Actual Conversation

Me: So, what is your background (referring to school, degree, etc)
Girl: I have a PhD in Astro Physics
Me: huh

How do you even reply to that? This was a real life conversation with a real life person. I guess someone has to do it.

Just watching TV, guys

Valentine's Day

I'm not sure how I feel about Valentine's day. A silly excuse to buy cards and go out to fancy dinners. So instead, we made breakfast, dinner and dessert.

Lemon pancakes with ham, cheese and avocado omelets.

The cupcake recipe made WAY too many cupcakes. I had 2 dozen large and another 50 small. I made cream cheese frosting, lemon and salted caramel! Yum!

The Martha Stewart Yellow Buttermilk Cupcakes are awesome!

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Cooking a Steak

I can cook a steak almost as good as a restaurant. So good, that I usually don't order it at a restaurant. Learned it from my dad, and it pretty much can't be beat.

He prefers a fatty steak, I like it a little more lean....makes me feel a bit better about eating red meat.

1. Get some filet mignon - sirloin or rib eye also works - but if you want to pretend like you are high class, get the filet from costco.

2. Preheat the oven to 375.

3. Leave the filets out to come to room temperature. Rub each side with emeril's seasoning, sea salt and pepper. Be liberal. Add a little olive oil on one side - this is the side you will cook first.

4. Get a pan that can go in the oven - cast iron works great. I use my le creuset.

5. Put a little olive oil in the pan and turn the heat on HIGH. Get the oil almost smokin'.

6. Put the meat in the pan and sear it. Put it in and DO NOT TOUCH it for at least 1.5 minutes. Use tongs to see if it is ready to flip. If it comes up easily, flip it. If not, wait another 30 seconds. Flip and sear the 2nd side.

7. Put the entire pan directly into the oven and cook. 4-5ish minutes for rare a minute or 2 more for medium rare.

8. Remove the meat from the pan and cover with aluminum foil.

9. Put the pan back on the stove with a little butter, red wine and garlic. Scrape the crusty stuff off the bottom of the pan and add any juice that came off of the meat. Heat and reduce.

10. Serve with the sauce. So good.

He's famous!

(and so are my shoes)

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Nunchuck Skills

A conversation I had with my mom. She's adorable.

Mom: Do i have a nunchuck for the Wii and if i do, what does it look like ??? STOP LAUGHING !!!

Me: Maybe, it looks like this (and I attached the picture).

Mom: I have a nunchuck !!!!

To be fair, an actual - non Wii - Nunchuck looks like this:

Pee 9o ex

Ever heard of a blog spammer?

After my blog post about "pee 9o ex" I received 3 comments by people I've never met. And they weren't interested in my Mochi blogs or chopstick wrapper origami videos. They all provided links to their own pages, praising the results of "pee 9o ex."

I've learned that people can setup alerts that inform them ANYTIME someone blogs about a certain subject. Apparently, these people all have alerts for "pee 9o ex." And in an effort to keep them from spamming me again, I'm making it difficult for them to use the information in this blog.