Have any of you ever seen "The Peanut Butter Solution"? I think it's been on my mind because of all the friends I've had going through cancer treatment recently. Not that it's about cancer, but it is about a boy losing his hair.
My husband had never heard of it, so I gave him the rundown of what I remember. "It's about a boy who gets so scared his hair falls out. Then he makes this peanut butter solution and paints it on this head, which makes his hair grow back overnight. Only problem is, it grows so fast you can actually see it growing and it won't stop. Then he gets kidnapped by some guy that uses the hair to make magical paint brushes that paint pictures you can walk into and explore." I paused to bask in his look of disbelief and added, "And I might have made some of that up, but that's how I remember it."
I laughed til I cried when I pulled it up on amazon and saw all the reviews for the movie. It's almost like there's a little support group for this flick. And yes, I remembered it correctly. And no, I'm not the only person who wasn't sure if they were making it up or not. One person actually thought it was a nightmare he had as a kid. He use to tell people about it until he came across someone who let him know that it was a movie. Other people were even accused of lying because there was no possible way a movie that bizarre could exist. Well folks...it does exist, and I watched it again the other night for the first time since I was about 7 years old. I still enjoyed it. Not sure I can say the same for the hubby, but at least he sat through it with me, poking fun at it all the while.
Okay...now that I got that out of my system...
Did you know that January is National Soup Month!? It's the perfect time of year to try out all those soup recipes you've clipped out of magazines, printed off the internet, and tucked into your "Try Something New" recipe box!
I got this recipe out of The Cancer Fighting Kitchen by Rebecca Katz when I was doing some of the cooking for one of my friends that was going through chemo. She loved the soup and so do I! If I ever get to open my restaurant, this soup will certainly be on the menu. The link below will hopefully take you to her recipe page.
Chicken Vegetable Soup with Ginger Meatballs
I followed the recipe as instructed. The only change I made was to leave out the egg in the meatball mixture. They still held together fine. I also went with the spinach variation since I had some that needed to be used.
This really is a wonderful soup!
