Six Pack Sunday

Hey hey you party people!

Glad you enjoyed my recipe for that Chocolate Crack (and lemme tell you, despite some judging malfeasance, everyone at the picnic loved it too).

It’s been a pretty snuggly weekend, with a total of three naps and very little leaving the house, which I loved…. but that’ll change oh-so-soon with next weekend being the Healthy Living Summit in Philly and the weekend after being a wine-tasting themed bridal shower for my cousin in OCNJ! But enough about the future, here are the six silly things that I’ve enjoyed or thought about this week. For your viewing pleasure.

So that’s why they call them navel oranges.
Wow. Definitely an Inny.

If that’s not a belly button on a fruit, I don’t know what is.
I demand a revote!
Gimme a break!

Now, I know I may be biased…. but of the 5 desserts pictured here, mine didn’t even PLACE! (there were 1-3rd places with gift cards!) I’ll admit, the cool whip thing on the left was delicious and full of cake and berries…. but the one on the far right…. HAWAIIAN CAKE?! COME ON!! I gave them all a fair try.

A nice sampler platter of the competition's goodies.

Admittedly, I’m a bit sour grapes, so my mind may have played tricks on me, but I’m pretty sure the carrot cake was poison.

Luckily, the judging didn’t prevent people from eating the heck out of the crack. HA!
#WTF
AND a personalized note to boot!

Have any of you tweeted #WTF when you finish a box of Wheat Thins @crunchiscalling? If you DO you have a chance to have a brand new box sent to you!! And they even hand-write the note!! How nice is that?

And I can’t promise that I’ll send you boxes of Wheat Thins, but you should follow @foodsweatnbeers on twitter too for live, minute-by-minute updates on what I’m doing. Doesn’t that just sound great?!
A Blogger Meetup!!
UNC girls!!

I met up with Allison, author of Happy Tales, at the UNC School of Public Health. It was my first ever healthy living blogger meetup, a virtual dress rehearsal for the Healthy Living Summit in LESS than a week (ahhh!) It was great to finally meet someone IRL who I’ve read all about. It’s like I already knew her. Wonderful to meet, chat about HLS and our mutual love of dogs named Happy, and enjoy the company while spending some time on UNC campus again. It just reminded me how excited I am for Football Season!!
Another WTF. This time, chocolate bar style.
Oh, it isn't?!

Read a little about this Yorkie candy bar. And apparently it’s not for girls. So if you’re trying to eat it, and you’re a lady….

DON’T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!
North Carolina’s Girls’ Pint Outchapter is making it happen!!
Sweet Swag

I had a fantastic meeting with the some of the finest Craft Beer Ladies in the Triangle tonight to discuss future plans for NC GPO… Things are going to get awesome, very very soon. Check out @NCGirlsPintOut on Twitter!! Our next eve nt’s going to be this Thursday(!!!!) at Busy Bee Cafe in Raleigh and I’m beyond pumped. Also in the plans…. two of my favorite words, combined into one event: KEGS & EGGS!!

Nothing’s set in stone, yet, but I’ll be working my booty off to get it set. Perhaps a tailgating event. That’s just my dream come true. Dream big, right Jordan?

Those are the little bits of goings on, and now I’m off to enjoy my froyo and a sweet episode of Mad Men. Yup, this is the first time we’ve ever watched it. And yup, I’m addicted.

Get inside of my belly.

Good night, friends, and best of luck waking up for Monday’s meandering.

Good evening folks!

I just hate that the weekend’s coming to an end, as this one was stuffed (in all senses of the word!) Stuffed with fun, stuffed with friends, and stuffed with food! My tummy feels like it’s going to pop (when it rains, it pours with eating for me, I think.) Luckily, tomorrow a new day, a new week, and right back to the grindstone. There were some funny things, silly thoughts, and random questions to make up this week’s Six Pack Sunday!!

I had an excellent time at Beer, Bourbon, and BBQon Friday. But even before we got into the festival, I saw something that made me chuckle.
"Beer speaks... People mumble."

So true, Lagunitas (a brewery I’m rather fond of, actually.)
Ever had a Coronarita?
BEER MARGARITA HYBRID?! Yes, please.

Well…. I have.

iDelicioso!

Jealous? Should be.
Ryan hates having folks at restaurants sing happy birthday to him (or to draw any attention to himself at a restaurant whatsoever.) Regardless, at On the Border(same spot I got that Coronarita!), our server, Bob, redeemed his somewhat-lame service with a total stealth birthday surprise.
Sneaky, sneaky sir.

I still wish we’d sung, but I hate to embarrass people (wait a minute…. I love to do that, and to make a scene. But I figured the best present I could give my beau would be to not shame him in front of his father, stepmother, and a number of strangers. Happy Birthday, dear.)
Last night, I think we spent an hour (11pm-midnight) watching “America’s Cutest Dog.”(spoiler alert: the winner is below)

Spudgy was the winner, by a landslide. It is quite possibly the most adorable sleepy pomeranian, Spudgy, who was trying SO hard to stay awake…. but it just wasn’t in the cards, Spudge. I’m sorry, but great job on getting back up! I promise, you weren’t missing much.
As I chopped up my eggplant for my “omelet” this morning (I put “omelet” in quotation marks because I may be the worst egg flipper known to mankind and it always just ends up as a sorta egg scramble omelet-wannabe), I couldn’t help but wonder “Why on Earth are eggplants called “egg”plants?”
Egg. Plant. "omelet"

Well, I went searching, and here’s what I found out:

The name of eggplant was given it by Europeans in the middle of the eighteenth century because the variety they knew had fruits that were the shape and size of goose eggs. That variety also had fruits that are a whitish or yellowish colour rather than the wine purple that is more familiar to us nowadays. So the sort they knew really did look as though it had fruits like eggs. Source – Michael Quinion’s World Wide Words

Now you know!
If you’ve ever been to a movie theater, you’ve probably seen this poster:
Old as Dirt Ratings Poster

Today, after seeing Captain America (which I LOVED, and not even just for Chris Evan’s smoking bod)

No, don't worry, I'm totally watching the plot.

I couldn’t help but look at that poster…. and wonder what that SHADY rabbit is doing in the bottom left. If he couldn’t see the PG-13 movie (note the young lady blocking his eyes, probably from the nude scenes), he certainly shouldn’t be allowed to see an NC-17 flick! Maybe that’s why he’s got the glasses on…. some sort of disguise.

Let’s be honest, bunny, you’re not fooling anyone.