Culinary Adventures with Camilla

This month Kimberly from  Coffee and Casseroles  is hosting this month's edition of #FoodNFlix. Read her invitation:  here . She asked us to watch  The Addams Family or Addams Family Values.* It seems an appropriate month for good, ghastly fun; it's Halloween month and they are releasing a new (animated) Addams Family movie this month. And you have plenty of time to join in the fun, if you wish. Posts aren't due to Kimberly until October 30th. I mentioned the assignment and R said that he had just seen that DVD. So, he dug it out of the cabinet for me and all four of us sat down to watch it. D kept asking, "What is this movie? Why are we watching it?" Sadly, I think that he inherited my sense of humor...or rather lack of one. But the rest of us didn't complain too much and might have even enjoyed it. On the Screen The Addams Family opens with a scene of Christmas carolers and pans up to the housetop where you see the Addamses ready to upend ...

Elizabeth at  The Lawyer's Cookbook   is hosting this month's  Food'N'Flix  event. We watched, or rewatched as the case may be,  Hocus Pocus.  Click to see  Elizabeth's invitation . On the Screen... I have never actually seen this movie. But it was rated PG, so I put it in the Netflix queue and sat down with the boys when it arrived. This was a good one-timer for us. It was fun, but I don't think we'll become the family that watches this every Halloween. The basic plot: three witches are hanged in Salem, MA, 300 years ago. Their bodies are cursed. Flash forward. The witches are trying to exact their revenge on two little kids in present day, well, present day when the movie was made. There is a lot of witches fly around on brooms - and vacuum cleaners - and the cat can talk. It's mayhem and madness all stirred together in a confusing cauldron with a lot of hysterical shrieking. Lots. But the sisters' antics did make me smile every ...