T Stands for Movie Talk and Being In The Kitchen

     Hi everyone. Happy new week and first T Day of March. It is time once again to share our drink photos over at  Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog .

    You might remember that last week I posted about my Harry Potter movie weekend. (If you didn't see it, you can find it here).  It was  interesting to read  people's comments about going to the movies. 

   Almost everyone had an opinion on buttered or not buttered popcorn. The buttered won hands down. 😏 Mae mentioned making popcorn at home, which I also do as we have a pretty nice (but old) popcorn maker.  But me, I still prefer no butter.  Smile. And Carola mentioned how the theaters always end up so trashy after the movie. I don't usually see that except for maybe some stray popcorn pieces on the floor, which I must admit I am probably guilty of.  Of course  I've definitely gotten fussier about what movies I go to see. When I go, I usually go to discounted matinees because yes, I think we all agreed, seeing a movie in the theater has gotten expensive.   Maybe since I don't go to the movies on a regular basis or don't usually go at night, I just don't see the theater trash.

   When we saw the Harry Potter films,  we pre-bought our tickets online through Fandango, which is the ticket internet source the theater happened to use. If you're not familiar with Fandango, you can buy tickets for some movie theaters, and you can also rent or buy movies from them to stream and watch at home on your TV. This past week I got a $5 coupon from them which I could either use for an in-theater ticket or  home streamed rental. I've been wanting to see some of the Oscar nominated films. One I definitely wanted to see was Conclave because I happen to be a Stanley Tucci fan :) but the whole cast was great.

    Fandango had it for rent for $5.99, so I used my $5 coupon and was able to rent it for 48 hours for only 99 cents. I actually watched it twice, because after I saw it, my husband decided he'd like to see it too.  Good thing I liked the film. 😏 The only weird thing, which is nothing about the movie, is that Ralph Fiennes played Voldemort, the evil villain in the last Harry Potter film I saw last Sunday.  Then last Monday I watched Conclave and he was playing a Vatican priest. That's the beauty of acting and movies I guess. 

    Last week I had a good week with some fun things besides movies. A couple of fun things I did was play in the kitchen a bit. Most of the time my kitchen play is  just the usual meal making, but last week I was motivated to make some things I don't usually make. The first thing I made was English muffins.

     Instead of baking English muffins you grill them. And the recipe I used (KIng Arthur Sourdough English muffins) made a couple dozen so now I have some frozen and I'm stocked up for awhile. 😏

       I was also having lunch with a friend one day, and we got talking about Split Pea Soup.  I haven't had that in a  long time, so I made a batch of that one day too.

    Instead of cooking the dried peas with a ham bone I used bacon, and I love adding veggies to my soup so I added carrots, onions, celery and potatoes. My Mom never added veggies, but I learned this technique from my mother-in-law. 

    This photo is also my drink for this week's T because you can see the gallon of water in the background. We don't drink our tap water. We're on a well, and we have iron bacteria. We have a treatment system, but we have so much iron bacteria that sometimes the system just doesn't cut it. It's fine for showering and laundry, but to put into our bodies, well, better safe than sorry as they say, so we buy our drinking water. This gallon just happened to be on the counter when I snapped the photo of my soup, and since it's a drink, I'll use it for T.

   OK, this post has gotten long enough so I am ending here. Have a super T day, start to the month, and week ahead.