I knew you all were thinking to yourselves “Self, I wonder when she’s going to post another pic of her food.” Well, here you go.
I don’t know about you all but I get mighty lazy during the holidays. I don’t know if it’s from all the shopping or from all the drinking but I do know that the last thing I want to do is cook every day. And because I want to keep up my energy, not to mention soak up some of the alcohol so I can go to work and drive to the liquor store to replenish the bar occasionally, I like to cook big meals where I can have leftovers to heat up in between binges. I saw Giada De Laurentis on the Food Network last week making this Penne in Almond Sauce and decided to make it myself.

Doesn’t Giada have the most bulbous head you ever saw on television? I believe hers is even bigger than mine, and mine could qualify as a Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon, so that’s saying something. Anyway, this is pretty yummy and it makes a ton so I recommend it for those times the fog lifts and you decide you’re hungry and you can say “Merry Christmas, Mr. Liver. Here’s something to help you out and absorb some of that booze.”
P.S. I joke about drinking all the time but the fact is I don’t drink much anymore, so I don’t advocate drinking your way through the holidays, unless of course you want to, then it’s all on you. So don’t be writing me and blaming me when shit gets all crazy for you and be all “Dear Laura, I went to go get the ingredients for this and I was all drunk like you and I woke up near the frozen pea section of the grocery store with my panties on backwards and the bagboy winking at me.”
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YEAHHHHH! Dino’s and mashed potatoes…..
*** HA! They are not mashed potatoes! Ha! but now that you said that, they sure look it don’t they? ~Laura
I can assure you my “panties” won’t be on backwards. Perhaps on my head, maybe.
*** HAHAHA! ~Laura
LOL! I promise I won’t blame you if I wake up in the grocery store with my panties on backwards. LOL
*** Good. ~Laura
Heck, I didn’t blame you last time that happened.
*** HaHa! Well, thank you for that. ~Laura
You mean you’re suppose to put the panties back on??? Man, that’s been my problem!!
*** HAHA! Somehow I believe this. ~Laura
You obviously know nothing about retail employees. The bag boy would be winking at you because the Manager made the kid take video of him assuming his prima nocta pleasures with your drunk ass.
*** Good lawd! That’s even worse! ~Laura
Emmmmm! Somehow white creamy stuff with green polka dots somehow is just not appealing to me….. I’m sure it’s very good, but….. I’m just sayin..Ewwww! for me anyway. But I still love the Dino.
*** If you didn’t like dinosaurs, I’d worry about you. ~Laura
It’s not Giada’s head I am usually looking at.
*** Ha! I bet not. ~Laura
That looks like something my cat barfed. Sean thought it was mashed potatoes. He even said dinosaurs don’t eat mashed potatoes. Just saying. Good morning! Ha!
*** My dinos eat mashed potatoes thank you very muc. And those aren’t masjed taters! ~Laura
“…I woke up near the frozen pea section of the grocery store with my panties on backwards and the bagboy winking at me.”
Well, who hasn’t?
*** Ha! I’m usually in the produce department. ~Laura
That looks rather awesome, Laura. But Giada isn’t as pretty as you are, remember that!!
Also, it’s not the quantity of the drink, it’s the quality
*** Well thank you, but I’d like to have her money. Yes, I like a good drink every once in a while- but I like cheap ice cold beer occasionally too. ~Laura
If you woke up wondering what happened, all you would have to do is check You Tube.
*** Ha! And search “frozen peas”? ~Laura
Sounds yum. The penne, not the bag boy. I’m not that desperate… Yet.
*** Ha! Never say never girl. ~Laura
Watching Giada is like food porn. I can sneak in some here and there, but if my wife catches me, I’m like “I was watching the recipe, it sounds good.” And she’s like “Yeah, and her bending over and showing her boobs – you didn’t notice those – right?”
Only the blandest of foods for me for a few days after a stomach bug had its way with us over Thanksgiving. My wife was uneasy about watching Walking Dead last night, but I wanted to – so there.
For drinking, I need to see if the liqour store has my Sam Adams Winter Lager in.
