Quick and Easy Tonight

Okay — here’s another tested and approved quick, easy and fulfilling dinner. Buy pre-made pumpkin or butternut squash ravioli. (Yes, you could make it yourself, but then it would qualify as neither quick nor easy, but knock yourself out.) If you live in NYC, check out Rafaella’s on Houston for some of the best homemade ravioli in town, at a fantastic price.) Prepare according to package instructions. Drain. In the same pot (less to wash up!) melt about a quarter stick of butter over low heat. Add in a package of fresh sage leaves (pull off any stems). Cook the sage til crispy. Add another quarter of a stick of butter and salt and pepper to taste. When it’s melted down, add in the cooked ravioli and combine over low heat. Serve! The sage really brings out the yummy spicy undertones in the pumpkin or squash filling.

Hey! It’s The Single of the Week

Before we get to it this week, I must say that I called Ken’s attention to this song and performance. What I said is: I don’t like it! And he went and made it the single of the week. Whatever. Here’s Ken:

The other day while doing my taxes, my mind turned to the subgenre of booty songs. Mainstreamed in 1992 by Sir Mix-A-Lot and his single “Baby Got Back,” popularized by Destiny’s Child and “Bootylicious” and desecrated by Trace Adkins’ “Honky Tony Badonkadonk,” these songs acknowledge the fact that ass, and attention to ass in particular, is praiseworthy. Leave it to underground-yet-ready-to-break-out MC Nicki Minaj to keep a girl’s junk in the public conscious with her collaboration with falsetto gel-boy, Robin Thicke. Minaj has been grinding away in the land of the mixed tape, and showing she’s no stranger to toting her body parts, has artfully combined a superhero reference with her vagina in the song “Slumber Party”: “It’s tighter than a choker, got him smilin’ like the Joker, got that na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na.” Watch her Shakin’ It 4 Daddy on the Late Show.

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It was a mix of snow and sleet today. It started snowing at about 7am and it just has not stopped. Looks like it’s going til Saturday! Hopefully it won’t cut into any weekend plans.

Enjoy!