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Farmville, Farmtown, Cafe World, and Restaurant City have all stolen my soul. I have to play Mafia Wars just to feel normal.

My first cook book was a crock-pot cook book that I bought when I was 27 years old. I am embraced to admit that I didn't do much cooking before then, since I was either working in the quick serve industry or had a boyfriend/husband to cook.

Since then, I have decided I have more fun using recipes as a guide and building off of them. The internet is very handy for that sort of thing and I have found some wonderful things. But nothing beats having a book in hand to make your own notes in.

Breakfast foods usually make me feel ill in the mornings, so if I can manage something brothy and warm, I will. I will have to find a recipe for this, since it looks like it can easily go gluten-free by changing the pasta.

I always thought most salsas were made without meat, dairy, or eggs. I know mine is. That doesn't make me vegan, or the meal vegan. It's just salsa.

Now, you get an ardent carnivore to eat nothing but veg for a week and you might be on to something. But this isn't it.

Pho Tai

Taxing BMI is ridiculous for all the above cited reasons. Even as someone who occasionally consumes fast/junk food, I would not be opposed to a small additional tax on that. However, with the fact that junk food tends to be cheaper, a tax would place further, undo, economic pressure on lower-income families, which has the potential to cause other, apparently unrelated, issues.

Ah, Indian food. There is a little whole in the wall place here that does a lunch buffet. All you can eat with naan for like 8 bucks. I am not a fan of vegetarian food, but this stuff... Amazing. I can't even remember the names of what I ate. All I remember is that it was wonderful and I have been craving it, at least once a week, ever since. I really need to get back there and have some more.

Green Chili Cheese Burger from a local diner. Ground chuck, cheddar cheese, green pork chili, grilled onions, jalapenos, shredded jack on a toasted onion bun. Best eaten with chili cheese fries and a full tree's worth of napkins.