Basics tonight: BBQ steak with mushrooms, red and green peppers with onions, baked potatoes and simple feta/lettuce salad. Getting a bit chilly to BBQ, but you gotta milk what's left of the decent weather.
Too late for we north-of-the-border types...our Thanksgiving was almost three weeks ago (Oct 10)! Turkey's been consumed, leftovers eaten, turkey stock made...all done!
Meat and potatoes tonight: Roast beef, roast potatoes (done with olive oil, garlic and orange zest) and 'vichy' carrots (basically glazed carrots). It's cooking as I type this!
Zulu...no...The Man Who Would Be King...no...The Battle of Algiers...no...Seven Samurai...no...The Public Enemy...ah, there's just too many good movies to have one favourite.
I made chili two days ago...it's been dinner for two days in a row. I was really craving it! Tonight it'll be a classic three egg cheese omelet with a feta salad.
Great idea for a thread!
There's a former POW camp just outside Bowmanville, east of Toronto. I've been there a couple of times. The buildings are still there, though now derelict and threatened with development. It's 'Camp 30' and it held U-Boat ace Otto Kretschmer. It was also the site of the 'Battle of...
Really interesting ribbon on the Stratoliner. The first vintage hats I ever obtained were at a auction that was selling off the surplus from a costumer whose primary business was the Stratford festival That was about 10 years ago and if I could time travel I'd go back in a flash. Three tables...
I seem to prefer the 600-700 page range...although I'll read anything decent. If the book is engaging, I prefer a lengthy volume. I just finished Douglas Preston's Impact (400 odd pages) and found it surprisingly good. Presently, I'm reading C. J. Sansom's Revelation (550 pages) and I am...
Anything new that is being sold as a "collectable"...sports cards, comics, limited edition prints, collector plates, figurines, die cast toys, etc.....isn't collectable.
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