Hmmmm .... Let's see. Juiced a grapefruit this morning, except it wasn't a grapefruit, it was a blood orange. The girls then went off to hot yoga with Flora while I worked a bit, took a shower and got ready. We all went to Eggsmart for lunch with Flora and Keefe. I was going to try something different from my usual - bacon and eggs - but couldn't see anything I really liked or that didn't look too heavy so I went with the usual. Oh, and a glass of fresh OJ. The girls had chicken noodle soup and waffles.
I decided to eat fruit for the rest of the day so bought an array: cantaloupe, oranges, grapefruit, strawberries and apples. Alexias made fettucine alfredo for her and Serena while I just ate fruit.
Almost made it through the whole of the rest of the day but cracked in the end and had a piece of toast and marmalade. Perhaps tomorrow.
At night, I watched Julie and Julia, the movie about the needy little harridan who cooks her way through Julia Child's Mastering The Art Of French Cooking. As you might have guessed, I didn't like it. I didn't really care much about Julie and there wasn't enough about Julia in it. I hated the way Meryl Streep chopped onions, even after she had supposedly gone through a mountain of them to get good at it. And the movie didn't really end, just kind of ran out of steam. I did check out her (Julie's) original blog after I watched the movie. Meh. I also see why Julia Child didn't want to meet her or even associate with her in any way. I mean, if I was Julia Child and I saw my name written as Julia F___ing Child, I'd stay far away too. Julia Child had this to say about Julie:
"I worked very hard on that book. I tested and retested those recipes for eight years so that everybody could cook them. And many, many people have. I don’t understand how she could have problems with them. She just must not be much of a cook."
From what I have seen of her blog, she is not much of a writer either.
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