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What's On Tonight
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You Just Never Know What You're Going To Find

 

March

What is March?

Is it the beginning of our season of hope?

Is it the promise of new beginnings and new discoveries?

Is March that month when suddenly, somehow, life comes to life, from the sight of the first crocus to the sounds that miserable blue jay makes at four fifteen in the morning?

 

I know March is deceptive. It holds out a hand to spring and suggests a little slice of heaven is on the way, as the sun warms your face. Twelve minutes later you step into a slush puddle while dodging the spring snow shower that has morphed into the storm that will challenge the blizzard of '88.

 

Well, we're here to tell you that spring is all of that and more. It is filled with opportunities (see FREE Furnace) and silliness (see Stephen Hawking's best science jokes). March is filled with fresh moments to 'get on with it' and others that will remind you to cherish those moments that have passed.

 

March is here. So, say, 'hello.'

 

 In the spring, I have counted 136 different kinds of weather

inside of 24-hours.

-Mark Twain

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 The first day of spring is one thing and

the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

-- Henry Van Dyke

 Beware

 

Sooth: Caesar!

Caesar: Ha! Who calls?

Cassius: Bid every noise be still. Peace yet again.

Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue, shriller than all the music, cry 'Caesar!'

Speak. Caesar is turn'd to hear.

Sooth: Beware the ides of March.

Caesar: What man is that?

Brutus: A soothsayer bids you beware the ides of March

Caesar: Set him before me. Let me see his face.

Cassius: Fellow, come from the throng. Look upon Caesar

Caesar: What say'st thou to me now? Speak once again.

Sooth: Beware the ides of March

Caesar: He is a dreamer. Let us leave him pass.

  

The Roman biographer Suetonius identified the Soothsayer, as Spurinna, a Haruspex, a person trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy (the inspection of entrails of sacrificed animals. They were looking for omens. Somehow we thought you might have wanted to know this.)

 Spring is nature's way of saying, "Let's party."

-- Robin Williams

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  Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

-- Rainer Maria Rilke

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Italy and the spring and first love all together should suffice to make the gloomiest person happy.

--Bertrand Russell

100 Years Later

 

This April we will begin to hear more and more about the "Great War." Most of us think we have an idea about how it all started...some Arch Duke being shot. For a great read and a deeper sense of history we recommend...The Sleepwalkers. How Europe Went To War in 1914.

THE SLEEPWALKERS
How Europe Went to War in 1914
By Christopher Clark.

 

Clark manages in a single volume to provide a comprehensive, highly readable survey of the events leading up to World War I. He avoids singling out any one nation or leader as the guilty party. "The outbreak of war," he writes, "is not an Agatha Christie drama at the end of which we will discover the culprit standing over a corpse." The participants were, in his term, "sleepwalkers," not fanatics or murderers, and the war itself was a tragedy, not a crime.

 

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

-- Percy Bysshe Shelley

What's On Tonight?
Here are a few others:

Robin Hood: disgruntled veteran protests taxes.

Alien: Ship fails to deliver cargo. Crew don't get bonus.

Aliens: An unplanned pregnancy leads to complications.

Frankenstein: Scientific advancement proves unpopular with general public.

Blade Runner: Man with no apparent skill stumbles onto escaped robots. Fails to kill most. Has sex with one.

Chinatown: Father desires closer relationship with his daughter.

Deliverance: Tourists experience local hospitality.

Ferris Bueller's Day Off: Amoral narcissist makes world dance for his amusement

Ghostbusters: Unemployed college professors destroy hotel with nuclear weapons.

King Kong: Endangered animal stolen. Sees NYC. Shot.

 

Now - to win one of those special $25 Gift Cards you hear so much about, write your unexpected plot summary for one of these films: TOP GUN, TWILIGHT, THE MATRIX, or TITANIC. We will select one great description and feature it in next month's At Home.

 

 Spring is God's way of saying, "One more time!"

-- Robert Orben

Dinner and a Movie.

