Bah! I have totally done the utensil thing more times than I'd like to remember. I especially like it when I do it for things like soup and chili, causing people (like, um, me) to try to serve the item by pouring it out of a spoutless receptacle, thus dousing the entire table, and perhaps the recipient, with soup/chili/beans/whatever.

Speaking of Paula Deen, I just returned from Savannah, GA where I attended a little B-List Blogfest with a few other bloggers. There was always a line at "The Lady & Sons"...or whatever she calls her restauant. Those beans look good!

Yum, yum, yum. However, if you want to be a child, like me, instead of bacon, cut up about 30 hot dogs and throw those in with the beans. I also like mine with extra ketchup.

Also, ate at Matchbox this weekend and tried nearly every type of wine they sell. My favorite was red.

Me likey picnic beans. I put applesauce in mine and peeps seem to dig that. They dig that *with spoons*

The things I love about this post:

a) That you shop at Whole Foods like me, so I know I'm not alone in my culinary snobbery (particularly when it comes to meat products)

b) That it refers to Ms. Paula Deen - she rocks.

c) That Noah thinks you're tasty. Just like you think he's tasty. So cute.

Happy Monday!

Nice to know I am not the only balding-thanks-to-baby mother out there. And my kid? Likes to bite me with her razor like toofies. Then smile.

And I totally think you should get Ceiba a tshirt that says, "I totally annoy the crap out of her, but she loves me anyway", or something like your caption said.

Noah must stop getting any frickin cuter.

At least you remembered the important part ... the beans!

I adore Paula Deen.

And of course we care

omg, Paula Deen. I gain 10 pounds just watching her show. Still, I'm strangely drawn to every single thing she makes.

Just today I willed myself away from a McDonalds fat fest breakfast to start my new 1300 calorie a day diet and now? GIVE ME THE DAMN BEANS. It is 8:30 in the morning and the combination of the bacony goodness with the adorable pic of a carnivorous Noah is making me regret not carbo loading.

Oh, man. I just saw Paula Deen make a baked beans recipe on her show this weekend. It had molasses in it in addition to all the bacon (bacon makes everything better, people) PLUS those little fried onion thingies? It looked suuuuuper tasty. I'm not sure that recipe would be part of a healthy lifestyle, but I'd be happy to make it part of my quasi-healthy-when-I-feel-like-it lifestyle.

(As a first-time commenter, I have to do the whole hey-thanks-for-writing-your-blog-I-love-it-and-you-say-everything-I'm-thinking thing, and I also feel compelled to note that, I too have a wee skinny dog not so different from Ceiba (an Italian greyhound), and he also broke his leg after jumping off the bed - so not fun!)

Damn that sounds yum. You look great by the way. It's crazy how when Noah was first born I thought he looked just like Jason but now he's the spittin, yup thats right spittin image of you.

omg, you and me and paula deen. aw. i can tell like myself you've been keeping the Food Network on during the day and have succombed to its subversive mind control. it's unstoppable.

yes, but have you ever forgotten the serving Yspoon when bringing ice cream to an event? Wee plastic spoons .do.not.work. on rock-hard Ben and Jerry's, *AND* everyone gets pissed off with you because they want ice cream .RIGHT.NOW.!

I totally count ketchup as a vegetable.

Aww. Adorable baby outfit, and cute wavy picnic hair ends there.

Spent Sunday at a baby shower, where I discovered the "Boo-boo Bunny," a little wash-cloth rabbit with a hidey hole for ice when baby gets a boo-boo. Man I need to get me one of those soon.

A baby, that is. Clearly I already got a boo-boo bunny for my own owwies.

damn, that's some pricey bacon. it's bacon on top of campbell's beans ... seems like it should be cheap.

At least people ate what you made.
No one liked my coffee ice cream but me. The hostess even asked me to take it home.

Lovely evening.

O MAH GAH YOU ROTTEN WHORE YOU BUY BACON AT WHOLE FOODS!??! THAT MONEY SHOULD GO TO POOOOOOOOOORRRR PEOPLE!!!!1111

Seriously, those look good. I want some!!!

It was nice to meet you at the picnic! Those beans sure were yummy.

I watched her make this and looked so delish.
I just had (BUSHS!) bbq beans for lunch and I found a nice little blob on my work phone. Am highly professional.

Love the beans.

I adore that Paula Deen can make something out of beans and bacon and just own it, especially since she must be surrounded by lots of food snobs all the time (not that I'm not one).

But seriously, beans and bacon. And sugar! And she just rocks it. It sounds like you did too. Very cool.

But who needs beans when you've got Noah??

Thanks to this entry, I now have that line from Something About Mary in my head. What is it? Beans and Frank, Beans and Frank? Or something like that..

Glad you had a good weekend. Am envious of picnics.

-Aly

The irony of Paula Dean and "healthy lifestyle" being used together is abounding but DAYUM that woman can make everything better than the rest of us. She makes me justify having a meal with more fat in one serving than one should have all week.

The most important question though: Did you make it out of the bathroom long enough to see the Big Love finale?

Paula Deen? should run for president.

mmm leg.

so you didnt bring a ladle....its like, family style, no?

I ate them. I didn't die of botulism. They were the first thing I went for (hey, it was a foodie picnic with no hotdogs, hamburgers or fried chicken - gotta at least have some baked beans!)Twee little spoons didn't slow me down at all. The beans were yummy, and Noah was very yummy.