The Main Characters

The Man (of the House): The love of my life. Severely addicted to books (that take up WAYYYY too much space in our house) and raw garlic. We've been married 15 years, but involved for many more. Long story....

Our Kids:
SC: Age 14. Book addicted like both her parents. Serious, but with a nice sense of humor. Well mannered in the eyes of the world, but at home,it can be another story--she's a teenager(!)

JR: Age 10 I think of her as a Disney Princess's evil twin. All the eccentricity of both sides of the family wrapped up in a sweet little body and an adorable smile. People find her a darling. I do too, but I also find her exhausting!

The Beasts: Our 2 cats, both adopted from animal rescue. "Bart" is a big, solid black, total teddy bear of a cat. Our brown tabby queeen "Bella" is in love with The Man, though she seems to like me too!

Me: Children's librarian by day, tired keeper of all of the above by night. When I think of my life, I think of Nicole Hollander (Sylvia)'s immortal line about things that are easier than combining a family and a career. Like swimming the Amazon covered in peanut butter....

Thursday Thirteen #19: A Thousand Posts and Still Ranting

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posted Thu, 03/06/08

I was getting ready to write a post and noticed that the last one was my 999th. So I decided to take a look at my most read entries. And I am beginning to think that I should just rename this blog "The Library Lady COOKS", because it's mostly my recipes that seem to get hits!

But I'm a dilettante. As my banner says around here it's "Family. Books. Politics. Just Plain Kvetching"
So I'll keep up with the recipes. But I also intend to keep on kvetching about anything and everything for my next thousand posts. So here's

MY THIRTEEN MOST POPULAR (AT LEAST IN HITS) POSTS:

13) We Are All Immigrants This is the one political post that made it onto this list. I wanted to remind people that ALL of our families came here with the same dream, that most of us were discriminated against when we came, and why we should WELCOME immigrants.

12) Roasted Brussels Sprouts w/Garlic Don't tell me you don't like these little sweeties until you've tried them this way!

11) Butternut Squash "Risotto" Baked in the oven, this is easy and healthy--it's a "Cooking Light" recipe.

10) Aglio Ollio Pasta with garlic and olive oil. Fast, easy and a favorite of my garlic addicted spouse!

9) Pancit Canton The Filipino equivalent of lo mein, there are a million variations on this recipe. This version is from my sister-in-law Rosie, one of the best cooks on earth. Everyone who tastes it wants the recipe!

8) Chocolate Pavlova This is from Nigella Lawson. JR has asked for this as a birthday cake!

7) Arroz con Pollo Chicken and rice. Sausage gives it zip. A favorite crock pot recipe.

6) Hummus There are lots of recipes forthis dip, but I like this simple version. More garlic, of course....

5) Beef Stroganoff Another crock pot winner.

4) Story Times Well, I AM "The Library Lady"! I promise to get back to updating this page one of these years ....

3) The Recipe File All of the recipes in this list, plus all the others I've posted are here.

2) Turkey Meatballs No garlic in these, just onions. These also work perfectly with ground beef. Either way they are a kid favorite at my house

AND (DRUM ROLL)

The top blog post I've done is:

1)Enlighten the Gentiles #9: Toches

But why is this post so popular? Why did it get thousands of hits more than any other post?
Because it used to feature a picture of Bart Simpson and HIS toches!!!!!
And I say USED to because I've since removed it. DOH!

And that's all there is for another thousand posts...................

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