Delicious Fish Recipe

Compliments of actress Gwyneth Paltrow who I watched cook this for Oprah and Jude Law on a podcast. This is a simple recipe and absolutely delicious, my teenage son had 3 pieces of fish!
For a copy of the recipe click here: http://www.oprah.com/foodhome/food/recipes/food_20040826_fish.jhtml
Ingredients are
Thick pieces of white fish (I used tilapia and salmon, she recommends flounder)
1 cup of mellow white miso paste (bought at Whole Foods in the Asian food aisle)
3/4 cup of mirin sauce (same place as the white miso paste)
After whisking the paste and mirin sauce together, coat the fish and bake for 20 minutes at 400 degrees. The sauce caramelizes giving the fish a just slightly sweet taste. I served on a bed of lettuce with fresh avocado and a side of rice.

Great Movie-love after you are dead

I recently watched the most hysterical and original film I have seen in years. Wristcutter's A Love Story is about Zia (Patrick Fugit from Almost Famous, all grown up)who after committing suicide finds himself in a strange afterlife where he works at a pizza parlor and hits up bars with his friend a dead Russian rock star. Going on a road trip to find his recently deceased ex girlfriend, an unlikely trio of Zia, the rocker and a girl who thinks she is dead by mistake and looking for the "People in Charge", is a movie not to be missed. Check out the film's website here: http://www.wristcutters.com/
And a teaser:

Flash Back Friday #5

So Leif Garrett was my first Idol. In the 70's it was a toss up between Leif and Shaun Cassidy, but ultimately Leif won (at least in my eyes). I think it was his long hair, I still dig guys with long shaggy hair.
Here is a video of Leif singing one of his cheesy songs. From what I've read he went the typical child star route, jail and drugs and his best feature, that hair is gone.

Little nostalgia for what has been a sad week. I hope this sillyness makes you smile.

The Power of a Photograph

So this morning on my way to a meeting, I stopped by the local Starbucks for my tea and while it was brewing picked up today's New York Times. The front page photograph was so moving I stood there and wept. The photograph shows a young couple holding their dead daughter, killed in her school during the China earthquake. Reading the article made me cry harder and I simply didn't know what to do. In a country of 1 child families many of the parents lost their only child. As a parent of an only child, this only devastated me more and I don't know what I or we as a country can do to help those suffering in China. Other reports and photographs of the devastation in Myanmar made me so sad, I just felt lost. My meeting was a gathering of a group of volunteer coordinators and I was presenting, somehow my suggestions on what we can do locally just seemed like a drop of water in a much larger ocean.

Can You Judge A Book By Its Cover?

With the volume of books that come across my desk every day at work, I've seen the good, the bad, the pornographic, the strange and the hysterical. Every day my job is like Christmas morning, I never know what will be on my book cart but always enjoy what I get.
There is a website devoted to book covers which you should check out here: http://great-book-covers.front.lv/
And even a book devoted to book jackets and covers:

One of my favorites, the cover of the book, The Worst Years of Your Life.

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Must Read Book- A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll

I had the privilege of receiving an early and signed copy of the book A Dose of Rock 'n' Roll by Nancy Lee Andrews and edited by Marshall Terrill. The book is coffee table size and "wrapped" in its own hard cover box, it presents like the gift that it is. The author Andrews is a former model and fiancee of Beatle Ringo Starr with whom she spent most of the 1970's and her memories of the era and the Rock and Roll luminaries she knew are captured and preserved lovingly in her book. Each photograph is displayed like a portrait and as Nancy writes, span 10 of the most thrilling years of her life as well as an unforgettable era in music.
When I began reading the book, I found myself stopping at certain photographs, such as a haunting one of Eric Clapton walking away from Stonehenge (picture taken by Carl Radle, the author's first love and a musician and fellow photographer). With each photograph, I wanted to learn more about the person captured in the image, figures like Leon Russell, George Harrison, Bernie Taupin, Donovan and the "Ladies of Rock Roll" such as Jenny Anderson and Kiki Dee. It was a difficult book to put down not only because every time I did someone in my house disappeared with it but because the photographs are so stunning and personal. The author captured those around her in poignant but also silly and deeply personal moments in their lives.
Another one of my favorites, Ringo Starr snuggled in bed with his three small children. That picture sums up what the author captured as a photographer and as a storyteller.