With -t on Brussel sprouts. They are yummy, bacon is yummy, adding, adding cream to stuff does not come naturally to me.

a potential side dish for the next game night maybe?

That would certainly solve the potential problem of me getting distracted and burning everything and still not knowing what it's supposed to taste like. Not that I do that every time I try a new recipe. Under 50% of the time, probably.

Eta: Gar, with our tastes that much in sync we should have a meal together sometime. How do you feel about eggplant?

I wonder if they make bacon-flavored sausage. And if so, where they've been hiding it.

We have it in this area. [link]

in links or in a 1 pound roll.

PC I think you did your best communicating with your Mom, you aren't a bad son.

I'll have to try BaconSalt since it's veg! I made some turnip greens last night (from frozen) and it needed something smoky and salty, I think BaconSalt is just the thing.

Mmmmm, turnip greens...

All she wants to do is be a good mommy and come take care of me, and I know it would be bad for both of us because of how uncomfortable and defensive we can get around each other.

This is still my relationship with my mother, which is why I spent a lot of time talking her out of visiting during the whole cancer treatment/surgery business. She was very hurt, but sometimes you just have draw a line. I figured I could deal with surgery or with my mother, but not both. I also have cousins here in town who were very upset that I didn't let them do anything. They drive me crazy when I'm well. I figured that being sick had to have some percs.

I've also made a recipe in which you run the Brussels sprouts through the slicing blade on the food processer, which makes a fluffy pile of tiny cabbage leaves that cook more evenly.

In interrupt this lovely conversation on brussel sprouts to remind you all that Nora is just about the best lunch date ever.

Also, a small bitch:

If you sign up for a 3:30 tutoring session, do not e-mail me and tell me you signed up for a 2:30 tutoring session. I have the sheet in front of me. It tells no lies.

Also. Why would you sign up for a 2:30 tutoring session if your class goes until 2:45?

And, I'm off to meet my 2:30 appointment :).

Why am I at work when no one else is? I'd totally leave and "work at home" for the afternoon, but they might be delivering my new iPod today. Arrgghhh.

Ooooo...new iPod is a good reason to stay. They should give us that kind of motivation EVERY day. Oh, wait. It's called pay.

P-C, what everyone else said. Sometimes you have to do what you have to do. I'd try to work up a suggestion to ease your mother's fears, but I'm not sure anything would do that without wreaking havoc on the boundaries you need to create.

askye, without having seen the ad, I'd agree that it sounds like the imagery is pretty sexual. Assuming that Alicia Silverstone would still be considered sexy -- I haven't seen any pictures of her at all lately, so I wouldn't know.

The problem with getting upset about the ad is, sex sells. Or at least advertisers have decided that it does. And it's always been so, though admittedly full nudity is a recent development. And advertisers prefer to use sex to sell by relying on beautiful women more than beautiful men.

Maybe the answer is to suggest a comparable ad involving a celebrity male vegetarian.