#28: Watch every Best Picture Oscar winner from 1960-2013. (12/53)
I wanted to get a jump start on #1; I mean, 100 is a big number! At first it was 50, but trying new recipes is something I do fairly often anyway, so 50 over 2.5 years didn't really seem like much of a challenge.
Today being New Year's Day, I had been thinking of something really complicated and decadent for dinner, but just coming off of Christmas and a New Year's Eve party, Tom and I decided against that...! He said he was in the mood for something Mexican but light, so I immediately thought of veggie fajitas. I went to allrecipes.com and found a recipe for Fajitas Primavera, which included the obligatory onions and peppers, but also had mushrooms, corn, tomatoes, kidney beans, green beans, and asparagus.
After dinner, we weren't really in a football-watching mood, so I went out and rented West Side Story, which won Best Picture in 1962. As much as I love musicals, I can't believe I had never seen that movie before! I think it was a little hard to get used to the dialog at first (meaning that I was trying not to giggle at words like "hoodlum" and "daddy-o" and the line about "poopin' around with dumb broads"), but overall it was very good. And that soundtrack...ahh. But after all these months of using Redbox, I can't justify paying $3 for every movie I get at Blockbuster. Is it possible that Netflix is in our future?
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