Tasted cactus fruit for the first time. It tastes like what it looks like. Watermelon infused with pomegranate seeds.It’s really not that complicated to eat, though I did glance at a YouTube video. All you really do is peel off the skin and eat it. It’s quite good.
Inbetween shooting on the movie “Anniversary” in Maine, I stopped into Longfellow books and picked up an Artemis Fowl novel. A fun thing happened upon walking out of the bookshop- next door, just across the hall, is a bakery named “Foley’s Cakes.” If you read the series, then you know what a fun coincidence this …
Flipping through the Truck Food Cookbook by John T. Edge, I see a recipe for fried chicken that catches my attention as it is marinated in a garlic/soy sauce/ginger mix before frying. Umm, yum! In addition to the marinade, the recipe mentions that corn starch is a great batter, instead of flour. As corn starch …
Nearly all of these books are young adult fantasy fiction, with a couple of unique exceptions. Such as the memoir by Minnesotan Richard Curney, the non-fantasy children’s story “A Long Way From Chicago,” and the adult paranormal novel Skullduggery Pleasant. There are two books by the same author, Johnathan Stroud. He must be one busy …
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After doing the “Storm Trooper” paper snowflake, a reader commented “Do a Yoda snowflake!!!” The Yoda snowflake was easier for me. I am not sure why. Maybe because I knew what I was doing better. Merry Christmas everyone!
With acting projects clamoring to finish filming before January 1st, time’s in short supply these last months of the year. Which is part of the reason why I cook Maple Syrup Pecans instead of the better-tasting Spiced Pecans I usually bake. Maple syrup glazed pecans take 5 minute stove-top cook time as opposed to the …
Riffling through the back-of-the-cupboard recesses for a jar of Cinnamon to add to my batch of spiced pecans, my hand happens on a forgotten glass bottle of homemade pirate rum-vanilla that I made as a part of family Christmas gifts last year. (Purportedly, like a fine cheese, it get’s better with age.) With a satisfying …
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In this ghoul-filled month of October, it’s appropriate that actor Paul Cram’s reading a book that turns out to be a macabre ghost story. It’s the latest young adult fiction by Jonathan Stroud The Screaming Staircase. The first in (hopefully) a long series of Lockwood & Co. books to be penned by Stroud. The book …
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Some days I can’t help laughing at the wacky things actors are asked to do for auditions.
It’s too late to stop as planned. The boiling oil begins writhing upon itself surging towards the lip of the pot. Double double toil and trouble and all that. I’ve had a pot overflow before. The caustic (flesh-burning) sludge overflowing onto the counter & floor. I don’t let that happen this time. Something unrelated to …