Sunflower Seed Pesto and Crushes

Hey bloggers, readers, and silent lurkers.

How’s the week going so far? I can’t believe its midweek! I can’t believe its almost November. I’m still thinking its May 1999.

Anyhow, I as I was teaching my 5 year olds today, I noticed the kids teasing this one kid about him having a crush on some other girl in our class. It was very cute, and it got me thinking.

When I was in high school, I had about three crushes. ot all at once, usually one replaced the other because swooning over one took a lot of energy as is.  Currently, there isn’t someone in my real day to day life I have a crush on, but there are plenty of the people in the media I’m totally crushing on. I thought I would interview my roommate too to see how we stack up. Here we go:

Me:

Moi (for the record, my hair never looks this good, this was the day I got a blowout)

Celebrity Crush: James Franco

Fictional TV character: “E”  from “Entourage”(played by Kevin Connely)

Fiction movie character: “Phil” (Bradley Cooper) from the “Hangover”

Gay man crush: Bravo’s Andy Cohen

Cartoon Crush: “Trent” from Daria

Girl Crush: Ellen Paige

Over 40 crush: Jon Stewart

Over 50 crush: Dr. Drew Pinsky

Musician Crush: Sondre Lerche

Athlete Crush: Ryan Lochte

Author Crush: i’ll give this to Jon Stewart again

Politician Crush: I pass, politics turns me off

Broadway Musical Crush: Maurice from Les Mis

My roommate:

The Roommate

Celebrity crush: Taye Diggs

Fictional TV character: “Vince” (from Entourage)

Fiction movie character: “Phil” (Bradley Cooper) from the “Hangover”

Gay man crush: “lloyd” (played by Rex Lee) from Entourage

Cartoon Crush: “Demitri” from Disney’s Anastasia

Girl Crush: Reese Witherspoon

Over 40 crush: Hugh Jackman

Over 50 crush: Betty White

Musician Crush: Fifty Cent

Athlete Crush: Chad Ocho Sinco

Author Crush: Augesten Borrroughs

Politician Crush: Obama (although John Edwards before he cheated on his wife)

Broadway Musical Crush: “Seymor” from Little Shop of Horrors

maybe we should just have a crush on each other

Care to chime in with your crushes? Guy readers out there, you too!

We had a bunch of basil in the fridge that was about to go bad, and I am not one to waste perfectly good basil (or any food really). We had o pine nuts in the house, so I improvised with sunflower seeds. Heres what you need:

-1/4 cup sun flower seeds.

-a few leaves of fresh basil

-1 tbs dijon mustard

-2 tbs parmesan cheese

-2 tbs olive oil

-salt and pepper to taste

Toast the sunflower seeds by putting them in a pan on high heat and tossing them every few seconds so they slightly brown on all sides.

Place the basil, seeds, parm, oil, mustard, salt and pepper in a food processor (or in my case, the magic bullet).

Pour over spaghetti (or spaghetti squash in our case) and swivel your fork!

serve and swivel