Ideal Bite

Best BC?

The kid sitting behind you on a red-eye flight, screaming, and kicking the back of your seat.

The worst?

The little chubby-cheeked, cherubic toddler (yes, probably the same kid, different day) waddling down the sidewalk, staring intently - and quite seriously - at puddles and leaves and broken concrete and birds...reminding us all that life is, quite simply, pretty rad.

-Heather - off to explain to the boyfriend why I don't really want to eat the babies I see, even if I describe that need to squeeze and nibble on them as "eating"...

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Once I bought a “real silver bracelet” in a Tunisian market. I bargained, but got it for fair price…or so I thought. Two weeks later, the silver had almost completely worn away to reveal some sort of tin-like metal.

Silverwashing?

Been hung out to dry with supposedly “green” products? Tell us about it…

-Jenifer Morgan…off to recycle that bracelet…

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Why was the fickle, shrill-voiced wife of Popeye called Olive Oyl? Who knows, but there's a better way to pair up spinach and olive oil: Tuck this little salad gem in your pocket for when strawberry season arrives at a farm near you:

¼ cup sugar or equivalent sugar alternative

2 tbsp sherry

2 tsp organic olive oil

1 tsp organic red onion, minced

¼ tsp paprika

8 tsp sea salt

6 cups organic spinach (not canned!)

2 cups organic strawberries, halved

2 tbsp organic almonds, slivered and toasted

-Jenifer Morgan...off to mouth "olive juice" to my olive oil...

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A few weeks ago, I came down with the cold everyone in SF seems to have had. I did what I usually do when I get sick: pretend like I'm totally healthy.

I decided to check out a yoga class...and started hacking uncontrollably during my vinyasas, which is maybe worse than coughing through a movie, since rather than getting in the way of people's cinematic entertainment, I was getting in the way of people trying to find their innermost selves. So I left.

-Toshio...off to suck on some candy...

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I have a vintage Wedgewood stove in my kitchen.  Since the griddle part of the stove has a pilot light that is so excited it will burn your hand if you don't wipe down the griddle carefully, and since the oven part is almost always warm to the touch, I'm quite sure that I am wasting more energy than I save by driving a Prius (which is in the shop, since it's only getting me 27 mpg these days. Grr.).

But I love love love that stove.  It is the centerpiece of my kitchen and was one of the things that made me fall head over heels for the house.  I can't get rid of it.

Maybe I should see about turning down those pilot lights, though.

-Heather... off to price out high-efficiency washers...

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I don't think I've been in a stretch limo since prom, and though I see a lot of them while walking Bay Area streets, they never stop for me.

However, I have taken plenty of hybrid cabs and car services. I took one home from after-work drinks on Tuesday (it's Strong Beer Month in SF, btw). Having had two glasses of 11% alcohol-content beer, I was feeling friendly, so I asked the driver if he liked his Prius. He said he liked it, and then went off for the rest of the ride (which I swear he drove as slowly as possible) about Robert Redford buying up all the land in MT, and how that was not OK. I don't really have an opinion on Robert Redford, but if I'd been in a stretch limo I would've activated the tinted privacy window.

It seems like when celebrities speak up on issues like the environment,

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I don't think I've been in a stretch limo since prom, and though I see a lot of them while walking Bay Area streets, they never stop for me.

However, I have taken plenty of hybrid cabs and car services. I took one home from after-work drinks on Tuesday (it's Strong Beer Month in SF, btw). Having had two glasses of 11% alcohol-content beer, I was feeling friendly, so I asked the driver if he liked his Prius. He said he liked it, and then went off for the rest of the ride (which I swear he drove as slowly as possible) about Robert Redford buying up all the land in MT, and how that was not OK. I don't really have an opinion on Robert Redford, but if I'd been in a stretch limo I would've activated the tinted privacy window.

It seems like when celebrities speak up on issues like the environment,

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Why do I always get assigned the blog on the days when the tip topic is about sex lubes (don't use ‘em) or breastfeeding (no kids yet) or condoms (ahem) or fertility (see "breastfeeding") or  lingerie (OK, fine) or vibrators (buzz, please) or Read the full post... 

Why do I always get assigned the blog on the days when the tip topic is about sex lubes (don't use ‘em) or breastfeeding (no kids yet) or condoms (ahem) or fertility (see "breastfeeding") or  lingerie (OK, fine) or vibrators (buzz, please) or Read the full post... 

I spend a lot of time in bars. While I'd venture that this has enhanced my social life, it has had a less positive effect on my wallet, and resulted in more than a few instances of morning-after regret.

So... I'm hereby instating a rule for myself - for every "unit" of alcohol (glass of wine, bottle of beer, shot of liquor) I drink, I'm drinking one glass of water. More cash and less chance for self-embarrassment  can't hurt my social life, right?

-Toshio...off to do something totally sober...

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