Can you learn to cook improvisationally under high pressure in just two weeks!? Let’s find out in A Christmas Recipe for Romance!This movie has everything you’d expect. Big city guy hates small towns, but here he is for at a small town inn for vacation. He’s a famous, bitter, rude celebrity chef. Small town girl runs the inn. It’s grandma’s inn! She’s hopeless at cooking; famous for it, in fact. D...
I loves me some sweet gay couples in these movies, and this one delivers, at least in side characters.Our main character is a star of a popular TV show, returning to his family home for their traditional (and final?) Christmas House celebration. They decorate like the Dickens (get it?! I made a funny!), and are known around the town as the place to be for the holidays to see lights, decor, and dis...
Falling For Christmas: AKA Overboard for Christmas, but without the moral complication of purposefully hiding the amnesiac and pressing them into laboring for you against their will.The opening of the movie did its job. Man, I was cringing at Lohan’s character and everything she said and did. Good job making us unsympathetic to that character. But later, I was reminded all the talent Lohan still h...
Holiday Date, another Hallmark movie based on a woman who can’t bear to face her family without a man on her arm. I mean, HOW EMBARRASSING!Female lead is Brittany Bristol, who seems to be an actress who does movies Like These. All the Hallmark, Lifetime, etc type movies. Her bio is filled with them. Male lead is Matt Cohen from Supernatural. Bonus Bruce Boxleitner (Tron) and Teryl Rothery (Stargat...
Holiday Movie Musings begin!!I'm starting one week early because frankly there are so many new free available holiday movies this year. I have work ahead of me.The Christmas Train is first, with Dermot Mulroney, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Joan Cusack, and Danny Glover. This is an all-star lineup by Hallmark movie standards!Live comments:2017 and it shows kids sledding on the Capitol lawn in the o...
First, the recipe as originally written, from this PDF. I have transcribed it at the end of this post, in case the link ever dies.What I Actually DidOvernight poolish (ingredients for one)250g all purpose flour250g cool whey (straight from the fridge)1g Active Dry YeastRemaining ingredients 240g bread flour 30g hard white wheat flour (stone ground) 8g salt 6g Active Dry Yeast 125g warm whey (micro...
Wonderful neighborhood Happy Hour last night.One of our neighbors brought their parents visiting from Bangalore, and said the weather in Seattle right now reminds them of home.Talked to other neighbors about their trip several weeks ago to Portugal. Our newest member of the community--baby Bodie, born two weeks ago--was brought by his radiant momma along with his three older sisters. There were a...
My friend Jonobie shared this excellent NYT article over on Facebook by Amanda Morris, a CODA (Child of Deaf Adults). This touches on something I have been experiencing--and MOSTLY enjoying--about re-engaging with my Deaf culture studies and studying ASL again.I was in an interpreter program back in the 90's in Seattle. At that time in my school, social justice, gender identity, and even LGBTQ+ si...
I promise this won't be a long story. As briefly as possible:My grandma made spaghetti we all loved. We kids begged for it to be the meal every time we came over. She joked she would only leave us the recipe in her will. She passed away, we have three slightly different versions of a recipe she hand-wrote, and literally none of them have ever tasted like her spaghetti when prepared as written.Afte...
From my Livejournal, April 25, 2005So I woke up today to phones ringing. I hate phones ringing. The night my father died, I knew that call was important because not only was it late, but first my home phone rang....then my cell phone...then my work phone. Anyone who has all those and tries them has something important to tell me. It was never THAT important until the night they called to tell me ...
I will never be an influencer, for many reasons. But a primary reason is my recommendations would be so utterly mundane. So here I am, sharing a couple awesome products I have enjoyed, which are very, very boring indeed.FOOD WASTE CONTAINER - Joseph Joseph Stack 4L Food Waste CaddyI have had many food waste container solutions. The most common one I see around is roughly the shape of a scaled dow...
This is a very difficult reality I live with now. And as my doctors have all alluded, it may be my reality forever. For instance, I learned recently that the first drug they put me on (and kept me on for a year, despite it being terrible for me) can cause permanently lowered cognitive ability. So we don't know if my struggle to read and comprehend things the way I used to is still the migraines d...
I have yet to make a hollandaise at home. Well that's not entirely true. I attempted it once. It failed. My husband tried it one. It failed. So we never tried again and thought restaurant quality hollandaise was gonna have to stay in the restaurants.But today Chris had a sous vide salmon holding to have with eggs for breakfast, and I decided to give hollandaise a try. And it worked!! I used a col...
As of today, an important new construction project is underway. Hopefully this one will go a lot smoother than our last one!For those curious: our neighborhood seems to have a lot of fairy gardens. I am guessing that during the thick of the start of the pandemic, families around the area decided to invite fairies to move in, to give kids something to walk around and enjoy when schools and parks we...
My favorite, easiest food-prep thing is making a giant pork shoulder--as big as I can fit in the slow cooker--shredding it, portioning some of it for this week and some for the freezer. This takes me about 10 minutes of prep on the front end, and 10 on the back to shred and portion. The rest is waiting on the slow cooker to cook it up, and at the end waiting for it to cool down before portioning.L...
Friends, I really really wish someone had told me about this decades ago. Well, some of them did I am sure, but it sounded too simple to work, so I glossed over it. But now I have tried it and can say firsthand it works just as great as they say (and reading the comments below the blog post shows even more effusive praise).Literally, simply this:Mix 1 part Dawn dish soap, 1 part vinegar, put in sp...
My awesome husband gifted me a 128G Oculus 1 in September of 2020 for my birthday. In less than 6 months after that, I decided to upgrade to the Oculus Quest 2 256G version, as I was already filling my headset with games such that I was running out of space. In the intervening time, I have gotten a gaggle of friends to purchase the Quest 2, which is now known as the Meta Quest 2, and have tried an...
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