Let's Have Lunch

Look I know Seattle is a big food truck town, and that it's all hip and trendy but it's not cheap, and it's not readily available in every district in the city .I think it would be great if restaurants had lunch carts or even cheaper, a lunch table with a heat lamp on it, and from 11:30p to 1:30p they can feature one or 2 items from their restaurant for sale on the street, wrapped and ready to go.Pizza places can have pizza slices and meatball sandwiches and Chinese restaurants can have pot stickers or noodles for 3 or 4 dollars. Gyros are a perfect wrapped and ready food. nachos, burrito bowls, anything on a stick.
   How come there isn't a Fair Foods cart people love corn dogs, and anything fried, how about corn dogs, french fries and onion rings, oh and deep fried cheese sticks, cotton candy, popcorn.
  Lunch tables are a faster  way to sell smaller portions for a cheaper price and increased business from passers by will have a high volume effect. it's better to sell 30 gyros in 2 hours at$ 4.00 ($120.00 ) then have 5 customers come in for 10.00 lunches ($50.00) or why not both!

The Gingerbread Man

 When I was a little I had this Disney record and I I played it over and over again. I would sing along with the Gingerbread Man as he ran and ran from everybody. 

I've run away from a little old woman, I’ve run away from A little old man,
I’ve run away from a pig, I’ve run away from a cow,

I’ve run away from a from a  barn full of threshers,
I’ve run away from a  field full of mowers,
And I can run away from you, I can!  

Now I don’t know if this particular gingerbread man did not want to be the old couples son or not, because he just takes off running, maybe he thought they were going to eat him. Regardless, off he goes eluding everyone and singing and singing until he meets the fox. Well I won’t ruin the end for those who haven’t read the story yet. Yes all 2 of you.

     In the 1800’s everybody was coming out with their own version. Russia, Germany, England , Scotland and even America. In Russia it was a Kolbok (ball of dough) in Germany, it was a big fat pancake. They must have really loved the idea because several different versions were published from the mid century to 1900.

    In England it was a rolling Johnny-cake, in Scotland it was a bannock, which I’m pretty sure is a biscuit.

     My favorite thing about this whole runaway food genre is that people have been very creative with it and tell a tale based on their food and their culture. It keeps a simple story fresh and alive as it is passed down from gereration to generaton.

    Some of our more contemporary versions include as Eric Kimmel's The Runaway Tortilla (2000). A Hannukah version called The Runaway Latkes (2000) by Leslie Kimmelman. And  Chang Compestine's Chinese New Year tale, The Runaway Rice Cake (2001)

   Those all sound hilarious! But I think for my next food related read I’m going to choose the Gingerbread Baby by Jan Brett.

The Art of Decorating for Multiple Holidays

 

First off I just want to state for the record that I realize some people may take offence to the very idea of combining holiday decorations. I agree that while I like it, it is not for everybody. My favorite is the Halloween slide into Christmas motif; with only a few adjustments, you can have a very haunted Christmas. Holiday greenery looks great with bats and little shiny multi-colored bulbs. Add a few snow covered houses and a miniature Christmas tree to your already existing Halloween village.
     What also makes seasonal decorating so great is that you get to premier your handiwork for three to six months out of the year instead of only one .I like to do Fall/Winter and Spring/Summer. In March I start thinking and planning for Spring and Easter motifs. Yes I think doing a major decorating over hall twice a year is perfectly ok, especially for the busy busy everyone’s that are running around like chickens trying to get from one holiday to another, tearing down and putting back up, packing and unpacking. Give yourselves a break and think seasonally instead of monthly.    
      Will your friends think you are incredibly lazy or maybe touched in the head for combining holiday decorations? Maybe for a while until they see all of the extra time you have for shopping, lazing by the pool or doing Christmahalloween crafts.
       So get out there and turn that fake white flocked Christmas tree into a Halloween tree and keep it rolling right back into Christmas.