Quote of the Week

I’m not sure how it’s Monday again, because I’m pretty sure Friday was only 20 minutes ago. Regardless, I had a pretty productive weekend: I watched all of Lost in Space on Netflix, I meal prepped for the week (something I’ve never really done before) and went to a HomeBrew Beer festival at Famulari’s Brewpub on James Island. One of the homebrewers made a beer out of ground crickets, and since I’ll try anything once, I grabbed a sample (it was anti-climactic: it only tasted like beer). This is the 2nd time in 2 months I’ve consumed some kind of bug, and this is not necessarily a trend I’d like to continue.

I’ve pretty much only been drinking cocktails and rosé lately, so the beer festival was a nice reminder that I love drinking craft beer. In honor of that, here’s a quote from Arnold Schwarzenegger about the magical elixir that is beer.

Ahmen to Ahnold.

It’s the last day of April, which means summer is right around the corner! My beach body is currently more of a “chips and queso body,” but that queso was delicious, so I have no regrets. This week, my bestie Lauren is visiting me from DC and we’re going to celebrate Cinco de Mayo in style!

Like this, but with margaritas.

In honor of Cinco de Mayo, this week’s quote comes from Ken Baumann and pretty much sums up how I feel about tacos (and Mexican food in general).

“I love tacos. I could write prophetically about how perfect the taco is.”
— Ken Baumann

Ken and I are on the same wavelength fo sho.

Happy Tuesday friends! I’m a day late getting my QOTW published because I spent all yesterday recovering from High Water Music Festival. Turns out, I’m way too old to be going to weekend-long music festivals. I still feel like I need about a week to recover. It was worth it to see Shovels and Rope, Tank and the Bangas, and St. Paul and the Broken Bones (among others), but next time I’m really going to have to learn how to pace myself (read: not drink vodka for 8 hours).

It’s good that I’m wearing sunglasses so you can’t see my “I’ve been drinking vodka all day” eyes.

There was a ton of delicious food available at the festival, however due to the insane lines (a lot of places had like an hour long wait), I pretty much just ate corndogs because A. the line was shorter and B. corndogs are delicious and underrated. So in honor of that, this week’s food quote comes from Anthony Bourdain, who I believe was totally talking about corndogs when he said this.

“Good food is very often, even most often, simple food.”
— Anthony Bourdain

I agree, Anthony. I agree.

So this weekend, the Queens went to Orlando to spend a couple days at Disney World and then watch Turnquist’s husband and his friend compete in an Ironman. Both of the boys finished in waaaay less time than it would’ve taken me (in that it would’ve taken me six years to complete a 1.2-mile swim, 56-mile bike ride, and 13-mile run) and they got cool medals to prove it!

You’re never too old for Disney!

We saved lots of money (and I somewhat stuck to the semi-diet I’ve been doing lately) by bringing our own food. I only cheated when it came to getting a Dole Whip, which is a must at Disney. In honor of that, this week’s quote comes from a highly underrated Disney move, Ratatouille.

“If you are what you eat, then I only want to eat the good stuff.”
— Ratatouille

I’m joking. The Easter Bunny didn’t bring me a t-shirt, but he did bring me lots of chocolate, in the form of Reese’s Easter Eggs. I don’t eat a lot of candy, but I find Reese’s Easter Eggs to be completely irresistible. Don’t @ me.

This week’s quote is inspired my by Easter basket full of chocolate and comes from author Amy Neftzger.

“I’m pretty sure that eating chocolate keeps wrinkles away because I have never seen a 10 year old with a Hershey bar and crows feet.”
— Amy Neftzger

I know I’m not the first person to say that, and I certainly won’t be the last, but I am absolutely drained from my trip to Seattle. Don’t get me wrong, I had an amazing time and I wouldn’t change a single second, but traveling can really take it out of a person! I feel like I need a week to sleep and eat only lettuce to make up for all the damage I did to my body at Taste of Washington. Delicious, delicious damage.

This week’s quote comes from renowned chef and personal hero, Julia Child. She’s the Meryl Streep of the food world, IMO.

“Fat gives things flavor”
— Julia Child

Preach, girl.

Here’s hoping you guys are fully recovered from your St. Paddy’s Day festivities. It took me most of Sunday in order to feel like a human again. But recover I must, because this week I’m heading to Seattle to take part in the Taste of Washington (basically CHSWFF but in Seattle)! I’m really excited because I’ve never actually been to Seattle, and I really can’t think of a better way to be introduced to the city. For those of you who’ve been, any suggestions for what I should do while I’m there?

This week’s quote is in honor of my upcoming trip and comes from author Sandra Brown. It’s a little risqué and sassy, which is exactly my type of humor.

“The F word turns me on, she whispered.
The F word?
Food”
— Sandra Brown

Food is my #1 turn on for sure.

It’s officially (almost) my favorite week of the year! Charleston Wine + Food is a 5-day long celebration of the food, culture, and history of Charleston and the south in general. I’ll be an official member of the Street Team again this year, so you can live vicariously through me on Instagram, Facebook, and Twitter (but mostly Instagram).

Maybe this year we’ll take less awkward photos together.

To celebrate this magical time of the year, I selected a quote from author and actress Fannie Flagg, and I think it does a great way of explaining why the festival is so important to Charleston as a whole.

“The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person’s culture.”
— Fannie Flagg

So this weekend, I celebrated my first ever Chinese New Year in DC with friends, fun, and lots of dumplings. I feel like I have so much more appreciation for Chinese culture since my trip to Beijing last year, so it was really fun to relive some of that in a little way.

Any excuse to travel is a good excuse!

This week’s quote comes from Chef Eddie Huang and it made me giggle, so I hope you enjoy!

Soup dumplings, sitcoms, one-night stands–good ones leave you wanting more.
— Eddie Huang

Happy Monday, friends and followers. This week contains my least favorite holiday of the year, Valentine’s Day. Even when I was in relationships, it was always my least favorite holiday because it always felt so contrived and lame. In college, we even made a black heart cake as a form of protest.

Delicious, delicious protest.

This year, I thought I’d go with a fun quote (rather than a bitter one, because who wants to read that?? Not you, I’m assuming). It comes from author Elizabeth Gilbert, and it pretty much summarizes me: in a serious relationship with food.

“I love my pizza so much, in fact, that I have come to believe in my delirium that my pizza might actually love me, in return. I am having a relationship with this pizza, almost an affair.”
— Elizabeth Gilbert