Gratitude – 01/02/2009

Today, I am grateful for:

1. Simon Pegg.  You may remember him from Shaun of the Dead, a funny (if very macabre) movie, and more recently from the highly entertaining Run Fat Boy Run.  This was one of those increasingly rare laugh-out-loud films, made all the more comical by Pegg’s portrayal of the good-hearted if bumbling hero.

2. Crock pots.  This week, while I was on enforced vacation and my wife had to work, I’ve been making suppers.  Many of these suppers have involved the use of a crock pot, for 2 reasons: first, the slow cooking gives stews and soups a great flavour; and second, it allows me to chop everything up in the morning, throw it in the pot, and then more or less forget it for 8 hours.

3. French onion soup (without red wine).  I tried making it with red wine this week.  It was awful.  Truly, unmitigatedly so.  Quite possibly the worst soup I have ever tasted, and easily among the top five Terrible Meals I Have Made – and that includes the time I tried roasting a woodchuck, with stuffing.  Without said red wine, however, the soup isn’t half bad.

photo credit: stu_spivack