Dinner

Made the Steak in Shallot Sauce, which I found on arcaedia's Foodie Page.

Make that an approximation of Steak etc... I didn't use a sirloin cut, but a cut the name of which I can't recall, which I think maybe needed to be braised or stewed rather than quick-cooked. And I didn't have any steak sauce, so I made do with a tablespoon of tomato paste mixed with enough Worcestershire sauce to give the tell-tale rust color.

And I used scallions instead of shallots.

All that aside, it was really good. I will definitely reuse the recipe with a more suitable cut of meat.

Dinner on Friday turned out tasty as well. A Chicken Creole recipe of the inside lid of a Campari tomato container. It took me 45 minutes to chop up and cook all the veggies, *and* I used stock that I made myself from scratch. Left the leftovers on the counter to cool...and forgot about them until Saturday afternoon, when I discovered them as I put away groceries. Thus did one for the pot become one for the trashcan.

I hate it when I do things like that.

Dinner

Made the Steak in Shallot Sauce, which I found on arcaedia's Foodie Page.

Make that an approximation of Steak etc... I didn't use a sirloin cut, but a cut the name of which I can't recall, which I think maybe needed to be braised or stewed rather than quick-cooked. And I didn't have any steak sauce, so I made do with a tablespoon of tomato paste mixed with enough Worcestershire sauce to give the tell-tale rust color.

And I used scallions instead of shallots.

All that aside, it was really good. I will definitely reuse the recipe with a more suitable cut of meat.

Dinner on Friday turned out tasty as well. A Chicken Creole recipe of the inside lid of a Campari tomato container. It took me 45 minutes to chop up and cook all the veggies, *and* I used stock that I made myself from scratch. Left the leftovers on the counter to cool...and forgot about them until Saturday afternoon, when I discovered them as I put away groceries. Thus did one for the pot become one for the trashcan.

I hate it when I do things like that.

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One of the books on my Amazon wishlist is Schmucks with Underwoods: Conversations with America's Classic Screenwriters. The title, according to the blurb, was Jack L Warner's term for the "chumps who cranked out scripts on his lot."

I don't know why writers have never received any respect. I remember reading about life on the set of the 80s nighttime soap Dynasty, where assistants for Joan Collins and Linda Evans examined the scripts and one camp raised a stink if the other actress had more lines of dialogue. It became less about story and more about balancing divas. Words became a way of keeping score.

Would have loved to see Collins and Evans try improv.

Very much with the writers on this--do I need to say that? Because if the studios didn't believe that online content was valuable, they wouldn't argue so vehemently that it isn't.

Read this if you want to know more. Thanks to Doris Egan for taking the time to write it.

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One of the books on my Amazon wishlist is Schmucks with Underwoods: Conversations with America's Classic Screenwriters. The title, according to the blurb, was Jack L Warner's term for the "chumps who cranked out scripts on his lot."

I don't know why writers have never received any respect. I remember reading about life on the set of the 80s nighttime soap Dynasty, where assistants for Joan Collins and Linda Evans examined the scripts and one camp raised a stink if the other actress had more lines of dialogue. It became less about story and more about balancing divas. Words became a way of keeping score.

Would have loved to see Collins and Evans try improv.

Very much with the writers on this--do I need to say that? Because if the studios didn't believe that online content was valuable, they wouldn't argue so vehemently that it isn't.

Read this if you want to know more. Thanks to Doris Egan for taking the time to write it.