Megan's Mild Obsessions - Sour Cream

Sara inspired me with her WSIL series and I am going to make a similar series of entries.

SOUR CREAM



It only makes sense that my first article would be the on the greatest condiment ever created by man. Sour cream, and preferably Daisy sour cream, is a staple in my kitchen and I have a lot of foods that I eat it with. Daisy is the preferred brand due to taste, not due to the cheesy little inspirational sayings on the container seal.



Sour cream makes a fantastic dip. I have turned a lot of people on to this, and in that I take personal pride. Tortilla chips, pretzels, and potato chips...the salty and milky combo is quite delicious. Just make sure that you put some sour cream in bowl and don't eat the sour cream directly out of the container...my experience has shown me that mothers don't like that.

I also use sour cream on almost any mexican dish. At Taco Bell, I only get the soft taco supreme because it's the one that comes with both sour cream and tomato (another obsession for another time). Nachos, tacos, dirty rice...many of these are also accompanied by cheese (yet another obsession). Many of my favorite dishes also happen to include sour cream by nature, including the ever delicious "chicken gook" or "chicken divine". Look it up...its easy and delish.

I don't know if it has something to do with my being of Irish decent, but I also feel that no baked potato is complete without butter, salt, bacon bits, cheese, and SOUR CREAM. One can't overload the spud with any one ingredient, but one must maintain the proper ratios. A small "dollop" will do. If you don't know what a dollop is, watch more TV.



When I visit my parents, especially if I'm going to be staying over night, have sour cream on hand. My parents have tried to break me of this habit, but to no avail. My mom has also tried to make it so that I at least eat fat free or low-fat sour cream. I refuse. Sour cream in which the fat content has been tampered is disgusting and has this acid-esque taste to it. If you can't have Daisy, at least have full fat sour cream. Seriously.

It is a running joke among my friends concerning the amount of sour cream I eat, or that I always have it in the fridge. Oh well. I enjoy my sour cream. :)

I'm peachy!

Next up: probably Coca-Cola.

Speakeasy and Swizzlesticks.

Whew! That was one busy and exhausting week!

On Wednesday night, I took the train down to Philadelphia to spend some time with my pickel, because why bother hanging around my apartment when I could be down with my fiance? Jason and I don't have cable right now, but we do have a ton of movies, tv shows (on dvd), and video games to keep us occupied. Since Jason only has one multi-player game, Smash Brothers Melee, that's what we've been playing. We stayed up until the sun began to rise on Thursday morning. Oh my.

Jason had to work on Thursday, so I went in with him and did some thesis research and hung out with Liz and Meg. It was quite the lovely and productive day. After Jason got out of work, we drove to Conshohocken to hang out with the crew over there and drank the evening away.

On Friday, since we stayed up way too late again playing video games, we slept in very late, then decided on a whim to have a get together at our apartment. I was able to see a lot of my friends who I hadn't seen in a while, Miss Michele Muller being one of them. We had snackies and beer and watched "The Office." Doug came over later and we played video games again.

The fourth of July was a really exciting day! Jason and I had to go back to Harrisburg in order to meet up with my friends for our Finger Lakes trip and we wanted to see fireworks and all of that good stuff. We went to Nik's house, ate pizza, played video games, set off fireworks, did not watch fireworks on City Island, and started our trip off right.

The 4th was also really important because NANCY AND SCOTT HAD THEIR BABY! Her name is Anne Beth and she is adorable. Jason and I visited the Jones' on Friday (the 10th) and I got to hold her for about an hour. So cute!

The Finger Lakes was beautiful and we had a wonderful time hiking, playing frisbee, making up annoying catch-phrases, and playing loads of video and board and card games. I have pictures up on facebook.

We got back to Harrisburg on Friday, got to my apartment, and found that Jason's car had been towed because they had to do emergency construction on the spot and couldn't get in contact with us (so they say...they didn't try that hard). A ton of money later, Jason had his car back, I had a "discussion" with my landlord (which came to nothing), and we high tailed it out of there to visit the Jones' and go to my parent's for a BBQ.

Jason's Nana passed away yesterday, so we'll be driving to Pittsburgh for Sunday and Monday. It's going to be a long week for everyone involved, and I know Jason's going to be exhausted. Poor pickel. :(

This week has a lot in store: Work for my parents, packing, helping Nancy with the baby (Scott has to pick up his mom at the airport late at night in Philly, so I may come over and keep her company), dance (?), HARRY FREAKIN' POTTER! (I need someone to see it with at midnight...please?), and probably back to Philly. I will be thrilled when I'm done living out of my suitcase.

That's really it for now. I'm sleepy...and it's only ten after 8. Sheesh.

- I'm peachy!