Okay, now remove the waffles. And insert red velvet cupcake. And now… brace yourself.
Allow us to present Red Velvet Fried Chicken, a Southern-fried classic that defies both categorization and logic, now available at American Cupcake.
At first glance, it’ll look like a heaping plate of leg, thigh and breast. But upon further inspection, you’ll see that the chicken has taken on a slight reddish hue. That’s because your precious fried bird has been pre-soaked in AC’s signature red velvet cake batter, then dredged in toasted, crumbled bits of red velvet cupcake before being dipped in a frying pan. You know, as one does.
And because a regular red velvet cupcake is topped with cream cheese frosting—and in case this thing wasn’t crazy enough—this poultry version is accompanied by a hefty scoop of cream cheese-infused garlic mashed potatoes.
Now, you should know that this fried masterpiece is not officially on the menu until Friday, but they’ll gladly whip up a dish if you ask for it, thereby giving you a two-day head start to get ahead of the masses.
When it comes to cupcake-fried poultry, you always want to stay ahead of the masses.
Red Velvet Fried Chicken, available at American Cupcake, 415-896-4217
I was listening to CNBC radio on Sirius/XM as I was driving into work this morning from Tahoe. As I clicked in to the station, it was Power Lunch time and they were interviewing a woman and the discussion was about muni bonds and the bond market. And then it turned to her new book titled “The Recessionistas”. I was going to change it to Bloomberg as I wanted market news but I vaguely remembered seeing this title as I was perusing Amazon this weekend so left it on.
As I was searching for new books and saw this title, and freely admit I didn’t stop to read about it as I thought it was more of a real life “how women overcame financial trouble in the recession…snore…depressing…no thanks” book. But now as I was listening to the author talk about it, plus hear her own back story, I was quite intrigued.
She is the daughter of a long-time Wall Street man and worked at the family firm, and then started her own. They deal in municipal bonds and private wealth management. So she wasn’t just writing about Wall Street from a room in LA, she knows it. She lives it. It’s her life. I like that.
Now, this book is fiction. And “chick lit” at that. But she did say it’s “some fiction throw in” along with New York social scene stuff and, of course, Wall Street turmoil. I liked her interview and I liked that she said at the end of her interview that there is a little bit of her in all of the book’s characters, and not just the good ones. The interviewer was like – wow, really?? (it is clear some of the characters are not boy/girl scouts or role models.)
The interviewer made me giggle as well. When the author mentioned Page 6 in a way of describing how one can fall from New York society, she (the interviewer) made sure to point out that Page Six is the gossip page of the New York Post for all us non-New Yorkers who were listening and don’t know this. Who doesn’t know this?? Us non-New Yorkers do have internet access to you know :) Duurrr.
They also discussed the market, how the rich are handling life now in NYC (compared to their short-lived fad of coupon-cutting days *eye roll and yet can totally see some ding-dong arm-candy socialite wife thinking NOW she was being useful in her household*), and other fun-Vanity Fair-esque subjects. It’s a 9 minute interview – you can watch it below :)
Anyway, just added this to my Kindle list of books to buy. It sounds like a fun read and I liked the author brief interview. She came across like quite a smart cookie and women on Wall Street (gold owners/makers and not gold diggers) are quite a rare find. I think I shall make it my next read actually. Or maybe after The Big Short….haven’t decided if Wall Street truth or Wall Street fact mixed in and covered up with fiction comes first…since it’s officially still summer, I think the more fun-sounding one comes first :)
Just finished reading this. Wow. A very, very good story. I take back my long-held opinion that Marvel is dark and DC puts out the goody-goody comics…this was a dark, and sad story. And it shows that the DC Universe heroes aren’t all goody two-shoes. Definitely more greater good marvel-style in this story. Makes me want to hunt down the comics that came after this story arc.
Yes, Superman and Wonder Woman will always be “perfect”. Holding up the ideals of truly perfect heroes who will do no wrong, even for the right reasons. But neither is really human so that’s allowed :) But it seems there is a little more Bat in the human members of the JLA and DC universe than I knew…
This (the graphic novel) was published in 2005 (original comic series in 2004.) I’m way late to the table and desperately trying to catch up after a many years lapse in my comic reading. But if you haven’t read this story arc – I recommend it.
Issues:
X-Men: Curse of the Mutants #1
X-Women (Marvel One Shot)
X-Men: The Heroic Age #526
Wonder Woman #601 (first official issue after her costume/history change. FYI – this situation was NOT popular at Comic Con which seems, to me anyway, to be a good sampling of the CORE fan base)
Batgirl #12
Graphic Novels:
Teen Titans/Outsiders (LOVED both of these titles back when…)
Titans: Old Friends
Angel!!!!!! The story picked up RIGHT after the series ended…whee!
Oh yeah – “Kick Ass” arrived from Amazon…
Yikes – I better get reading…I have so, so much to digest – books, comics, graphic novels, Fantasy Football info, Vanity Fair and Vogue issues, old TV shows, new TV shows, movies….I work and exercise too much… oh, and hang out with the buds! (NO SUCH THING as hanging out with them too much!! I say give up work!)
