Do you have a recipe for...???

If I said -do you watch ANDREW REA would you think I meant the Vienesse Violin Guy on PBS?

What about if I said do you watch BINGING WITH BABISH?

Andrew Rea is a YouTube star who recreates recipes from TV and Films-like clones them from information given in the shows.

He even made BOB'S BURGERS hamburgers with fried pickle wheels=just as shown in the animated world of that show.

He occasionally makes a recipe as directed by TV/FILM  history and then fixes it to make it better, easier or less expensive.

You need to watch this show-generally you only see him from counter to chin-once inawhile a bit more-he has a thick beard, the sexiest arms of any man I've ever seen and a similarly sexy, trim waistline usually clad in a perfectly starched and ironed apron---go look....seriously-I'll wait-go look:

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He has added another series on YouTube called BAICS WITH BABISH-he will teach you how to cook pasta or a perfect chicken breast-that sort of stuff.

Andrew is watched by one point five MILLION viewers per episode.

One wonder how long it will be before he is on FOOD network or HGTV, has a line of cooking stuff from Macy's (Martha is SOOOOO over) and is doing weekend seminars for foodies in hotel convention centers.

He isn't the most handsome dude to walk on a screen but he may be the most charismatic; he has a wonderful deep, velvety voice with just a hint of snarky sarcasm along the edges-I am totally smitten-AND he does good recipes as well.

He now has a cookbook EAT WHAT YOU WATCH.

COOKBOOK HERE

I occasionally have these strange homoerotic fantasies-for instance when I don't feel good I KNOW that if I could cuddle with LIAM NEESON I would feel MUCH better almost at once.

I know that Ryan Reynolds and I watching Netflix from my couch would be great fun AND
I want to go to Harlem NYK and have Andrew Rea cook me Boeuf Borginon in his home kitchen wearing ONLY the perfectly starched and ironed apron.

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Sorry, he's fully dressed but the spirit is there.

After reading this you never have to worry about your various fantasies ever again-we all got em mine are just a little specific and quirky.

I hope this guy is enormously successful-somehow I feel like he deserves it-I'll bet the reality of Andrew Rea is amazingly annoying and compulsive-I read a blog post about him where the writer says he ironed the damn apron 4 times before it was "right"=in one of his videos he fusses with the damn thing like a girl in a new prom dress BUT at the same time he refuses to do anything without prefect ingredients. the correct tools, perfect lighting etc.

Compulsive but with HUGE integrity.

I think it was Dame Judi Dench who commented on Liam Neeson's HUGE integrity? Well, huge something anyway.

Binging With  Babish, on YouTube with Andrew Rea-watch it please, give it a thumb's up and subscribe I'll bet you thank me later.

Meanwhile I have dibs on the cooking fantasy you get your own OR I'll trade you for Michael Chiarello or Rocco Dispirito cooking anything...

What colour will 2018 be?

A lot of heavy thought and discussion goes into deciding what the colour prediction will be for each year; last year it was a springy green, this year its a deep PURPLE called ULTRA VIOLET according to Pantone.

This means they are betting on stores full of purple home goods, napkins, table top, towels etc.

The year of MAUVE in the 1980s (remember that?) we even had Mauve automobiles.

I actually did my entire apartment in mauve paint, furniture, lamps etc accented with brass, ivory and chocolate: It was VERY ON TREND as they like to say now.

Overstock.com and Wayfair BOTH had purple occasional chairs and upholstered furniture in their online catalogs and I have noticed purple creeping into bed and bath trends as well.

PURPLE is one of those colours that people either love or hate-I like it as an accent but ONLY as an accent and this particular purple I find a bit cold and uninteresting.

I tend to like purples more towards Lavender or Fuchsia-warmer and less likely to be shown in a colour story with some livid green and magenta-that was CHRISTMAS 10 years ago or so-the stores were full of striped and harlequin papers in purple green and magenta!

When I think or PURPLE I think of PANSY flowers (often Purple and Yellow) Violets (often Purple and yellow) and Grapes (Which is where the green and purple palette comes from): I present that there is far more Purple and yellow in the world and AAMOF; Yellow in the complimentary colour of Purple!

Look at the range of purples and see if you can figure why they picked the colour that they did?

I had thought we would see one of two colours this year as colour of the years; either a sunny clear YELLOW or a Cayanne Pepper RED (the fresh pepper not the powdered spice which is more ORANGE).

I apparently was not the only one thinking in this direction since a famous paint company picked this as their colour of the year:

Benjamin Moore went with Caliente Red!

They are showing it as an accent wall, full room, front door and decorating colour-I happen to LOVE red sheets and have several sets and when I am down I usually wear a red shirt-so this colour works for me totally HOWEVER:

Behr is counting on a soft, Southwestern green and Sherwin Williams on a very avante garde teal both are styling them as BEACHY, Oceanside, casual colours.

Interesting eh?

Manufacturers pay big bucks to get in on colour trends early and I do remember a time when purple was king-remember the PURPLE PROWLER?

This was the dream automobile-the sexy purple roadster that set a trend...

There was a time back in the 1980's I think when you could find a shoppe in almost any mall that was dedicated to PURPLE things-My niece was VERY into purple back then of course she hadn't even reached her teenage years at that point.

My fear is that we wont get the HIGH STYLE vision of purple-we'll get the more eccentric versions:

So what's your take on Ultra Violet? Will you be more likely to trend towards the beachy soft colours or the CALIENTE RED? Or do you see yourself sticking with the status quo and waiting for a more sedate and classic colour palette in the future?

