deep thought

you should write an article about the really interesting movies coming out for the rest of the year like Shutter Island, Inglorius Basterds, Avatar, Nine, Thirst or the Watchmen extended edition

we can talk about that and pretend this summer never happenned and try to erase it from out memories, just like we did with Indiana Jones 4

Actually, Indiana Jones 4 was a TV series called “The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones”, and it was pretty much okay, nothing you have to erase from your memory.

Considering chili recipes: Just put enough chilis into the pot and it does. not. matter. whatever else you have done to the food: It will be hot!

Yeah, I’ve been participating in the T:ROTF melee and I think we’ve all beaten this one to death already. Moving on!

My favorite chili recipe is a three-bean, vegetarian recipe I found my grandmother’s recipe box. The secret ingredient? A small amount of dark chocolate. Yummers.

Yes – add it after all the other ingredients have warmed up throroughly first. In terms of sweeetened or unsweetened, it depends on onions and red bell peppers, believe it or not: If you use a lot of onions and red bell peppers (naturally sweet), there will be plenty of sweetness (cooked onions are at least partially carmelized and release a lot of sugar) already and you can use unsweetened.

Less onion/red bell peps means it’s ok to use sweetened dark chocolate (usually in bar form). In a recipe that makes around a 1/2 gal of chili I would put only a few oz of bar-form, or if in powdered form, maybe 2-3 tablespoons.

It’s actually fairly authentic in terms of Mexican coooking to use chocolate as a spice.

Now I’m feeling the urge to visit the nearest Mexican Restaurant to look if they have something with “mole”. Thanks for the tips, Anne-Kari.

Just saw: There is a movie called “New York” out now and MaryAnn hasn’t seen it yet? What is the world coming to? (This is confusion about the powers that be not showing MaryAnn the movie, who is a great New-Yorkophile, as we all know, not a confusion about MaryAnn.)

There is a movie called “New York” out now and MaryAnn hasn’t seen it yet?

It’s a Bollywood movie, and I don’t get invited to those, and probably wouldn’t go even if I were. Not out of any disdain for Bollywood movies, just because there really isn’t time.

Is it funny or sad the first thing I thought of when I read the title was Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. “Oh Deep Thought, what is the answer to the ultimate question?”

You can always let David Denby take up that onerous task. In this week’s New Yorker, he calls Bay “stunningly, almost viciously untalented”…heee!