Long before there was a Food Network
and Cooking Channel, there was Julia Child on PBS. I watched her as a
child for pure entertainment. Her shows were often as funny as they
were informative. She just tickled me. I really wanted to try to cook
her recipes when I was a kid, but they were beyond my skills then.
And Frankly, the ingredients were very difficult to find. I can
remember trying to find shallots in my local grocery store as a
teenager. The produce clerk looked at me like I was speaking Martian.
In December of 2009, when I was recovering from my first surgery and
prepping for the second, the film Julie and Julia
came out on DVD. The film was based in part on My Life in France
http://amzn.com/0307277690 , a biography of Julia Child's life as
she wrote her first cookbook. Jon bought me that book along with
Julia's Kitchen Wisdom
along with the film. While the film was funny and sweet, the book was
a revelation for me at a time when I really needed it. Julia showed
me that anyone can change the course of her (or his) life at any
time, so long as they have the determination to do so. Being new to a
field is not an impediment. Being older is not an impediment. Not
speaking the language is not an impediment. It was a joyful lesson
that I really needed at that point in my life. I was in the 'what's
next' stage of life. I still am, actually. But it's nice to have such
a great example of the world being one's oyster. The cookbook as
awesome as well. There were so many recipes that were updated from
her first book as equipment changed. I've worked my way through a
number of recipes that I'd never tried before or tried with less than
stellar results. So far, every one that I tried has been a tasty
success. And I'm still considering that cow's hoof!
Lists and Piles of Stuff
No, I'm not planning a trip at the
moment though it looks like I am. As I've been detailing in my web
series blog, Tales from Demon Under Glass http://demonspawntales.blogspot.com/
, we are gearing up to shoot a trailer for the web series. I had
almost managed to completely bury our ironing board in the closet
under all the stuff accumulating for the shoot on Saturday. Of course
I needed the ironing board to complete some costumes. Yep, I have the
ironing board and the fabric glue out. This is scary stuff! I confess
that all the running around is making me have flash backs of
everything that I hated about doing shoots. But then, that may be the
fumes from the fabric glue. At any rate, everything seems to be
running on schedule. We plan on shooting a photo shoot with the two
leads, Garett Maggart and Owen Szabo tomorrow (Thursday). The trailer
shoot is scheduled for Saturday. I have to build onto my piles from
my ever growing lists between now and then. I'm hoping that if I can
pull this off without ending up in bed all next week, I can pull off
a mush longer shoot. I'm not sure how it will work out. Truth be
told, the idea of canceling the entire shebang has run through my
mind on several occasions just this afternoon. Hopefully, that
passes.
I must be off to make costume pieces,
edit the current manga and write a piece of fiction for the yaoi
blog. I should have a number of crazy stories to tell text week.
Stay tuned.
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