Chicken Wings and Other Things

the other day elisa posted about her guilty pleasures.  of particular note was her thing for saltines and coffee ... together.  i mocked, yes i did, but i can also understand how attached we become to foods we ate as children that take us back to a "happier" time.   please, elisa, enjoy your saltines and coffee.

anyway, she invited us all to share with her our guilty pleasures but at the time i couldn't think of anything.  i mean i like toast and butter and coffee, but so do a lot of people.  and i do have a thing for very bad greasy chinese food but again, if the crowds at the chinese buffet in town are any indication, i am not alone.  i did elicit some EWWWWS at lunch the other day when i explained that i love love love kraft mac n cheese with peas (canned) and tuna.  but another girl mentioned that she liked it that way too.  so i was at an impass.

then yesterday, i started thinking...i have become obsessed with chicken wings.  now that's not so much a guilty pleasure as defined by elisa -- something about a lifted eyebrow -- however, the mere fact that i actually found a recipe to make them myself and then proceeded to eat all 15 of them (whole wings -- the entire package) might qualify.  no?  no lifted eyebrows? 

hmmm.

i love hellman's mayonnaise (best food's to you California types) and would eat it with anything and everything if i had a metabolism that could support the consumption of vast amounts of mayonnaise.  my favorite?  lettuce and mayo sandwiches on whole wheat bread.  i like the lettuce for crunch. 

guilty pleasures -- entertainment

i've talked about my love for the movie Animal House -- but that love might have also been what boys found cool about me.  so only girls would give me the eyebrow lift.

in music, madonna and my all time favorite guilty pleasure, george michael, in and out of the closet. 

tv -- other than the two rounds of "average joe," "the apprentice," and "project runway (which i don't think counts)" i haven't been a fan of reality tv (do shows like "what not to wear"  or "trading spaces" count?) .  these shows tend to bring out the worse in people so they really depress me.  so it's not like i have a reality tv addiction i have to hide. i may raise an eyebrow because of this sitcom that valerie bertinelli was in in the early 90's -- Cafe Americain.  i may have been the only person who actually watched it and wouldn't miss an episode.  the premise spoke to me, and well it starred valerie bertinelli.  i dare any woman to deny going through puberty in the 70's and not want to be valerie bertinelli.  I DARE YOU... (and yes, i watched parts of the one day at a time reunion show the other night - i watched the show as a kid for the first couple of years it was on (we moved overseas in 1976) but the mom used to always bug me because she didn't wear a bra and her boobies shook ).

books -- um  nothing except among certain groups of friends i've had to hide anything that oprah has endorsed.

yarn -- i do have one guilty pleasure or two.  i love sugar-n-cream.  love it love it love it.  and not for the dishtowel either.  i've made afghans with it.  yessiree bob, and i'm currently making a knitted patchwork quilt inspired thingy with it.  mock away.  and ... i really like knitting with acrylic yarn ... even red heart ... on aluminum needles.  i knit so fast, i swear there are sparks.  (see cathi?  there's a reason why i'm a secret knitter).

well there you go.  maybe i'll make chicken wings tonight.