You Know What? Kids Would Love It

So, Kirsten and I made pasta e fagioli the other day, and are still working on the leftovers - hooray for modern refrigerator techniques!

Anyway, I bring this up because our pasta e fagioli had a cheese base, instead of the traditional chicken stock or tomato paste/pasta sauce bases. Really, we made mac and cheese with beans.

And this got me thinking - shouldn't Kraft, or Velveeta, maybe consider coming out with a mac and cheese with beans recipe? I recognize it would be harder to store, because dried bean recipese tend to call for several hours of soaking to restore the little legumes to their former glory. But if, say, the beans were included in the box in a can, or some sort of pouch, couldn't it work?

I can see it now: "Kraft Mac n' Fagioli: The Beaniest!"

The magical fruit aspect, I think, would be an excellent enticement to kids to consider broadening their horizons. Plus, it would support the struggling American bean farmers (I don't know if there are any, but it seems like a good argument. If you don't support it, you're a terrorist).

A Proclamation

Hereon, let it be known that Schnucks Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies are superior in every measure to Chips Ahoy cookies. Spread the word throughout the land!

But That's the Only Reason I Travel!

I'm currently sitting in the Baltimore/Washington International Airport D terminal, waiting for my flight to get ready to start boarding (which will actually be in about an hour, so I've got time to kill).

First off, let me say that this is a sketchy kind of airport. I mean, Baltimore by itself is a sketchy kind of city, so it shouldn't surprise anyone that the airport reflects the town - but still, you'd think with all those stimulus dollars around, someone would find a way to fix the water stains in the roof or replace some of the carpets or something.

Or, better yet, why not install wireless hotspots around the ENTIRE airport? I actuallky had to move away from my gate in order to find a wi-fi connection, because they never bothered to install hotspots at the last few gates of D terminal.

No, seriously. I asked.

But, like the rest of the airport, D Terminal is kind of a shady joint, in that there are old gates that are marked "Out of order" and obviously have been for some time - there's no airline logo on those gates (airlines rent specific gates at airports, which gives them the right to decorate however they please - no logos means no renters) and the podiums by the gates are so old they have carpet on the front, but no mounting hardware for computer monitors or barcode scanners. I am inclined to believe that these closed gates have been out of order since airlines went to scanning barcodes on tickets about 5 years ago at least, and probably closer to 15 years.

Anyway.

My real gripe about this airport is that there is no Cinnabon! That company exists solely because of airline travelers like me who can't find a decent cinnamon roll anywhere else! How do the employees here live? Off of the Auntie Anne's after security? I don't think so. Maybe off of the Starbucks?

No, because there's no starbucks here either!

Seriously, how do they live?