I did cook burgers for myself a couple evenings this week.
I've had prickly pear margaritas, the best one was at The Starlight in Terlingua TX. You could tell the prickly pear syrup was freshly made and it had the lightest freshest slightly sweet flavor. I've had others where the syrup came out of a bottle and it just didn't compare.
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Hey, big points for cooking for yourself!!! (And now I want a margarita...
Alas, alcohol puts me right to sleep...)
One thing I do to bulk up my fresh spinach (because a huge bag winds up being barely enough for two of us!) is sauté a half of sliced sweet onion, then a cup of grape tomatoes, halved, and when they’re a little blistered, I toss in the spinach.
Sounds so good!!! The only time I get cooked fresh spinach is at restaurants... at home it's either canned, frozen, or salad...
the kids and I took the day off school/work and stood with many others at the location shoot ALL day - we were rewarded though - Thor (Chris), Loki (Tom) and Odin (Sir Anthony) did a crowd walk - our best pics were with Chris - we did get in a background shot with some friends we made by standing with them all day with Sir Anthony.
Ok I had to google shawarma - the closest I would have had is a chicken doner kebab - I do like those.
That is SO cool!!! The last time anyone shot a movie around here (that I'm aware of) was Harrison Ford in some Tom Clancy movie when I was in high school... I didn't go downtown for it, but lots of other kids did, then we watched the movie and it was ridiculous because the hero comes running out the gate of the Naval Academy and is suddenly downtown... but the director didn't like the look of the downtown gate, so they shot it with him coming out one of the picturesque side gates... anyone but a local wouldn't know, but we all laughed and laughed and it was impossible to take the movie seriously after that... (ok, it's impossible to take ANY Tom Clancy story seriously...)
Doner kebabs are YUMMY!!! As far as I know we don't have them in the states. The first time I had one, I was disappointed, because it was very dry (they hadn't served any in a while and the meat on the rotisserie was overcooked and crusty...) but I gave it a second chance and I'm glad I did... Just mostly ate the meat and threw away the roll, though
Well, my super power used to be getting a class of 9th graders working diligently on their research projects! Now it’s making dinner almost every night-I manage to throw something together with whatever’s in the fridge. The one I wish I had was turning my yard into a real garden, like one of those magazine articles.
I feel ya! 365 days a year x year-after-year-after-year... it gets hard to feel excited about cooking! (And you'd hate to live in my house, btw... my next-door neighbor is half-English and a landscape designer and her English mother lives in the side suite... they just *LOOK* out the window and things start to grow!!! Ok, not really, they really do work hard all the time, and the husband helps, too... but still, it drives me bonkers how much better things look on their side of the fence!!!)
J. K. Rowling - because I love the Harry potter series, and it was something to connect with nieces over.
Superpower - Compartmentalism - I'm good at keeping everything in it's proper box.
Darkside - Sometimes that means I forget about things if that's not the "box" I'm in right then.
Dream Superpower - Teleportation!!! (Instant Disney, whenever I want to be there.
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JK Rowling is a superhero for getting all those kids to read!!! A few years ago I tried to read all the books to DDs, but I stalled out partway through the Half-blood prince... but it was enough that when we went to Universal, they understood all the references... meanwhile, while DD15 is aware through spoilers about a few of the major character deaths (and spoiled it for DD11,) I don't think anyone's spoiled any of the other things, so I am good with forestalling all the carnage of the last 1200 pages of the series a little longer... some of those scenes were horrendously intense, even for me reading as an adult!
Yes... teleportation would be nice! Hopefully they never ACTUALLY invent teleporters, though. I think it would make the world too homogenous if people could live in the country, blink to town for work, blink to Paris for dinner... but as a one-off superpower, that would be really nice!!!
According to my fitbit, I've walked over halfway to Disney since January. Total distance from my house to Bay Lake Tower (where we are staying in July) is 1048 miles. Only about 550 miles left to go.
Stop there. THAT is already a superhero accomplishment!!! Go you!!! Walking the parks in July will be cake for you!!!