I don't see a purple patent leather arm chair in my future or even purple towels in my Tiffany Blue bathroom-I used to have a shirt that colour I may still do-if so I may wear it on January 1 just to salute the nice people at Pantone.

Christmas 2017

Its here again-I have been on a lengthy hiatus deciding what to do next and how to change my business plan so I actually make some money.

I have had some pretty fine times in the last months-saw COCO (Brilliant Dia de los Muertes animatd film from Disney Pixar) had some fine dinners with friends and now will do the family thing in an abbreviated manner on the 25th.

It's a long drive and I don't like to drive after dark especially alone.

I hope each and every one of you find something to celebrate-have a safe and sane New Years eve and lets all hope for good health, happiness, PEACE and love in 2018...sanity in the world and Washington D C would be nice...

Have you caught the YouTube videos of the audio-animatronic TRUMP at the Hall of Presidents in Disney World...its pretty scary.

They managed to get his hair sort of correct and a suggestion of his arrogance and awkward mannerisms-the speech he gives is actually OK but feels funny because it's carefully canned and edited so it avoids all the jerkiness and idiosyncrasies' normally associated with the TRUMP oration.

It also lacks his signature mocking, sarcastic arrogant tone so it ends up being as plastic as the figure of him-Disney does patriotic very well-this isn't patriotic-it's like one of those auction off the bachelor events that some groups used to run until someone pointed out they were like slave auctions so I think it's no longer PC.

I personally would have had wads of money poked into all his pockets since it seems that he is one of the major beneficiaries of the new TAX bill (along with corporations and the very, very rich).

NASA is making noises like they will actually go to MARS at some point-I think Elon Musk will get there first and will have the McDonalds franchise open by the time NASA actually gets going.

LUXUARY Airline flights have become a thing especially with middle eastern and Asian airline companies-British air now looks tacky compared to the business class amenities and menus on some flights out of Qutar-first class is like flying hotels with bedrooms, fine dining and wine, high tech electronics and more-check out MANY videos on YouTube.

I am furious at YouTube who are pulling their content from Amazon;s Fire TV-I will no longer be able to watch hilarious stuff like Jimminy Glick with friends on my 42 inch flat screen-VERY annoying.

I have watched just about all my various versions of  A CHRISTMAS CAROL-Home ALONE 1 and 2, The lighting war pic with Danny De Vito and Matthew Broderick and of course Home for the Holidays-most of the holiday offerings are pretty lame-like lifetime movie holiday themed romances (yuck)-I love hulu because I can watch JUST the Christmas episodes of ALL my favorites like Family Guy, American Dad, Bob's Burgers and South Park.

I have had egg nog , a cookie or two-I just need a big hit of HAM and Turkey----against all odds we ended up doing my annual dinner at the North Woods in La Mirada for the 5th year (as an event) and many years as a December go to place-so I am actually not too grouchy (surprise!).

I avoid New Years at all cost-hate it.

Rose Parade Jan 1-hope its better than it has been-it's lost it's spectacle...

Wherever you are in the world please be careful and aware if you are in crowds-I think this is a year to avoid large public events especially in cities like Las Vegas, Paris, London, New York and LA...people tell me the terrorists have won if I feel that way but I think they have won if we blithely put ourselves and our loved ones in the line of fire...

I'll be blogging more in 2018-I would really like to get back to being a daily...

Cheers!

Blogger Problems

I have been having terrible problems with blogger-I wrote and entire post that I had to finally delete-somehow the HTML was corrupted and I just could not fix it

I really wanted to share how much I enjoy the film HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS directed by Jodie Foster and starring Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning and Dylan McDermott along with a number of others.

It's one of those movies that makes you feel better while tugging at your heart strings.

Steel Magnolias is like that-you can have a good cry followed by a good laugh.

Holly Hunter is a 30 something single mom who is flying off to have Thanksgiving with her parents leaving her 16 year old daughter home in Chicago-one departure day she loses her job and finds out the daughter has decided to have sex with her boyfriend-she also loses her coat at the airport.

On board the flight she turns to the only person who seems to understand her various predicaments-her Gay brother played by Robert Downey Jr (in the film he is a liquor/wine salesman with a mid-western sales route).

She spills her guts and has to leave a message which she later tries to retract.

She is met at the end of her flight by her parents (Anne Bancroft and Charles Durning) and the holiday weekend is off.

We will meet an ex-beau of hers, her younger sister and family (the most passive aggressive tribe on earth, crazy Aunt Gladie (Geraldine Chaplin) and more as we make it through the things that happen on Thanksgiving....somewhere you will get that weird familiar feeling that you have been through something like this before.

If you haven't seen it you should-it's currently part of HULU's holiday film lineup-it's rentable online from Amazon and you can even buy the DVD for a few bucks-like A CHRISTMAS STORY (you'' shoot your eye out) it's one of my holiday season must watch films-and I often see it more than once.

I also have literally every version of A CHRISTMAS CAROL ever produced and I have watched a couple of those already-I always forget how weird the Disney version with Jim Carey is-I made that a double bill with HOW THE GRINCH STILE CHRISTMAS!

As I get older it seems I do less and less for Christmas so it's important to hang on to what few Christmas/Holiday traditions I have hung onto.

I hope you will give Home For the Holidays a try...