Yes, yes. I’m uber bitch!  And since I’m in the final stages of planning my New Year’s Eve menu, I’m super-critical of the crap so many restaurants in Delaware serve anymore.  Sheesh.  Anyway, let me share…
So I read all the time about how TNJ sucks. I’ve never really had much of an opinion on the matter until I read an article about food on their website today and realized just how wrong this “fine dining” critic woman person untrained palate (or maybe Elsmere-trained palate?) is!  LAWD!  If any of you know Michael and I, you’d know that we like to start shit (always for a good reason and usually because it’s over something we believe strongly in), are pretty straight forward (well, at least I am and without apology), and we both enjoy good food. So, this evening, at Patricia Talorico’s suggestion (after reading her picks in this article), I decided to head up to Lucky’s Coffee Shop to try out this “dreamy” Banana Cream Pie. Now, having a mother as a chef and being quite the gourmand that I am, I’m always up for a lovely meal and some luscious dessert. Unfortunately, the pie wasn’t luscious. Only marginal at best. It had 2 slices of banana in it and what seemed to be a lovely boxed custard/pudding topped some heavy cream, sugar and a little vanilla whipped in a mixer until it formed stiff peaks! I will say this, tho, I LOVED the crust!! But how hard is it to make graham cracker crust loaded with butter? NOT worth the $5.50 this place charged for a $3.50 slice of pie.

What gets me is where the hell do these people come from who claim to know food? Surely I’m not knocking Lucky’s as they’re only trying to make a buck being a small business, but I think Ms. Talorico either needs to have her palate adjusted or find a new job because there was nothing “fine” about that pie (or really any of her other picks in that article).  Eric Ruth’s choices, on the other hand, are spot-on — at least as far as Delaware restaurants are concerned.
Oh, and I’d also suggest that pastry chef Judy Baker either try again or significantly lower her price! A huge disappointment.  Excited to tell Michael about this pie today before I went to check it out … well, wasted breath.  And I was looking forward to it too, damn it!

Posted by Justin in General, Food and recipes at 12:56 AM PST

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1.  Don’t get in line asking questions about the food.  “Who made the potato salad?  Is there egg in it?  Are the greens fresh?  Is the meat in the greens turkey or pork?  Who made the macaroni and cheese? What kind of pie is that?  Who made it?  Ask one more question and I will punch you in your mouth, busting out your grill so you won’t be able to eat anything!

2.  If you can’t walk or are missing any limbs, sit your ass down until someone makes your plate for you. Dinner time is not the time for you to be independent.  Nibble on them damn pecans and walnuts to hold you over until someone makes you a plate!

3.  If you have kids under the age of twelve, I will escort their little asses to the basement and bring their food down to them.  They are not gonna tear my damn house up this year!  Tell them that they are not allowed upstairs until it’s time for Uncle Steve to start telling family stories about their mommas and papas.  If they come upstairs for any reason except for that they are bleeding to death, I will break a foot off in their behinds!

4.  There is going to be one prayer for Thanksgiving dinner! JUST ONE! We do not care that you are thankful that your 13 year old daughter gave birth to a healthy baby or your nephew just got out of jail or your baby momma decided to not sue your ass for child support!  Save that talk for somebody who gives a damn. The time limit for the prayer is one minute. If you are still talking after that one minute is up, you will feel something hard come across your lips and they will be swollen for approximately 20 minutes — and we only have ice for the drinks!

5.  Finish everything on your plate before you go up for seconds! If you don’t, you will be cursed out and asked to stay your greedy ass home next year!

6.  BRING YOUR OWN TUPPERWARE!! Don’t let me catch you fixing yourself a plate in my good Tupperware knowing damn well that I will never see it again!  Furthermore, if you didn’t bring anything over, don’t let me catch you making a plate period or I may have to catch a case over some bullshit!

7.  What you came with is what you should leave with!! Do not leave my house with anything that doesn’t belong to you. EVERYBODY WILL BE SUBJECT TO A BODY SEARCH COMING AND GOING OUT OF MY DOMAIN!!!

8.  Do not leave your kids so you can go hopping from house to house. This is not a DAYCARE CENTER! There will be a kid-parent roll call every ten minutes. Any parent that is not present at the time of roll call, your child will be put outside until you come and get him or her.  After 24 hours, I will call DHS on your ignorant ass!!

9.  BOOK YOUR HOTEL ROOM BEFORE YOU COME INTO TOWN!! There will be no sleeping over at my house! You are to come and eat dinner and then go the fuck home or to your hotel room. EVERYBODY GETS KICKED OUT AT 7:00 pm. You will get a 15 minute warning bell, then it’ll be on and poppin’ after that — and not in a good way!

