wandacleo

Ansa Here's the menu:

Sambhar dhal (spicy lentil soup with chopped vegetables and coconut-- squash, eggplant, potatoes, onions, Brussels sprouts, tomatoes).

Medu vada--pureed lentils mixed with spices, onion, chilis and deep-fried to float in the soup. (Like a spicy light salty donut).

Pohe--spicy parched rice with chilis and peanuts

Paratha--fried flat bread.

I just finished chopping the cilantro that gets sprinkled on everything. Everything else is in some stage of preparation. I have to fry the medu vada at the last minute and finish the pohe right before dinner too.

I will fry myself a paratha in a few minutes as a test. I just had a big bowl of test dhal. I'll be stuffed like a damned toad by the time I serve dinner.

Wish you all were here!!!!

Ack! I've been taking Idiian (as in India) cooking classes. and in a moment of insanity I invited friends over for an Indian dinner.

Oh. My. God. I've been chopping for frigging hours.

WHAT WAS I THINKING???????

NC Rocks (and it does, by the way), please don't go back to lurkdom! We love new people here, and I LOVE Clay spottings.

Just made my day.

Oh, the pretties, the pretties.

I suppose it's remotely possible that someone could look at a picture of Clay and say it's a bad picture or look at a new haircut or color and say it's not as attractive as another or even suggest that one song is better than another, but I think when a pattern emerges and someone REPEATEDLY criticizes Clay's life, friends, choices, hair, clothes, songs, concerts, appearances, etc., etc., ad nauseum that THAT person is doing it to get attention and not because that person is some poor misunderstood devoted fan of Clay.

Give me a fucking break.

I never think it's good if Clay fans stay away because I always think there's plenty of NJU in attendance anyhow.

I'm going to see Clay MORE times this time around (even missing the two shows when he'll be at the gala--SHIT!!!)

I can't imagine anyone not going just because they've gone before. My friend and I can hardly wait!

I'm loving the China/HK recaps.

I stayed at a hotel in HK called the Courtyard in 1981!!!

Do you suppose it's the same one?????

Jesus. Small world.

I love that interview where Clay goes berserk laughing when the interviewer is describing his different moves (clutch, etc).

I have no clue what interview that since I can't remember shit.

I can't think of too many places I'd hate to get stuck in MORE than the Newark airport!

I NEVER trust airlines anymore. It's sheer luck to get anywhere on time.

Preden Welcome to this motley crew.

P.S.

I'm feelng in a very North Carolina frame of mind. I found a recipe for NC pulled pork (apparently some combination of east and west NC) and made it--crockpot. It's actually not bad.

Cindilu I love the pin and will need 4!!!

This is so exciting. An official pin!!!

Kandre and Scarlett Bon Voyage!!!!

I love this little (somewhat dysfunctional) family we have here at FCA. :F_05BL17blowkiss:

Muski

Narrow-minded bigots just sit around looking for someone to dump on.

It gives their small lives meaning.

Couchie Shampoo, my dear. You can wash anything in shampoo. It's just detergent for the hair.

I love all those baby and before and after pictures!

Luckiest When I saw the thumbnail of your picture, I thought that brown around your head was all hair, and I was practically rolling on the floor until I clicked and made the picture big. It was nice to see your kids at different stages!

ETA: Kandre I MUST start scanning old pictures. You've inspired me.

OMG, I remember back in the hippie days--I knew someone who COOKED the placenta and ate it.

I gagged for a week just thinking about it.

I just read my Time magazine a couple of hours ago and discovered that picture.

Too cute.

Heh, I spent a day reading a blog that "had all the answers". As usual, I found I knew more than the person writingthe blog. maybe I shuld write a blog Oh, wait, I am supposed to do it. Which is the easiest blog to to maintain and control comments and add music to?

Wandacleo, you are a better person than me. First I read a pronouncment an the watch it spread trough the fandom. it is lie a disease or something - what? Me with the dsease or the way fake info spreads though the fandom? I am not sure which.

Oh, no, I'm a complete bitch.

I'm just selective about my outrages.

Honestly, I don't waste sleep or outrage over fairly meaningless pronouncements about Clay. I just think what I think and move on.

Makes life simpler.

I personally cannot imagine Clay would dream of going off to NYC and leaving that baby behind, but I think that making that announcement FOR him might be a bit tacky.

I just noticed that we've spelt Equis three different ways on this page alone - Equis, Eqquis, and Equus. Does anyone know how it's really spelled? And what does it mean? I mean, obviously equ means horse, but what's with the weird spelling, and what's the show about?

I just looked it up--Equus.

Who would have thought?

Welcome Peyton

Let me tell you, if CLAY were going to be buck naked in that play instead of Daniel R., I'd MOVE to NYC and be in line every day--fighting off all the other women!

djs111

Who the hell IS Eric Roberts????

Well, after my initial hysteria, I've decided to just be calm and assume that at most we will miss two shows and we may just add a show on Tuesday night. This may force us to see another play, so we don't have to embarrass ourselves by admitting that we spent a week in NYC and saw Clay every day and nothing else.

At least I don't have to worry about periods.