In the meantime, did you want to read over at ChopChop about Ben making really good tuna salad? The last few years have found me hurrying past the tuna in the store, eyes averted, like it's an old one-night-stand I'm confused and embarrassed to run into. So it was good for me to figure out what's what with tuna, safety-wise.
And now I'm off to my 25th high-school reunion! Seriously. I am trying not to get some kind of a last minute Botox/latex-encasement combo. Trying to just hang in there with my baggy old self, not worrying if my thigh has kind of slid over onto your chair with you while we're talking. I'll report back.
Here's a photo of me 26 years ago, at a high-school track meet, getting advice on the 800 from my boyfriend. Sigh.
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| "You know that part where you space out? And you're singing Rainbow Connection in your head while everyone is passing you? That's when you've really got to kick it in." |
"Kick it in!" Oh, a world of cross-country memories just came flooding back.
ReplyDeleteEveryone at your reunion will gasp with amazement at your youthful beauty. I swear. I can predict these things. It's a gift.
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm excited about the tuna salad. My tuna salad always seems so.... lifeless compared with other people's. I am counting on Ben to help me!
Why are there so many songs about rainbows? And what's on the OTHER side? Rainbows are visions, but only illusions. And rainbows have NOTHING to HIIIIIDDDEE.
ReplyDeleteYou and your high school boyfriend are so cute, with your short shorts and 80s hair! Of course, my hairstyle in that decade was nearly identical to yours, so I feel I can make such a comment. Enjoy the reunion. I ignored my own 20th last year, but have found some college reunions very enjoyable.
ReplyDeleteYou KILL me! and I would be very interested in Ben's version of tuna because we love tuna!
ReplyDeletedaydreamymama is absolutely correct, they will be FLOORED by your youthful beauty! but you will be way too modest to tell us that when you report back! hee hee! (from 2kidslife)
ReplyDeleteI'm always singing "Rainbow Connection" in my head. It's my all-time favorite song. It trumps the entire Smiths catalog. Though I can't say I ever kicked in while running any distance.
ReplyDeleteI have a 25th reunion coming this fall. My mom's at her 50th COLLEGE reunion at Skidmore right now.
It's wicked hot here can't you tell? The pool's closed because somebody put poop in the pool (I think it's intentional) and I made a meringue this morning that flopped. It's the first week of June and I'm crying mercy already.
Have fun at the reunion. And they're not thinking about your thighs, they're thinking about their thighs.
oh, Catherine, how cute is that photo of you, and how funny that caption? Did you also sing that song "Gotta find my corner of the sky?"
ReplyDeleteI remember you writing about scotch tape therapy before your 20th, are we past that point now? Just checking, my 25th is in two years...
ReplyDeleteYour high school photos must be much nicer to look back on than mine..mine are all perms and Nine Inch Nails shirts and unsavory memories that make me want to lock my own nearing adolescance children away for a good ten years or more. Ahem.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, pardon my creepiness here, but I'm not stalkerish enough to know, or for that matter want to know, where exactly in Western Mass you live, but upon hearing about the Springfield area tornadoes my heart jumped into my throat a bit. So I rushed over here and was quite happy and relieved to see you are fine and posting the wonderful things we all love you for. I hope, since you not too long ago wrote about online "friends" and all of that, that you get why that made me feel at ease about someone I consider near and dear, even if we will never meet.
you are funny! thanks for your brilliant writing.
ReplyDeleteI confess to not knowing what summer rolls are, but it sounds like they could have something to do with our post-children, 25-year-reunion-era appearance in swimsuits. In which case, I, too, celebrate the summer rolls!
ReplyDeleteI will have to miss my 25th reunion this year but made it to the 20th. Unfortunately, I am better prepared for this one and won't be able to make it!?! figures. now I feel like I need to go watch the muppet show!
ReplyDeleteCatherine, you should know that many of your recipes have been incorporated into the regulars at my house. With the weather here quickly changing from 50's to 90's seemingly overnight, we were a bit at a loss for what should land on the dinner table. The seven year old one, hands down, when he suggested that we make "Catherine Newman's Mexican Chicken Salad".
ReplyDeleteJust made your Five Minute Bread. SO so wonderful and "crusty". Just wish my family didn't eat the entire loaf in one day. Do you think it's OK to make two loaves instead of three?
ReplyDeleteYum, Ben's tuna recipe looks fab. Can't wait to try it - after my son makes it for me. I could listen to the Dixie Chicks sing Rainbow Connection all day long.
ReplyDeleteSarah McLachlan does "Rainbow Connection" as well!
ReplyDeleteThanks Ben, for trying out this tuna recipe! You're right: it *does* look delicious. I also appreciate that there is no mayonaise in the Ingredients list. Mayo is one of the few things that squeeges me out.
ReplyDeleteAlso: Catherine. I'm loving the new column! So much so, that I purchased a subscription for my niece's birthday. She's turning 12 and I think that she'll really enjoy this. And, because I love to cook with my kids, I'll be getting my very own subscription.
My four-year-old wanted to help me with the 200 meat pies I was working on for the school fair. As there was much rolling out of the dough and careful folding & measuring the filling *just so*, I was wracking my brain for something he could do. Aha! He can paint the egg wash on! Perfect. So, thanks for encouraging us to think of small tasks that "little hands" can do.
PS - He also wanted to be in charge of "forking" the meat pies (for letting the steam vent). Which is just how I felt after making so many little meat pies: "forking" meat pies... HAHAHAHA! Man, you just can't make this stuff up...
What a couple of cuties in your sporty 80's looks!
ReplyDeleteThe track dialogue caption had me laughing with tears. It just sounded so much like my daughter on the soccer field making daisy chains and humming....in the middle of a game, that she was theoretically playing. Sigh, she switched to swim & dive