Watched Fried Green Tomatoes. What a sweet and very 90s movie. I felt all the warm and tinglies. Jessica Tandy was very lovely but her accent was all over the place which was distracting...
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A YOUNG BOY
MY FATHER
TOOK ME INTO THE CITY
TO SEE A MARCHING BAND
HE SAID SON WHEN YOU GROW UP
Late night Movie Review. The Gold of Rome. Italy.1960. Re-enactment of German occupation of Rome in wwii and the extortion of the Italian Jewish population.
3 hobbits.
The Abandoned. 1955. Italy. wwii Italy, a young aristo is challenged to become involved and join the cause against Germany when refugees from the bombing of Milan are assigned to his villa.
3 hobbits
Both these B&W movies are beautifully shot and acted and they add to understanding modern history of Italy.
I love your rating scale.
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I want cooookiiieess to go with my evening cuppa... but I'm too lazy to wear real clothes to go to the shops... I'll save myself some calories tonight then ๐ฎโ๐จ
A major difference between my wife and I:
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I spent 10 minutes banging a wooden spoon on a standard kitchen knife trying to open a coconut. I give up after the wooden spoon disintegrates, the coconut still closed.
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My wife comes into the kitchen and swings the same knife at the coconut a few times. Less than a 30 seconds later, we have access to coconut water.
Use a drill.
Oooh bringing a drill to a coconut fight.
You obviously loosened it for her
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I'll see how long it takes her to open one from the mostly-original state next time we're in the kitchen.
I grew up watching my mum crack open coconuts all the time though I've only done it myself a couple of times. I think you have to do it perpendicular to the seam. Whereabouts are you getting fresh coconuts? Are they any good? I've wanted to have a go at getting some but for grating the flesh, not for water.
We've gotten it from a few vendors over the months, like from Queen Vic market, Footscray, and most recently yesterday in Springvale Central.
My wife otherwise thinks they're all not fresh - it lacks the taste of when the young coconut is opened freshly chopped down from the tree. I thought it's so sweet it's almost artificial.
In my wife's home town home we have a rather large heavy knife. A few well placed hits is all it takes to get the water.
Planning has begun for a trip to LA28 Olympics. Might as well tick that box before departing this mortal coil.
So jelly.
Itโs a long way off but the spark of a plan is there so thatโs something.
Sanity check: Iโve got a little bit of chicken alfredo pasta left over. Not enough for a serve by itself, but I was thinking maybe chucking it in the jaffle maker for lunch tomorrow? Mrs says that sounds horrible, but she also says a bakedbean jaffle is gross and hates a hot chip sandwich so Iโm not sure I can trust her judgement.
It will be delicious but the carbs will wreak Vengance.
Signed: a lover of alfredo sammiches
I think you should do it. Would I do it? No.
How would that work? Wouldn't it make the bread soggy and just generally make a mess?
You'd be surprised how robust jaffles are.
Disregard MrsBreak, I say give it a go
Pasta in a jaffle? Go for it!
My late bloke used to shudder when I put leftover curry in jaffles, but he and the boys still ate them. I recently sprung my older boy doing curry jaffles to impress his girlfriend.
Oh my god yes that sounds amazing! What kind of curry?
Whatever - curried butter beans are far and away the best imo, but any curry is pretty damn good. Just don't include much loose sauce/gravy in the jaffle. Perfect for using up leftovers. If all you have is sauce, then soak a piece of bread in it and chop it up and include that in the jaffle. One of my boys really likes leftover fried rice with a dribble of soy in a jaffle.
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