Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • BCC Carbonara aka Bacon. Chicken. Corn. Carbonara

    Black Pepper Linguine.  Who comes up with this stuff? Instantly, the package was in my cart and in the grocery bag to go home. Then the noodles sat in my cabinet, for what seemed like an eternity. Ok, they were still safe to eat. My eternity was probably only  3 weeks, but in my defense,…

  • Book Club and Crostini

    Book Club nights have become almost as much about the food and wine as it was about the book. Recently we read Catch-22 for book club.  Let’s just say, for me, it was more fun trying incorporate the book title into conversation than actually reading the book.  To be fair, it is my roommates favorite…

  • Fruits of Our Labor

    Can you believe it? All of those little plants actually produced vegetables. We actually grew food we could bring home and eat! I know it is not the worlds most amazing accomplishment, but it was a very big one for The Boy. Always being a city kid, growing and eating our own produce was the…

  • Soft Pretzels

    Do you remember Home Ec?  Do you remember 8th grade?  Do you remember trying to listen to your teacher, but writing notes to you friends instead? Giggling with your girl friends about the boy who sat across from you in science? I do. I miss those days sometimes. I miss being able to go to…

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