Tag: Foodie

14Feb 2015 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Three’s a Crowd

Foodie

***started on 1/23*** I'm in a threesome and I want out. It involved me, my Keurig and a French Press. Season 1. In this episode Carrie finds out that Big was married once, and that he had a threesome. Charlotte's boyfriend wants to have a threesome. Miranda feels left out because she's never been "threesome material", so she responds to a classified ad to validate her sexual appeal. Samantha becomes involved with a married man, and his wife offers to have a threesome to keep the marriage together, which Samantha declines. I love, LOVE, and love my Keurig, It really helped grow my passion and love for coffee. It helped me experience what coffee flavors and roasts were truly about. But as with any relationship, and to the chagrin of…

23Feb 2014 by Jakora Holman No Comments

The Good Fight

The Good Fight

Fitness, Foodie

I have constantly been dealing with food and weight struggles. Just take a look here, here, here, oh here.. and even here on this site at my post that chronicle as far back as 2008 to see how often the topic of weight or diet or health coms into the discussion? How many New Years Resolutions have centered about bettering my health and hopeful wellness?? When will it ever end? It's easy to say its more about lifestyle changes, consistency, and all the standard rhetoric that comes along with it. This time around, I'm working extremely had at being committed to my goals by being vocal about my goals to anyone who will listen. I have gotten my network involved by being vocal because it forces them to respect my…

08Oct 2012 by Jakora Holman 1 Comment

Knew Better? Do Better

Knew Better? Do Better

Fitness, Foodie, Lifestyle

6 week Challenge. That's what we called it. A chance to revamp something in your life that you wanted to do. Health? Jump Start it. Clutter? Get rid of it. Me and a group of friends did it. Did we succeed? My challenges during the 6 weeks were to 1. Focus on clean eating. 2. De-clutter my closets. 3. Try to be more organized 4. Be the person you want to be. How did I fare? Clean Eating was really about eliminating meat. And juicing. It started off good. Juicing before work in the AM. I'd prepare a green juice with lots of leafy greens before work. I'd get to my desk and have a ginger tea and water and then my juice. Having one juice a day wasn't too…

05Jun 2012 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Cooking is an art, baking is a science

Cooking is an art, baking is a science

Foodie

I've been giving this a lot of thought. I consider myself many things, but creative is not one. I think that I can follow directions very well. Give me a blue print and I will follow it to a tee. Or I'll take it, adjust it, and make it my own. Or at least tell me what you are looking for an I will deliver. This is how I am about school work. I hate vague assignments. Anywho ... Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't. This concept failed me this weekend. So I've been really into juicing lately and I feel terrible about wasting all the healthy pulp. If you make 2 containers of juice a week, that is a lot of pulp. So I began to look for…

14Apr 2011 by Jakora Holman 1 Comment

What do stats really mean?

Lifestyle

Yesterday in an attempt to "eat healthier" a friend and I decided to go to Cosi for some salads or other "healthier" fare instead of our original pizza plan. I opted for a half soup/half salad combo. Tomato Basil soup and the Signature Salad with grapes, apples, mixed greens and gorgonzola cheese thinking I made the healthier choice by eating so light. I even got baby carrots as my side instead of chips. So I went home to calculate how many PointsPlus this was. Healthy my ASS! Why was a side of soup 6 WW Points?!? And the salad 5 points?!? Pizza is only 4 points per slice (thin crust). How can some seemingly innocent food do such destruction?! I was really bothered, I felt like "damn, I shouldn't have…

08Jun 2010 by Jakora Holman No Comments

My new TV crush: Das

Lifestyle

Because I'm a food network geek I have been eagerly anticipating the premiere of Next Food Network Star. And boy oh boy was it a good premiere.. mostly due to the eye candy that is Darrell , aka Das .. YUM-O! So I of course had to learn more about him. (you know, so when I casually bump into him on the streets of LA while I'm there for grad school) and I had to find the important things: He's 28 and lives in LA. and he was trained in the culinary arts at Atlanta Technical Insitute. Favorite books: Rich Dad, Poor Dad (Robert T. Kiyosaki), The Coldest Winter Ever (Sista Soulja) and Food Lover's Companion (Sharon Tyler Herbst and Rob Herbst) -- well whaddaya know. I too enjoyed Coldest…

08Feb 2010 by Jakora Holman 1 Comment

WTF?? Bacon Mmmvelopes??

Lifestyle

EW!! BARF!!! GROSS!! What in the sam hell kinda fuckery is this??? Are people really THIS obsessed with bacon?? Like Seriously?? Bacon MMmvelopes??? The same people who bought you Baconnaise (EW!! BARF!! GROSS!!) have decided the world needs another use for bacon. Because this is what is wrong with the world, not enough uses for pork fat. From their site: "Technology has given us a lot lately. The car. TV. X-rays. The refrigerator. The Internet. Heck, we even cured polio. But what have our envelopes tasted like for the last 4,000 years? Armpit, that’s what. Really, people? If we can’t overcome this kind of minor technical challenge, it’s only a matter of time until some super-advanced race of aliens with lasers, spaceships and a delicious federal mail system comes down…

14Jul 2009 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Thank you Subway!!!

Thank you Subway!!!

