This Week: We pop some popcorn and settle in for an awesome chat with Leslie Shaip from TalkingPicturesNC! Hear our favorite movie/snack pairings and which summer blockbusters we’re dying to see!
Cookin’:
Roots on Franklin Street - get the Chicken with Mango salsa on basmati rice
Leslie’s “Too Tired, Too Lazy” Meal Prep:
Roast Chicken with Sweet Potato with Sriracha and Soy sauce
Green beans and sugar snap peas sauteed in olive oil and garlic salt
Black eyed peas in a crock pot with bacon
Sara’s Stovetop Popcorn recipe: Big flat skillet with a lid, fill the bottom with a single layer of popcorn, add sea salt and butter - shake in a paper grocery bag. Serve with fresh cracked black pepper and parmesan.
Sara’s Middle Eastern yums:
Couscous with preserved Lemons, Olives and Chicken
How to Preserve the Lemons
Couscous: Didn’t use turmeric, still amazering.
Meredith’s Hello Fresh Box (If you would like to try this out use coupon code: 3XBZWS. Full Disclosure: This code gets me a discount as well!):
Quick Sausage Bolognese - Italian Sausage, Onion, Carrots, Garlic, Button Mushrooms, Crushed Tomatoes, Beef Stock Concentrate, Parmesan Cheese, Spaghetti, Spinach and Basil. Dice Onion, carrot, garlic, and button mushrooms. Cook veggies until softened, add salt and pepper. Remove sausage from the casings and brown with veggies. Add the crushed tomato, stock concentrate in the pan and let thicken. Stir the spinach into the Bolognese to wilt. Cook the spaghetti to al dente. Combine together and top with parmesan and basil leaves.
Cheesy Beef Quesadillas - Ground Beef, Whole Wheat Tortillas, Avocado, Grape Tomatoes, Limes, Red Onion, Cilantro, Mozzarella Cheese, Sour Cream, Dried Oregano, Black Beans. Chop all the veggies. Cook the onions over medium heat with olive oil, once they are softened add the ground beef and oregano into the pan. Cook until browned. Assemble the tortillas on a cookie sheet - rub one side of each tortilla with a small drizzle of olive oil and place oil-side down. Sprinkle half of each tortilla with cheese and add the ground beef. Fold the tortillas in half and bake. Make a salsa with the avocado, black beans and cilantro, add a squeeze of lime juice. Bookin’:
How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style and Bad Habits, by Anne Berest, Audrey Diwan, Caroline De Maigret and Sophie Mas
The Portable Feast: Creative Meals for Work and Play, By Jeanne Kelley - Thanks to Emily Henderson for the heads up, here is her chatting about The Portable Feast (https://stylebyemilyhenderson.com/blog/a-portable-feast)
This title is likely a reference to Hemingway’s Memoirs
Netgalley - Leslie let us know this is a great way to get galleys of books to check out before they hit the shelves.
The Group, by Mary McCarthy
Sue Grafton’s Mystery SeriesReferences:
TalkingPicturesNC on Little Raleigh Radio
The Girls Who Came to Sugarbakers: make sure to check them out on facebook, instagram, tumbler, youtube and twitter.
Sara made her own Emojis
How to be more attractive through story telling...
Asparagus Pee Study
Hawthorne is dumb
Pittsboro Carolina Tiger Rescue:
All the movies/shows we chatted about
The Group
Murphy Brown
Matchmaker with Janeane Garofolo
Truth About Cats and Dogs
Sense & Sensibility
Shawshank Redemption
Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Swedish)
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Finch)
Chocolat
Julie & Julia
Practical Magic
Simply Irresistible
Mermaids
X-Men: Apocalypse
Jaws
Me Before You
Rear Window
Finding Dory
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Alice Through the Looking Glass
Back to the Future
Back in Time: A Back to the Future Documentary
Point Break
BFG
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, If you want some awesome insight on this amazingly crazy movie you have to check out Tom and Lorenzo’s Musical Mondays
Independence Day (old and new)
