I have all these post ideas in my head jumbled together, along with (for some weird reason) images from a decorating magazine I read years ago.  I keep remembering this ritzy version of a seaside-cottagey-type house and visualizing the gorgeous dining room.  I think that the decorating blog browsing I did yesterday is getting to me.

Anyway, I’m going to make today All! About! Food! here, because I’ve been feeling like cooking lately and haven’t been cooking because it means I have to wash all the dishes I’ve been avoiding.  Also, we went out to eat a lot this weekend (went to Boston), and so of course that makes me think of food.

I have chocolate chips, so I’ve been browsing for a perfect chocolate chip cookie recipe.  I’ve found this one at Food Network, and this at someone’s blog, and the original Tollhouse cookie recipe, and many others, but I’m giving up.  I look at them and they all are so similar, and E will only sigh and say “I wish your sister had made these”, no matter what I do.  You see, my sister makes The Best Chocolate Chip Cookies In The World, and no replication of her exact recipe will ever recreate her cookies.  I’ve tried and it’s always the same with the sighing and the shame.  My cheesecake is better than hers, though, and she can’t make a pie crust to save her life.

Second foodie item: I have decided to go on a quest for a beef with ginger and lime and garlic and maybe scallion recipe, and the internet doesn’t agree with me that such a thing should exist.  I’ve been craving some sort of Thai gingery-garlicky-limey thing for a while now and I’m going to have to go it alone and hope for yummy.  We did go out for Thai this weekend, and got Pad Thai, which Boyo and I loved (though the shrimp were severely lacking, which he didn’t like.  The kid is weird with the shrimp love thing.  He goes on these strange vegetarian kicks because “they have to take out the eyes”, but shrimp are always okay.  Their eyes don’t count somehow.)

Lastly, a recipe.  The best and easiest and moistest cake in the world for the utterly lazy.  If it comes out moist in my overhot cake-ruining oven, then it’ll come out moist in yours.   Simply get a box of cake mix and a box of pudding mix (either white/yellow cake and whatever flavor pudding,  or match the flavors of the two), some cold milk, and an egg.  Grease and flour your cake pan(s) and heat your oven according to the back of the cake mix box.  Mix the pudding according to the pudding mix directions.  Then dump the cake mix into a bowl, add one egg, and add 2/3 of a cup of pudding.  Mix, pour into pan(s) and bake.  You can eat the rest of the pudding while you wait, or you could always save it and use it for filling.  Voila, super-moist lazy man’s cake.

Also in Boston, we had The World’s Best Hamburgers, according to E.  I thought they were good, too, but not World’s Best, but anyway – if ever you are in Boston, go to 21st Amendment for burgers.  They won’t cost an arm and a leg, and they’re quite tasty.