tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12633243477247983492024-09-04T21:47:13.679-07:00“Find something you're passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it.” - Julia ChildMalloryhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07273469828615698925noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1263324347724798349.post-47251727969239454582010-11-13T01:26:00.000-08:002010-11-13T01:26:30.719-08:00

Today's movie was #1 on the AFI list, Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. According to Netflix: Orson Welles reinvented movies at the age of 26 with this audacious biography of newspaper baron Charles Foster Kane (in essence, a thinly veiled portrait of publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst), who rises from poverty to become one of America's most influential men. A complex and technically stunning

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I am a Gleek and proud of it. It took me a little while to get into it. The pilot premiered on the day I graduated college, so I obviously had other stuff on my mind. Then when it re-aired in September, I was still getting used to living in Hawai`i and going to grad school, so I didn't watch the first few episodes. However, many of my friends were obsessed with the show and talking about how

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I cheated today. I was really in the mood to watch a movie, but I'm suffering from a really painful 2nd degree burn and chronic back pain (a story for another time) so my doctor gave me Vicodin. So...the movie I watched today is definitely not on the AFI Top 100 List... I watched Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs. I'll admit that I have a bit of a thing for Andy Samburg. And if I was a dude, I'd

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I decided that I needed a few laughs, so I chose movie #31, Woody Allen's classic, Oscar-winning Annie Hall. I am, course, quite familiar with Woody Allen, but I've never actually watched any of his movies. But I am very glad that I chose it today. I really enjoyed it, and I even laughed out loud a few times. I loved the fact that Christopher Walken and Jeff Goldblum were in it (and Sigourney

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This blog thing has definitely not worked out the way I planned. In September, my restaurant went into it's "slow period", so everyone's hours got cut, and my paycheck took a bad turn. So, in order to save some money, I haven't been able to eat out as much, and when I cook for myself, I make my same, old, trusted menus (pasta, tacos, veggie stir-fry). I've also been very busy with school and

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I don't remember the first time I ate boeuf bourguinon. My mom went through a "dinner party phase" when I was little, and she made it to impress her friends. As for the next time I ate it, I don't remember the dish as much as I remember the experience. This was the summer I graduated, before I began my love affair with cooking. I was in France with a school group, my mom, my grandma and my

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My second foray into seafood since The Project began wasn't as successful as the first. One of our lovely volunteers at headquarters brought in a tuna casserole. Because tuna is the one fish that I hesitate least to eat, and it was mixed in with pasta, vegetables and an Alfredo sauce (and also because, if I ate it, I wouldn't have to buy lunch), I decided to try it. It wasn't bad, but...well,

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Not just any boeuf bourguignon, but Julia Child's bouef bourguignon. It sounds a lot sexier in French. Just try it. Say it out loud, once or twice. "Boeuf bourguignon." Hmmm...just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? Like silky lingerie falling onto the floor on Valentine's Day. In English, it's simply "beef stew in red wine, with bacon, onions and mushrooms." It doesn't sound remotely sexy. It

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This, right here? Is why I don't drink very often. That's not to say that I didn't have fun last night. Because I definitely did. Some coworkers from headquarters and I went out for dinner and drinks. Megan, Jon and I started at Yardhouse, where I tried poke for the first time. People are always amazed when I tell them I don't eat sushi. They are even more amazed when I tell them I don't eat

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"All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them." -Walt Disney Sometimes I wish I was more like Julia Child. Self-confident yet unassured. Bright, bubbly, energetic and effervescent. It took her a long time to find out what she wanted, but when she found it, she went after it. As she once said, “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then, I just ate.” When she moved

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