Movie Night update
Well, our regularly scheduled movie night was a bit of a bust. K&E were off to New Hampshire for the weekend, J&S couldn’t come (J was not feeling well and S had a conflict) and S wasn’t available either.
So I had all these great plans for homemade soup and bread (plus cookies) and no crowd to share it with.
Until…
My friend Sally emailed me Friday morning about the “Kitten of Death” my mom gave her. Apparently, Bolt (sounds like a soap opera hero’s name, right?) is quite the mouser and is keeping up the good family name in that area. So we were emailing back and forth and it ended up that I invited her, her husband and her son over for movie night.
Timing worked out perfect – The Boy had karate in the afternoon, so I was home by 5:30 to start the soup. I’d already made the bread earlier in the afternoon.
The Menu:
Rosemary Bread – made with fresh rosemary from my box garden
Pea, Lentil, Barley soup (Bob’s Red Mill mix – Ocean State $3) with beef
Cinnamon, Chocolate Peanut Butter cookies
The Movie:
Vantage Point
I told everyone this was an experimental dinner and the only thing I could vouch for was the cookies (I made those Thursday night and 1/3 of them were gone before we went to bed that night). Everyone thought the soup was good – but I think The Boy was less than thrilled (but didn’t want to say anything). The Hubby preferred the French bread I made last week over the Rosemary bread, but said it was a personal preference, not a reflection on how the bread turned out. I was hoping it’d would have been a bit better with the olive oil and fresh roasted garlic, but it was just ok – not spectacular like I had hoped.
The movie was pretty good – although I had an idea who the bad guy was when I first saw him onscreen. It used an interesting way to tell the story. It showed about 30 minutes of the story, then stopped, backtracked and showed the same 30 minutes, but this time from someone else’s point of view (hence the title VANTAGE POINT). It would than go through the same 30 minutes, stop, backtrack and then go through it again from someone else’s view. Each time, you would see more of the puzzle, see why some things were important or part of a larger plan. The basic story line was the US President was in Spain for a conference and there is an assassination attempt carried out.
After the movie we turned the TV on and CNN was on. We started talking about Sarah Palin, and the conversation drifted to Saturday Night Live’s skits with Tina Fey. So we cranked up the computer, hooked it up to the tv (The Hubby is great with that kind of stuff!) and watched some clips of Sarah Palin and the SNL skits. Gordon & Sally hadn’t seen the SNL stuff – just heard about it – so they were happy to have seen it in context. Tina Fey is just so dead on with her looks and voice for this character – if McCain/Palin wins, I think Lorne Micheals is going to have to shell out some big bucks to get Tina to come back!
Anyhow… blogging may be VERY light next week. I have a big church fundraiser I am in charge of, and tomorrow starts my busy week before the event. Everybody play nice while I’m away!