I was really unhappy with yesterday’s post, for several reasons. I didn’t mean for the photos to be so huge. I couldn’t reduce them without the computer freezing up, though. So I worked for hours on that one lousy post. Grrr…. I also wasn’t happy with how scatterbrained my post sounded, although some day swriting a beautiful essay-type post just isn’t in me.
I feel a bit obligated to write something every day, although that something may not be exactly profound or funny or whatever. At least all 4 of my regular readers know I am alive.
Friday night I made spaghetti squash for dinner. What a delight, to find a new squash I love! I had never cooked it. I will know better next time how to cook it. I love all types of squash. Spaghetti squash is really easy. Just throw the whole huge thing in the oven on 375 for 45 minutes to an hour. Pull it out and cut it in half. Pull out the innards with the seeds and throw them away – this part freaked me out because I wasn’t expecting something that looked like baked pumpkin. I was expecting beautiful strand of squash, not icky seeds. It didn’t occur to me until I had scooped out the seed part that you do that and just toss the seeds in the compost bucket, then take a fork and scrape the flesh, which forms the spaghetti strands quite nicely. I threw the strands in a pot and tossed with some butter, salt and pepper and fresh parmesan. Yummy. Made a huge amount – enough for 2-3 meals. Very nutritious, read more here.
The kids and I watched a movie the other night that was really clever and at times funny, called Serious Moonlight. It starred Meg Ryan and Timothy Hutton. It’s about a couple who go through a marriage crisis one day while at their country house. She finds out he’s fixing to leave her, and she knocks him out and tapes him to a toilet. Sounds idiotic, I know, but it’s better than that explanation. After we watched it, I went online to read more about it, a habit of mine, and the critics hated it. It got only one good review I could find, which surprised me. Here's Here’s the review. It’s definitely not a movie for small children, but it’s worth seeing if you like relationship stories.
The only thing that bugged me is I kept thinking, where is the title going to be explained? The words “serious moonlight” come from an old David Bowie song. Didn’t hear the song in the film. Didn’t hear any discussion of moonlight. Oh well…
