You may recall that wonderful looking Caramel Apple Pear Bourbon Pie I made the other night. I say wonderful looking, because it had yet to be tasted, when last I posted.
Now it is all gone - and I wish that it wasn't. It was wonderful and delicious. And that's what you need to know.
I had some concerns that the pie would be too wet and that maybe the crust would be soggy, but it wasn't. The excess liquid thickened perfectly. I highly recommend trying something like this. Take my idea and play with it or make up your own pie recipe. Take a restaurant dessert you love and turn it into something you can make at home. It will most likely be delicious! Worst case? You'll learn a little something about cooking!
If you're in to wonderful food
Another amazing dessert we experienced this Christmas came courtesy of my sister who *heart*s Pinterest as much as the rest of us. She made incredibly wonderful, totally delicious, and mind bogglingly simple Dulce de Leche sauce, ALL BY HERSELF, in the crock pot. It was exciting to be present when she opened it up and we all saw that a couple cans of sweetened condensed milk, and a crock pot can come together to make magic. Delicious, wonderful magic. You can find the recipe HERE, if you're inclined to try it.
Break Time
Now that Christmas is over, the kids and I have a goal. For our Christmas break we're going to be reading The Invention of Hugo Cabret together. When my kids discovered this book in our very most favorite independent book store EVER, Sundance Books, they brought it to me immediately. I had seen Martin Scorsese on The Daily Show a couple days before that and he'd commented about how wonderful the book was, and how his kids' love for it led him to direct the movie Hugo. So I was excited to read the book, right off the bat.
Then I opened it.
And then I cried.
I wish I was exaggerating, but I'm not. My eyes totally welled up at the extreme level of loveliness that oozes from this book. You NEED it. You need it right now.
As soon as we're all done reading it, we'll be going to see Hugo in the theaters! Hopefully this whole plan will come together nicely by the end of this week. Can not wait!
Speaking of movie trailers
I have a thing for documentaries. I watch a lot of them and I can't stop watching them and I can't stop talking about them. The other day I caught up on new doc trailers. I am now officially excited to see this movie (kind of seems to be akin to Winebago Man) and the feel-warm-and-squishy-all-over trailer makes me excited to see this one, too. Both have already been released, but since I don't live in a big city, I have to wait until Netflix has them for me to see.
Some day I'll open an art house cinema and you can all come to my place to watch documentaries every Friday night. I'll make tamales and we'll have Perrier and pretend to be fancy.
If you want to watch a documentary
I recently watched Senna, which was wonderful. It is a nearly narration-free, super real, look into the life of Formula One driver Ayrton Senna. It is available on Netflix live streaming.
The kids and I also watched the 1996 film Microcosmos. The entire film is shot in extreme close-up, with tiny cameras and tons of time-lapse footage of bugs of all kinds, going about their daily business. It has very little narration and the kids and I loved it. (Fair warning, you will see a pair of slugs and a pair of ladybugs getting a little personal at some point in this film.)
Also
The kids put their Grandma money together to purchase a Kinect (we already had the xbox) and we spent our Christmas Eve dancing up a storm. Just Dance is quite possibly, the most fun game ever.
I hope you all had an amazing Christmas!
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