BLIP: Ode To An Ice Cream Sandwich

O, Ice cream sandwich, thou confoundeth me.  Thy chocolate wafer melteth on my fingers, thy creamy ice milk stingeth deep in my skull as I crammeth you into my face before you mucketh up my T-shirt.   Alas.

I love the taste of a good old-fashioned ice cream sandwich.  It’s like cookies and cream forged into a uniform brick of goodness all wrapped up in waxy paper that never seems to peel off with convenience or ease.  By the time you get to the good part on a hot summer day, the beloved ice cream sandwich usually becomes a ticking time bomb of mushiness, oozing down wrists, smudging chins, leaking onto clothing, leaving a trail of horrifying stickiness in its wake.  O, the mess!  O, the humanity!

Maybe I have some kind of disorder that makes me stress out about messy ice cream, whatever.  But if the pressure of eating ice cream sandwiches is also too much for you, may I present a calming and sanitary alternative: the ice cream sandwich cake.  You eat it with a fork.  Latex gloves optional. 🙂

http://www.realsimple.com/food-recipes/browse-all-recipes/easy-ice-cream-cake-10000001817861/index.html

BLIP: Gauchos Are Cowboys Who Wear Ninja Knickers.

Sadly, Gauchos have failed to create a niche market for themselves in the realm of our collective American adventure story fascination the same way that pirates, ninjas, space travelers, knights, and cowboys from the wild west have.  I think it’s because people can’t look past the pants.  From the waist up, a gaucho is pure grit and grizzle.  But what is he wearing on the bottom half?

Well anyway, a Gaucho is basically a South American cowboy.  You may have seen men dressed up like this in Brazilian steak houses holding enormous skewers of fire roasted meat, and unfortunately, that is what a gaucho has now come to be associated with.  Not toughness.  Not romance and the spirit of adventure.  But enormous skewers of fire roasted meat.

Here’s to the gaucho, that dying enigma in confused looking culottes.  Honor his memory by making something delicious and meaty.

I recommend this:  http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/bistec-argentino-al-chimichurri-steak-with-chimichurri-sauce-10000001094614/