Foodie

I think that we all really do owe Subway a big thank you (and not just for those hilarious commercials!) even if we don't eat their food. Personally I'm not a big Subway fan, its more of a last resort, however their $5 Footlongs are making food more affordable again. Even if you don't eat out, or really eat fast food often, you have to admit that each time you go to do it you look at the menu prices and think that damn these things have gotten hella expensive? Well, if they keep this us, it can only benefit us! httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHIo4VruGZY For awhile, Subway was the lone company offering such a deal. I mean, in reality its not the best deal since chips and a soda are extra money,…

09Apr 2009 by Jakora Holman 4 Comments

Cleo Eats @ Grand Lux Cafe

Cleo Eats @ Grand Lux Cafe

Foodie

My NY/NJ friends (and those in select other locations), I discovered a new dining establishment. Grand Lux Cafe. While its not new to everyone, its definitely new to me. And let me tell you, Oh my GOD, it was delicious. And we all know I'm a foodie so my approval means a lot! GLC is operated by the same folks as Cheesecake Factory, so if you enjoy CF, I'm sure you'll love these people. The decor was very Cheesecake-esque, and the food equally yummy. Their desserts are made to order, some taking up to 30 mins to prepare, so they suggest you order early. I had the upside down pineapple cake and my comrade (Kitty Bradshaw) had the New Orleans Beignets (I ate more of her dessert than mine!)…

05Mar 2009 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Eat Shit: Literally!

Lifestyle

Imagine if you went to your friends house, or a dates house, for dinner and they took you into a bleach cleaned bathroom and served you dinner on a porcelain toilet. How would you feel? Kinda grossed out right? Apparently some Chinese people don't feel the same way because there is a popular restaurant, Modern Toilet, making waves in China. Here is where you can go to enjoy dinner on a "stylish acrylic toilet" and drink out of a urinal (don't deny it, you know you always wanted to do that!). Menu delicacies include: diarrhea with dried droppings, bloody poop, and green dysentery-and these are just deserts! I'm sorry, but there is no way you are going to get me in a restaurant that does this. Not only do you…

12Feb 2009 by Jakora Holman 1 Comment

Baconnaise: The Fattest thing EVER!!

Baconnaise: The Fattest thing EVER!!

Foodie

(OK, maybe not EVER but this is bad) Baconnaise. Yes.. This is a bacon spread, from the folks who bought you bacon salt-which I didn't know existed either. Either way, apparently bitches love bacon... Fat bitches that is!!! NO, just kidding. I know people (skinny people) who love bacon. Like my friend, Friend A. Sometimes we go to Au Bon Pain and order salads. I always get the turkey medallion salad which happens to come with bacon. I kindly ask them to hold the bacon, since I don't eat the hog. She's like "No, give me your bacon. You can never have enough bacon." I disagree, because sometimes if you over load on bacon, turkey bacon for me, you can get a little nauseous. So anyway, I discovered Baconnaise from…

07Dec 2008 by Jakora Holman 4 Comments

Choco-Minty Goodness!

Choco-Minty Goodness!

Foodie

[caption id="attachment_364" align="aligncenter" width="300"] ChocoMinty Coconut Cookies[/caption] I don't know if its been made clear in the past, but I like to cook, I might even venture to say that I borderline love to cook. I am intrigued by the way different flavors mesh and can't wait to buy The Flavor Bible, when it goes down in price. So, one day I'm blog strolling and I came across this blog, Dolcecakes.wordpress.com which features different baking recipes. Now, while I think I have the cooking thing done pretty well, but don't ask me to make a Beef Wellington anytime soon, I have not conquered baking. So, on this blog I found her recipe for Chocominty Coconut Cookies. I love mint chocolate so these instantly got printed and I conspired to make…

20Nov 2008 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Careful What you eat: Grapes w/ Spiders

Careful What you eat: Grapes w/ Spiders

Foodie

Holy Moly! I found this article about a lady finding a black widow spider in her Costco Grapes. For those who don't know, the Black Widow is the deadliest American arachnid-even their web is poisonous! Not something I'd like to find in my grapes-sometimes I just pick grapes up in the store and eat one (don't judge me, everyone does it!). Then we I get home, I run water over them and put them in the fridge. Imagine, ingesting poison that way and not even knowing. Imagine that thing getting lose into your house and possibly biting you! In case you've noticed more spiders around this year, which I've heard people say, it could be because in California farmers have been using spiders as a natural pesticide to keep insects…

13Nov 2008 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Plastic Surgery Mishap: Hang Mioku

Lifestyle

After reading this I knew I wanted to blog about this. So, first I sent it to a few of my nearest and dearest friends for conversation ideas at work and kinda let the day slip away. Anyway, sometimes we forget that plastic surgery is not an American addiction, it is coveted by many across the globe. Hang Mioku, 48, is a Korean woman who became addicted to plastic surgery after having her first surgery at age 28. After her first surgery she moved to Japan and had many more operations eventually leading to her face being left enlarged and disfigured. Her face was so disfigured that her parents didn't even recognize her. Some saw this addiction as a sign of a psychological disorder. Her parents, after the shock that…

02Nov 2008 by Jakora Holman No Comments

Do Calories Matter?

Do Calories Matter?

Foodie

So, the other day I read an article on the NYtimes website on my Blackberry titled "Calories Do Count." Basically, the article talked about the rising resurgence of calorie-counting, which is something many dieters have done or currently do; and how this has led to, at least in New York right now, the now ever popular occurrence of calorie contents of food posted on menu items. I know it happened to me one day. I was in New York, near Time Square at the NewsCorp building and I went to a Wendy's for a cheap quick lunch. Now, I know damn well I shouldn't be eating Wendy's, especially since I've been gym slacking. But I wasn't about to spend $15 dollars on a salad I wasn't guaranteed to like. And…