What I'm Reading This Week #14
Annnnd we're revving into Friday. source I must start with a teary goodbye to Val Kilmer. No lie, three days before he passed I got the song " How Silly Can You Get " from the movie Top Secret in my head out of nowhere. I hadn't seen a reference, heard anything about him and definitely hadn't heard that song in 20+ years. I said to the Mr "I wonder how Val is doing?" then I soon got my answer. I remember seeing Top Secret at the drive in with Mom when it came out. When Real Genius came out on HBO, it was one of the few movies my Dad and I bonded over, is in my top five movies of all time and is the Mr and I's love language after I make him king of the winter carnival. source Anyone who followed Val's career and personal life over the decades knows he got a little out of the box and didn't settle for norms which also included his approach to his throat cancer. He lived authentically himself which is something we all hope to say when o...
Yes several people made sure to tell me that I needed to try the noodles. Thankfully they're good or I would have offended some people LOL. For me the must have dish was my Grandma's pecan swirl rolls... But many years after she passed O learned that they were just store bought that she modified so there isn't really a recipe and I've never really had them like that since, but it sure meant a lot to me as a kid. It just wasn't the holidays without those.
ReplyDeleteHmmm... aside from specific cookies mom made as a kid for Christmas, nothing specific comes to mind. Beef crown roast or some kind of beef roast for Christmas, but we'd have roast at other times too. I guess my dad's stuffing he made from scratch would be for Thanksgiving, and probably Christmas, but I'm not totally sure on that.
ReplyDeletePerogi that my grandmother made from scratch. Potato & cheese, sauerkraut. She'd fry them with butter & onions. We only had them at Christmas. They were a lot of work. None of my friends ever even heard of them. But now I see them in the frozen food section at the grocery stores.
ReplyDeleteHave you ever picked some up to see if they taste anywhere near Gram's?
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