Day 1171: Carne Guisasda

Started the day wresting a coconut cake into my car. It is one of the only times I wish I had a different car—balancing a cake on my car hood and unlocking the door with an actual key is not for the faint of heart. I also got some cheese Serrano bread. I think they only sell it on the weekends, I normally go on weekdays.

For lunch we got our favorite sushi takeout. The place isn’t close but it’s tasty, fresh and a good price.

I set up this website with my community cookbook work today. I have so many books from the grant project and I’d love to keep it going.

We were going to grill ribs (that’s why I got the bread) but time got away from us so Matt made Puerto Rican style carne guisasda for dinner. It was really good but I bet it will be better as leftovers. My goal was to have leftovers from the weekend so if we can do a day trip Tuesday, we won’t have to worry about dinner.

We had some cake and watched Fanny: The Right to Rock on PBS which I’ve been wanting to see for years. It was good and they totally should be on every single woman rock star, rock history list, timeline etc but they really kept harping on how they aren’t remembered like other big acts of the day.

They had huge success, a record deal, the label rented them a whole house to live and record in and they toured the world with massive names in the early 70s. They did endorsements, appeared in commercials, tv shows, many articles were written about how they were this amazing female band and how rare and great that was. But then they broke up after 4 years and never toured or made music together until just a few years ago.

Of course people aren’t going to remember you like The Rolling Stones if you quit after 4 years. Beyond the Beatles virtually all of the old acts we still remember from these eras are ones that toured forever (or still tour) and put out music. They didn’t. They had huge successes and walked away. Which is fine but then I don’t think you get to complain that people aren’t obsessed with you fifty years later.

We also watched The Fabelmans which was somehow both too long and too short. I didn’t realize the whole movie was about his mom’s love of a man who was not his father.