Riot and Frolic

a mostly ballroom dance, but also a bunch of other stuff, blog

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I own and rock people’s faces off teaching ballroom dancing at Dancers Studio in St. Paul, MN. My husband and I compete professionally in American style and wrangle eight children in our spare time. I’ve been teaching and competing in ballroom dancing for over 25 years and have lots of opinions on it. I am an expert by any means, but there are quite a few dancers who are better than me and I have a solid knowledge of basic technique, so suck it.

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  • It’s Not Crème Brûlée

    At some point in my life, I heard there was a thing you could do with grapefruit called "broiling".  What is this new-fangled technique of oven use?  Like, you throw some sugar on top of half a grapefruit, and torch the top of it, and then you get healthy crème brûlée?  Neat! My main obstacles…

  • Yo, my peeps…

    Source:scottkasperphotography.wordpress.com You saw that coming, right? In honor of you putting up with that wicked-awesome (please say that with an Australian accent, or at least sound like you surf a lot) pun, you get the shortest post ever! I gots a question for all y'all.  [It's a little poll that I can't figure out how…

  • Eat It

      Right?!  I'm pretty sure I knew this better than the Michael Jackson version when I was younger.  Blame my broski and Dr. Demento.  (Check out this slightly-creepy video of one of my fav songs from the late-night radio show.) While I'm singing "Star Trekkin', across the universe, on the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk!" (see…

  • Oh, no…

    I'd love to talk, but I sat down to lunch and made the mistake of opening up Barefoot Contessa- Back to Basics.   Without having completed the first chapter of the BC cooking nonsense, I can tell you I'm going to make her parmesan & thyme crackers and a vodka cocktail of some sort for a little…

  • Don’t Drink It

    Yesterday, I was telling you about the awesomely nasty smoothie I had made.  But it wasn't made for drinking because DANG, nobody wants to deal with that morning/afternoon/evening breath.  No, no, peeps, it was a rub for the turkey I was cooking up for Turkey Bowl Sunday (otherwise known as "Super Bowl Sunday" to you…

  • The Finisher

    I'm a finisher.  Not in a good, "goal met, what's next" kind of way.  Like in a "this bag of chips is already open, I'd better finish it" kind of way.   I'm not real good at what they call "portion control" or "not eating".  This is a problem if there is junk food readily…

  • Chai It, You Might Like It

    Feel free to groan at the title to this post.  I'm pretty sure I've seen it on a bumper sticker from Sawatdee Thai Restaurants (the only place Minnesotans eat Thai food), so I'm not the only punny one in the state of 10,000 lakes. I'm making chai tea right now.   I'm not even a big…

  • IKEA Cooking

    I'm making Swedish potatoes (inspired by Pinterest and with a love of nationalist spuds) and all I can do is this…   Bork bork bork! Awesome.

  • Food Frenzy

    Here's a list of recipes I've gotten recently that I'm dying to try.  And by "dying," I mean, "hoping to make in the next year".  Because I get excited about a lot of things and forget about some of them. Remind me about this later, okay? Red Velvet Cake  [Photo source: Bakerella.  This site is…

  • Breakin’ the Fast

    Happy 2012, peeps.