Taking a Break From Blogging

Mixin it up in London

The view from the 5th floor of our company building helps to showcase the chaotic mix of architecture here in London. Chaotic...but I like it much of the time. It all comes together somehow.

And...scouting around in a Marks & Spencer's on my way back to the hotel last night turned up some craziness. Check it out - you can literally buy...a glass of wine. The glasses were made out of plastic and there was a plastic film glued to the top to keep the liquid in the glass. I abstained from buying one. Can't imagine it tastes any good...

Health and Happiness

A perk of some time in London is that lunch time is a particularly nice experience. Yesterday - a burrito, today some health and happiness.

The Big Easy

Remember that film with Kyra Sedgewick called "The Big Easy?" I think it must have come out around 15 years ago - maybe even before that (Oh god. I just looked. It was 24 year ago...here's a really bad trailer...). It was a murder mystery. I don't even remember most of the details. I remember her southern accent - and it took place in the South. I think New Orleans. She was some kind of police officer or detective. I remember it was a steamy movie, both because of the location and the mystery storyline, the time of year, but also because of the side romance theme throughout. Co-starred what's his name...Dennis Quaid. Who was looking pretty good at the time.

Anyway...this morning I downloaded a couple episodes of "The Closer" - some US crime drama series that was recommended to me by one of the clients I have been working with in Zurich. He gave me a whole long list of around 8 series to check out...because I have only really been watching Bones lately and I think he felt sorry for me. hehehe. Anyway, long story short, Kyra is the star of this series. She must have been cast in it as the star because of The Big Easy. And it's good. I watched two episodes in the gym today, so that is telling.

But subconsciously this all came together obviously. Here is how this stuff influences me: I think southern US...and crabs and crab boils and recipes from there...(Louisiana crab cakes) and I had about a kilo of frozen crab in the freezer looking for a recipe. And normally I don't really eat crab. They are too much work and too messy. But I had no big plans and plenty of time to zen out peeling a kilo of crabs. Boiled them up and peeled away and peeled and peeled and peeled. I think for about an hour and a half. My cat, Sophie, watched with fascination and in the hope that I would abandon the bowl of meat for a half a second. In the end, I think I ended up with 300 grams of crab meat. What to do? Crab cakes, of course. But I always try to cut the fat and calories out...so I put almost no mayo in there...and I didn't really fry them - just a spot of oil in the pan so they wouldn't stick.

Result - good. But obviously no Big Easy. And no Big Tasty. But good.