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bebe Potter and the Beans of Evil

We didn't wake up in time for dim sum, so my mom fried up some of those empanadas we brought down in a cooler for her. She absolutely loves them! The next time she visits, we're taking her to Mama's to check out the other flavors. I suspect my mom is a huge fan of empanadas and tamales because of the corn. My mom loves corn in any form, so we ate a lot growing up. When we arrived on Saturday she already had some ears steamed. They were good, but not remotely like the fresh cut ears we bought off a roadside stand in Oahu. We microwaved the little ears back in our hotel suite and i cried because we only bought 1 bag of 6 ears.

Around 3PM we arrived at MJ's parents' house, the high school sight of numerous gatherings and happenings. The Beau Lane basement is not unlike the basement on "That 70's Show" as we always ended up there, mainly doing nothing. (Remind me to tell you the story of the 50 lbs of donuts.)

MJ's mom is a professional cook, so imagine a house smelling of mulled cider and a table full of various cookies, each cut into bite sized morsels of delicious goodness, and presented on separate plates. Cookie options included: strawberry jam crumble cookies, coffee brownie bites, almond bars, sugar cookies, gingerbread, shortbread, snowball cookies and peanut butter oaty drop cookies. be opted for hot chocolate to drink, and it was a cupful of cocoa coziness. Now add to this image 5 screaming kids and a 10 month old baby who can already walk! The kids got to decorate their own sugar cookies with white icing and various sprinkles; it was so fun to watch them!

After MJ's, the Rices, be and i drove to Rockville, MD to eat at The Vegetable Garden. It's the originator of "double dinner:" our first attempt to eat dinner there failed (too long of a wait) / we ate somewhere else but were unsatisfied / we went back to Vegetable Garden and ate dinner and dessert again! I was surprised that the restaurant was full at 5PM but this time we had no seating problems. Amongst the table, we consumed: fried black mushrooms, scallion pancakes, squash patties, white and brown rice, plain tofu, fake orange beef, curry hot pot, Kung Pao tofu, asparagus Kung Pao tofu, carrot juice, jasmine tea and lemon water. The food is really good and i'm glad it exists in the area.

Back at the Rice House, we watched "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban," after consuming a Haagen Daaz mix of Peaches N Cream, Mocha Almond Fudge and Baily's Liquor.

Around 1AM a Bertie Botts jelly bean tasting was an appropriate way to end the night. My sister gave me a bag of those gross Harry Potter jelly beans many years ago but i must say, within those few years they managed to make even grosser, vomit inducing flavors. be really gagged when he had a sardine bean! He had to spit it out and rinse out his mouth! Booger wasn't too bad, as was earthworm (surprisingly, but not like anyone's actually eaten a worm) and dirt. Soap tasted like eating a piece of perfumy soap; we could feel the suds forming as we chewed. I thought earwax was yucky but the absolute worst was vomit. The guide on the back of the package really didn't make a distinction between spaghetti and vomit. We were down to 2 beans which could've gone either way, but due to various peer-pressure methods, i ended up picking 1 bean, which i shared with dude, while the more brave L and be had to share the other one. We cut them in half and as we were holding them in front of our mouths, ready to pop them in on the count of 3, i proclaimed, "This smells sour! Like puke!" We all deeply inhaled and sure enough, both beans were vomit-flavored. Due to a moment of insanity, we all popped them into our mouths and all i can say is: i feel like i threw up and i still have vomit breath! It was much grosser than actually throwing up though, because as be put it, it's like having someone else's vomit in your mouth.

L presented us with a container of yummy home baked cookies after the evil bean tastings. be was really excited about the gingerbread people with giant raisin eyes (one of them looked suspiciously like an alien...). Mexican wedding cakes and frosted sugar cookies were in the box too! But sadly, even delicious cookies weren't enough to cancel out vomit. I just hope they didn't use "natural flavorings" in that flavor...

posted by beXn @ 3:57 AM