Tuesday Things.
1. Totally dead over this eggplant parmesan pizza with crispy capers. WANT WANT WANT.
2. Your thoughts on orange juice pulp: love it or hate it? I have never known anyone that loves it… besides my husband! He is the only one I know who buys orange juice with HIGH PULP. I feel like we’re 82 years old.
3. EEEEEE. It’s early but it’s technically 2015 planner time again and I already ordered my whitney english day designer. I absolutely LOVED it this year and can’t imagine not using it again.
4. Speaking of fruit things… ummm our house is being overtaken by fruit flies. Even though all the fruit is gone and I’ve poured clorox down the drain. What is your go-to solution for this? I’ve tried the syrup and vinegar in a cup trick and it never really did anything. Note: I’m also highly impatient.
5. I’ve really been missing the crazy caffeine buzz mid-afternoon now that it’s cooler outside. And for the record, dunkin pumpkin is so much better than starbucks pumpkin. SO MUCH.
6. TV TV! I am so stoked for what happened in the last ten seconds of Boardwalk Empire. I am, however, annoyed that SO much time has passed in the show – it’s made me completely confused and I hate that Rothstein is dead even though he was a total creep. Still completely losing it over SOA – again, another show where the last moments made me go whaaaaaat. Did Jax technically screw part of his own club?? I may say it every week but this last episode of Masters of Sex was probably my favorite. Freaking Lizzy Caplan. GAH. She is so good. And Michael Sheen’s vulnerability. And I LOVE Libby with Robert – maybe because she doesn’t get chemistry with anyone on the show? I will say that I have about zero interest in the smaller storylines though.
7. Um, I could be wrong but isn’t there always “a cold going around?” Like if someone mentions that they don’t feel well the next person is all OH YEAH THERE’S A BUG GOING AROUND! Like really? It’s been going around for all of my 31 years? Huh.
8. 42 sentences that wouldn’t have made sense 10 years ago. Ha. It’s true.
9. I’m having a fall nail polish crisis. Like I want to buy EVERY color I see even though I probably already have EVERY color. Fall is the best. Haaaaaalp. Marketer’s dream.
123 Comments on “Tuesday Things.”
Hi! The link to #8 about the sentences is sending me back to the Whitney English planners.
I love orange juice pulp. Also, Nashville tomorrow!!! Deacon <3
For the fruit flies….put apple cider vinegar in a cup, cover with plastic wrap (use rubber band to secure) and poke small holes. It takes a week or so but it SOOOO works. We had millions and they are all gone.
P.S. Your BBQ Chix pizza has been made 4 times. It’s my favorite so far.
AND….all my girls are getting your book for Christmas.
hugs from LA
I LOVE pulp. Extra pulp. Bring on all the pulp! So I get Eddie’s propensity for it. But I also, like you, consider myself to be both 82 and 13 at the same time, so I guess that’s the old person part of me showing through!
I bought the Whitney English planner for 2015 based on your recommendation! Part of me wants 2015 to get here so I can start using it, and the other part wants to hold off forever on starting yet another year. TIme is flying! The planner is so pretty with gold stripes though. Love it.
That pizza – no words.
Apple cider vinegar & a drop of dish detergent in a glass with Saran Wrap on top worked amazingly for me when I had fruit flies everywhere. It took a few days, which felt like a year since I was disgusted and impatient, but after a day and a half I found the glass filled with a few. After about four days, I had over a dozen in there! I would try that again but just wait it out.
Hahaha I buy the ones that are high pulp too – LOVE it!!! I’m about to buy every color from OPI & Essie. The hubs is going to keeeel me!
For fruit flies I put a Tbsp of white vinegar and a squirt of dish soap(whatever kind I have on hand) in a glass then fill to the very top with water. If you don’t fill it to the very top they tend to run around the outside and not go in. I usually place it wherever I have seen the most fruit flies and I find I catch most of them. It only takes me a day or two and I squish the rest if I can catch them. Hate those little flies!
Try go scratch it nail stickers- different designs for each nail and can put hen on in under 5 mins. Last longer than polish too. Probably better for u while pregnant with no fumes.
I have to recommend Revlon’s new gel envy polish – the stuff stays on a solid week. I have the clear top coat and the color Checkmate, which is a really nice nude. Sounds boring, I know, but I spice it up by putting some glitter on the ring finger of each hand.
Hoping this description makes at least a little sense :)
i am a NO PULP kind of girl. I don’t like things floating in my drink, unless its three pimento olives in my dirty martini :)
Try a dish soap/wine combo for the fruit flies. I think the key is just something sweet to lure them and the soap to zap em dead.
