Movies, food, and nattering

[chanaleh]

sanpaku called me out recently for undermining my fiercely professed LiveJournal loyalty by actually doing most of my day-to-day posting on Facebook. He's right, and thus I am thinking that for the month of June I should make another attempt at doing a short post every day, thereby lowering the psychological bar. So here's one.

I am inordinately pleased that Men In Black 3 features Josh Brolin as young Tommy Lee Jones, because I decided years ago that I wanted to cast them in a father-son pairing, and this, if not the same idea, at least leverages the same resemblance. See this photo from the 1980s (link now fixed to copy uploaded locally, but original was from here) for evidence.

I kind of want to see it, in any case. I also still kind of want to see The Hunger Games. And Pina is still playing (in 3D?!?) at the IFC in the West Village. But the truth is, I/we almost never see any movies at all -- The Avengers being a recent (stellar) exception. #geekhotness We can't even manage to watch a movie *at home*... although we did finally sit down and watch the first episode of Slings & Arrows a few weeks ago.

Things are actually sort of settling down, though, despite the busy month ahead.

On Friday I finally managed to host a Shabbat dinner, and even though it was not officially decided until the very last minute (like Friday morning), we had 6 people and it was wonderful. I did all the cooking and justom graciously did almost all the washing-up. *smile*

• Among other things, I made a baked cod that was loosely inspired by this chicken recipe which I made a few months ago: Roast Chicken Breasts with Garbanzo Beans, Tomatoes, and Paprika. Only I didn't actually look at the recipe again before I made it, so I forgot that it was originally made with yogurt (which I could have actually done this time; I'd left it out of the chicken version, obvs) or, in fact, paprika or garlic. But I put in a little fennel and things instead, and it still turned out pretty tasty.
• I also improvised on dessert: a form of ricotta tart with peaches, which came out quite edible despite how underripe the peaches were. Would nom again. Maybe I'll use the rest of the ricotta to make pancakes.

... And maybe that's enough for today. D&D at our house this afternoon, and hahathor is coming up this evening to see our place and go out to dinner in beautiful scenic South Harlem, for which I am very excited!