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Movie Nite: Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013)
Taking a flier that anyone is still interested in doing the Saturday Movie Nite, but I have a movie burning a hole in my backlog and I'm going to try to host again.
This Saturday's Movie Nite offering will be Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom starring Idris Elba and Naomie Harris.
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Just a blurby bullet point post about the summer TV show slate
It's summer! This shouldn't be happening! And yet it is. A brief rundown on all the TV shows staring at me in the face at the moment, in the order they occur to me.
( Game of Thrones, True Detective, Daredevil, Orange is the New Black, Sense8, Sleepy Hollow, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Orphan Black, Key & Peele ) -
Recipe Roundup: June 2015
- Smitten Kitchen: Crispy Frizzled Artichokes
- Homesick Texan: Chorizo and jalapeno breakfast pizza
- A Little Yum: Raspberry ricotta cake
- Gluten-free Girl: Gluten-free cream scones (vegan cream scones variation)
- Smitten Kitchen: Strawberry cornmeal griddle cakes
- Smitten Kitchen: Strawberry cheesecake ice cream pie
- The Pioneer Woman: Lemon ( Read more... )
- Smitten Kitchen: Crispy Frizzled Artichokes
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Game of Thrones: "Hardhome", Cat update
Without spoilers:
(*@()#*@(#*@()#*(@#*()@*#~keysmash~ THAT EPISODE.
*smokes a cigarette*
(There may be spoilers in the comments. Caveat lector.
If you do spoil, please try to cut with an LJ-SPOILER TAG. )
(ETA): Oh, right, so I don't have to make a second post: I got to take both Toast (after his congestion worsened through Saturday morning) ( Read more... ) -
Recipe: Botswanan Chicken Groundnut Stew
For the last few weeks, tavella, zdashamber and I have been watching the extremely limited (seven episode) run of BBC/HBO's "Ladies No. 1 Detective Agency" for our Wednesday night Movie Nite. Knowing absolutely nothing about it before watching the first episode, other than Tavella enthusing about it because it's a female-lead driven show, it came as a pleasant ( Read more... ) -
Recipe Roundup: May 2015
- Smitten Kitchen: Not Derby Pie Bars
- Spicy Southern Kitchen (via The Pioneer Woman): Crockpot dulce de leche
- Gluten-free Girl: Gluten-free naan
- Smitten Kitchen: Liege waffles (Belgian-style brioche waffles)
- The Guardian: Seswaa - traditional boiled beef dish from Botswana
- Food.com: Botswanan Chicken Groundnut Stew
- Smitten Kitchen: ( Read more... )
- Smitten Kitchen: Not Derby Pie Bars
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Recipe Roundup: April 2015
- Gluten-free Girl: GF Carrot cake with coconut-tahini frosting (aka GF carrot cake with vegan cream cheese frosting)
- Smitten Kitchen: Cucumber-avocado salad
- Smitten Kitchen: Strawberry-rhubarb soda syrup
- Rick Bayless (via A Little Yum): Garlic mojo (slow roasted garlic-lime infused olive oil) and Garlic Mojo popcorn with Mexican Queso Anejo
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- Gluten-free Girl: GF Carrot cake with coconut-tahini frosting (aka GF carrot cake with vegan cream cheese frosting)
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Pithy food observations
Fresh lime juice is an acceptable citrus dressing for blanched asparagus when one finds the lemon to be moldy.
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Movie Nite: The Theory of Everything (2014)
This Saturday's Movie Nite offering will be The Theory of Everything starring Academy Award winner Eddie Redmayne, of Jupiter Ascending fame (I will never not put it cheekily that way :), and Felicity Jones.
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Movie Nite: Birdman (2014)
Almost forgot, hope this isn't too late, but tomorrow's movie will either be Birdman starring Michael Keaton if it comes in the mail in time, or a movie from my library, one someone else brings, or off Netflix.
Usual place and time.