*** Yeah, she like to show her cleavage and white, white teeth, though I’m sure you never noticed her teeth before. ~Laura
Ya know, that creamy stuff with green peas just sounds like a disease! LOL
*** Dayum. Like VD? ~Laura
Panties? How in the hell did you know I wear panties?????
Damn! Now I have to start looking for all your secret cameras and stuff!
By the way, did I ever mention I have found dino bones, here on the ranch? Would you like to come see the dino bones sometime? Oh, yeah?
Well tuff tookey! At least not until you remove the damn cameras taking pictures of my panties! Sheesh! The nerve!
*** Yes! I want to see the dino bones! And I can just picture out there cowboying with your lacey panties on. I mean, I really can see you. I shut down that camera. ~Laura
Hey, at least the bag boy is winking, not screaming about a “Clean up in Produce!”
*** Oh lawd. And they have to clean up wearing hazmat suits. ~Laura
Oh. My. God. Are those…peas?
*** HA! YES! Gooey nasty peas!! ~Laura
I like Giada, even though she just seems too damn happy.
*** That probably comes from having all that money. ~Laura
I think Giada only looks like she has a bulbous head because she’s so skinny. Girlfriend needs to eat more of own recipes.
I don’t drink at all, so I’ve never ended up in the frozen pea department with my panties on backwards. And if any bagboys were winking at me, I’d be really worried. If they’re young, they’re probably underage, and if they’re older, they’re losers who can’t hold a real job.
*** All the bagboys where I shop are “special needs” guys. I had one yell at me when I tried too tip him because they have a no tip policy there. I was so embarrassed because everyone turned to look at me like I did something, like molest him or something. I loudly said “SORRY, I DIDN’T KNOW YOU SHOULDN’T TIP HERE!” And then I ran out. ~Laura
That looks good. I may try to make it.
*** It’s good. Might need more spice though. ~Laura
I have never noticed Giada’s head. I am always waiting to see if she will drop something down that prominently displayed chest crater. Girl should wear a chest apron.
*** She does have some big boobies and likes to show them. ~Laura
Vis a vis peas ~ time for my best Nancy Kerrigan impression:
“Wwwwhhhyyyy???? WWWHHHYYYY?!?!?!?!?!”
*** Well, you can skip putting peas in I reckon. Maybe some carmelized onions? ~Laura
Watching the Food Network channel makes me want to cook all kinds of weird stuff.
*** It’ll do that to you. ~Laura
Well, I think it looks good even with peas in it! I mean, all that cheese, it has to be good.
*** It is cheesey. ~Laura
I totally love that “wake up with your panties on backwards” line. Where else but the grocery store can something like that happen! lol
*** The dentist office. ~Lara
Have you ever watched “Semi home made with Sandra Lee?” I like her show, she ALWAYS has some sort of cocktail to go with what ever she is cooking up.
*** Yes! I like that she boozes it up at the end. I also like that her food is a lot of store bought stuff thrown together. I also like that 5 ingredient fix. I got some good easy recipes from there. ~Laura
I’m sticking with the Barefoot Contessa. I comprehend her recipes, for the most part, and unlike rather a lot of people on the Food Network, she looks like she likes to eat.
*** Oh, I get more recipes from here than anyone. Her Parmesan Chicken is J’s favorite. ~Laura
I love watching the Food Network.
*** Yeah, if I’m not actually sitting there watching something, the Food Network is generally on. ~Laura
Hmm…there’s a cute bagboy at a store near me…
*** Ha! Go for it! ~Laura
After much consideration, it has occurred to me that while the time I’ve aged is linear, the time it takes to recover from a binge has gone logarithmic.
*** Oh I know, right? Takes me days and days to recover. ~Laura
I don’t like that Giada woman and her food doesn’t appeal to me either. But I’m glad you enjoyed it.
*** Yeah, this is the first I made of hers. She usually uses too many Italian ingredients. Not that I am anti-Italian ingredient, but I don’t normally eat much Italian- same with Rachael Ray. ~Laura
I’ve been meaning to try this recipe.
I’ve always thought she looked like a lion. Her hands are quite big, too. I guess to match her big teeth.
*** And doesn’t she have the whitest teeth ever? ~Laura