottage cheese sounded interesting and so we tried it. It was really tasty and from then on I always had it together.
Now, years, well decades later, I realize how much that one food experiment changed how I eat a lot of things. I add cottage cheese to broccoli and cauliflower, I add it to tuna, I use it as a side for almost any pasta or potato item, I eat it on crackers and I almost always have it as a topping for my salmon. About the only thing I don't like it with is fruit...eeeew. I eat it alone too :)
I got to thinking that 20+ years ago salsa started to be considered a condiment. I wondered if cottage cheese was the same for me. I feel like it practically goes on, in and with anything! So is it just a side dish of sorts or could it be considered a new condiment? Then I got to thinking if it fits in the same category as other condiments...so what would be my criteria. Wlle one thing I considered is that it needs always be refrigerated. Does that in and of itself dis-qualify it as a condiment? Maybe. But...after mayo and salsa are opened they too need to be refrigerated. Hmmmm.
Well - not to be decided today, but I am interested to know what you think and more importantly what you do with cottage cheese that I haven't thought of yet??
Monday, September 6, 2010
Wednesday, July 14, 2010
Close the loop...mean it!
I have written about this subject in the past and I may pull out one of my very early blog posts on this subject at some point, but for tonight, I'm just going to share a bit. The subject is how men and women (in so many fantastically interesting ways)are very different when it comes to direct closure in terms of dating.
I was speaking to a friend of mine this week and she told me a story that I have so many times and experienced myself that I was prompted to write about it here. It's something that has always made me go hmmmmm?!?!
In a nut shell, there had been two very long dates with the same guy and a plan (suggested by the guy) for a third, then on that same day came the text backing out of the date - simply a postponement he said. He said he'd "call later in the day to make another plan" and now a week has gone by with no word at all. No special circumstances exist other than the usual implied "I'm busy"...yes, we all are. Now, maybe this guy will call. Maybe he met someone else and has run off to Vegas to try his luck there. Maybe something bad happened...and he has lost his phone, contact information, memory or mind. But maybe, just maybe he decided that this woman isn't what he's looking for or whatever. Just say that. You don't even have to do it directly, you could text it (sort of passive, but better than nothing)...doing nothing is rude and really poor form.
I don't presume to speak for all women or even another woman, but I hear this from my female friends a lot and I think it too. Men, Guys, Dudes...we really want you to tell us that you are no longer interested if you aren't! It's truly the silence that kills us - it's deafening. We know you don't like conflict/confrontation with us, we know that you'd rather not hurt our feelings or be the "bad guy", we know that you'd rather we took the hint and just went away quietly...well, we usually can't.
It makes complete sense if you think it through. You pursue us. We like it that way and you do too. So when you secretly decide that we are no longer a candidate for that pursuit you simply stop. But, we've been investing in getting to know you and moreover letting you get to know us. We have some skin in the game. Let me ask you something. Let's say you're in sales and let's say you're pursuing a new customer. You call, you email, you get that first big meeting. You show me your stuff and I show you mine. You are able to persuade me that you have something I need or want and I say, "yes" I think you're right, let's proceed. You catch the "big fish" (no I don't mean sex)! Now I haven't signed on the dotted line and no exchange of service for currency has taken place. Would you just never call again...even if you decided that the deal wasn't going to work for you? No!!! You'd call me or meet me and explain that while at first it seemed like a good idea to make the deal, it was now no longer best for you to do so. You'd tell me the deal was off...nicely, but you'd tell me, right.
It's the same premise. I promise you. We really want to know. Not knowing is what has the potential to turn any nicely mannered woman into an anxious, over caller, over texter stalker.
That is all.
I was speaking to a friend of mine this week and she told me a story that I have so many times and experienced myself that I was prompted to write about it here. It's something that has always made me go hmmmmm?!?!
In a nut shell, there had been two very long dates with the same guy and a plan (suggested by the guy) for a third, then on that same day came the text backing out of the date - simply a postponement he said. He said he'd "call later in the day to make another plan" and now a week has gone by with no word at all. No special circumstances exist other than the usual implied "I'm busy"...yes, we all are. Now, maybe this guy will call. Maybe he met someone else and has run off to Vegas to try his luck there. Maybe something bad happened...and he has lost his phone, contact information, memory or mind. But maybe, just maybe he decided that this woman isn't what he's looking for or whatever. Just say that. You don't even have to do it directly, you could text it (sort of passive, but better than nothing)...doing nothing is rude and really poor form.
I don't presume to speak for all women or even another woman, but I hear this from my female friends a lot and I think it too. Men, Guys, Dudes...we really want you to tell us that you are no longer interested if you aren't! It's truly the silence that kills us - it's deafening. We know you don't like conflict/confrontation with us, we know that you'd rather not hurt our feelings or be the "bad guy", we know that you'd rather we took the hint and just went away quietly...well, we usually can't.
It makes complete sense if you think it through. You pursue us. We like it that way and you do too. So when you secretly decide that we are no longer a candidate for that pursuit you simply stop. But, we've been investing in getting to know you and moreover letting you get to know us. We have some skin in the game. Let me ask you something. Let's say you're in sales and let's say you're pursuing a new customer. You call, you email, you get that first big meeting. You show me your stuff and I show you mine. You are able to persuade me that you have something I need or want and I say, "yes" I think you're right, let's proceed. You catch the "big fish" (no I don't mean sex)! Now I haven't signed on the dotted line and no exchange of service for currency has taken place. Would you just never call again...even if you decided that the deal wasn't going to work for you? No!!! You'd call me or meet me and explain that while at first it seemed like a good idea to make the deal, it was now no longer best for you to do so. You'd tell me the deal was off...nicely, but you'd tell me, right.
It's the same premise. I promise you. We really want to know. Not knowing is what has the potential to turn any nicely mannered woman into an anxious, over caller, over texter stalker.
That is all.
Monday, July 5, 2010
Wardrobe Choices
Random...
Yesterday I saw a guy at my gym working so hard, wearing sun glasses. Not the kind you wear after an eye exam, but fancy designer sunglasses. Huh. Maybe they were super-powered? Maybe I need a pair.
It was 88 degrees out today and I'm always perplexed by wardrobe choices in this weather...you see a lot of skimpy-wear, pseudo-swim-wear and flip-flops, what you hardly see is knee-high leather boots on a women. Not Cowboy boots, just...as my mother would say, shit-kickers. They were accessorized by a strappy summer sun dress (say that three times fast)- ummm, really. Now in fairness, I might have had a more strong reaction because I own this same dress. I won't be wearing it with shit-kickers. In fact, i might have to retire it until next season...it seems soiled somehow.
That is all.
Yesterday I saw a guy at my gym working so hard, wearing sun glasses. Not the kind you wear after an eye exam, but fancy designer sunglasses. Huh. Maybe they were super-powered? Maybe I need a pair.
It was 88 degrees out today and I'm always perplexed by wardrobe choices in this weather...you see a lot of skimpy-wear, pseudo-swim-wear and flip-flops, what you hardly see is knee-high leather boots on a women. Not Cowboy boots, just...as my mother would say, shit-kickers. They were accessorized by a strappy summer sun dress (say that three times fast)- ummm, really. Now in fairness, I might have had a more strong reaction because I own this same dress. I won't be wearing it with shit-kickers. In fact, i might have to retire it until next season...it seems soiled somehow.
That is all.
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