Aunt Magpie brought us over a goody bag last week full of delicious things. Pesto, vodka sauce, good champagne, crusty French bread, fresh tortellini, tomatoes, peppers, butter lettuce… and radicchio.
We gleefully put together several drawn-out meals with the goods. We drank the whole bottle of champagne in one sitting. We tossed together a colorful, delicious-looking salad. Atop it sat the shredded radicchio, adding a beautiful maroony-red depth to the palette.
We sat and ate that salad. And discovered something horrifying: we HATE radicchio. Bitter gasp-inducing radicchio. Even more horrifying, we had enough left to make several more salads. I thought, “surely this beautiful veggie has more to offer us? It has such a pleasant name. It sounds so fancy. I would like to be the type of girl who orders something with radicchio in it and say it with a fine Italian accent. Radicchio.”
Off I scampered, to make this fierce leafy veggie more palatable to our obviously uncouth tastes. I tried braising it, I tried roasting it, I tried sauteeing it; I ate it with polenta, with quinoa, with bread, atop things we normally quite like. Still, no dice. The radicchio-love eluded us.
Today, again we sat and ate polenta and quinoa layered with pesto and mozzarella, with a hefty portion of delectable looking balsamic radicchio as the piטce de resistance. Surely with plating like that, radicchio would win us over. After the first bite we set our forks down and thanked God almighty that this was the last bit of the stuff left in our refrigerator. We hunched over with resolve, against the power of our gag reflexes (yes, we uncouth people have strong ones) and finished it. That is the straight story of how we discovered that we despise one of the healthiest and prettiest foods in the world.
We are breaking up with radicchio for good. Goodbye forever! I regret not having fine enough tastebuds for you, bitter friend. Let the veggie gods smile upon us and bless us with many other, more delicious salad toppings.
xo
of having her own child. Most women look forward to the time when they will hold their child in their hands for the first time. In fact, many mothers
claim it is the most divine feeling in the whole world. But, these sentiments are of course not shared by every mother.
with another one of her relatives who is a 35 year old man. She had to hide her pregnancy and so quickly married another man.
but also demean the very existence of woman kind itself.
2 pregnant women were killed in Khanewal & Vehari by their husbands. In-laws were also party to it. The police have arrested both the husbands & one of them has admitted his crime.
In both the cases, the husbands believed their wives had illicit relationships.
Asma, who was 8 month old pregnant was actually killed in front of her mother. They (the husband & his family) beat her with iron rods. The signs of torture were visible on the body of the victim. Moreover, they were about to bury her, but the police seized the body.
Shaista is the other victim. She was also 8 month pregnant & the husband suspected her of having an affair with someone. She died after severe torture. Her husband has admitted that he killed her, cause they used to have constant fights. She wanted him to move out of his parents’ house.
These are cold-blooded murders. It just proves that there is not much difference between humans & beasts. Husbands are ever ready to kill wives on suspicion & they usually get away with it as well.
Incidentally both the victims were 8 month pregnant. One has to be really heartless to go on torturing pregnant women. Can’t they just divorce women, if they think they have cheated on them? Is it essential to murder someone? Does that make anyone man enough? We all know the answer to it.
The government in China is creating a marriage database, which it hopes will be a useful tool to expose cheaters. As the wealth in the country has exploded, it has created a culture of secret mistresses and second wives, even though bigamy in China is illegal.
According to a recent report, Beijing and Shanghai will be among the first places to put a marriage database online this year. The plan is to have records for all of China online by 2015.
Can’t say if exposing cheaters will solve the problem? Those who cheat on their spouses will find a way to cheat no matter what. However, it’s good that China is taking this step. It would be so much better if they would do something kind for animals in their country as well.
Moreover, it’s just not in China, we all know there are women who accept their husbands & have no problem with cheating, cause they have this mentality that at the end of the day my husband will come back to me.
I think the best way to spite your unfaithful spouse/loved one is to have some fun with someone else for a while. You don’t have to have real fun or an affair…you can just pretend. This gives instant result. Or you can just leave the person but that is not very easy, particularly if you have kids & you are greedy. Speaking of which reminds me of women who keep an eye on their loose husbands & only get headaches & tensions. Just what’s the use if shit returns to you at the end of the day? Everything is tainted now. Love above everything else is the biggest joke of the century.
