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October 29, 2005
The Rug Doctor and How To Make Your House Smell Like Spiced Wine
The Mprize has no ideology and endorses no religion. The Mprize exists only to speed the day when we will have a cure for age-related disease and disability. The Mprize certainly does not endorse any cleaning product, brand of cleaning product, family of brands of cleaning products, or method of cleaning.
I, however, as a private individual, am here to tell you that the Rug Doctor is awesome.
Kieffer has been having some issues as of late with using species appropriate restroom facilities. His most recent mishap has involved peeing on my landlady's nice Oriental rug. I knew we should have rolled that thing up and put it away. Anyhow, it's going on a high shelf in the basement now, but first, we had to clean it. So MR said that we should go out and rent the Rug Doctor. You can rent it at most grocery stores. It's not a rug doctor, it's a rug savior. The difference is amazing. This rug was gross, and now it's gorgeous. MR handled the technical aspects, I just stood on the rug to keep it from moving.
Wow, I'm a believer. It's a totally new rug. And it's going in the basement, where it will be safe.
By the way, the pizza-tatta was amazing. MR loved it. I just baked artichoke hearts, zucchini, mushrooms into eggwhites in a pyrex bowl, then put no salt added tomato sauce (I added garlic and oregano) on top covered with a light layer of part skim mozzarella. Baked for about an hour. Wow!
Tonight we're going out with our group of friends who are totally okay with it if we pack our own food. MR will be eating stems in broth with eggwhites (this tastes good but sounds boring) I will be eating the easy to transport megamuffin.
Tomorrow for lunch, I plan to create a super CR'd version of French toast: the Apple Cinna-tatta! Stay tuned for recipe and reviews.
Here's something else non-CR related I've learned. We have a bunch of cheap port lying around from a baking experiment gone wrong, so I've been using a little of it at a time in dishes, as you know. But it also makes a great house-scenter if you boil a little bit of it in a shallow pan on the stove with a bunch of cinnamon. Makes the whole house smell like mulled wine. Very festive, very holiday. Try it right now!
Posted by april at October 29, 2005 9:43 AM
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April - this has nothing to do with species appropriate toileting, but I just learned that one of my greatgrandfathers, his name was George Churchill, was a union organizer, and a carpenter. He died around the turn of the century (1900, not 2000) in Southie (South Boston) - he was chucked off a scaffolding. Union organizing can be risky business, apparently! Be careful! :)
Posted by: Suzanne at October 29, 2005 11:25 AM
Wow, Suzanne, how cool!!! Not that your great grandfather was pushed off a scaffolding, just that he was an organizer.
Organizing can be dangerous, though these days it's mostly just exhausting. I did have some friends once who were followed by private investigators... management was trying to dig up dirt on them. The PI's found out that organizers tend to be really boring! Eat, work, sleep a few hours, work... maybe go to the gym. That's about it. I guess I do one thing that's interesting: I cook! A private investigator could just read the blog to figure that out.
I am shocked, shocked to find out that the organizer eats fewer than 1200 calories a day! How very un-American... :)
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Posted by: April at October 29, 2005 11:46 AM
Eggwhites suck! They taste horrible, their texture is horrible and anybody who can stomach them has no evolved sense of taste. They're not even that healthy. Neutral to say the best. So, why bother with them unless your tastebuds are not evolved enough to tell the non-tasting bad taste that they have? Eggwhites should go directly to trash, they're disgusting and not recommendable if you're practicing CRON and are calorie and taste deprived all the time already.
zeyno
Posted by: zeynep at October 29, 2005 6:05 PM
Hey, Zeynep, have you ever actually tried any of April's recipes? I am a real "foodie" and believe me, they're delicious as well as nutritious. As the old Canadian saying goes, if you ain't tried it, don't knock it. Also, disliking a food that April likes does not grant you the right to criticize her as a person. JD
Posted by: Judith at October 31, 2005 10:14 AM
No Judith, I haven't tried anyone of April's recipes because every other of them has eggwhites in them and I already shared my views on eggwhites. Plus I don't need to because I have my own good recipes.
I don't see how I have criticized April by criticizing egg-white liking taste-budd as non-evolved. At most I've criticized her taste-buds; for god's fucking sake have mercy on me and give them some brain!
Posted by: zeynep at November 1, 2005 4:50 PM
I believe that your comment, "anybody who can stomach them has no evolved sense of taste" most definitely falls into the category of personal criticism. At the very least, it's totally inappropriate.
Posted by: Judith at November 3, 2005 6:59 PM
Well, you should grant her that she is very honest and very upfront, no? :-)
Anyway... she is from a culture of very tasty and still very healthy (overall :-) ) food so the stuff you eat really often is... um... less then exhilerating.
Posted by: Curious at November 4, 2005 1:26 PM
Well, yeah...
As curious says, I come from a very taste-bud cultivated culture, plus my mom is a healthy-food restaurant owner. She mixes the two, health and taste, so do I. Because they're mixable you should know judith!
Our cuisine is both very healthy and very tasty. Let me ask you one question judy... Have you ever tried to cook any veggies with some onion, garlic and olive oil? I bet you'll love it! It tastes sooo much better than eggfucking whites. Of course if you're campbell soup etc., preservative laden fast food eater, you'll find eggwhite recipes tasty. All relative to how well the tastebuds where trained. Yours weren't traind well, appearently.
Posted by: zeynep at November 6, 2005 3:48 PM