Watched Cleopatra today. Besides the obvious fact that Elizabeth Taylor is beyond beautiful, the costuming, the sets, the filming of such extravagant scenes, make this movie so gorgeous to watch.
What is sad is that today, this movie would made almost entirely of CGI. Now, I love CGI special effects when sci-fi, aliens, etc call for it. Definitely. When imagination takes you to places that reality cannot.
But when you watch movies like this, like Gone With the Wind, The Ten Commandments, you see the spectacular effort made in making these movies. Reality can still be in place. You can make these movies with people, the right actors, sets, costumes, etc. But it is cheaper not to. Easier not to. But I find that sad. I think if you want to make a movie with majestic sweeping scenes then you need to commit.
This movie is now known for it’s pop culture references to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton and the cost. The character of Marc Antony is actually not as big as Caesar (rightfully so.) So it is kind of funny that this is known as their story when, time-wise, it doesn’t monopolize the movie. And frankly, I love Richard Burton for sure, but James Purefoy made a hotter Marc Antony in HBO’s Rome. But he is Richard Burton and that is enough.
Brutus is portrayed as a little whiny bitch as he should be. And Octavian as well (played by Mordred from Camelot so that makes sense.) Funny how the character of man can be drawn so clearly in these characters of history. There have always been people who DO and then those that are simply jealous and petty and ultimately wish those that do harm. Sad really.
What this movie definitely does do is display the beauty of Elizabeth Taylor, the beauty of movie-making from the “old days” and make me a bit sad that gone are these days of extravagant real-life movie making…
Just finished reading the DC Comics’ graphic novel “Trinity”. It’s a story of Wonder Woman, Superman and Batman as they first meet and fight together to battle Ra’s al Ghul and Bizarro. The novel is from 2004 but I just got it in my comic book/graphic novel birthday haul earlier this month :)
Trinity
I liked it. A version of them meeting for the first time I had never read before. Superman likes Wonder Woman, Batman is a paranoid kinda-sorta jerk (but really isn’t that his charm?) and Wonder Woman thinks these men are brave but cuckoo (ok, it doesn’t actually use that term but you get that feeling;) )
It also has a young “rogue” Amazon named Artemis. They barely touch on where she came from/why rogue but what it did offer didn’t jive with my remembrance of the Amazon and Paradise Island (sorry now called Themyscira that simply IS paradise, not called Paradise) lore. I’ve been out of the WW loop for too long apparently!
On to my next graphic novel in the stack. Do I stay in the Wonder Woman vein or move over to some X-Men?? THAT is the question! :)
I just ordered “Red” – mostly because a) Warren Ellis cracked me up at the SDCC panel and the movie looks fun (even though I don’t think it follows the comic much – it has Helen Mirren so it HAS to be good!)
I also ordered (graphic novel) Grimm’s Fairy Tales Volume 1 (although I think I should order Volume 2 ASAP as well) so I need to get through this current stack! I was talking to people in line at SDCC about the Grimm’s Fairy Tales in gand the definite consensus was that these were great re-tellings in graphic format. Although if that lying beyotch Red does anything to the wolf….(is that a Grimm tale?)
Plus I think I’m heading back to Lee’s on Friday so that can’t end well for my wallet….
I ordered these on Friday via endless.com as they had a bing.com offer for 40%. I have a pretty solid rule not to pay more than $50ish for flats as really – that’s just silly. They are flats. I have been tempted by cute Kate Spade or Tod’s flats and some quite awesome J Crew Italian flats just this past spring. But NO I say. Spending more than $50 on ballet flats is robbery. Just silly robbery.
But then…I saw the pink satin mouse…I had to order them – at 40% off designer shoes – come on!! And my perfect color!!! Plus I figured, if I didn’t absolutely love them, I could send them back. No harm, no foul.
Received them today. Tried them on. SQUEEEEEE! SO CUTE!!! They are even cuter in person. I can’t wear 4-5″ heels EVERY day! Keepers….for sure. And they don’t actually smell like mice so the huskies won’t care about them :)
Well, I suppose it’s ok. I read Less Than Zero a looong time ago. Apparently long enough to forget how wretched the characters were? I mean, I remember they were F’ed up but man…this story of them “grown-up” is dark. And messed up. And I really, really do not want to believe the kids growing up in Hollywood are all like this. Yikes. If they are, don’t ever move to LA! (which I already knew…)
And could not ever imagine Andrew McCarthy playing this version of Clay. And this is not due to his inability as an actor but more due to the fact that he seems like a better person than wanting to portray this character. But I guess Christian Bale had no problem being an American Psycho (which I refuse and will never read or watch.)
But the book kept me page-turning, that’s for sure. So I guess I recommend it unless you prefer a but sunnier reading…which I kinda do…
I just listened to Diana Dors “Roller Coaster Blues” on the rat pack music channel on DirecTv. LOVE it! I need this album (and the brunette one of course) for sure.
It’s almost as good as one my most favorite 60s camp movies….
Genius
With that album playing I just need Dino to walk in with a martini :) But I totally need to put on my white go-go boots (of course I have some….not original but they made a tiny comeback in the late 90s. LOVE!)