That cookie-icing (?) sandwich looks amazing! Did you make it?
I want to know what that is, too!!!
I agree with apple cider vinegar in a cup, but instead of cling wrap, put a paper funnel in the cup (but the bottom of the funnel should NOT touch the vinegar). The fruit flies will crawl in, and then they are too stupid to crawl out. Within a day, they die and you have a cup of floating fruit flies you just pour down the drain.
I use a Levenger day planner, and I bought my 2015 refill two months ago. Is that insane???
I’m with Eddie on this one, but I’m not even surprised. The more pulp the better!!!!
NO PULP. Ever!
And I’m with the apple cider vinegar/dish detergent/saran wrap folks. TOTALLY works. :)
Mimosa = no pulp; everything else, pulp please!!!
Essie Style Cartel is the only fall polish you need.
1: I like pulp but don’t buy high-pulp. More like, regular pulp instead of all the pulp though.
2: I may have yelled at the TV at the end of Boardwalk Empire on sunday, and yes, the passage of time is exceptionally confusing. I asked my husband if I managed to miss enough episodes last season to make it confusing, and he said no. The flashbacks are interesting, though.
I always buy my orange juice “With Lots of Pulp”. It is SO much better than OJ without pulp!
You may be having a fruit fly problem. But I’m having a MAJOR daddy long-legs problem. They are EVERYWHERE (not in the house thankfully…but I feel like outside my house is their nesting ground). To get rid of fruit flies I always put apple cider vinegar in a bowl and cover the bowl with plastic wrap. Use a fork to poke small holes in the plastic wrap (make sure they’re not too big or else they’ll be able to get out). This method also requires patience ;)
I hear using a vacuum clear to vacuum them up also works splendidly though. And instant gratification.
I second the vacuum cleaner for fruit flies! Works great!
cleaner*
Lovvveeeeee the pulp. The more pulp the better!
Love me some OJ pulp!
My husband is into pulp, too. I’m all right with it, I used to like it more when I was a kid (weird kid alert). I watch none of the shows you mention but have meant to…I’m so far behind on all the cool tv!
I LOVE orange juice pulp!! But then again, I love a lot of old lady things
Agree with apple cider vinegar plus dish soap covered with plastic wrap poked with holes. One day, my boyfriend opened our yard waste bin outside and somehow all of the fruit flies made their way into our house. In literally ten minutes, I had killed almost 100 of them. Of course, then my boyfriend began referring to me as a mass murderer.
And no pulp–ever. I want to drink, not chew, my juice!
Dunkin pumpkin all the way. <3 <3 <3
Plusssss a pumpkin pie donut to go with my coffee :) Starbuck's can't beat that!
Noooooo pulp. it’s like punishment. If tricked into drinking it (I’m not pay a attention and/or at a restaurant where I don’t go alllll crazy no pulp puh-lease), I strain it through my teeth. Like a psycho.
I am completely in a fight with Jax right now. He’s in self destruct mode. Also, GEMMA. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
I know it’s weird but it works almost overnight. Take an old jar that you don’t mind to toss put a piece of cut fruit in the bottom. Make a funnel with paper with a tiny hole at the bottom and tape it to stay in that shape. Place it in the jar and tape it to the rim without leaving any gaps. I use packing tape so it seals. The fruit flies go in to get the fruit but can’t find the tiny hole to get back out! * the hole only needs to be the size of a pen head.
#1- umm, that looks amazing.
#2- omg no I love the pulp! I too, am a “lots of pulp” fan. Husband hates it.
#7- TOTALLY AGREE! I hate when people say that. “Oh yeah, it’s one of those summer colds.” Is that really a thing?
for the fruit flies:
red wine in the bottom of a solo cup, with a piece of super ripe fruit (usually banana or its peel) dropped into it. then cover with cling wrap and poke tiny holes. then after you’ve caught a bunch, throw the whole thing out!
or maybe this would be a better way to use that pulpy oj?
Re the fruit fly problem – The apple cider vinegar thing works to catch them – but if you keep getting them look around, both times we’ve had an infestation its been because of a lost banana (one fell behind the fridge….one was in a lunch bag that got shoved under the sink and forgotten about). Once you get rid of the source they will be gone w/in a few days. Make your husband do it, its gross.
I used to have to put my OJ through a strainer when I was a kid because I gag on pulp! My family thought I was nuts. Well, maybe a little… Not much better now that I am a few years (cough, cough) older. But I can purchase no pulp now! Woo hoo!
