{"id":439,"date":"2009-08-21T11:17:44","date_gmt":"2009-08-21T18:17:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baconwrappedlife.com\/?p=439"},"modified":"2009-08-21T11:17:44","modified_gmt":"2009-08-21T18:17:44","slug":"the-summer-is-flying-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/?p=439","title":{"rendered":"The summer is flying by!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to say that I have been off on some amazing adventures and that is why I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been absent from the blog for so long (almost a month!), but that is definitely not the case.<\/p>\n<p>I have been busy with normal every-day things along with visitors, work events, hot weather and generally lots of stuff to distract me from new recipes and setting aside half an hour to write a blog post.<\/p>\n<p>I do have a recipe almost ready to post from mid-July\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6since then there has been lots of comfort food, old recipes, hodge-podge dishes and eating out\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6LOTS of eating out.<\/p>\n<p>A few food-related things to bring me back into blogland:<\/p>\n<p>-\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt1135503\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Julie &amp; Julia<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Matt very wonderfully agreed to go see this with me.\u00c2\u00a0 I have been a huge fan of Julia Child since elementary school, when sick days meant I could lay in bed with my Grandma and watch Julia Child and Graham Kerr on PBS.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only do I love her story and her food, but her attitude cracks me up\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6every time I catch her on TV I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t help laughing.\u00c2\u00a0 If you aren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t familiar with her background, the movie does a good job of the events leading up to her cooking fame.<\/li>\n<li>The Amy Adams portion of Julie &amp; Julia was done really well.\u00c2\u00a0 It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a great comparison of the cookbook\/food television\/celebrity chef pioneer in Julia Child and the food blogging\/internet celebrity pioneer of Julie Powell.\u00c2\u00a0 The two stories butted up against each other nicely and Adams and Chris Messina portray a really uniquely intimate couple with an amazing and fun relationship to food and the role it plays in their lives (even before Julie sets out on the year-long blogging endeavor).<\/li>\n<li>Of particular importance\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6the FOOD!\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 There are plenty of times in movies and books when the food looks or sounds so amazing that I need to go out and find a recipe\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6there were several points in Julie &amp; Julia that I felt this urge.\u00c2\u00a0 The most was with the bruschetta near the beginning of the movie, when Julie and her husband come to the conclusion that she should write a food blog.\u00c2\u00a0 The fried bread topped with the juicy pile of cherry tomatoes soaking in looked AMAZING. I may have to make some of this very soon.<\/li>\n<li>Beyond all this, Meryl Streep as Julia Child blew the movie out of the water.\u00c2\u00a0 She was insanely amazing.\u00c2\u00a0 If Julie Powell\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story was made into its own movie, I might go to see it\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6would definitely get it from Netflix after it was on DVD.\u00c2\u00a0 If the Julia Child portion of the movie stood on it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s own, I would be all over it.\u00c2\u00a0 Not only because Child\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s story is so interesting, but because Meryl Streep did an unbelievable job of portraying such a unique and iconic figure in our culture.\u00c2\u00a0 She got the voice, the mannerisms, the humor, everything down pat.\u00c2\u00a0 Loved it.\u00c2\u00a0 I spent a lot of time laughing, and a few times crying along with Julia (in both happiness and sadness).<\/li>\n<li>Bottom line, the movie made me HUNGRY!\u00c2\u00a0 Good thing we had dinner plans afterward\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>-\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 As a part of the Tastemaker program with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foodbuzz.com\" target=\"_blank\">Foodbuzz<\/a>, I had the exciting pleasure of getting a box full of goodies from Emeril a few weeks ago!\u00c2\u00a0 With a chicken spice rub (yet-to-be-tried), a large box of organic chicken stock (HOORAY!), Emeril\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Original Essence Seasoning (fun!) and specialty kicked-up horseradish mustard (brown mustard that we used in recreating <a href=\"http:\/\/pink.jemts.com\/archives\/91\" target=\"_blank\">this dish <\/a>and Veronica used on her sandwiches for lunch during the two weeks she was visiting), I had a very very Emeril-filled kitchen for a while.\u00c2\u00a0 The seasonings are still in my cupboard, since they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll take a while to get through, but the stock got used up quickly in a few different dishes and the mustard was perfect in the Maple Pork and Apples.\u00c2\u00a0 Delicious!\u00c2\u00a0 Thanks Foodbuzz and Emeril (who I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not a huge fan of, but who makes some pretty delicious products and recipes)!<\/p>\n<p>-\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 I also have some coupons from Nakano Seasoned Rice Vinegars which I hope are still good\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t redeemed them yet, but am excited to try some out with the recipe book they included! <a href=\"http:\/\/mizkan.com\/Scripts\/products.asp?idCategory=3\" target=\"_blank\">There are a bunch of flavors on their website.<\/a> I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not sure which I want to try!\u00c2\u00a0 The garlic and pesto sound yummy, but I am also a big balsamic fan, so I may have to go that route\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll see what our grocery store offers!<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"> Goals:<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">1 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Post the blog that is sitting there waiting for me to add pictures and hit \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Publish\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">2 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Find some Nakano vinegar and create something yummy to share with you<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">3 \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Get back on track with new food adventures and blogging regularly<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Wish me luck!<\/p>\n<p><em>(Matt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mom &amp; aunt are in town this weekend! Exciting! But, probably not a ton of blogging will be done\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6stay tuned!)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to say that I have been off on some amazing adventures and that is why I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been absent from the blog for so long (almost a month!), but that is definitely not the case. 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