{"id":2487,"date":"2009-11-02T09:45:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-01T23:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/?p=2487"},"modified":"2009-11-02T10:05:13","modified_gmt":"2009-11-02T00:05:13","slug":"novembreyfoodie-movieschocolates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/?p=2487","title":{"rendered":"Novembrey.foodie movies.chocolates."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>wat time is it??? its not even 7am. and im wideeeee awake. i tink i was in bed by 9pm last nite. haha. talk about early. i&#8217;m probably just exhausted from the travelling and what not..not to forget that melbourne is 3hrs ahead of brunei..so i tink im probably going through a mini jet lag as well. well, lets see if im in bed by 9pm again tonite. honestly, i dont mind sleeping early because beauty is sleep and sleep is beauty \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>ive got something at 8am. and then im free the whole day. no idea what im going to do. sucks not havinga  job. i think im the only one in house who is officially a penganggur now. mal&#8217;s working kel&#8217;s been working for ages now.. and here i am.. contemplating sleep or telivision at 7am in the morning. <\/p>\n<p>Maybe i should start testing new recipes to add on to <a href=\"http:\/\/Thecakery.sasmonroe.net\">Thecakery<\/a>. i bought a few bags full of really good chocolate while i was in Melbourne..i really dont know how people do it. like come out with a set of items to sell at once. I reckon they&#8217;ve all probably been baking all their lives! cause its not easy coming out with a full proof recipe..exsp one that requires measurements and an oven! honestly, i was never in to baking. infact i used to hate it with a passion. It wasn&#8217;t until i tried out my first brownie recipe that i tot i had a knack for it..even then i still wasnt in love. The love affair with baking only began when i successfully made my first batch of choux pastry and turned them in to fluffy golden profiteroles! <\/p>\n<p>speaking about baking.. i managed to catch Julie &#038; Julia on the plane. FINALLY. a good foodie movie! i had high expectaions on &#8216;No Reservations&#8217; (Cath Zeta) being the next foodie movie of the decade but unfortunately apart from chefs throwing tantrums in the kitchen, it really didnt hit a high note with me. Infact, the last good foodie movie i saw was Chocolat, just like the book it was DELICIOUS..they even threw in Johnny Depp for DESSERT! WOOT WOOT!! hahaha..  I think Like Water for Chocolate wouldve been good too, if only it was in english.. the version that i saw was a direct translation of the book haha it was in spanish too! dubbed in english! lol. i can&#8217;t wait for hollywood to come out with a contemporary version of it. Although i have a feeling they already did in the form of &#8216; Simply Irresistible  &#8216; starring Michelle Gellar. I remembered watching it over and over on vcd when it first came out. 10 years later, finally found a copy of the movie on ebay and ive only seen it once ever since! the food cinematography&#8217;s fabulous however, the story line&#8217;s abit on the cliched side..and haha it took me 10 years to realise that people. lol. Another good foodie movie to watch out for is in the form of K-drama titled, My Lovely Samsoon.  <\/p>\n<p>Like all the movies i mentioned, Julie &#038; Julia is another foodie collectible. Starring Meryl Streep!! (EEEPSSS MERYL STREEP!) as Julia Child and Amy Adams as blogger Julie Powell. Its a story about two ladies from different times both in love with their food and cooking. Julie feeling lost about life decided to open up a blog that would record her trials and triumphs with recipes from Julia Child&#8217;s cook book titled &#8216;Mastering the art of French Cooking&#8217;. The movie on the other hand, tells Julia Child&#8217;s journey in France as some sort of an American diplomat&#8217;s wife. Not having anything to do she filled up her days at cooking classes at Le Cordon Bleu and decided to write a book on French Cooking for American readers as they weren&#8217;t any at that time. Both women share loving husbands that were supportive of their careers (BLESS!!!), both found some sort of orgasmic joy in cooking&#8230; you&#8217;d just have to watch it la! hahaha.. its a really feel-good movie. and i can&#8217;t wait for it to come out on dvd&#8230;! Now im thinking if i should open up a food blog of my own.. huhuhu anyway, <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bookpage.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/07\/julie_and_julia.jpg\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>WATCH. <\/p>\n<p>kiss me<br \/>\nps: i loved it so much i saw it twice! haha back to back! \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>wat time is it??? its not even 7am. and im wideeeee awake. i tink i was in bed by 9pm last nite. haha. talk about early. i&#8217;m probably just exhausted from the travelling and what not..not to forget that melbourne is 3hrs ahead of brunei..so i tink im probably going through a mini jet lag [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dailies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2491,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2487\/revisions\/2491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sasmonroe.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}