She's so pretty.

*blushes*

Always nice to get compliments from the Cool Kids.

OLD SKOOL FTW!!!

*high five*, my fellow size queen.

Comcast. I haz it. You get your choice of like 4 R&B stations. I totally listen when I am doing housework.

Yes, it's all coming back to me now. Damn...my brain is really not engaged today at.all. The good thing is, less than an hour til I take off a couple hours early!

Thank you, you're sweet! I live on the other coast, but I'be been really missing NYC lately. I will most definitely let you know if I'm in the area.

Hi there! Okay, this is kind of complicated. It was a LOT of work, and it was a HUUUUGE recipe, but I think it turned out okay.

Meat mixture:
2 lbs ground pork
2 lbs ground beef
5 cloves garlic, minced
1 small onion, minced
2 tsp dried parsley
2 eggs
1/2 c. breadcrumbs
1 tsp salt
As much black pepper as you want (I love black pepper)

Combine everything really well.

You'll also need a ketchup glaze and a bunch of mashed potatoes. I'll get to that in a second.

You'll need three round foil cake pans. (Not pie pans - they taper down too much at the bottom.) Divide the meat mixture into even thirds, then press it down as flat as you can into the pie pans.

Bake at 400° until the middle reaches 155°F (yay for probe thermometers!) Let cool for about 10 minutes or so. Then carefully take them out of the pan (I did this by carefully inverting each "cake" onto a plate,) and let them cool until they're easy enough to handle.

While they're baking, you can make the ketchup glaze and the mashed potatoes.

Potatoes:
Just make a fucking metric ton of Potato Buds. It HAS to be the fakey generic potato buds, unless you can make extremely fine and creamy "real" mashed potatoes. I can't even remember how much I made, but you said your BF loves mashed potatoes, so either way, make a lot. :)

Ketchup glaze:
1/2 cup barbecue sauce (any kind you like)
1/2 cup ketchup
1 Tbsp. hot sauce (of your choosing)

Okay, now that you have your potatoes and ketchup glaze, it's time to prepare the layers. The layers will probably have a rounded top at this point. Carefully slice off the roundy part -- it'll be a little bit like removing the very peak of a muffin top, I guess. Just make sure the surfaces of your layers are all flat. I ended up saving the stuff I sheared off, and I gave it to my BF in the form of a sandwich before dinner was ready :)

Next I put one layer down on a cookie sheet, and glazed the top of it with some of the ketchup mixture. I set the next layer on top of that, and glazed it with more ketchup mixture. You can be kinda sloppy with the ketchup mixture, since there's a LOT of it and it adds flavor, so just throw on as much as you want. Finally I set the last layer on top. You'll now have a tower of three layers.

Carefully "frost" your cake with the mashed potatoes. I slathered it on pretty thick.

I stuck it back in the oven for a few minutes to re-warm it and to let the potatoes brown a bit, like meringue peaks. Then I stuck an olive on top like a cherry and served it.

Like I said: HUUUUUGE recipe! But it was a big hit and it would probably work well for a larger group or a party. It's a bit much for two people. My BF and I ate leftovers for a week and still couldn't finish it. :)

I really hope you enjoy it!

Your avatar is yummy! I have nothing but love for the nom nom nomable surf wax users.

I was obsessed with Marvin when I was 18- but somehow I missed this!

Thanks!

I dont know If I should Die Tonight...this is NEW!
Also, I so didnt catch on until now- thanks for sending me your real name...

Okay I am not a total freak, but I was listening to Donny Hathaway and Roberta Flack duet and thought of you all on Jez today...
must check out website, very excited...

Why hello there! Shall I find you on facebook?

It's just vulgar.

Oh - and did you get any insight into why you were treated differently from your other siblings? Were you all biologically related? I'm sorry you have to deal with that...it can't be easy. :( I feel fortunate because after separating myself from my adoptive family, I was able to rejoin my bio extended family. They've been really awesome and supportive.

Hi, my sis and I were adopted together - as a package deal. So yeah, she's my bio-sister. We do have very different personalities - I was always resistant to my adoptive parents, and was very introverted and questioned things - including why they parented us the way they did. In school, she was always the teacher's pet, and me...not so much. I think maybe because again, I was introverted and bookish, whereas she was out-going and the conventionally pretty, popular one. (My sweet revenge is that I grew to be 6 inches taller than her and now when people see pics of us together, they comment that I got the "good" genes.")

he grew up in freeport and i grew up in elmont before i moved to merrick....obviously neither are ghettos cause we are on li, but culturally they are incredibly mixed

Sorry, happily taken and not traveling to NY anytime soon. However, I appreciate the flattering comments. =)

Yeah, online purchase of guns should be a no-no. I'm pro-ownership, and I still think that shit's dumb.

My darling, I will support you and our Linds forever!!! Come rest your head on my shoulder!
I do secretly wish that she will move back to NYC. I like NY Linds much more than LA Linds.