Tuna Happens
We have a great relationship with tuna. It happens when it happens. Living on the coast, you can often buy tuna. But sometimes when tuna is running, you can get a GREAT deal on a wonderful fish. We usually pay $12 to $16 a pound for any fish at our local fish market. Grocery store prices are always cheaper, but the fish isn’t quality and is often frozen. But on occasion the sushi-quality yellow fin tuna is in abundance and we can buy it at $8 or $9 a pound. Once on the west coast we bought a whole fish at $2.99 a pound (and they filleted for us at the same cost). When the high quality tuna shows up, we buy it. Ingredients: Zip lock bag, gallon or quart as needed Quality olive oil. California at a minimum, we like Tuscan Herb. Balsamic Vinegar. We like 18...
Bacon wrapped scallops
This is a very pedestrian, and VERY good recipe. We actually have never cooked it before because it seemed to be one of those things you order from an app menu. But one of our local boutique shops (Green Turtle ROCKS) had some HUGE scallops today, so we bought some in lue of our usual shrimp. So we also bought half a pound of their bacon. This recipe is for two. Ingredients Six BIG fresh sea scallops Bacon ( 3 strips). We buy half a pound and save the rest for breakfast. 2 tablespoons butter (we use Earth Balance margarine) Fresh ground pepper Tony’s Seasoning 1 tsp minced garlic 6 toothpicks Directions Melt the margarine. Add the Tony’s, garlic and pepper in a bowl. Add the scallops to coat. Cut 3 strips of bacon in half. On a cutting board or a...
American Wake
Traditionally, an American Wake is the party for Irish immigrants before they leave to America…assuming they’ll never see them again. This is a coastal Boston story of two stories. Separate, but both trying to please their fathers while finding their own paths. I don’t pick the easy films to find!
The Russians are Coming
So you’re a sick kid. You are stuck home for the day (in the 1960’s) and you have nothing to do but watch the 4 channels on TV, We only owned one TV, a small black and white in my parents room. That is when Don watched this movie, based off a book by Norman Jewison and featuring folks like Carl Reiner and Alan Arkin. This movie stuck with him for years, he finally watched it again recently for the second time (in color). What talent!
Murphy’s War
When Don was growing up, World War II films were mostly about huge battles, epic dramas and big action. Then he saw Murphy’s War on HBO (when HBO first came out, in the early 1970’s) and it was his first introduction to the personal stories of WWII. Not every moment of the war was a huge battle. Some were minor stories. Even the fictional ones, like Murphy’s War outlined the human drama of war on an individual level. Murphy’s War was a visual entrance (the cinematography was stunning) to this genre. The lush film-making in the coastal region of Venezuela (where the story took place) was memorable. It also led to Don researching the subject and identifying wrecks off his own beach…tankers sunk by U-Boats during WWII that still lay a...