Oktapodi

So I figured it was about time to bring in the cephalopod angle. (which blogger thinks I'm misspelling) And what better way to do so than with a film *about* a cephalopod....in love!

Back in 2007 some students at a French animation school  came up with a cool little short for their graduation film.  It's a lot of fun and is called Oktapodi.



It was then nominated for a 2009 Academy Award, and won many others. They're listed out on their press page here!

In other news Laura and DC came over for dinner and a grand time was had by all. They brought a *fantastic* organic apple pie and I officially started the new recipe show.  I tried an authentic cashew chicken recipe and I suppose it turned out okay, it wasn't what I'd call bad. I'd give it a passable rating.  I think for all these recipes I'm going to do them twice a week because there are many things I'd do differently, both in terms of flavor and prep.  I need more flavor which I think can come from more sauce, fewer veggies or larger cut veggies.  I think we just ended up with too much surface area so the flavor was diluted. Soooo, I'm going to try this again sometime this week and see if I can coax some more flavor out of it.