Happy Birthday to Me!
It’s January 3rd, 2012, suckas! And you know that that means, right?
Right! TNS is turning four years old!
And you know what THAT means, right?
Right! Giveaways for you!
As a great big thank you to you, the readers without whom TNS would be a pointless void, four of you will get the cookbook of your choices from the Book Index.
To enter, just leave a comment. Any comment. It could be a New Years Resolution. It could be a glowing description of my awesomeness. It could be something you cut and paste from Wikipedia. Whatever. Sharing (Facebook, Twitter, you know the deal) gets you an extra entry.
One week to comment. Random number generator (AKA Brian) picks the winners.
Bon chance, and thank you thank you thank you for being the superfantastic readers you are!
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Happy Birthday to you! Me too as mine was a few days ago. I hope that the next year is filled with snark and good food for us all!
Happy birthday, TNS! What a great way to start off the year!
Great to see you back. Hope you enjoyed your hiatus. We all missed you!
Happy New Year! Awesome blog. Awesome shit I always do want on Mondays. Awesome blogger to thank.
Ive missed you and I still use my Pitiful potholder, a finalist in a past contest.
Wow, welcome back! How funny, today, Jan. 3rd is my daddy’s birthday.
Glad to have you back!
Happy New Year! Love, love, love your blog!
Happy New Year and Happy Birthday! I love your blog and I’m not just saying that in hopes of getting a free cookbook. Ok, that’s part of it, but I really do love your blog and hope you’re doing well!
My bad…totally posted this ON the book index. That’s the kind of day it’s been.
I will admit that I’m a lurker. But I’m SO glad you’re back!
I would love anything you would like to send me…keeping in mind that I’m in medical school and know next to nothing about cooking.
What do you recommend?
Hooray! Glad you’re back, hope stress is low, can’t wait to see new posts in the future!
I dearly hope you are returned! Happy New Year!
Happy Birthday! We should celebrate with milk and cookies cocktails.
Are you back? Please be back; we’ve missed you so! Someone further up the comments mentioned your Paula Deen post, and I think you should know that I still get hysterical giggles every time I see that woman’s face, due entirely to your elegant description of Chicken Divan. Thank you.
Happy 4th TNS!
Welcome back!
Happy Birthday! I’m really looking forward to another year of posts
Even if they are scattered, haha.
YAY! Happy Birthday to Blog! Thank you for teaching me how to poach an egg. My life is better because of you and my poached egg meals. I am not being sarcastic.
Happy Birthday! Happy New Year! Thanks for being awesome! I wanted to let you know that I’m always excited when your blog appears on my feed.
Happy Blogiversary and Happy New Year! I have always enjoyed reading your blog, and obtaining many super delicious recipes as well! May 2012 be a great year for you and your blog!!
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Happy birthday! Hope you can start blogging again soon!
Stumbled upon your website because I was looking for ideas on what to do with leftover scalloped potatoes and came across your Tight Ass Tuesday:Repurposed post. Hilarious! I laughed through the whole post. And the soup was delicious too!
What.The.Fuck.
(ok, just wanted to curse there)
You’d think that after getting Jacques Pepin’s books on Methode and Technique, and the CIAs 9th ed. the professional chef that I’d be satisfied with my cookbooks for the holiday season. Well no I’m not!
Also, a link to my chicken divan recipe – in my estimable opinion it does not suck:
http://foodgardenkitchen.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/chicken-divan/
Feliz Cumpleanos!No, I’m not a latina, I just play one on tv… Great to read your voice again. Always refreshing, always entertaining, and delish. Always. Thanks for being there.
Hope this is the start of many new, wonderful posts from Thursday Night Smackdown in 2012.
Yay! You are back
Happy Birthday!
I miss the insanity – it makes me think my family is more normal. At my family Christmas at any given time about 85% of us are on some kind of heavy medication – shit gets real. Enjoy your time off, and Happy Birthday TNS! So glad I stumbled upon you in years past. Many happy hours spent reading while listening to the elderly complain about incontinence, etc.
Happy Birthday to you!!
Happy birthday, happy New Year and happy everything! I love your site, and hope you are doing well.
Yea! Michelle is back!
Or at least back-ish. I hope your time off was both fun and restorative. Wishing you a very late Shiny Bright Solstice.
(Are any of your cookbooks for newly diagnosed diabetics?)
Welcome back!!! I have missed the witty humour and the ohhhh so delicious food porn i stare at during work hours (shhhh dont tell anyone). Yay for a new year, yay for birthdays, yay for food
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welcome back! Looking forward to awesome new posts and snarky commentary.
Happy blogday!
Random comment for free stuff.
I like the sound of purple.
Happy blog-birthday, and welcome back! Hope you’re ok.
Man, I need some new cookbooks, as I’m feeling cooking uninspired this week…
So tired of uninspired food and have really, really missed your wonderful sarcasm! Happy blog birthday. : )
Post more. Your food always looks scrumptious and you don’t skip on the good stuff. Like booze and fat.
Also, everyone visit my website and look at the pictures of my cute kid. That is all.
Happy birthday, TNS! Looking forward to more posts from you, Michelle. I’m watching Top Chef while I type this. Yay!
So glad you’re back! I assume that this is because Plan R is working. And if you have moved further down the alphabet, just remember that Plans AA-ZZ, AAA-ZZZ, etc. still await. This includes the plastic surgery/implant plan (Plan DD), the American Automobile Association plan (Plan AAA), and the naughty movie plan (Plan XXX). I haven’t tried them all but I suppose that they are something to look forward to! Happy fourth birthday and best wishes for a sane(r) 2012.
happy birthday! i miss your top chef recaps!
Happy Birthday and Happy New Year to you! I’ve missed you and look forward to more in 2012!
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Ooooh a contest! I can never think of anything clever to say under pressure. So, um. Wikipedia it is. On Thursday:
Thursday is a day of the week.
Thursday may also refer to:
Thursday, a 1998 film directed by Skip Woods
Thursday, an American post-hardcore band
“Thursday”, The Features song
Thursday (German: Donnerstag), an opera by Karlheinz Stockhausen from his Licht cycle
Thursday, a mixtape by The Weeknd
In other uses:
Abergavenny Thursdays F.C., a Welsh football club
Thursday Island, Queensland, Australia
Thursday Next, a fictional character in novels by Jasper Fforde
Ruby Thursday, a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe
Happy birthday and happy new year! Nice to see you back
OK, here’s an awesome thing I found for you. I assume like all right-thinking food people you have seen and made fun of the episode of Sandra Lee where she makes the ‘Kwanzaa Cake’. Well, I found an interview with the person who actually made the thing and in it, she both apologizes for it and talks shit about Sandra Lee. Here’s a fun snippet:
“I can honestly say Ms. Lee had nothing against African Americans or Jews. She just has incredibly bad food taste. She was not discriminating about who would be harmed from her culinary “creations.” Think what your taste would be like if you came from carnival or circus people. Did I just offend Paris Hilton?”
And here’s the whole thing. http://www.dlisted.com/node/40059 Enjoy!
I want to write something really deep here, but my three-legged cat is laying on one of my hands and being sleepy-adorable, so suffice to say that you’re one of my favorite bloggers of any caliber and I’m so glad you’re around. Okay, cat squeaked grumpily at me, so that’s that.
Welcome back, we missed you in our house :0)
Happy birthday and welcome back!
Welcome back! Here’s to a year of awesomeness!