Life is hard for a White Class Girl. You're at a party, enjoying your PBR from the keg when you put your cup down, turn around to find it lost amid a sea of nondescript look-alikes. You spend the next ten minutes attempting to remember at how much you had drunk in a futile effort to distinguish your beer from all drinks before you. Forget that. Nobody wants to suck down someone else's blue ribbon backwash. What to do? Wine charms wont fit a keg cup, (and they are so not White Class Girl) sharpie is way to déclassé. Answer, give your cup a stash. Run out and get a pack of self -adhesive mustaches, grab the Fu-Manchu and never misplace your golden libation again. If you want to go even more DIY you can easily get black contact paper and cut your own stashes out for your party. Sadly you miss out on the fuzz but you get more artistic mustache type freedom. So, grab a stash and your drink and class it up ladies.
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Mustache Beer ID's
Life is hard for a White Class Girl. You're at a party, enjoying your PBR from the keg when you put your cup down, turn around to find it lost amid a sea of nondescript look-alikes. You spend the next ten minutes attempting to remember at how much you had drunk in a futile effort to distinguish your beer from all drinks before you. Forget that. Nobody wants to suck down someone else's blue ribbon backwash. What to do? Wine charms wont fit a keg cup, (and they are so not White Class Girl) sharpie is way to déclassé. Answer, give your cup a stash. Run out and get a pack of self -adhesive mustaches, grab the Fu-Manchu and never misplace your golden libation again. If you want to go even more DIY you can easily get black contact paper and cut your own stashes out for your party. Sadly you miss out on the fuzz but you get more artistic mustache type freedom. So, grab a stash and your drink and class it up ladies.
Friday, September 18, 2009
The Acupuncturists Guide to a Hangover
Have one too many 40s last nigh? Well, no need to spend all day in bed drinking coffee and popping pain pills, a white class girl has a better option......consult an acupuncturist! Here are a few nifty tricks to get you back in action after a long night of partying at the trailer park:
Thursday, September 17, 2009
Saucy Nuggets and Cheap Beer
I have to admit, I’m a tiny bit of a food snob. I feel awful and mope if what I make for dinner isn’t some gourmand’s wet dream. OK, I’m also a tiny bit melodramatic. Nonetheless, now that I’m a White Class Girl, I’m bucking up, sassing up, and rolling up my sleeves in the classiest way possible: Chicken Nuggets and Beer.
Dipping hard earned chicken nuggets (or, in this case, soy nuggets since the market was out) in plain ol’ ketchup isn’t the WCG way, however. After returning home laden with a box of nuggets and a six pack of Red Oval Classic Lager ($2.99!), I threw open the cupboards and the fridge and pulled out everything vaguely sauce looking. My goal was to create several delicious and unique dipping sauces armed with only what I had in the kitchen. I love making my own sauces because I can make them exactly how I want and it's cheap—very WCG.
Note: I don’t measure ingredients ever, sorry! Just add a little bit and taste and then add something else and so on until it tastes good. I listed the main ingredient first.
Here are my results:
1) Apricot Balsamic Sauce. Lejeune wasn’t too excited about this one as he is, in his words, “not a fan of meat and fruit together.” However this ended up being one of our favorites. This recipe is adapted from Good Housekeeping. Use a lot of the preserve and then a little of the others and adjust to taste.
-Apricot Preserve
-Balsamic Vinegar
-Soy Sauce
-Tangerine Zest (there was only one ripe on the tree, just waiting for me)
2) Honey Mustard. A classic dipping sauce and so ridiculously easy I have no idea why I haven’t done this before. Go about 50/50 of each to start.
-Honey
-Yellow Mustard
3) WCG Sauce. So good I named it after this blog. The BBQ Sauce and Mustard should be about equal. Add the hot sauce to your desired hawtness.
-BBQ Sauce
-Grainy
-Hot Sauce
4)
-Trader Joe’s Wasabi Mayonnaise
-Ketchup
5) Teriyaki Everything. This was really runny for me so I just poured it into a sauce pan and let it reduce to about 1/3 over medium heat.
-Soyaki Sauce
-Ketchup
-Hoisin Sauce (just a teensy bit)
-Apple Cider Vinegar
-A squeeze of that tangerine
Served each sauce in a plastic cup with a fancy spoon, baby carrots on the side, and beer.
The Red Oval Classic Lager kinda tasted like PBR. I wouldn’t take it to party but for $2.99 for a six pack (!), I might get it again.
All in all, this was surprisingly satisfying and cost just a couple bucks. I had a really hard time deciding which sauce would be used for my “last bite”—I ended up going with the WCG Sauce but am curious to know what other people would choose!
Xoxo,
Kitty
P.S. The camera ran out of batteries after a few poorly lit photos, but I’m definitely doing this again and I’ll take better ones. Promise!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Deviled Eggs with Class...Part I: Wasabi Devils
Ever since I was a little girl I've been obsessed with deviled eggs. My grandma would make them at every holiday and put them in this amazing crate, made just for deviled eggs. Sometimes she would put olives in them, sometimes cheese or asparagus, but always something new. I would look forward to this appetizer, and sometimes eat so many I'd have to skip out on some of the main course.
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Tuesday, September 15, 2009
The classy way to drink. White class girls don't just drink. They drink MGD (the champagne of beers) out of champagne glasses. They drink Bud light while washing dishes in fashionable gloves right after they go wine tasting. They drink their top shelf whisky out of paper cups and while making a lovely organic breakfast, whose ingredients came from the local farmer's market. White class ladies know how to kick off the day with a bang.