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bad book clubbie
Dec. 4th, 2007 01:59 pmLast night was Bad Mommy night; tonight will be Bad Book Club Member night. (And boy, Bad Book Blub is sure a funny combination of words.)
I am about to go to the Perk to purchase some baklava to take to book club. It's a "no book this month" month (we only read every other month), but at our annual recap and plan ahead meeting in October someone suggested we make the non-book months have food themes. This month is Middle Eastern, with a specific No Hummus rule instated after 3 different people brought hummus to the October meeting. (Coming up is Thai; WTF am I supposed to do then?)
Most of the women in my book club make something; several are excellent cooks, and those that aren't seem to wield a Whole Foods or Costco card well and are rocking the fancy cheese and champagne grapes or something like that.
I have a Bad Attitude about the competitive foodiness vibe, which is silly, because I like food! Only I always forget, and also, we always have WAY too much food, because everyone brings something. Things I have brought include: bottle of cheap wine; open box of crackers and cut into cheese that I happened to have in my house; box of Thin Mints; bowl of pistachios and bowl of figs; tub of Fage Total yogurt I happened to have in my house. Other people BAKE, yo, with heirloom tomatoes and free-rage eggs and shit.
I need to resign myself to the fact that what *I* bring to book club is 1) actually having read the book and having something to say about it and 2) links to local blogs and Youtube and things These Kids Today are into. Martha Stewart, I do not bring.
ION, I received two surprise presents today, and to the one of you who reads here - you shouldn't have! But thank you! (I found it on my porch this morning; I wonder if the delivery person was too appalled by the screaming in the house last night to ring the doorbell.)
I am about to go to the Perk to purchase some baklava to take to book club. It's a "no book this month" month (we only read every other month), but at our annual recap and plan ahead meeting in October someone suggested we make the non-book months have food themes. This month is Middle Eastern, with a specific No Hummus rule instated after 3 different people brought hummus to the October meeting. (Coming up is Thai; WTF am I supposed to do then?)
Most of the women in my book club make something; several are excellent cooks, and those that aren't seem to wield a Whole Foods or Costco card well and are rocking the fancy cheese and champagne grapes or something like that.
I have a Bad Attitude about the competitive foodiness vibe, which is silly, because I like food! Only I always forget, and also, we always have WAY too much food, because everyone brings something. Things I have brought include: bottle of cheap wine; open box of crackers and cut into cheese that I happened to have in my house; box of Thin Mints; bowl of pistachios and bowl of figs; tub of Fage Total yogurt I happened to have in my house. Other people BAKE, yo, with heirloom tomatoes and free-rage eggs and shit.
I need to resign myself to the fact that what *I* bring to book club is 1) actually having read the book and having something to say about it and 2) links to local blogs and Youtube and things These Kids Today are into. Martha Stewart, I do not bring.
ION, I received two surprise presents today, and to the one of you who reads here - you shouldn't have! But thank you! (I found it on my porch this morning; I wonder if the delivery person was too appalled by the screaming in the house last night to ring the doorbell.)