Directed by Gore Verbinski. Found on Tubi. Johnny Depp. After watching many westerns lately, this seemed like a fun choice for its many western and spaghetti western references. And surround sound turned up loud.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rango_(2011_film)
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rango-2011
https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/48364/rango/
https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/49809/rango/
Directed by Peter Markle. Found on Tubi. David Naughton, Shannon Tweed. Skiing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_Dog...The_Movie
http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film8/blu-ray_review_110/hot_dog_the_movie_blu-ray.htm
https://www.blu-ray.com/movies/Hot-Dog-The-Movie-Blu-ray/202933/#Review
I was able to fill up two small whiskey bottles with tabasco peppers and vinegar with four plants this year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabasco_pepper
Directed by Michael Pfleghar. Found on Tubi. Eurospy. Hellmut Lange. Spy spoof.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serenade_for_Two_Spies
https://nummtheory.blogspot.com/2025/01/serenade-for-two-spies-1965.html
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059703/
Directed by Enzo G. Castellari. Found on Tubi. Franco Nero. One of the last spaghetti westerns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keoma_(film)
https://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/55334/spaghetti-western-double-feature-grand-duel-keoma-blu-ray/
https://www.thespinningimage.co.uk/cultfilms/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=485
https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=26850
Directed by Arthur Marks. Found on Tubi. Alex Rocco, Hari Rhodes, Vonetta McGee.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_9000
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/detroit-9000-1973
Another old post from the Kinja Archive: 5/17/18
- Bonus sandwich. Starving about to watch Beetlejuice Blu-ray. My mother gave me a bag of homegrown cucumber and lettuce, and an avocado. I made a version of this when I was a professional sandwich maker that was popular. People would bring in their own avocado since there was no guarantee I would have ripe ones on any given day. Easier to build on sub-type bread too. Avocado, purple onion, cucumber, lettuce (or sprouts), cheese, Creole mustard and mayo.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetable_sandwich
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/california-veggie-sandwich
https://thekitchengirl.com/vegan-veggie-sandwich-even-meat-eaters-love/
Another old post from the Kinja Archive: 4/26/19
- Finally getting around to that beer chili. Just the prep and getting it going takes a couple of hours.
From the Kinja Archive: 5/25/19
- This is my father’s specialty. A recipe so secret he won’t even tell me how he does it. Pronounced Coo-Be-Yahn. In Louisiana it is a thick fish stew. Spelled, pronounced, and cooked different elsewhere. Emeril’s picture here in the header adds the fish at the end, my father’s is smothered. The Creole and Cajun versions are a little different, which happens a lot. City and country.
https://www.emerils.com/127938/creole-redfish-court-bouillon
Another old post from the Kinja Archive. 12/28/15.
- I have to cook for the bowl game tomorrow, and since I already wanted to make a batch of tomato sauce for the freezer, I am going to use some for a poor man’s lasagna version of Johnny Marzetti. Basically a casserole with pasta, ground meat, and tomato sauce. And cheese.
- I use pasta shells and layer that in a casserole dish with the meat sauce and cheese. A ricotta/parmesan/parsley mixture like you would use in a lasagna. And a little bit of mozzarella. Then you bake it at 350 for about 30 minutes.
- There are many different versions and ways to make this kind of casserole. Good for leftovers. I’ve done one with smoked chicken I needed to use.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Marzetti
https://ohiothoughtsblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/johnny-marzetti-recipe-and-history.html
Another old post from the Kinja Archive. And a mini-disaster using my grandmother's mold for the first time. The Jell-O stuck to the mold and wouldn't come out.
For chicken wings on the BBQ pit. Found in the Kinja Archive:
1 cup apricot preserves
1 cup sweet chili sauce
(I prefer Sauce for Chicken brand in background glass bottle but it was old so I got Panda brand which is not as hot.)
1/2 cup rum (?) (Can’t recall how much alcohol I used)
1/2 cup cider vinegar
1 tablespoon Creole mustard
1 teaspoon (approx.) worcestershire
1 teaspoon (approx.) hot sauce
Heat slowly to mix everything and simmer low 10-15 minutes to cook off some of the alcohol.
Transfer to jars and it will last nearly forever in the fridge.
Bernie Gunther trade paperback I ordered off of Amazon. The third of four Bernie Gunther books I got this summer. Bernie is a hotel detective in this one and also partially set in Havana with two timelines. From 2009.
