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[rm]

Time to go holiday shopping now.
Which mostly means a huge order at Australian Homemade, a stop at the wine shop, maybe a pop down to Dean and Delucca, just because it makes me happy and possibly a trip to Best Buy.

Mostly, I am trying to decide if I should get a DVD player for my parents.

My dad has been talking about getting one for months, but never does.
My mother always says she is too tired to watch films when she gets home.
The subtitle feature on DVDs would mean my dad could watch movies without driving my mother crazy (his hearing is poor).
The chapter feature on DVDs would give my mom more freedom to watch DVDs at her pace.
Film is important to me, in part because I was taken to lots of film, and lots of great film as a child (The New York Film Festival, lots of indie pics, movies when they still showed them at Radio City, Gandhi on the big screen, etc).

But I just can't decide if this is me trying too hard to find some common ground with my family, or me buying them something they would enjoy and use, but feel intimidated to deal with themselves.

Comments

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

I just do not get why the Mexican food is lame up there. you would think with the massive cultural hodgepodge of NYC , you could get some real queso! I think Melynda has a really good recipe.

I'm about to venture out. I am afeared.

[rm.livejournal.com]

Heheheh, me too.

We don't even have queso -- we have like crappy spicey fake nacho cheese. It's the fucing Californians I tell you. And the Chinese Mexican places. Not okay.

[kalyx.livejournal.com]

damn, we get blamed for everything. [hangs head in shame]

I cannot get good mexican in the midwest either. And I didn't even try in Anchorage. Here it is all bland crap or "texmex", meaning reddish bland crap. That is the one thing I really, really miss about California. The food rocked.

[tsarina.livejournal.com]

Chinese Mexican is wrong. So wrong.

Queso at least is easy to recreate at home. I like to use the Mexican queso fresco cheese, but you could use most any you really like. Asadero cheese, some chedder, monterray jack... Melt until smooth, just a dab of milk to even out the consistency, add chopped tomato and jalapeno and onion or use pico de gallo.

[melyndabelinda.livejournal.com]

Velveeta melts the easiest, and Rotelle diced tomatoes are good. And we usually toss in some beer too, which can only make things better.

And now I want queso...

[rm.livejournal.com]

Cuban Chinese is actually a real blended cuisine here which is good. But the Chinese restaurants that do Mexican takeout? Crimes against humanity.