New Extra Criticum Post...

...in which I opine on The Thea-tuh. Check it out by clicking HERE.

(And while you're there, please check out the other thought-provoking articles - particularly those by my En Avant co-founder and one of my all around Favorite Persons on Earth, Kathleen Warnock.)

Tuna New Year

Alright, all you foodies. (I’m talking to you, Rob, and you, Louise.) You think you’re sooooo cool with your recipes and food posts and sexy sexy food photos. Well, make some room! You Top Chefs have some new competition – from ME, Ed Valentine, unlikely cook.

Why? Cuz guess what I made last night: Tuna salad. Did you hear me? TUNA. SALAD.

Yeah. I know you’re jealous. I know you want the recipe. But am I gonna give away my cooking secrets? Am I gonna share?

Oh, okay. You twisted my arm:

1 pack pre-packaged packet of no-drain Chicken-of-the-Sea tuna
2 tbl mayo
1 large apple, cored and sliced (peeled or unpeeled - I used unpeeled)
a couple of handfuls of raisins
1/2 cups of pineapple chunks.

Laugh if you will. It was good eatin’. (Plus, ‘cooking’ anything – beyond a microwavable burrito – is a significant achievement for me.)

Now if I can only get a photo of my chunky little culinary masterpiece....

Happy New Year!

Though I believe this New Year will bring many good things, I also have to say that 2009 comes with one huge dark cloud for the future:

What happens next New Year’s Eve, when we can’t get cool glasses with two zeroes in the middle?

‘2010’ just doesn’t seem to be as easily made into spectacles as ‘2009.’ And when the ‘2011’ glasses arrive, I’ll be half blind - like a pirate.

Oh well. I simply have to adopt a new ambition: I now plan to live till the year 3001, when I can once again get cool glasses with zeroes in the middle. Join me in the future: we’ll party like it’s 2009.