      

Albert Einstein is credited with remarking that, "imagination is more  important than knowledge." If you are looking for a film that uses its imagination - wildly - look no further than this month's selection: Amelie

 

A romantic comedy, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet it is the whimsical story of a shy waitress who decides to change the life of those around her for the better, while she struggles with her own isolation. It was nominated for five Academy Awards - and there's talk of a Broadway production! Enjoy.

 

And for that dinner...how 'bout a great warm soup!

 

 

 

   

Lentil and Sausage Soup

  

 

Serves four adults with plenty of leftovers.

 

* 1 1/2 cup French green lentils
* 2 bay leaves
* 3 tablespoons bacon fat or olive oil, divided
* 3 or 4 sausages made with herbs and/or garlic
* 1 large yellow or white onion
* 4 cloves of garlic
* 1/2 cup sturdy red wine
* 3 stalks of celery, and their leaves if possible
* 1 tablespoon dried marjoram or an equivalent amount of fresh
* 4 or 5 carrots, depending on their size
* 4 cups chicken or beef stock (preferably homemade)
* 3 tablespoons organic ketchup
* 2 cups chopped spinach (frozen is fine ,if you don't have fresh;             just use 1/1/2 cups instead)
* 1/4 cup chopped parsley
Salt and pepper, to taste
Red wine vinegar, to taste

1. Fill a tea kettle with water and put it on the stove to boil while you do the following step.

2. Heat 2 tbl of oil or bacon fat with one of the bay leaves and gently saute the sausages, if they are not already cooked. If they are pre-cooked (or if not, once you've cooked them), slice them into ¾" slices and brown them in the bacon fat or oil. Remove the sausage slices with a slotted spoon and set them aside.

3. Rinse the lentils in cold water two or three times, pick out any stones or other debris, and put the lentils on the stove in a saucepan with at least three cups of hot water from the kettle. Stir the lentils and cook them over medium heat, while you chop the vegetables. Be sure to keep an eye on the cooking lentils and stir them occasionally. Add more hot water as they cook, if they start to look dry. (You don't have to do this step if you have a lot of time to make this soup. I.e., you can put them in the soup, uncooked, with the hot water, after you have cooked the onions and garlic.)

4. If time is short,heat your stock in the microwave or on the stove so it will be nice and hot when you need it.

5. Meanwhile, dice the onions so they are about ½" square; chop the garlic. Add the remaining oil or bacon fat, as well as the onions and garlic, to the pan in which the sausages were browned; cook over medium heat, stirring occasionally. When the onions start to look a bit translucent, push them aside with a spoon and add the wine. Cook for a minute or two to deglaze the pot.

6. Stir the lentils in with the cooking water. It doesn't matter whether they are cooked. Just add them now, and add the stock.

7. Chop the celery into small dice and chop a small handful of the celery leaves, if you have them; add to the soup. Add the marjoram and stir well, continuing to cook.

8. Cut the carrots into slices or chunks, depending on how thick they are. Add them to the pot, with the reserved sausages, and the salt and pepper to taste, and stir well. (I add the sausages at this point, rather than earlier, because the kind I use tends to fall apart, even after browned, if I cook them much longer. You can add them when you combine the lentils and their cooking water, if that's not a problem for you.)

9. Cook for at least another ten minutes, adding more water if necessary and stirring occasionally, to prevent the lentils from sticking. At this point, you can also turn it down to simmer, if you have the time, but do keep an eye on the lentils, please, and add more water if necessary.

10. Add the ketchup and stir well. Cook until the carrots are tender.

11. Test and correct the seasonings. Add the spinach and the parsley. Heat until the soup is very hot.

Pass the red wine vinegar separately, for people to add, to taste. Serve with a hearty whole grain bread and fresh butter.

(courtesy of Food 52.com) 

 

 One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the spring.

-- Aldo Leopold

February Winners

You all were smarter than the average bear. Everyone seemed to recognize Jane Fonda in Klute with MK Barrows winning that one.

 

The pix of the lady with the yellow hat was by Horst Horst. Winner to be determined!

 

How are you doing this month?

  With the coming of spring, I am calm again.

-- Gustav Mahler

  I love feeling the crispness of all and the sensuality of spring.

-- Christopher Meloni

Apropos of Nothing...

  (Except a laugh) 

 

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