Pleides! I hope that you've had a happy birthday.

And PBS in Chicago is showing a Miss Marple with Joanna Lumley as Miss Marple's friend who brings her into the investigation and Jack Davenport is supposed to be in it but hasn't shown up yet and Simon Callow is a police detective.

I was surprised because EW seemed to think that Mystery would be showing a Dectective Lynley mystery this week.

What did you do with the steak, ita?

Cracked peppercorns pressed into one side of it, cooked in a skillet pressed down on by a cake pan. The sauce was the nummy bit -- chicken (and theoretically beef, but I had none) stock with cream, brandy, a shallot, butter and lemon juice or champagne vinegar.

Fucking awesome.

Ooh, that sounds yumola. You need to get some bones from your butcher to make the beef stock. Or, you know, just buy some.

What brand is good though? I gave up on buying chicken stocks, and really never gave beef stock any thought past Oxo (which isn't OXO).

I should also get a butcher. The guys at the supermarkets here -- they're all more quasi-butcherish than I'm used to from MI, but as a result, I haven't seen any standalone butchers that aren't ethnically targeted.

But then I might find goat.

Who am I kidding? Too many stores, never going to happen.

I can't say I've ever actually bought beef stock, so I dunno. Or if I did, it was probably College Inn, because that's the chicken broth I buy?

I was surprised because EW seemed to think that Mystery would be showing a Dectective Lynley mystery this week.

We have two local PBS stations, and one is showing Miss Marple, and one is showing Lynley.

I couldn't get into the Marple last week, when it was the other station, and I just can't buy the guy they chose as Lynley. Or the woman who plays Helen. The only one I like is the chick who plays Havers.

The Veronica Mars pilot is being rerun on UPN right now, though. Here, at least.

Ooh, in the Fall they're going to have Rupert Everett as Sherlock Holmes. That should be interesting.

my houseguests are gone. Not that I did anything with them or anything, but free house anyway.

I am hungry and that shouldn't be so at 10:30. I had a full lunch and gazpacho for dinner & 3 cookies afterward. whyfor the hungry? what worse is I feel I could eat like a whole pizza or a good portion of a cake.

Rupert Everett as Sherlock Holmes could be very good. I just realized that I have no idea what he's been up to since he was Madonna's baby daddy in that horrible movie.

msbelle, you and Raul are on the same food wavelength. He is hungry again despite having a hearty, late lunch. He wants chicken.

Gazpacho and cookies seems like the kind of thing that would really last, food-wise.

I just ate some Jacques Torres chocolates, and I HIGHLY recommend them. The milk chocolate cinnamon one is the motherfucking bomb.

FYI.