...Gone Pear-Shaped Spinach Salad w/ Raspberry Vinaigrette
For Salad:
1 Big Handful Spinach
Two Chicken Breasts, Sliced
1 Pear, Sliced
1-2 Tbsp. Raspberry Vinaigrette
If you've got it (I don't):
1/4 Cup Candied Walnuts, Chopped
1/4 Cup Blue Cheese
Put all ingredients in a large bowl and toss em'. Makes one big portion or two side portions.
For Vinaigrette (Approx.):
1/8 Rounded Cup Frozen Raspberries
1/2 Tbsp. Spicy Brown Mustard
1/2 Tbsp. Sweet Chile Sauce
1 Tbsp. Low Sodium Soy Sauce
1/8 Cup Water
1 Tsp. Pepper
1/2 Cup Olive Oil
Blend everything except oil until futile to continue. Turn off blender. Use spatula to get ingredients off the sides, moving them near the blades. Turn blender on low (once you get your hand outta there). Through the little hole in the top of the lid, slowly pour olive oil into the blender. If you are doing this right, i.e. slow enough, the ingredients should combine to make one liquid, rather than oil on top and water-based stuff on bottom. Oil and water do mix, you just gotta have the skills. It's called an emulsion, Bobby Flay. Adjust ingredients to taste. Makes way too much for one salad.
Joe's Apartment (1996)
Plot Summary: The story of Joe, a guy just out of college, who moves to New York from Iowa. Having no money and no future prospects, he attempts to find the cheapest apartment he can possibly find, which ends up being a rent controlled place he luckily (and dishonestly) acquires. Joe is not the only tenant however: he shares his flat with 40,000 or so talking, singing, dancing cockroaches. The rest of the movie has something to do with a girl, gardening, organized crime, etc., etc. Even though humans and cockroaches are more often than not on the opposite sides of the protagonist/antagonist dichotomy in this situation, Joe leads a good example by adopting a live and let live mentality and accepting his new friends for what they are: a helpful, if frustrating, nuisance. After all, they were here before us, and they'll be here when we're gone.
Review: Okay at best. It's a fun movie, not a big thinker. Its kind what you'd expect for MTV's first attempt at the big screen. The songs are annoying; the kind of annoying that sticks in your head. On the plus side, the lead is a Pre-Sliders Jerry O'Connell (Stand By Me, Scream 2). I have always enjoyed this actor, but it could be a nerd thing.