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Working through the leftover perniz, put it in a pan with red wine and sour cream and served with some asparagus. Nothing pretty to photograph but very good. I still have some left which went in the freezer.

I learned today that the astonishing movie “Away from Her” was based on it, so yes. How to cope with Julie Christie being 84?

Aged 92. I am not sure if have ever read her.

I am not expecting any hummingbirds but I do need a haircut.

Ordering online: Mr. Tortilla | The Best Low-Carb & Keto-Friendly Tortillas -- they have low carb tortillas and tortilla chips.

I've never really thought about time of year, but I have had three attacks this month, which is unusual.

Can’t get “Boom Boom Back” out of my head.

I have been eating low carb tortilla chips for many months, I dimly realized recently that I could make nachos. These are threaded with perniz from Dominican restaurant up the street and my fingers now smell of pork fat. Could be worse.

Physiotherapy for my shoulder tomorrow and will have to explain I have no idea how it’s feeling; I had to take so much medication for my ankle arthritis you could have cut my arm off and I would hardly have noticed.

I am currently in love with Pierre Ferrand Dry Curaçao using bitter orange peels. That means I am drinking a lot of Bel-Aires and Don't Give Up the Ship. The Bel-Aire (per Harrington) is gin, sweet vermouth and a dash of Orange Curaçao. Don't Give Up equalizes the vermouth and curaçao and adds an equal measure of Fernet-Branca, adding at the same time complexity. I am sure I could drink the curaçao by itself over ice, but it probably has a lot of sugar.

Another French author, Constance Debré. Auto-fiction: in real life, she left her marriage and career as a lawyer to become a lesbian and a writer, so that's what the character in her trilogy does. I read Love Me Tender first, and have Playboy in the queue (Playboy should probably be read first). The third volume, Nom, hasn't been translated yet. Highly readable.

I think a lot of movies I like would be very boring to other members. And vice versa. It's hard to imagine Mouthfuls members not enjoying The Taste of Things. But I may be wrong.

What a marvellous movie The Taste of Things is, and yes @small h it made me hungry. I refreshed by memory of the 1920s novel by Marcel Rouff on which it is based. One big change; in the novel, the gastronome marries his cook to prevent her being poached by a prince. In the movie he marries her because, well, because she is Juliette Binoche, so it becomes a touching love story. The first section of the movie should be mandatory viewing for Mouthfuls members, the preparation of an amazing meal in the kitchen of the gastronome's stately home. The actors seem to actually do the cooking -- Binoche handles massive platters and multiple ingredients with balletic grace. It's like Iron Chef, but with better food and better looking cooks. Later, there's a serving of ortolans which I suspect were actually quails because I think they were too big and presumably it would be illegal to serve ortolans even in a movie. And there is a prince in the movie who has his chef read out a menu of nauseating length and scope. Sad things happen, so you will need tissues as well as snacks. One unsolved mystery (unless I missed it) is why the gastronome is so rich. Inherited wealth? Rouff worked with Curnonsky on La France Gastronomique, so he must have known there isn't much money in food connoisseurship.

An arthritis flare up so painful that I had to get up at 3am and dig out my stash of post-operative opioid painkillers. Effective, but now I am supposedly working with a head full of cotton wool.

Dumb in 2017, still dumb.

Apparently there is reams of this nonsense. A lot of this is right but the suggestion that kippers might be part of a fry up tells you the author is putting this together from online research not personal experience. https://www.seriouseats.com/guide-to-a-fry-up-full-british-breakfast-what-is-in-ingredients

I just saw these things in my feed and maybe this has been going on for a while, but Serious Eats please stop lying about British cooking. Hot smoked salmon? No. Fish pie very rare, haddock maybe. Beans on toast made from dried beans? No. Heinz in a can? Yes. This recipe may be great, but not remotely British https://www.seriouseats.com/british-fish-pie-salmon-cod-shrimp-mashed-potatoes https://www.seriouseats.com/beans-on-toast-recipe

My uses are similar: defrosting, heating water, warming plates, occasionally reheating food. I am not aware I’ve ever owned microwave cookware although I know it exists.

Yes, he was still alive. No longer, at 98. His horror movies based on Poe stories deeply affected me as a kid, for better or worse. Now want to see them again.

And at last a SXSW set with good sound. 🙂

Oblivious to the mailing list fuckup but she’s busy being a rock star and still relatable. Love her, love the band.

Yes, I just now saw it. Oopsie! I am still floored that I guessed it correctly.

I searched my inbox for a passcode which I guess is when most of the tickets told out. They sell out every time they play New York, hence the pressure. Of course, at SXSW they were playing tiny crowds that hadn't heard of them.

At 10.02, all Live Nation tickets were gone. I try Ticketmaster. Same. There's a third option I don't even understand, Mailing List Presale. But they have tickets left. I now have tickets. And they are on my phone in my Wallet. They exist (Mitch will understand the stress here). The truly amazing thing: All purchase options required a pass code. What pass code? 😐 I guessed the pass code. I did. That's what you get for being a fan. It was "vivahinds".