What the Beck?: Tuesday, August 18, 2015

What the Beck???

Recipe Review

Today’s Recipe and Location: Caesar Salad Dressing

Found in: The Pioneer Woman Cooks: A Year of Holidays

Page 187: Copyright: 2013 Harper Collins

I figured out that there are 104 calories, if 10 servings are made. (Please note that the calorie counts vary depending on the specific brands of ingredients that you choose to use.)

This is a really good Caesar Salad dressing and it was a snap to make.

Bucket List Update

1951 A Place in the Sun

starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, and Shelley Winters

plot – A rich uncle gives his poor nephew a job. The boy falls in love with a rich girl, but impregnates a factory worker.

This movie definitely kept my attention. The boy was so focused on the wealthy girl who was out of his reach that he also dates a factory worker. This movie was well done.

1958 Auntie Mame

starring: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker

plot – an orphan boy is sent to live with his eccentric aunt

I liked the movie. Rosalind Russell was great in the lead role and the boy was wonderful. Thank Heavens I don’t have an Auntie Mame in my life. She would exhaust the heck out of me.

1960 The Sundowners

starring: Robert Mitchum and Deborah Kerr

plot – This movie takes place in Australia in 1920. The father is a sheepherder, so the family moves around a lot. The family desperately wants to settle down.

I loved this movie. The lifestyle that they were living is something that I could never handle. I love being a home owner. I can’t imagine constantly being on the move.

1961 Fanny

starring: Leslie Caron, Charles Boyer, Maurice Chevalier, and Horst Bucholz

plot – This is the story of a woman who loves two men, one old and the other young. She gets pregnant with the young man who has sailed away and doesn’t know of the baby. The older man is happy to raise the boy. Then the young man returns…

I was surprised how much I liked this movie. The story was great and Leslie Caron was superb. A great movie.

1962 The Hustler

starring: Paul Newman and Jackie Gleason

plot – Jackie Gleason is Minnesota Fats to Newman’s Fast Eddie Felson. Newman strives to beat Fats and ends up living a difficult life with a girlfriend traveling the pool circuit.

I had heard of the pool sharks before, but this felt like a history lesson about pool players. Newman and Gleason were fabulous and I really loved this classic.

This year’s garden

The gardens have been wonderful and lush this year due to all of the rain we had in the spring. Here is what I have enjoyed this summer.