February 2018; Whats for Dinner??

Bugster2 wrote:

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:Nice stay in the house and watch the rain day! ....
We are watching / listening Woodrow Wilson movie on TCM. Tina is mad because they colorized it. She and I hate when they do that.
Anyhoo..... it will be "Susans Meatballs" in the dark cream of mushroom soup and baked in the oven. Noodles with butter, and green beans.

Jimmy, I love colorized movies! I also like the original black & white. When a movie has been colorized, it is like watching a whole new movie. For example: My Man Godfrey. I love the movie because the characters are a hoot. It originally was in B&W. The colorized version allows you to really see all the intricasies of the Art Deco décor, the fashions. There is so much missed in B&W. Also, when a movie is colorized, it is also digitized and cleaned up so the picture is clearer. There are bad colorizations and good. It is very expensive to colorize a movie - around $250,000. One of our old faves is "The Thing". We have it in B&W and color. In the color version you can see that the monster is green. TCM colorized about 300 movies but stopped because purists pitched a fit. There is nothing wrong with it as long as you have not destroyed the original. It is like a remake but not bad remake that they seem to be doing so much today. I have quite a few of the colorized movies but not nearly enough.

NormM wrote:I made a vegetable pot pie with home made biscuits. I thought about adding some chicken but made meatballs instead.

UNCLE JIMMY wrote:

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Bugster2 wrote:I just got a good laugh I thought I would share with you. On the news there was a video of someone stealing a package from the front door of a house where the mailman had just dropped it off. It was a box being delivered to an entomologist and contained 500 cockroaches! I would have loved to have seen their faces when they opened the box. Can you imagine? Too funny! There is justice in this world. What goes around, comes around.

NormM wrote:I made Shrimp Jambalaya for dinner tonight. I was briefly married a second time. #2 made Jambalaya and I disliked it so much I never even considered making it myself but this recipe looked good.  It said to use long grain rice and I used medium grain rice which makes it clump together and not be fluffy like it should.  I had my reasons though. First, I have several pounds of medium grain and it is all we ever use and I didn't want to get some for one recipe until I had tried it this way first, second, #2 used long grain rice and even though I probably hated it because of her recipe and cooking and it wasn't the fault of the rice, I still used medium grain. Third, Charlies side of the family does not like long grain rice in anything and I was afraid Charlie might not like it either but apparently his tastes are more catholic than I thought.