What happens out in the lots, stays out in the lots.
The Power of the Dog led all Oscar nominations with 12 nods including Best Picture. Haley and I decided to see what all the hype was about with a plate of pesto pasta. Pesto Pasta Total Time: 20 minutes Ingredients: 1 box bowtie pasta 1 pre-packaged grilling vegetable blend 1 jar pre-made pesto Olive oil Instructions: […]
What better way to get into the holiday spirit than gathering with friends, drinking some spiked cider, and watching a ‘holiday classic’ Krampus. Spiked Apple Cider – Courtesy of our friend Michael Kurt Total Time: 20 minutes Ingredients: Louisburg Apple Cider (or your favorite brand) Crown Royal Cinnamon Stick Instructions: Mix cider and Crown Royal […]
We are back from our family leave hiatus after welcoming Holden Moon into our lives. We hope you will continue to follow our dinner and movie recommendations as we adjust to feeding one more in the Moon household. This week a conversation in the TGS chat pop culture channel prompted us to watch one of […]
For this edition of Dinner and a Movie, we watched an interesting zombie movie, The Dead Don’t Die, and with good taste made homemade sloppy joes. I promise they aren’t brains for zombies!! HOMEMADE SLOPPY JOESTotal Time: 15 minutes Ingredients: 1 pound hamburger 2 tablespoon white vinegar 2 tablespoon flour ½ cup packed brown sugar […]
For this edition of Dinner and a Movie, we watched the new Pixar movie, Soul, and had breakfast for dinner. Haley received Chrissy Teigen’s cookbook Cravings for Christmas, so we picked one of her simpler breakfast recipes to try out. YELLOW CAKE BAKED OATMEAL (Cravings by Chrissy Teigen)Prep time: 10 minutes Total time: 1 hour […]
The TV show What We Do In The Shadows came highly recommended by friends and the Hulu front page. After giving in and binge-watching the series in a week, we were hooked and have become major fans. We even dressed up as characters from the show for Halloween this year. The show was created and […]
This month we watched Oscar award-winning JoJo Rabbit and enjoyed breakfast for dinner with pancakes! Good Old Fashioned Pancakes (recipe from AllRecipes.com) Ingredients: 1 ½ cups all-purpose flour 3 ½ teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon white sugar 1 ¼ cups milk 1 egg 3 tablespoons butter, melted Instructions: Sift together the dry ingredients into a […]
This month we watch the infinite time loop comedic gold of Palm Springs and grill that Iowa summer sweet corn. Mango BBQ Sweet Corn Ingredients: 6 ears of sweet corn ½ cup of red onion, finely chopped 1 lime, cut in half 1 cup of Mango Deadeye BBQ 1 tbsp olive oil Instructions: Turn […]
Listen, this wasn’t my favorite movie. But given the current state of *gestures to everything* there’s something to be said for watching a movie that makes you think, “Hey, at least I’m not literally getting swallowed by the Earth!”