Fried Snickers, anyone?

A HUGE thank-you to my friend Chris for buying me a deep-fried Snickers at the state fair the other day. We were there working an exhibit with a Ford GT aimed at getting adolescents to promise never to smoke. I heard about these concoctions -- a Snickers on a stick dipped in funnel cake batter, deep fried, and doused in powdered sugar -- and Chris was kind enough to buy me and Jenn one each. What did it taste like? Heaven. No, seriously. Heaven. The entire Snickers gets oozy and melty inside the batter. It's the taste of the Snickers without the solid-ness of a Snickers, coated in sweet batter and sugar. YUM. I can't imagine it's very good for you, but hey, at least I'm not a smoker! And I don't know if it was the sugar, or the adrenaline rush from sitting in the GT, or the fact that Chris shared a desire of his that left me with a mental image of him enjoying the car by lying inside of it naked, but I had weird dreams that night.
~~~~
Just uploaded some pictures from my camera from the last month, and found these:

Berry tarts from when we went berry picking last month. The tart shells were from the freezer section of the grocery store, but the lemon curd-cheesecake tart filling was homemade, as was the gelatin glaze on the two on the right. They were *really* good.









Moxie in the box we brought the blackberries home in. She took to it immediately, for some odd reason. I like to call her "Mox in a box" but only because it rhymes -- this was the first box she was ever actually in.









You may have heard this story on NPR last month: At Waterfront Park here in Louisville, the city Park Development Corporation manager had signs posted that read, "Danger! Water contains high levels of hydrogen / Keep out" hoping it would scare people out of swimming in the fountain. People have always swam in that nasty fountain, and people still swim in it. Kind of sad, kind of funny. Kind of outraging, kind of pathetic. I just noticed that the story got posted on Wikipedia, too.


And finally, the Scrabble board from the best Scrabble game of my life. I beat Eric 416-275, which has never happened before and may never happen again. I will cherish it forever.