Thursday Thirteen: Recipes

13 of My Standard Recipes

I like to cook, hate to clean. If there’s something besides books that I collect, it would have to be recipes. I love reading recipes and I love knowing some history behind the recipe as well.

Back in 2000, I found a wonderful site. At allrecipes.com you can collect recipes in a virtual recipe box, read and write reviews and rate recipes. You can now also do things like compile your collected recipes into a cookbook that they will print up for you. It’s been interesting to watch this site grow over the years and watch how features have been added.

Many of the recipes I’ve collected from this site have turned into family favorites. My MIL always requests the P.R. Meat Patties when she comes to visit. My mom and her best friend always request the Lasagna. The Berry Slush and the Potato Rounds are popular party fare. The Garlic Cheese Chicken Rollups freeze really well.

1. Amy’s Garlic Egg Chicken
2. Awesome and Easy Creamy Corn Casserole
3. Berry Lemonade Slush
4. Best Easy Chicken Croquettes
5. Best Unsteamed Shrimp
6. Broccoli Cheese Soup
7. Cheese and Bacon Potato Rounds
8. Cheese Cake Cups
9. Garlic Cheese Chicken Rollups
10. Honey Garlic Ribs
11. Puerto Rican Meat Patties
12. Puerto Rican Pork Roast
13. White Cheese Chicken Lasagna

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Thursday Thirteen: My Soundtrack

13 Songs On My Soundtrack

I loved this meme when Gina Ardito did it a couple weeks ago for her Thursday Thirteen. My only problem was deciding which music collection to use.

My laptop only has instrumental music: Opus 2. Waltz # 1 and Violin Concerto In F, RV 296 – 3. Allegro don’t sound that interesting for this. I could have used my iPod shuffle (not the one that went through the wash) but I wanted to be able to see the song titles and artists. I could have loaded up the netdrive’s collection, but there’s over 14,000 tracks on there and many of them are more DH’s music than mine. So, that left the collection on my desktop machine. Definitely more me, but also radically eclectic. Funny how none of the Arabia Belly Dancing music came up (don’t ask, I like stuff with lots of rhythm).

If your life were a movie, what would the soundtrack be?

Open your music library (iTunes, winamp, media player, iPod). Put it on shuffle. Press play. For every section, type the song that’s playing. Next section : press the next button. Don’t lie and try to pretend you’re cool. Play it as it comes up.

Okay, so here goes…

1. Opening Credits: Walking On the Moon – The Police: Kinda bouncy, kinda fun. Works for me. “Giant steps are what you take / Walking on the moon / I hope my legs don’t break / Walking on the moon” Right. I need to remind my self to take Baby Steps.
2. Waking Up: Good Night and Go – Imogen Heap: Hey now! Why do I have a feeling that Amanda Marshall’s Sunday Morning After is going to be in here somewhere too? I so do not derserve this slander!
3. Falling in Love: Till I Don’t Know Who I Am – Rory McLeod: Ah, a boot stompin’, harmonica blowin’, rockin’ good time. Saw this Englishman live at a Music Festival in Kerrville, TX a long time ago. Amazing. Picked up a CD with the same name on it… whoo, big surprise! Not the same guy at all.
4. Breaking Up: Who’s To Blame – Ozomatli: Good question. Probably a moot question by now.
5. Life’s Okay: And She Was – The Talking Heads: I don’t know what it is about this song, but it’s one of my all-time favorites.
6. Mental Breakdown: The Cat Came Back – The Muppets: This song is a certain definition of mental breakdown. Especially after a weekend of camping with a bunch of 7-10 year olds who keep asking DH to play it just ONE more time!
7. Flashback: Predictably Unpredictable – Urban Species featuring Imogen Heap: I don’t think I’ve even listened to this song, but the title’s pretty accurate. Nothing’s for sure but a definite maybe.
8. Getting Back Together: Love Like A Rock (In a Stormy Sea) – Rory McLeod: Same harmonica player, not the other one I got by mistake. Huh. Maybe iTunes has a thing for him today.
9. Wedding: She Will Be Loved – Maroon 5: Sappy pop crap. It’s amazing that I can even stand to listen to this song any more. I liked it the first 10 times I heard it on the radio. The last 10 kabillionth, not so much.
10. Birth of Child: The Obvious Child – Paul Simon: Hmm… We can’t deny either of them. Since they’re 14 months apart, we get asked if they’re twins. Nope. Not even Irish ones.
11. Final Battle: Gimme Shelter – Rolling Stones: No Final Countdown? Interessting choice, iTunes. Doesn’t sound particularly good. Oh, if you missed the Clark Brother’s cover of this song on America’s Next Great Band or whatever, you missed some good music.
12. Death Scene: Ain’t No Sunshine – Bill Withers: Awww. *sniff* It’s nice to know I’d be missed.
13. Ending Credits: Que Hiciste – Jennifer Lopez: I’m surprised only two Latin songs came up. I guess it would be even more obscure a mix if I did it off the net drive’s catalog of songs.

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Thursday Thirteen: Studio Ghibli

13 Studio Ghibli Movies We Love

Hiyao Miyazaki’s Studio Ghibli is as big or bigger than Disney here in the U.S. We own these thirteen (and probably others) in both the original Japanese and the American dubbed releases. We’ve watched most of their movies multiple times and the kids really enjoy them as well, even the less kid-i-fied ones. The exception is “Grave of the Fireflies” — this is one of the best and most depressing movies ever made. We did not let the kids watch that one yet.

It’s interesting to see which elements of the Japanese DVD covers or movie posters (shown on the right side of each image pair) are brought over to the states. It’s interesting how the American ones try to include the whole story while the Japanese ones go for one poignant moment.

DH went Tokyo last fall and visited the Ghibli Museum in Mitaka. Lucky bum. Today’s TT logo is one of the photos he took of the giant robot statue on the museum roof. You may recognize him from “Laputa” Or “Castle in the Sky” as it’s more commonly called here.

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