When we were in Canada last summer, she used to rush and brush her teeth every time she ate a peanut butter sandwich. It was pretty adorable.

Or maybe I'll veer away from breakfast entirely and make that kale salad my sister likes.

That's the beauty of brunch, you can include non-breakfast foods. One of the beauties of brunch, I should say. There are many.

I'm not a big breakfast food person, at least breakfast food in the morning. So kale salad for brunch sounds good.

peanut butter

Almond butter is a great-tasting substitute, if other nuts are not a problem. (Peanuts are not really nuts, right?)

I don't like bitter-tasting vegetables. I haven't found any culinary trick that makes them palatable to me.

One of my cousins has a gay son. A flaming gay son. She has no idea. She just found out that a gay cousin of ours is engaged--but she didn't know the cousin was gay either. She was all "So where did M meet him?" Power to my sister for only talking about the *1* obvious homosexual right then. But, lord. We're the gayest family in the world. It's the sort of family I don't want to read about in fic because seriously, why would that happen?

Everyone should figure their kids are gay at this point, unless the kid is firmly closing the door to their closet that's carefully lined with naked pictures of the opposite sex.

I've left 5 messages, sent 2 emails, and lo! I have no methadone refill. And now I'm depressed because I understand that I might be financially consigned to these people.

Have they left you hanging like this before, ita?

ita has anyone every suggested you do a trial for medicinal pot?

I don't like bitter-tasting vegetables. I haven't found any culinary trick that makes them palatable to me.

I feel like I have twice as many bitter taste buds as the average person, because bitter foods are so *overwhelmingly* bitter that I can't stand them. Black tea, coffee black (I have to have cream), IPA beer, bitter leafy greens, etc.

However, I love leafy greens like collards or turnip greens with a healthy dash of vinegar -- red wine or balsamic. And brussel sprouts that are roasted or broiled until they start to carmelize are not bitter at all.

No solution for IPA, though.

No solution for IPA, though.

Shandy.

If you don't insist on purely "breakfasty" stuff - curried couscous with chickpeas.

Make a soup with water, olive oil, a table spoon of red wine,curry powder, garlic, salt, pepper, honey or other sweetner and any other spices you please, with sweet peppers and onions, a generous amount of garbanzo beans, and a miserly qty of green peas if you wish. When soup is done let in continue to simmer, and stir in 1 cup of couscous for each two cups of liquid. Stir and simmer for a minute, put a lid on the pot, turn off, let sit for seven minutes, stir with a fork. Can be eaten hot or cold. Best if made a day advance so the flavor gets stronger overnight. You can add cashews and raisins to the soup while cooking if you wish for additional flavor. If you do, cinammon and cardomon are additional spices to consider. A high protein complete vegan meal.