Monday, April 17, 2023

Post-Easter chocolate

Just read Adam Hochschild's American Midnight. (Moira got it from the library, but let me read it first!) It's about the USA during and just after World War I, a time of xenophobia, proto-fascist mobs and a huge assault on civil liberties.


Now I'm reading Ada Ferrer's Cuba:  An American History for my History Meetup.  Very entertaining!


Last week I bought some post-Easter chocolate, but this year I only spent 15 or 20 dollars. (My favourite is white chocolate and chocolate with rice crisps.) Half of it was gourmet jelly beans in about 30 flavours.


We just watched the Danish TV show White Sands, about two cops going undercover in a surfing resort, posing as a couple to solve a murder. (Of course, there are romantic sparks...)


Last Friday my watch party showed Michael Cimino's ill-fated western Heaven's Gate.  It's the fourth time I've seen it:  a shameless mess yet a glorious folly!


Thursday I had lunch with Debbie at the Old Spaghetti Factory. (It turned out dinner was spaghetti too...)


The warm weather arrived, so the other day I started preparing the garden for planting.


Today I made fettucine alfredo, but it was made from raw linguini instead of pre-cooked fettucine, and instead of the usual grated parmesan Moira bought a block of parmesan and grated it herself.