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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.

FND 6/7/2013: Last FND for a while, Classic potluck

This FND is the last one for several weeks (until Ray and Sam get back from North Carolina) so if you’ve been meaning to come, now’s your chance. 

 
Since this week is a classic potluck, it’s all the more important to sign up. Make sure to remember to leave a comment with who and what you’re bringing!

FND 5/31/2013: Breakfast and More Breakfast…

…with a little bit of extra breakfast on the side.

Bring on the food-which-is-normally-eaten-in-the-morning-but-which-shall-be-eaten-in-the-evening!
Pretty sure that sentence would get me arrested for abuse of hyphens if anyone was keeping track of crimes against punctuation, but it gets the point across.
 
Here’s what I’m thinking: some cheesy grits, maybe some pancakes, some eggs, lots o’ bacon, a couple trees worth of fruit…a breakfast to be reckoned with. 

FND 5/24/2013: Appetizers and Dessert

This Friday, the theme mirrors the purpose of FND itself- celebrating the end of the week and the beginning of the weekend. In this spirit, Appetizers and Dessert has been called (along with fish tacos–which qualify, I suppose)

 
 An interest in chocolate has also been repeatedly expressed by certain friends of mine (all of them?) so if you aren’t feeling inspired, chocolate is the way to go. 
 
There’s a whole world of small-plate possibilities out there, so choose your favorite and let’s eat!

 

FND 5/17/2013: Comida Mexicana and Stuff Swap

Extra extra! Mexican food is on the menu!

This Friday, we’re having the first annual FND Stuff Swap! 
Bring your unwanted stuff to swap with  (you know the pile you keep meaning to bring to the thrift store, and the garage full of stuff for the garage sale you’re going to have last year?) eat some tasty Mexican food, and steal stuff from other people–legally! With their consent! How awesome is that?!
Ahem.

May 10 NO FND :(

Next week:  Stuff Swap!

5/3/2013: In need of some Comfort (food)

The merry month of May is actually the miserable month of May for American highschoolers. Why, you ask?  Because they are being tested to within a micron of their wits ends.  Star testing, Finals, AP, IB, SAT, ACT, Tech Challenge exams.  I’m sure there are more I have forgotten.  Pobrecitas.

So bring on the comfort food, cause this household is in dire need of some comfort.  

Anyone up for a game of Apples to Apples to jolt us out of our misery?

Sad Sam, Miserable Mimi, and Rotten Ray

not to mention Sloppy Sarge, Terrible Tabu and Evil Ein

 

FND 4/26/2013: Pizza a la Sous

Sam (the pizza guy ’round these parts) is out of town, but Mimi and Ray have decided to make pizza anyway.

We figure we’ve got enough pizza sous-chefery between us to figure this thing out. 
We’ll get the dough, sauce, and cheese, you bring your favorite things to put on top. 
 
If you like fruit on your pizza, you can use the pineapple we have, but we ain’t eatin’ none o’ that stuff. Keep it at the other end of the table. Seriously, Ray is strongly opposed to fruity pizza. She just made a face at me for even mentioning it. 
 
On the other hand, if you’d like to carry the pie theme on to dessert, she is highly fond of cherry pie. If you bring her some, she might forgive your abominable pizza habits. Just sayin’.

 
Since I am fond of making these messages overly long, here’s a head start on next week: 
Friday May 3 from 5:30 to 7:30 at the Claremont Community Foundation is the Claremont High School Student Art show, which I will have a piece in. It may mess with FND, or it may not, but either way I recommend checking it out.