Made huevos divorciados for lunch today

[conuly]

Except my mother only got one egg, because of her appetite. (Should've scrambled it. I mean, the yolk broke anyway.)

So I bring it down to her....

Me: Hi! We've got heuevos divorciados today, but you just get one huevo!
Her: Huh?
Me: We've got huevos divorciados, but I only made you one huevo.
Her: I have no idea what you're saying.
Me: It's like huevos rancheros, but with two salsas.
Her: Oh. Well, what are the salsas?
Me: We've got a red salsa and a green salsa.
Her: I can see that! What are they?
Me: Um. They're a salsa roja and a salsa -
Her: Verde, yup. Thanks so much.

(There were also refried beans.)

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Comments

[nostalgia]

"divorced eggs"?

[conuly]

Theirs is a tragic tale, as they are forever separated by their different salsas (and, on my plate, by a line of refried beans)

[nostalgia]

oh noes!

[conuly]

But now they're united again! In my tummy.

[wpadmirer]

So the great white Westerners fucked up the lives of Egyptians by digging up and shipping out their history. (sigh)

[dewline]

Definitely a contributing factor.

On the KSA decision to relaunch movie theatres

[dewline]

Not necessarily a bad thing. I speak as one who enjoys seeing movies several times a year myself, although occasionally regretting it later for reasons that had little to do with the films themselves.

Re: On the KSA decision to relaunch movie theatres

[conuly]

I didn't think it was a bad thing at all :)

[sallymn]

Still sounds yummy.....

[conuly]

Yes, but I really must start making my own salsa verde. I don't like what I buy in the store so much :(

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

LOL, your conversation with your Mom cracks me up. I hope she liked her huevo!

Sir Palomides, black and a Saracen, is an important and engaging character in T.H. White's the Once And Future King, that the play and movie Camelot was based on. You'd think they could have included him in Camelot, even if only for as brief a bit-part as his questing-companion King Pellinore had. Pellinore does a LOT in the book, but he only gets about 30 seconds and two lines in the movie. In fairness, the great Merlyn himself gets no more, but still.

I don't remember Sir Moriens at all, but I haven't read Mallory since college, so that's hardly surprising. Anyway, yeah, Saracen knights of the Round Table are definitely part of the established Arthurian canon.

[conuly]

I had no idea! But then, Arthurian canon isn't quite my thing.

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

You've never read The Once And Future King? It's an amazing book on so many levels - Camelot bears almost no resemblance to it, except for more-or-less following the plot in an extremely simplified form. (Good songs, though!)

Haha, the Questing Beast isn't even mentioned in Camelot, whereas in the book, it's Sir Palomides' idea that he and Sir Grummore should dress up as the Beast to distract King Pellinore from sighing over his lost love, which they do. (The lost love and the real Questing Beast both show up shortly after.)

It's a rollicking tale, one of my favorites from childhood that has stood the test of time; you ought to check it out some time.

[conuly]

Probably bypassed it in favor of another read of Little Princess and The Remarkable Journey of Prince Jen.