Eh, I can take or leave chocolate chips in most non-standard places.

Whereas, I'm NUTS about NUTS!

I like nuts in almost everything, as well as by themselves, by the handful. Not annoying fake hazelnut or almond flavoring, but actual nuts. In salads, desserts, bread, cookies, on most breakfast foods (haven't found a good way to incorporate them in eggs and bacon yet), and even as a substitute breading on fish. Hmmmm. I'm noticing a lack of nut-related soups in that list. I'll have to do something about that.

Nuts should be ground into paste. I hate their texture. But their flavour can work for me.

Raisin oatmeal cookies are the one true cookie.

Jesse, did I submit a Batman link to the goodstuff tumblr?

God, I'm glad to be home. Now I have pear to eat in addition to the apple sauce.

Nuts should be ground into paste. I hate their texture. But their flavour can work for me.

Texture is why I don't like macadamia or Brazil nuts. But I like walnuts or almonds in most things. Cashews and pecans are hit or miss depending on the item. I avoid pine nuts since the dreaded pine nut mouth incident.

I like raisins in oatmeal cookies. I like chocolate chips as long as they are dark chocolate, in just about any sweet treat.

but don't get me started on what an abomination shredded coconut is!

I'm noticing a lack of nut-related soups in that list.

Peanut butter mushroom soup.

IJS.

Wooohoo, msbelle!

I've missed 2 calls from different neighbors and both went to vmail when I tried calling back. Hrmph. Both are no doubt about the weekend: porch supplies and my birthday. Which might be one and the same.

Had a funny conversation with the pool staff tonight. We were talking about the regulars (including the students in the lesson tonight, they were a hot mess) and mentioned one woman who swims for like 3 hours and how after like 10 years of a steady, slow pace, has begun doing sprinting laps here and there. But only when I'm sharing a lane with her. I was like "I thought I must be slowing down! I usually pass her every second lap, and then all of a sudden it would take 3.5!" Hah. And then they were giving me shit for missing last saturday, and I informed them I was cheating on them with Ellicott City. "So you really are crazy and never miss a day?" Then it turned to "some crazy dude" who does 3 miles on weekends. "You know I do 2 miles 3 days a week and 1.5 the rest ?" "OK, you are crazier. And have better hair." (This is a running joke because of course they always see me in a swim cap. But one of them, finally recognizing me pre-swim said "I didn't recgonize you" *flails hands* " hair!")

I like being part of communities.

and the extreme afternoon thunderstorem.

That's what monsoon season is in the Southwest deserts.

I don't miss the heat, but I do miss those thunderstorms every many days. A lot.

I am just nodding my head while reading questers post and THEN I'm all WHA?!?!?!? sweetened shredded coconut is AWESOME!! just light marshmallows and pecans. It just so happened that those three items were stored in matching tupperware containers in my mother's kitchen and I would often add all three to dishes of ice cream and coke floats.

and I'm pretty sure there will be no Hookers or Blow, or sadly anything even close to it. maybe beer and ice cream.

I like nuts. The oilier the better. Cashews, macadamia, peanuts, piñon or their shelled sistren the pine nut, pecans. But nuts are not nice to my skin. Probably the oils. Serious crack to me are the TJ's honey-sesame-d cashews. OMG. But my face and my guts hate those.