Smoked Salmon-Corn Chowder

Last night's experimental dinner turned out pretty well. I looked up a few corn chowder recipes on allrecipes.com, and didn't find anything like I was looking for. The model I had in mind is Whole Foods Market's soup bar smoked salmon-corn chowder, which is a guilty pleasure of mine since I'm supposedly going for a non-dairy diet. I ended up only vaguely using a vegan corn chowder recipe. I say vaguely because the recipe not only had no salmon, it also had no potato in it, used bullion cubes (shudder), and garlic powder as well as actual garlic (why??). It was merely a general guide to proportions in the end.

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The three of us that ate it agreed it was delicious. M had a peanut butter sandwich. I sure hope she learns to appreciate more foods soon...it's the one thing I wish I could get her to do that she won't.

Movie Review: Across The Universe

Netflix coughed up this movie as a recommendation for me. I saw a preview for it on another NetFlix disc recently, and the eye candy it presented seemed irresistible. Who was I to resist?

The general premise is that it's a musical constructed from Beatles Songs. Good Beatles songs, weird Beatles songs, and obscure Beatles songs. Bono and Eddie Izzard make appearances as a psychedelic guru-figure and Mr. Kite respectively. Joe Cocker appears as a triple character, including as a pimp sporting an impossibly-wide purple shirt collar. The choreography, merely hinted at in the preview I saw, was amazing and fun. I totally ate it up.
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In honor of the previous post...

Because you should never squash an impulse to sing....