Applesauce

I've made a lot of applesauce in the past few weeks. Plain normal applesauce, apple-pear applesauce, cranberry applesauce. I almost made strawberry applesauce but ended up just eating the strawberries on their own. It's a big hit and pretty easy.

24

The reason there have been so few updates on movies and books in the past weeks is largely because of 24.

My DH received the Season One DVDs as a gift and once we started we were hooked. We watched 2 a night for a while and one weekend I think we saw 6 episodes.

Luckily the fury died down and we actually went over 10 days without an episode, but finally watched the last 3 during the last 3 nights.

The series was really good, but I'm really done w TV series for a long time. I miss reading at night or things that don't have me anxious to know the next step...

Alternatives to Sex

I read this book yesterday. It was an easy read and pretty amusing. The title was great for my agenda for the day too.

I thought the ending was pretty weak but otherwise I enjoyed it. It wasn't great literature but it was better than average junk.

I was mainly happy to be reading again - I have not been reading much this month, largely because the last book I chose (Tender is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald) has been really hard for me to get into. I'm about a third of the way in, but considering how much I've lugged it around and the opportunities I've had to read that's pretty lame. I'm going to give it one more try, and then abandon it...

Bienvenue chez les ch'tis

I have not been keeping up w this blog because I've been pretty busy in general but also not with a lot of items that fit the blog...

We did go out to see this big hit French movie - it was a funny French affair where I was very proud to understand the humor and the language, including the accents... Not so easy as an expat.

Movie was funny but not hysterical and not something we'll remember in the future, but for once we're up to date w contemporary culture.

Adieu l'ami

We watched this movie which was in French but with Charles Bronson. It was a "policier" and pretty good - from 1968.
Adieu l'ami

Le Gout des Autres

I watched this DVD the night before my DH came home from the hospital, because he told me he'd bought the DVD to show me but that he'd seen it recently and it wasn't something he particularly wanted to re-see.

I really like it - the story, the acting, the characters.

A good and quick film for a quiet evening.

Pasta Carbonara

I made myself pasta carbonara last night. I used the recipe by Nigella Lawson and it was fast but lacked a little something. I think the fact that I skipped vermouth/white wine was a problem, as was the quality of parmesean cheese (industrial grocery store stuff). I also used too small a quantity of lardons, next time I'll try with more. Has the potential to be yummy though...