Din for Ten (actually 9)

Still recovering from the weekend where me and the lady prepared a 5 course dinner for friends over the weekend.

It ended up being 9 people instead of 10 but by the end of the night we had finished 10 bottles of wine and a pitcher of Sangria..... whoo!!

~C

Y'all didn't know Curtis was a Chef too!!!??? Peep the menu below:

January 20, 2007

1

Trio of Catalan Tapas:

Pan con Tomate – Baguettes w/ Hand Rubbed Tomato & Olive Oil

Tortilla de Patatas –Potatoes & Onions Fried to a Golden Brown

Escalivada w/ Goat Cheese – Roasted Eggplant, Red Pepper & Tomato

2

Pan Seared Scallops w/

Garlic & Butter

Mesculum Greens w/ Blue Cheese,

Port Poached Pear, Cherry Tomatoes

in Aged Balsamic Vinagarette

3

Intermisso of Pineapple Sorbet w/ Kentucky Bourbon

4

Pollo al Vino – Cornish Hen Roasted in Red Wine & Garlic

Fresh Cut Green Beans w/ Dill, Butter & Lemon

Wasabi Smashed Red Potatoes

5

Crema de Limon

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Chai or Coffee

figures of speech

I know some things just roll off the tongue and nothing is ever meant by them.

... So in an effort to put some pressure on a brotha to complete the current task quickly he says, "Don't make me have to crack the whip!!"

".............................."

Don't make me have to put my foot up your ass either...... He's new to the whole management thing and still have diarrhea of the mouth... not quite understanding that there is some responsibility that comes with management... albiet middle management, but still...

I should've scared the dude and said, "Don't make me have to invoke Nat Turner, snatch the whip out your hand and strangle yo white ass with it!!" He knew as soon as he said it, it was wrong and started stuttering about it being a "figure of speech"... and I didn't even have to point out to him that it was a fucked up figure of speech... I just had this confused look on my face as if, "you know what you just said was fucked up right?" and he did, so sometimes it's just the look that sends the message..

In other news, start saving your pennies boys and girls, my main man from Illinois is about to announce for the presidency and i expect all 3 of my loyal readers to give some money to his campaign.

~C

Duke rape case

I have a lot to say on this...

However, I'm just gonna let shit play out first BUT I will say if they raped the girl, or if they didn't, I hope we learn something from this. All of this freakin' rush to judgement, marching, protesting, taking sides and shit all because somebody is black and poor and the other people are white is stupid on both sides. You all know folks were taking sides based on wanting some preppy white boys from Duke to go to jail for watching too much Mr. Marcus.

It's always the folks that talk the loudest that know the least. Right when this shit happened we saw Rev Sharpton and all kinds of folks down there talking about the unjust judicial system and black folks better get justice this time around. Well that is true, black folks been going to jail for shit they didn't do for a long time... but there is a lot of black folks that do shit they need to go to jail for too...

All I'm saying is, get the facts, don't be swayed by what they're saying on TV or what Al Sharpton says, think for yourselves! And before we all start singing Kumbaya, making signs and marching, lets just take a minute, observe shit for a bit, look at the facts, THEN make a decision.

How you gonna take sides on some shit you don't know about unless you were there catching the ping-pong balls as they were each popping out one by one..... (............I'm just saying,..... I've HEARD that this type of thing happens .......... um...... when you hire private strippers, .... but... um.... that could just be rumors and stuff...) Ultimately if this girl fabricated the shit, it just ends up making black folks look silly and serves as a nationally known "little boy who cried wolf"... and the fear is that it creates a backlash, where every little black girl that gets raped by a white guy is automatically doubted....

Whether they did it or not, if these guys get acquitted, it's a good day for white rapists and that is just the fu*ked up reality of the situation. Obviously science isn't reliable because you have people tampering with the evidence, screwing shit up.... I hope they don't talk about this anymore and the whole thing just goes away...

kind of an appropriate topic for MLK day no? flawed judicial processes, equal opportunity under the law for all, etc... etc... I read that a lot of young kids today don't have any clue what MLK was all about, and what the "I have a dream speech" was really set out to accomplish. I never get tired of hearing it and it serves as an inspiration to me every time.

Click here for the full 16 minute speech in its entirety. Enjoy!

~C

Grasswheel

grasswheel
Originally uploaded by cinnamon.stick.

Can you see me rolling through the hood with one of these?

I'm baaaaaaaaack!!!!

What it is?

I'm bout to give you the low down shmowdown on somethin' that has been botherin' me since I visited my homies back in Springpatch...

..... sorry... just came from hanging out with my students and had a conversation with one of my students and couldn't resist.. When I was handing back the final papers from last semester to the students who are now taking part deux of my class, a student came to me afterwards and couldn't understand why I gave him a "C". I told him for starters, the sentence, "Basically, Baroque architecture is just the hotness!!" has no place in a scholarly paper. He thinks he's keeping it real, I say he's keeping it real dumb.

And when the hell did bluetooth headsets become jewelry? I asked this guy to take his off because the freakin' blinking blue light was bothering me!!! He goes, "You just said we had to turn our phones off and my phone is off." This is true, so how about I'm adding a new rule, no blinking blue lights in my face while I'm lecturing. No blue lights at all whether they're blinking or not! What the hell? These things aren't sexy!?

I was at dinner not to long ago and saw two people sitting down together and they both had they're blinking blue lights in their ears for the whole dinner!!? Do you know how silly, not to mention rude that is??? It is as if, I have to be ready at any moment to take a call from anyone because it may be more important than this time I'm spending here right now with you.

I just feel like we are getting less and less connected from each other in this IPOD technologically sophisticated world. The fact that we have to deal with people less and less has translated into a severe shortage of individuals with people skills. You see it whenever you have to interact with someone somewhere... gas stations, restaurants, wherever... its sad.

Next time you go out to eat with someone, turn your phones off and just enjoy the company of the person you're with.

In other news, It looks like I'm going to go from having a completely empty house to having two roommates. Two very close friends have stumbled into situations they didn't plan on being in and despite me not being completely done with everything and still not having heat (other than portable heaters) they're both moving in. It's cool, I'm at my girl's house 90% of the time anyway so it's not like it really changes anything for me. It'll actually be nice to have people to drink with when I go to my house.

I also had a couple squirrels move into my front porch... bitches... but you know as soon as you get ready to do some evil shit to a squirrel, you have second thoughts... do you notice this?? Because you know, if that squirrel decided to, he could probably fu*k you up. I know a guy who had a squirrel get into his house, twice!! He screamed like a little bitch too when that MFer came out from behind a box of Vanilla wafers.... (why do we insist on saying vanilla, when clearly the box says "Nilla wafers"? I ain't never heard nobody call them shits NILLA wafers)

They don't know, my family is country, my dad used to hunt squirrels... tastes like chicken.

~C