Keep your pasta salad locked down

I just made a really intense (ly delicious!) pasta salad. Considering that A. I made it while simultaneously watching American Idol, B. and having an inauguration dance party, and C. I made up the recipe in a state of post-gym disorientation* while in the grocery store, it is really a tasty homage to multitasking. And I simply must recommend it.

Ingredients
-Two chopped roasted yellow peppers
-One sliced zucchini sauteed in garlic and olive oil
-One chopped mango sauteed in garlic and olive oil
-One box of Farfalle pasta (you know, the pasta you can use to make gerbils look like they're sportin' formal wear... because they're tiny bowties you guys!) lightly coated with a few drops of lemon pepper marinade and vinegar
-Grape tomatoes for garnish

*Probably no one else is disoriented when they leave the gym. Just me? OK.

If dreams could make wishes come true

I wish I was eating this. Catfish, eggs, grits. But it's in New Orleans.

Shrimp tempura: surprisingly mobile

As I waited for the C train last night I was munching on some tempura. To be fair, I didn't realize there was shrimp in it until I was about halfway through it. To be fairer, this was "tempura" I obtained from the cafeteria that resembled some sort of fried bird's nest. The point is-- anything is possible if you believe.

The violent, edible alternative to fairy dust

This season you probably wished for a way you could capture the magic of the holidays without having to kill a fairy. We've all been there. But don't worry. Picture angel food cake coated with melted Ghirardelli chocolate and dusted with candy cane dust.

Look. That's what I made.

"How does one acquire candy cane dust?" I was asked. Well, that's an easy equation. Candy canes + hammer.