Author Archives: Rachel Levy

FND 11/15/2013: “Thanksgiving extras”

Jacque modestly proposed the theme for this week, Thanksgiving extras, because her original plan to cook children (with only the best intentions) fell through and she needs time to try some other recipes.

Bring on the autumnal fare, my fair Friday friends, and we shall feast as never we have before (and by “as never we have before” I mean as “as we have as many times before as there have been thanksgivings”).
 

If you are horrified by this message PLEASE follow that link up there. PLEASE. No children were harmed in the making of this message.

FND 11/8/2013: Pizza! Not just for breakfast anymore!

AAAAAnd we’re back! Yeah!

Finally! *mutters darkly about the lame lack of fnd mutter mutter*

In commemoration of absolutely nothing in particular, I’ve dug up a long at rest FND pizza message for you. I like to take them out for walks sometimes. Good for the circulation and all that. Here ’tis, written by the Sam-person himself for the 5/15/09 FND:

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We’ll roll it and stretch it and throw it (which is stretching it) and cook it and eat it and you can help!

If you can make a brilliant dough, or sauce, go for it, otherwise bring along your favorite brand of anchovies* or pizza-related beverage.

* by which I mean, ‘any pizza topping’, but never doubt that I hope you think I mean, ‘anchovies’

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My personal favorite pizza-related beverage is root beer.
See you soon!

-Mimi

PS: Thank you for commenting with who and what you are bringing!

notFND 11/1/2013: The Lamest of the Lame

AGAIN with the lameness! Seriously, what’s wrong with us?

Yep, that’s right, no FND this week either. The folks are out. Sorry guys!

-Mimi

notFND 10/25/2013: Don’t scare the house sitter

FND is visiting colleges this week (it is in its twenty-somethingth year, after all, it’s about time it got an education). There is someone at the house watching the animules, but please don’t show up because she won’t be hosting.

See you next time,

-Those people that usually hold FND but let you down this week.

FND 10/18/2013: The Other Americas

We’s gonna eat ‘Merican this Friday, but it’s Central and South ‘Merica, not North. I don’t wanna see no burgers. Unless they’re taco burgers. That would be cool. I like tacos.

-Mimi the Taco Meister… I mean Maestra. Taco Maestra. Yup that’s me. mmmtacos

(NOT)FND 10/11/3013: No FND this week

We’ll be at the Moody lecture at HMC and then at a smashin’ Gogol Bordello Concert.

See you next time!

-Mimi

FND 10/4/2013: Indian Food

I won’t hold it against you if you just bring those little pouches from Trader Joe’s, but I really think you can probably do a little better than that. Like, what about the samosas in the freezer section?

Those are tasty.

Or, you know. You could be super fancy and bring real food that you flew to India to get. That would be cool too.

But only if you bring me with when you go.

 

-Masala Mimi

 

PS there are still comment badges. I have no idea what you would do with one, but you can still partake in the badge-y goodness. Maybe I’ll put magnets on the back or something.

FND 9/20/13: Breakfasting!

For all, the wonder of a second breakfast, not at the dawn of a new day but the dawn of a new weekend.

If you take pity on poor Mimi, bring something cold and structurally innocuous, so she may take part in this, the most glorious of themes despite the removal of her wisdom teeth (which by FND will have been recently escorted off the premises). She thanks you in advance for your kindness, in case she’s too drugged up to coherently thank you later.

Hurray weekend!!!

-Mimi the wise

and other people

 

By the way, blog commenters– I actually did make those badges I mentioned several weeks ago. If you know the secret password (“I would like a comment hero badge, please”) you may have one! I must say they’re pretty cool…

FND 8/23/2013: Red Hot Chili Peppers (that are actually green and not necessarily hot)

This may be a confusing theme, so let me give you the break-down:

  • We have recently been visited by the Hatch chili fairy, so we’re going to be eating some green chilies.
  • They come in the mild, medium, and hot varieties.
  • Your job is to bring stuff that goes nicely with them. You can bring ingredients and cook something at the house, cook with chilies of your own, or bring something we can add roasted chilies to.
  • If you don’t want to bother with all this decision making because ‘I mean come on, it’s Friday‘ then you can bring drinks to soothe our burning mouths or desserts to eat as appetizers after dinner.
  • There will probably be music.
  • To follow with the burning theme, we might even get to have a fire outside and stuff. Plan appropriately.

I would like to mention here that if you don’t comment on the blog with who and what you are bringing, we might not let you in the door. We can’t just let in random people off the street, you know.

-Mimi who is sometimes sarcastic and snarky but who really does expect you to give a LITTLE effort and TELL HER YOU’RE COMING because if we didn’t need you to do that THERE WOULDN’T BE A BLOG. Really, the point is to let everyone know who and what is coming so that we don’t end up with forty loaves of bread and NO (root) BEER OR ICE CREAM.

For those of you who comment every week, thank you. It helps a lot. I’m working on getting little “I comment on the FND blog” badges for you.

FND 8/16/2013: Tacos y Tostadas

Hey Y’all!
My (Mimi’s) two month absence has come to its end, and I’m ready for some FND!
Bring on the fixin’s and the tasties and the toasties and the spicys, and we’ll have ourselves one heckuva reunion party.

See you Friday!

-Mimi
 
Oh, Ray’s back too.
I just started with me ’cause I was gone longer.