My mom gave me these sticky pad things that are supposed to attract bugs and they will get caught on it. I cannot remember what they are called, but so far it is working pretty well. :)
I like the pulp but I live in a ‘pulp-free’ family sooooo…yeah.
And I am also obsessed with nail polish lately….give me all the colors!
I prefer my orange juice to be to be super high pulp. It feels more homemade that way. I don’t mind if I have to chew it. I’m not 80 years old, but I do consider 10pm to be late night these days and I eat supper at 5pm on Sundays. I also call it supper.
as a kid i was totally grossed out by pulp. i can tolerate some now, but i would never buy the high pulp stuff!
maybe i would like capers more if they were crispy?
also, i was at a science summer camp years ago (yes i know. nerd.) and they sent us home with a vile of fruit flies that we had analyzed for this genetics project. My mom was horrified. Before we left they told us that if they got out we should use a ziplock bag with some fruit in it zipped almost all the way shut with a funnel stuck in the opening so they can get in but not out. apparently the key is that fruit flies are stupid. you just have to trap them. Any of the ideas above with the concept of getting in but not out should work.
also in college we found that half empty glasses of whiskey left out overnight would attract fruit flies as well.
Vial* haha
Fruit flies: a splash of white wine, a cup of apple cider vinegar and a squirt of dish soap in a bowl.
It actually also took one of the more persistent big flies that have been dominating my kitchen.
For the fruit flies – get a butterwort plant! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinguicula They send up gorgeous violet-colored flowers and eat bugs, which is simultaneously cool and GROSS and gross and COOL.
*raises hand* I <3 pulp in orange juice. It all actually stems from a trip to Scotland, where were were given "orange juice" (aka Tang…it had to have been Tang. Ain't no WAY that business was actual orange juice) for pretty much the duration of the three week trip. When I got back to the U.S., one of the first things I did was buy a bottle of orange juice at a gas station that was labeled "high pulp," because I wanted to be under the impression that actual oranges were used in the creation of my orange juice. I've been a pulp lover ever since.
I am really tempted by those FANCY planners… but $60 is steep for a planner i not sure ill use :/ Sad, but true. Now if she had a digital version!! OMG yes :D
Never pulp. Just never. And I always wonder if people can drink any other orange juice than Tropicana. I always found it the best above the rest…As for fruit flies, I find them obnoxious.
regarding the fruit flies – the best trick that works for me is by using a very shallow dish/tupperware (ie. i think mine is just a to-go container for sauce – just flat and wide) and i use a glug of balsamic vinegar, water it down so that the water turns lighter brown and then i put a few drops of dish washing liquid (palmolive). i set it near my sink in the morning, and by the time I’m home from work, i’ll look and see the bottom covered with drowned fruit flies. I don’t put a cover on it – i just leave it open. Easy peasy and super quick! I’ll usually keep it out for a few days until I no longer see them flying around. Hope this helps!
my fruit fly problem was out of control last year, nothing worked. I ended up sucking them up with the curtain attachment of the vacuum every day when I got home from work until finally they were all gone.
Is it weird that I’m 99.999999% sure I’m allergic to orange juice? (Good thing I really don’t like it anyway, I used to LOVE the Minute Maid Kids’ – NO PULP – until the allergy/intense sneeze attacks started happening so I quit the stuff.) My roommate and I endure the fruit fly battle in our 6th floor apartment a few times a year, so we frantically clean all the trash cans (even if they are clean!) and usually a small bowl with some red wine seems to help. Get the flies drunk! (The vacuum idea sounds appealing, too…)
Shudder to pulp. The pulp is never delicious and juice-filled, but pithy husks of happier orange days past. Nevaaa.
YESS about Dunkin pumpkin. I am an complete and utter Starbucks SNOB but I cannot get on their pumpkin train. I blast everyone I know the rest of the year for preferring Dunkin over Starbucks, and I will stick by my guns saying everything there is terrible, except for the pumpkin coffee. I practically go into hiding when I’m drinking it because I feel like such a fraud.
That cookie looks amazing! The filling! Please share!
No pulp. For life. Re the fruit flies, I have had zero success with the DIY methods. I bought the cute little chemical filled “apples” that you put on your counter and forget about. The flies jump in (fly in?) to that pool of chemicals and never return. Also, the container is yellow, not clear so you don’t have to look at the mass grave every time you make a meal. And when they’re gone, you can throw the container away and not have to wash the casket. Just a suggestion.
i LOVE me some orange juice with high pulp! that’s all we buy – i’ve even converted the hubs :)
Re: fruit flies – the vinegar in a cup didn’t work for me but for some reason this jar method did: http://theactorsdiet.com/2012/06/26/flying-fruit/