Month: October 2013
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Watching: Philomena
Tonight was the first night of the Austin Film Festival, one of our favorite times of the year. We started with Philomena, a fantastic film based on a true story of a woman whose child was taken from her by the church when she was a teenager, and her quest to find that child fifty…
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This is why I love Nigel Slater.
Supper is baked potatoes, salt-crusted by rolling the damp, freshly rinsed potatoes in sea salt flakes, baked till their skins are crisp, then split open and stuffed with smashed smoked mackerel and chopped dill. A dollop of sour cream and it is a quietly splendid evening meal.
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Listening to Louis Armstrong, knitting a new cowl for fall, and sipping on a French 75.