Have a Happy Easter this Sunday!
I'll be having my nondenominational ham, pink jello salad, mashed potatoes, and decadent carrot cake.
I was never big into carrot cake, but somehow this one really appeals
to me, and well, it comes out of a box so when it comes to cooking, you
know, it fits into my schedule of not spending more than an hour on a
meal.
Easter
is a time when I remember to put on rubber gloves when I dye
hard-boiled eggs so that I don't have to walk around for four days with
colored dye on my hands. As someone who has been doing art my entire
life - I have some embarrassingly stained hands and fingernails a lot of
the time. Being a hand model was never my destiny.
A few weeks ago I bought my bunnies and my cadbury creme eggs and my reeses eggs, and those eggs with the coconut cream. Anyway, these disappeared for a couple years - but the penultimate Easter treat is actually the Cadbury chocolate creme egg. Those are the greatest Easter candy EVER.
Yes, I love candy. I mean, it's not like it was a secret.
On
a virtually unrelated note, I was sifting through my vast collection of
CDs the other day and ran across my copy of Warren Zevon's "Wanted Dead or Alive."
I love Warren Zevon's music, possibly more than I love those Cadbury
chocolate creme eggs. And I bought that album about 9 years ago, and
remember listening to it as I was driving to work. One of my favorite
songs is his cover of "Iko Iko."
I'm often drawn to songs where I have no idea what the hell is being
said. So, a lot of the initial appeal was probably the puzzle of
figuring out the lyrics or wondering what they were until I finally
remembered to google it. Anyway, the song has its own history, which
you can read here. I'll just be here playing it on repeat until I need to go cook a ham.
Have a Happy Holiday!
