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Apr. 25th, 2012 09:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
outsdrLots of things going on, of course, and I'll make a full posting this weekend. But last night, something extraordinary happened.
I made quinoa, which I liked and Andy did not. No surprise, really. He has the palate of a toddler.
However, he has been extra kind to me this week. Last night, we sat down to dinner and he agreed to watch Masterpiece Theatre with me!
It's Great Expectations, starring Gillian Anderson. And to be honest, that's why I recorded it in the first place. I haven't seen Masterpiece Theatre in years, since I was a kid and PBS was the only TV channel we received clearly.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/watch/greatexpectations_preview.html
We watched the first half. It was really very good. I remember reading the book in high school, but remember very little about it. However, at the end, Andy forlornly remarked that the next half was an hour long and we didn't have time to watch it!
I'll culture that boy up yet.
He also helped me set up the DVR to record Masterpiece Theatre from now on when ever it airs, and in HD to boot.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/greatexpectations/index.html
While I was watching the show, it twigged a memory from my childhood of a movie i watched that scarred my psyche. A mute boy be friends a wild white horse on the moors; when it falls into quicksand and is about to go under, he summons the courage to speak and encourage the horse to free itself.
Turns out the movie is called Run Wild, Run Free, from 1969. I have no idea where I saw it; it could have been in elementary school, at the library one afternoon, or while at my grandmother's house on TV, when we watched what was on one of the three channels available.
It's not available on DVD, sadly, but Turner Classic Movies recently acquired it, so they'll show it on TV at some point, I'm sure, and eventually release it as well.
You can watch clips here: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/491506/Run-Wild-Run-Free/videos.html
It's heart-wrenchingly gorgeous.
What the clips do NOT show, however, are the parts that traumatized me as a child. Philip (the mute boy) will also have premonitions of death while on the moor- usually by seeing a skeleton hanging from a dead tree in the fog, with the classic Death in black robe with sickle standing alongside!
And this movie is rated G.
No wonder my generation is so freaky.
I made quinoa, which I liked and Andy did not. No surprise, really. He has the palate of a toddler.
However, he has been extra kind to me this week. Last night, we sat down to dinner and he agreed to watch Masterpiece Theatre with me!
It's Great Expectations, starring Gillian Anderson. And to be honest, that's why I recorded it in the first place. I haven't seen Masterpiece Theatre in years, since I was a kid and PBS was the only TV channel we received clearly.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/watch/greatexpectations_preview.html
We watched the first half. It was really very good. I remember reading the book in high school, but remember very little about it. However, at the end, Andy forlornly remarked that the next half was an hour long and we didn't have time to watch it!
I'll culture that boy up yet.
He also helped me set up the DVR to record Masterpiece Theatre from now on when ever it airs, and in HD to boot.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/masterpiece/greatexpectations/index.html
While I was watching the show, it twigged a memory from my childhood of a movie i watched that scarred my psyche. A mute boy be friends a wild white horse on the moors; when it falls into quicksand and is about to go under, he summons the courage to speak and encourage the horse to free itself.
Turns out the movie is called Run Wild, Run Free, from 1969. I have no idea where I saw it; it could have been in elementary school, at the library one afternoon, or while at my grandmother's house on TV, when we watched what was on one of the three channels available.
It's not available on DVD, sadly, but Turner Classic Movies recently acquired it, so they'll show it on TV at some point, I'm sure, and eventually release it as well.
You can watch clips here: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/491506/Run-Wild-Run-Free/videos.html
It's heart-wrenchingly gorgeous.
What the clips do NOT show, however, are the parts that traumatized me as a child. Philip (the mute boy) will also have premonitions of death while on the moor- usually by seeing a skeleton hanging from a dead tree in the fog, with the classic Death in black robe with sickle standing alongside!
And this movie is rated G.
No wonder my generation is so freaky.
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Date: 2012-04-25 05:28 pm (UTC)SO, what I do it add it to rice and soup and such. When adding to rice you help increase the protein in the meal and it blends very well with the texture of rice. If you served it to him as just cooked and spruced up Quinoa, next time try adding some to a rice dish - you can just add extra water and cook it right along with the rice, or wait for the rice to cook until it only has about 15-20 min left to cook and then add it. It works really well if you like boxed flavored rice and you need to serve more than the 2.5 servings in the box.
I used to make that one pot (iron skillet) mix of rice (yellow or long/wild mix) and beans (kidney or some other less mushy beans) and quinoa, and then add a can of chicken to it. I really like to use the iron skillet because you can get a bit of a golden crust on the bottom at the end of cooking and that adds a nice flavor component and little crunch to an otherwise mushy meal. If you are using a box mix and you add stuff to it sometimes you need to add a little more flavoring but rarely any more salt. I tend to use the liquid from the chicken meat as part of the volume of water to cook the rice mix. I would only add about <1/4 cup of quinoa to a rice box. I bet you could get Andy to eat Quinoa like this.
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Date: 2012-04-25 07:13 pm (UTC)