Mindy is finally back tomorrow (September 16th).
“If you burn toast, throw it away. Infact don’t eat burnt things in general. So terrible for your health.”
Fury of the Day - Servers Who Post Bad Tips Online
You can go right to hell if you've ever:
- Posted a receipt showing a bad tip online.
- Criticized a stranger's tip decision.
When that whole LeSean McCoy tipping story came out, I lost my mind for a minute. Not because he's on my fantasy football team, but because WE DON'T FUCKING KNOW THIS MAN and he should be able to tip or not tip whatever the fuck he wants since it's HIS MONEY. It's no one's fucking business what a person tips!
We act as though waiters are the lowest forms of employment and we need to make sure they're tipped appropriately for the rest of time, no matter what the service is like. What the hell is with that? How did that become the norm?
I understand that a lot of waiters live off of their tips and obviously that's part of the problem. There's an article I love that goes into this more that I completely agree with and you can find here.
It makes me so happy to know that a lot of these assholes posting these receipts online get fired. So fucking happy.
Sweet & Sour Tilapia
Photo Credit: Yammie's Noshery
Photo Credit: Yammie's Noshery
I swear to God this tastes like halibut. And it is out-of-this-world delicious. I always thought that tilapia was supposed to be gross, so who the hell knew this was possible? This recipe BEGS you to get more into fish, I swear.
Ingredients
4 Tilapia filets
1 teaspoons salt
1 teaspoon pepper
1 cups flour
1 eggs
1/4 cup water
The Sauce
3 cloves garlic, minced
1 tablespoon olive oil
2/3 cup honey
1/4 cup cider vinegar
1/2 tablespoon garlic powder
2 tablespoons soy sauce
1 tablespoon corn starch
Instructions
"Mix together the flour, salt, and pepper in a shallow dish. In another shallow dish beat the eggs and water. Dip the filets in the egg wash, then the flour, then the egg again, and finally the flour again. Fry in a small amount of oil in a large skillet over medium high heat until both sides are browned and the fish flakes with a fork.
Meanwhile cook the garlic and olive oil over medium high heat in a saucepan until slightly browned. Add the honey, vinegar, garlic powder, and soy sauce and whisk over the heat for a few minutes until the sugar is dissolved and the mixture is boiling. Whisk in the corn starch and cook just until desired thickness is reached. If it gets thicker than you wanted, add a little water. Pour over fried tilapia."
Recipe slightly adapted from Yammie's Noshery.
Mom Says
Illustration by Andrew Hamm
Illustration by Andrew Hamm
Patsy's
If you're looking for the best sit-down pizza place in this great city, I hope you're going to Patsy's (or Angelo's - the owners are the same, menu is the same). I've had this opinion for about seven years now, so I know what I'm talking about. Look at this monster.
Whatever you do, make sure there's pepperoni on the pie. It's that thick-cut kind that makes you happy to be alive. I try to take everyone who visits me here.
“You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.”
When A Man Loves A Woman - Percy Sledge
This is not only the best version of this song you'll ever hear, but it's one I hold quite dear to my heart. The first time I'd ever heard it was when it played in the fairground at night at the CNE on one of the last dates me and Nathan had when we lived in Toronto (and Mississauga). It was playing over the loud speakers with the noise of the rides in the background and he kissed my forehead as we started to walk back to the car. He'll definitely have forgotten about it since it was such a nothing moment, but I'll always remember how great this song is.
If I'm being too sentimental, screw you! My blog, baby. My thoughts.
Parenting Tip
Yeah, I'm not a parent, so I'm not sure if this would actually work - but it seems pretty genius.
Sidenote: Happy Birthday to this handsome man, Nathan. He's good to me, fine as hell and I'm pretty into him. Birthday, b!
The Best Cosby Show Episode
If you have time to spare, go to hulu.com and watch this full episode. It's the one where Rudy wants to wear a summer dress to a party in the autumn and her mother tells her she can't. There's a whole sequence when she's in her room by herself that I am absolutely in love with. I remember seeing this episode for the first time when I was sixteen or so and immediately remembering how such small things in my life would make me so upset at that age. God, it's a really good episode. (And that really means something considering I always loathed Clair Huxtable - you probably hate me saying that, but she was a terrible television mother. I agree with her in this episode, but for the most part she was way too strict on her kids. Awful, awful woman.)