This weekend my mother and I somehow landed on WETA's tribute to Julia Child which reminded me I really wanted to see that movie Julie and Julia when it came out but being the frugal person I am decided to just wait for redbox. No such luck so I searched it on the Porter Library Card Catalog and huzzah! 3 out of their 4 copies was checked out. The third was on the shelving cart. Destiny? I think yes. We checked it out, watched it, and enjoyed it very much. At points I squealed "oh yayy!" and clapped my hands like a small child at the circus.
Feeling particularly inspired and having a cooking task of my own to complete I finally got around to the Pure de Calabacin recipe my host family from Spain sent me weeks ago.
The next day we decided to make the chocolate cake featured in the movie (we conveniently had the cookbook in our over the stove cupboard!). It wasn't terribly complex but it was definitely a step-up from open box, bag, mix water, eggs, and oil, put in oven. Getting the egg whites and some sugar to make stiff peaks was the hard part but I left that to mother who conquered the egg whites like a champ. It came out and looked like what I would imagine the moon surface looks like; thats is, if the moon were made of almond, coffe, chocolate goodness.