10.  Last but not least! ONE PLATE PER PERSON!! This is not a soup kitchen. I am not trying to feed your family until Christmas dinner! You will be supervised when you fix your plate. Anything over the appropriate amount will be charged to you before you leave. There will be a cash register at the door! Thanks to mine and Michael’s greedy asses, we now have a credit card machine! So VISA and MASTERCARD are now being accepted. NO FOOD STAMPS OR EBT CARDS (yet, anyway)!

I look forward to seeing you all on Thanksgiving!

Posted by Justin in General at 1:40 PM PST

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Now, I’m not the one to ever advocate violence, but this is some funny shit!!!

Ann Coulter does need a good bitchslapping, and if someone has the ability to pelt the bitch with some bagels (or Chinese fighting muffins as seen in Charlie’s Angels), well, I wanna see it! hahahaha

Posted by Justin in General at 7:34 PM PDT

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Okay, so, I realize that atrocities were committed between the Turks and the Armenians, but why in the hell is Congress discussing this shit and voting on whether Turkey committed genocide against the Armos? I don’t get this. And then to top it all off, our Dumb Ass Bush had some nerve to say he didn’t think that was the right thing to do? Um, yeah. The same stupid fuck that lies all the time and has committed atrocities against middle easterners, yet has the audacity to offer his opinion on such sensitive situations? Um, yeah, okay. WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH PEOPLE!?

Pelosi said the measure’s timing was important “because many of the survivors are very old.” Yeah, well, I’m paying a shit load in interest for my student loans (upwards of 7%) and that crazy bitch is worried about sticking our nose in yet another matter that has nothing to do with us? WHAT ABOUT THIS COUNTRY, YOU FUCKERS?! I was so sure the Dems were really going to do something and work toward making changes when they took control. They’re kowtowing to Bush and aren’t doing jack! I don’t get it. If they were standing up to his dumb ass and blocking some of the shit he does or at least really trying, then I’d say that they were at least doing what they set out to try to do. Ugh. Fucking politics. I guess there’s no such thing as integrity, honesty and standing up for what you believe in. The mighty corporations and that lovely dollar have truly won. Hell, if we “stay the course,” our dollar isn’t going to be worth shit either. Granted, anyone who knows me knows that I love money and I work very hard to make that money, but it’s not from lying and corporate sponsorships or sucking anyone’s dick in the Oval Room!

Hell, maybe I should run for office. Wait, I don’t want the media ripping me apart for being caught sucking some dude’s dick at a park! HAHAHA J/K! I do have tact and some class, you bitches!!

Posted by Justin in ODB (Our Dumb Bush), Political Landscape, Dumb stuff at 2:14 PM PDT

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That piece of shit Jerry Falwell has finally succumbed to the grim reaper!!  I’d normally say “God, rest his soul,” but FUCK THAT piece of shit hater!  If there’s one man that’s terribly foul and corrupt in the name of Jesus, it’s him.  Pat Robertson being next.  I’m sure Pat’s day is soon nigh!

PRAISE JESUS!

Posted by Justin in General at 4:00 PM PDT

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Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries in the Fairfax Shopping Center opens today at 2 p.m.!!!! YAY!!!!!!!!!!!!

Their damn burgers are like crack! Well, I don’t actually know what crack is like, but they’re a fat bitches favorite!!!

Posted by Justin in General, Food and recipes at 1:19 PM PDT

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I’ve read quite a few posts on DWA about Jaremchuk, his political run, comments by DWA peeps, etc. Today I read on delawareonline about Jaremchuk protesting outside BofA. Okay, so, I don’t understand why BofA would want to give credit to illegals simply because of the risk of default for non-payment, but for Jaremchuk and his cronies to allege it’s a national security threat is something way out there. It kind of reminds me of the good ol’ God Hates Fags freaks that claim America is going to hell for loving gays! These people are NUTS!!

Check this out (all thanks to delawareonline, of course):

By issuing bank accounts and credit cards to people without a Social Security number, Bank of America is making America vulnerable to money laundering by drug traffickers or terrorists, said Jaremchuk, who was one of about nine demonstrators outside Bank of America credit card headquarters.

That statement in and of itself is plain stupid. Why in God’s name would Bank of America, a company that’s out to make money, risk giving an illegal so much credit that any of them would be able to launder money?? Ha! That’s funny. And, of course, we can’t forget about throwing in the terrorists. Geez, can we be more Bush-ish?

Reuters reported on 2/13 that:

The new Bank of America card is open to people who lack both a Social Security number and a credit history, as long as they have held a checking account with the bank for three months without an overdraft, the Journal said.

