SpicyGreenTurkeyDeluxe sandwich/Mint CCCIC sandwich

Just created a new variation on the basic Turkey & cheese sandwich & thought I would share it with you...

Ciabatta Bread... my personal favorite for most sandwiches
Turkey - I went Hickory smoked
Cheese - Cheddar
Heirloom tomatoes - I used a green zebra
Aioli - garlic mayonnaise
pickles - stumbled unto Habanero Dill pickles at a small green-market
Maldon Sea Salt & ground pepper

Spread the aioli on both sides of the bread, layer first the tomatoes & sprinkle w/salt & pepper, followed by the turkey, then the cheddar, topped with the habanero pickles....freaking awesome!

Mint Chocolate Chip Cookie Ice cream sandwich...

This is quite simply all about the ingredients...simply take mint ice cream (I use Adirondack Whiteface Mint Chip) & sandwich it between mint chocolate chip cookies (I use Dean & Deluca's) For a summer treat...this is about as yummy & refreshing as it gets...without a pool & alcohol that is...

Bangkok Haunts

Sorry to break your hearts but NO this is not a guide to haunted brothels on Patpong Road in Bangkok... it's a recommendation for the fiction of John Burdett. He writes murder mystery thrillers set in Bangkok, Thailand & does an amazing job of wrapping various elements of Thai culture into them. The murders are always gruesome(cobra's, Bobett's, snuff) & everything from Buddhism, prostitution, the drug trade, Jade trade, Katoeys, farang, corrupt cops, corrupt military, FBI, CIA, terrorism & the supernatural via an Eastern perspective are weaved into these tales.

What make these stories so enjoyable is that they are told from an eastern perspective....so their views on prostitution, ghosts, etc... are quite different the our Western concepts...

The protagonist Sonchai Jitpleecheep is possibly the only non-corrupt cop in Bangkok. He is half Thai-half farang(Farang (Thai: ฝรั่ง) is the generic Thai word for a foreigner of European ancestry). His father is a GI he never met while his Mother was a high-end prostitute who now runs a brothel on Soi Cowboy where he works part-time. He's connected to his corrupt police chief Vikrom & his partner Lek is a katoey. His pregnant wife, an ex-prostitute is carrying he believes the reincarnated soul of his best friend...

All 3 books in the series have been great & his latest is the best....read them all....

HealthCare Reform

I'll make this real easy for you...instead of going into what is being addressed, what is NOT being addressed (ie...tort reform) & what "mis-information" (read lies) are being presented...simply answer the following question...

I Would Like My HealthCare Administered by the DMV.... YES or NO...

Now that you have answered the above question...(regardless of your current political affiliation & feelings on the current administration) you have a clearer understanding of how you really feel about the proposed HealthCare reforms...feel free to thank me later...

Love Stinks...

Yeah...yeah...but not like you think. For I have witnessed true love recently. We all have our views/thoughts/fantasy's over what love is...I have heard friends say that they thought they knew what true love was when they met their wives...but found an even deeper love the first time they saw their first and then subsequent children...(names are not mentioned to save them from the wraith of their loving wives...who probably feel the same) but recently I saw it taken a step further... On South Padre Island with the temperature in the late 90's (before 9am) and the heat sapping our energy like a solar vampire my friend Terry's daughter wanted out of her carriage and it was because she made poop-a-doodles in her diapers...well Terry picked up Jazzy and put her and her steaming diaper full of shit on his shoulders and walked her back to the condo...now that my friends is "true love" and it doesn't smell like roses, candy or perfume...it smells like...