Got some free range pork ribs (more please Waitrose) out of the freezer today and am marinading them overnight according to Mark Hix’s barbeque pork ribs recipe. For the marinade I made some five spice powder using this recipe. Verdict: Very good, but the ribs need a bit more of a chilli kick.
Update (9 Dec 11):
Yesterday I made Nigel Slater’s honey roast ribs. It wasn’t as good as Mark Hix’s recipe and was a bit too sweet.
Mr W couldn’t believe that I’d never watched SATC so he obtained it for me and I’ve been making my way through the seasons over the last few weeks. I’m completely hooked. I love everything about it: the fashion, the characters and the city of New York. There’s a bit of every character in me. Above all I’m very happy to be watching something where strong women and their friendships take centre stage.
4 Jan 2012
Having now seen the films, I’m particularly pleased that Carrie, the main character, is child free and living a fabulous life. You just don’t see enough of that on mainstream TV.
This week I met Hamish Rutherford for the first time. He was aged exactly two weeks when I met him. Meeting him made me so happy that I went a bit silly; I couldn’t contain myself. Holding the first baby of someone I became friends with twenty-two years ago was a very emotional experience.
This film looks stunning, has Bradley Cooper, De Niro and Beth the lesbian from Brookside in it. What more do you need?
The Hangover is a great film to watch when you have a hangover, which tends to be the state of affairs on a Saturday daytime. I loved this film. It was so silly and just what I needed yesterday afternoon. One of the best parts was when Mike Tyson makes the guys listen to his favourite part of the song In The Air by Phil Collins:
I’ve been listening to In The Air on Spotify this morning and giggling.
EDIT (27 Nov 11): I hadn’t seen this before but In The Air has another comedy incarnation – The 2007 Cadbury advert:
Yesterday I also watched The Social Network. It was very enjoyable; it was fast paced, I had to concentrate to follow all the dialogue (a good thing) and I liked how unusually unlikeable the characters were. But the fact that Facebook was created by shallow, dysfunctional people only confirms my own negative thoughts about Facebook: I feel shallow and dysfunctional when I spend too much time on it.
Celebrated with dinner at Opus:
The food was good but the highlight was the petit fours with coffee:
