Movie Review: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly

Summary: Clint Eastwood, the west, and cowboys shooting the hats off of other cowboys.

Rating: 9.5 out of 10

Review: I know. How have I not seen this movie until now? Beats me. Anyway, Clint Eastwood is a bad ass. He really is. I think he said about 5 words in the whole 3 hour movie. He didn't need to. He could just look at you and you would give up. Classic movie. A must see.

Cooking Class at Jungle Jim's

For my birthday, Justin got the both of us a cooking class at Jungle Jim's. This was the Whole Grain Cooking class with Stephen Lee (the HerbMiester). Jungle Jim's has some great cooking classes. I would recommend them to anyone. This was Justin's first class and my fourth. We got there and sat down in our seats and noticed that the average age seemed to be slightly high. I think all the whole grains talk appealed to the older crowd and the health concience. Little did they know...

So, Stephen Lee is a great cooking teacher. He was funny and quirky. His claim to fame was that he developed the current KFC green bean recipe. That's kind of cool, n'est pas? Anyway, we started with the Forest Mushroom and Millet Soup. It was pretty good. Needed more salt. You know what millet is? Bird seed. Seriously. Our "salad" was Barley, Corn, and Brown Rice Salad. This had a simple olive oil and lemon juice dressing and was actually very good. I was surprised. Not my normal good eats, but I liked it.

The main course was Shrimp and Broccoli in a Cream Sauce over .... get ready for it .... you're not going to believe it .... .... waffles. Yes, over waffles. Buckwheat waffles. I know, weird. But, very good. On the side we had some rye cornbread that was excellent. The best thing of the night. Simple to make, just buttermilk, rye, cornmeal, eggs and shortening. Oh, yeah. Shortening. He used lots of shortening. I think a lot of the people in there thought it would be a "low fat" class. They were wrong. He used lots of the good stuff.

Finally, we made it to the best course. Dessert! We had Steamed Oatmeal Pudding with a Hard Cider Sauce. Very good. The sauce was more of a whipped cream and the pudding was more of a fruit cake, but they were tasty.

Overall, a very good class. Thanks Justin. I will have to go back. :-)

P.S. Oh, and I got Stephen Lee's signed cookbook "Go Withs". Excellent.

Jacob Update: What pacifier?

Jacob is 40 hours into his binky (pacifier) - free lifestyle. All is going well. The reason for the cold turkey method: he bit off the rubber piece on three of his pacifiers.

Wii Update!!

I've got my Wii!! Sarah found out that Circuit City had some at lunchtime on Tuesday in Dayton. So, I left work and rushed over there to get one. There were zero on the shelves and no sign that they had any. I walked up to a salesman and asked it they had any. He said yes. "I'll take one," I smirked. I then had to wait the rest of the work day to play. The agony.

No time to talk. I have to go beat up Sarah. (Wii Boxing)

Jacob Update: The Couch

Ok, he can now get up on the couch by himself. He also tries to climb over the back.

Great.

Movie Review: Thank You For Smoking

Summary: Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes.

Rating: 7.5 out of 10

Review: Good movie. Is it wrong when you relate to the "bad guy" of the movie? That guy could convince anybody to believe anything.

Anyone seen a wii?

Guess what Alan and Julie got me for my birthday? A Wii!!!!



Sort of....

They couldn't actually find one. So, I'm on the search. So far I've personally checked 6 stores today. I also called 7 more. No luck, yet.

Must. Have. Now.