I mean, terrorism? National security threat? These people are illegal immigrants. They can’t legally work in the US, can’t pay taxes without a social security number, barely make minimum wage, and money laundering comes into play how??? Let’s see, I’d like to purchase munitions to do some terroristic act on my $5.00 per hour salary. Hmmm…$5 per hour X 40 hours per week. Wow! That’s $200 per week, $800 per month! I’m rich! But I have to eat and have a roof over my head — of course, my rent would only be $5 week because I live in a house with 50 others and 8 of us sleep in a double bed, but I digress… that would leave me with $650. Wow, I could buy a grenade! And, since I’m an illegal with a bank account and only make $5 an hour, and because Bank of America is so stupid and would never suspect anything out of the ordinary if I laundered 100s of thousands of dollars in and out of my account, I could be the next right hand man to Osama — and be an illegal making $5 an hour as a bus boy at Jerry’s Famous Deli in Studio City (which, I must add that I LOVE that place! Their matzo ball soup is to die for!!!)!

HOW DUMB ARE YOU PEOPLE???

Here’s another (again, delawareonline):

Tom Moffet, 54, of Newark, stopped to chat with Jaremchuk and find out what the protest was about. He was not convinced.

‘How does this threaten Homeland Security?’ Moffet said afterward. ‘I think they’ve got too much time on their hands.’

OH MY GOD!!! Someone in Delaware with brains!

I don’t make it a practice to come out against others in public all that often, but when stupid shit like this is going on and the shit pile gets higher and higher, I truly can’t help myself and will voice my opinion. Do I agree with what BofA is doing? Not really. But to make such ridiculous allegations these people are making…wow. It’s annoying to hear from my friends in areas outside of Delaware about how much of a shit-hole Delaware is and how its residents are dumb as all hell. Well, stories like this surely prove them right. Geez!

I, too, think they’ve got too much time on their hands and obviously not enough in the brains department. Please, Delaware Citizens for Immigration Control, go down to God Hates Fags country and protest against something that actually makes sense and requires very little thinking. Here’s your first sign: THERE’S NO ROOM FOR HATE! But, you must be creative with it. I think using the colors of the rainbow flag would be cool. Hell, do it in drag! Gene Hackman did it in The Bird Cage, why couldn’t you do it for a protest? See, how simple was that? Cheesy. Boring. Yes! But, geez, it’s better than this shit I read this morning.

Dear Lord (as I cross myself), please help these people find something better to do. And, Lord, as the Wizard gave Scarecrow a brain, the Lion some courage, and the Tin Man a heart, I know you can help them find something creative and intelligent to do. So, please, Lord, HELP THEM!!!!!!

Amen. (crossing self — and I’m not Catholic, but I’m hoping Mary, Peter, Jude, someone helps!)

Posted by Justin in Dumb stuff, First State Filth at 12:05 PM PST

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Having grown up in California with many Mexican people, I have always loved really good Mexican. For the past couple of years, I have enjoyed eating at Los Potrillos in Claymont. Michael and I frequent that place far too much, so much so that they know us quite well. They have a wonderful shrimp cocktail just like back home - shrimp, ketchup, Clamato juice, lime, avocado, cilantro, onions, tomato and a splash of hot sauce. SO GOOD! The ones back home come with pepino (cucumber), but I’ve yet to find anyone to add that here on the east coast.

I’ve been talking about checking out Rey Azteca out in Fox Run for some time and was finally able to get out there today. YUM! The margaritas were quite good too. I must say that if you enjoy Mexican you must try this place. The wait staff are all Mexican (our servers were HOT) and they were on top of their game. My best friend and I haven’t had such good service in quite sometime — unless we’re dining at a high-end restaurant, of course.

Los Potrillos still has the best shrimp cocktail (coctel de camaron). Rey Azteca’s tamales need a bit of help - far too much masa and too little meat - but everything else was superb!

Anyway, just thought I’d share since it’s hard to find good restaurants anymore.  Especially Mexican ones.

Posted by Justin in Food and recipes at 8:02 PM PST

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Well, tonight is the last dinner party of the year! I decided to post this to see what, if anything, anyone is serving on the eve of our new year.

Our menu is quite lovely:

First Course: Lobster and Crab chowder

Second Course: Orange Roughy in a Citrus Sauce, Rice Pilaf, and green beans sauteed in olive oil, red onions and a touch of balsamic

Third Course: Chocolate layered cake (milk chocolate mousse filling) served with Toasted Hazelnut Gelato (will have a ribbon of chocolate)

Toasting Champagne: NV Diebolt-Vallois Blanc de blanc

Yum!!! I can’t wait! This is definitely a lovely way to bring in the new year with our friends!

Well wishes to you and yours in 2007!! Oh, and let us know what you’re making!!!

Posted by Justin in Food and recipes at 1:28 PM PST

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Xerox has set up a website — www.letssaythanks.com — with art from elementary-aged children around the country and turned them into cards. Even though I think the war is bullshit, our soldiers have no choice but to follow their Commander in Chief, and Xerox will send the card you select to a soldier for free — you don’t get to send the card to a specific soldier, though. There are only a few designs, but they’re quite lovely coming from these kids. Anyway, just thought I’d share.

Send them a card, honay!!

Posted by Justin in General at 3:02 PM PST

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