Mmm Mmm - Prime Rib soup and "Bram Stoker's Dracula"

[Rabrrrrrr]

Yummy soup! And so far - 5 minutes into it - a yummy movie! This is the one with Anthony Hopkins, whom I think is one of the greatest actors there is.

And a Martini!

[wryter2000]

1. I love that version of Dracula

Except for some of the dumb costumes.

Hey, I'm all for beef soup, but if you have a prime rib, shouldn't you roast it instead of making soup out of it?

[Rabrrrrrr]

2. Ruin beef by roasting it? NO! I boil it, like the food-expert English do!

No, it's leftover from Christmas - I had the bones, and some meat left, and am finally getting around to souping it. Since I had first to make soup out of the 4 pounds of ham I had left.

:-)

I'm really liking the movie so far!

[Aristus]

20. What dumb costumes???????

:shrug:

The best costumes were the ones the vampire brides DIDN'T wear! :evilgrin:

[wryter2000]

21. The asylum attendants

The attendants wore cages over their heads. And Renfield had some kind of wires on his fingers. Also, the ugly Dracula's wig. Dumb.

[Sequoia]

3. Fun. Hey, that's me knockig on your door.

I have a six-pack and crackers.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

4. OK, you're talking about Anthony Hopkins, Dracula, and meat.

If you utter the word "Chianti", I'm outta here! :scared:

[Rabrrrrrr]

6. I do have a nice chianti. You should come over.

I'd love to have you for dinner.

:evilgrin:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. AIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. Why are you fleeing?

Clarice? Why do you run away?

[Left Is Write]

5. Sounds like a great night!

:thumbsup:

[fluffernutter]

8. did you make the soup? it sounds delizioso!

i like AH too, enjoy your movie and your martini.

[Rabrrrrrr]

10. Yep - I made the soup!

leftover prime rib from Christmas.

[fluffernutter]

11. a man of many talents.

i like that :)

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. I love to cook!

YUM YUM!

I figured that, hey, if I love to eat - and love to eat good cuisine gourmet food - I should make sure I know how to cook the food I want to eat!

And, by golly, it's fun.

[fluffernutter]

13. it IS fun!

and omg, i can't tell you how women swoon for a man who is a good cook.

i love to cook as well - and cooking together with other people is great too (especially when they are the sous chefs/cleaner-uppers/wine pourers ;))

did you teach yourself through cookbooks, or what?

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Taught myself via TV and reading cookbooks

My mom also taught me how to use the kitchen - she was a good cook, for cooking basic midwestern german-descent peasant foods, but not an inspired or overly creative one.

She was a HELL of a good baker, though, and taught me that as well. Thank God!

But in terms of cooking, beyond mom's teaching me how to use the oven and stove and stuff, I'm pretty much all self-taught - from how to properly use a chef's knife, to spices and herbs, and etc. etc. etc.

I really started with wanting to learn how to cook when I discovered Chinese food in college. I had a few CHinese books to help me out, and good at those, and then the Discovery Channel was invented, and they had a boatload of different cooking shows in their early years whcih I watched a lot. Watching the shows about the great chefs in New Orleans and NY and the Southwest made me realize just how awesome food could be, and how much I was missing.

How I'm up to using Escoffier's book. :-)

[fluffernutter]

15. wow. Escoffier is outta my league.

my brother, however, is an amazing chef and has studied french cuisine in europe. he does amazing things with homemade stocks and demi-glace. he can also taste something outstanding at a restaurant and go home and whip it up. our mother and father are both great cooks. we got lucky that way :)

i was wanting to read that book about Escoffier's memoirs, have you?

[Rabrrrrrr]

16. Didn't realize there was such a book!

That would be very interesting to read.

I shall have to check it out on Amazon.

I wish I could have had the chance at some point to really study cooking - I visited the CIA once, just as a sort of "trip to Mecca" pretending to be an interested potential student. But I have no interest in cooking for a living. What would be cool is if they'd offer a crash course for serious people who don't want to be chefs to spend maybe an intensive 4 weeks. That would totally rock! I envy your brother!

[fluffernutter]

18. wouldn't it?

i'd be there in a heartbeat if they did that.

OT: how's your fish in the hospital tank?

[NightTrain]

17. Don't scare me like that!

I thought you were talking about "Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula: Love Never Dies," with Gary Oldman. :puke:

[Kire]

22. Anthony Hopkins and Gary Oldman are in Francis Ford Coppolas's film

unless there are two films with that name and that director

[NightTrain]

23. You mean, somebody watched that film intentionally?!

:wtf: Christ, I hated that goddamned thing; one of the godawfulest pieces of shit through which I've ever agonized! :hurts:

[Kire]

24. I watch it over and over intentionally. And I will again.

are you going to convince me not to, or are you just going to shout at me?

Edit: did you see the original post?

[Rabrrrrrr]

25. I thought the film was great!

I was surprised at the end of it to see Dino's name, though. Usually he does crap. But I think this one, which skirted the boundary of crap, somehow managed not to slip over. Things were overdone, but they were consistently overdone in a way that kept the internal integrity working.

[housewolf]

19. Owwww...

I had prime rib bones and they went in the trash just last night! I could have made soup out of them... why didn't you remind me yesterday??

Sounds great, enjoy!