So I Married An Axe Murderer begins with a quintessential aerial shot of San Francisco by night, the camera floating through the streets of North Beach, into a hipster (long before the term was used to describe millennials) Cafe Roads, through its crowded corridors, into the kitchen where a gigantic coffee cup (or “bowl” as…
Month: October 2015
Small Dice Challenge: Pumpkin Curry Soup and Ribs
This week, we (pumpkin) spiced things up by going with a Halloween theme. I let my daughter go grocery shopping with me, so she could pick out her “spooky” ingredients. She promised me she wouldn’t get “watermelon brains” like we had watched on Chopped recently. She, instead chose: The day before cooking, we decided to…
Great Scots!
All hail the Clan Mackenzie, those beer-swilling, conspiracy-obsessed, tabloid-reading, Rod Stewart-loving, bagpipe aficionados! The plot line of So I Married An Axe Murderer may ostensibly center around the romance between commitment-phobic Charlie and the thrice married Harriet, but the best scenes in the movie revolve around Charlie and his family. Stuart (Mike Myers) and May…
Everyone here calls me Vicky
There are plenty of stand-out performances in So I Married An Axe Murderer. Without a doubt, one of our favorites is Phil Hartman’s Alcatraz tour guide/former prison guard John Johnson, whom everyone calls “Vicky.” Despite his droll delivery, you can see the obvious glee in his eyes as Vicky gives his tour group the inside…
3 Very Dangerous Cocktails to Die For
When debating options for our Halloween-themed movie, such classics as Ghostbusters, The Shining, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, The Evil Dead, and An American Werewolf in London were thrown into the mix, along with other favorites like The Lost Boys and Shaun of the Dead. In the end, however, we decided to pick something unconventional and quirky…
Small Dice Challenge: Thai-inspired Fish and Rice
This week we changed up our scene a little. My daughter had expressed a few days earlier that she wanted to help me cook on Chopped night after cooking something with her Papa. After the initial “Eek,” I agreed that it was a “great idea” and thanked my daughter for taking the initiative to blah blah…
It’s Fall dammit…even if the weather says otherwise
We Californians can be rather smug about our unseasonably warm weather when it seems the rest of the country is just breaking out the heavy coats and scarves, bracing themselves for chillier temperatures. As a native, I long to experience ALL four seasons…though truth be told I’d probably wimp out under six feet of snow,…
Small Dice Challenge: Lemony Spinach Alfredo Pasta
When we came home from Jazz class, my daughter asked to watch Chopped. They had a Halloween special with gory-themed ingredients, including eyeballs and meal worms. The eyeballs were really mozzarella balls with olives, but the mealworms were really mealworms. As she watched, my daughter was inspired to dress up in one of her three Halloween…
Mermaids
From a film made in the 60’s to one set in the 60’s, this week we’re taking a road trip to a bucolic little town in Massachusetts where Mrs. Flax (Cher) has taken 15 year old Charlotte (Winona Ryder) and 8 year old Kate (Christina Ricci) for another “fresh start” after yet another failed romance. …