The Serpent’s Tooth Sunday Suppers: Delicious Dutch Apple Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Today’s Mother’s Day Pie recipe is from Different Drummer’s novel, The Serpent’s Tooth, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast.
Often been surprised by a movie after what a film critic said about it? Ever felt cheated out of big bucks on the recommendations of a punk 24-year-old? Or really loved the ones they panned? Well, you no longer need to feel out of step with the current movie review band. Different Drummer is for you. Read more about our take on the film world. And get ready to relive your favorite movies with the recipes that follow each review. You can find many other great recipes in Different Drummer’s own Appetite for Murder: a Mystery Lover’s Cookbook, too.
Atonement: Rosemary Roasted Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It lurks there beyond the manicured lawns and the starkly magnificent stone walls, within the polished drawing rooms and mahogany staircases -- a passion so intense as to defy all tradition of English stoicism. And like a rare and exotic flower it struggles against the harsh winds of war, the searing storm of jealousy, and hot breath of wrongful accusation.
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The Boys from Brazil: Caipirinha Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
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What if the Nazis' deluded dreams did not die at the end of World War II? But instead merely staged a tactical retreat to South America? Discover the ominous implications in this classic 1978 thriller.
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The Reader: German Bierock Casserole Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This is a tale of love and obsession, brutality and tenderness, guilt and, to a measure, recompense. But most of all, it is an unfettered examination of mankind’s paradoxical complexity.
Read MoreMichael Clayton: Perfect French Bread Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/With only two explosions – actually one that is recycled – and not even the hint of a car chase, we might call this a thriller for the pacemaker crowd. Or more correctly, a permutation of the genre where character matters more than action. And that’s a good thing.
Read MoreThe Serpent’s Tooth Sunday Suppers: Spicy Bacon Baked Beans Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It’s barbecue season and what better side dish than the Spicy Bacon Baked Bean recipe from Different Drummer’s novel, The Serpent’s Tooth, The Serpent’s Tooth, which ends with a glorious outdoor feast.
Read MoreTunnel 21: Zesty Berlin Potato Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This 1981 thriller has a simmering tension that keeps you on tenterhooks for over 2 hours. And all that without squealing car chases or flying bullets and bodies. Instead it’s dread of a midnight knock at the door, panic over a lurking shadow under the lamppost, and cold sweats while an East German officer reviews your papers.
Read MoreRatatouille: Classic Ratatouille Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s your worst nightmare! The pricey, posh Paris restaurant not only has a rat in its kitchen; he’s in charge of the cuisine. Oh, the wonders of anthropomorphism and Pixar animation, that we abandon (almost) our centuries’ old revulsion for this loathsome creature and actually rally behind the loveably ambitious rat Remy.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest: Mahi-Mahi with Pineapple-Mandarin Sauce Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
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Time to revisit this must see summer film that sizzled across the screen in 2006 and reminded us of what the big screen was made for – over the edge action, fantastic special effects, creepy beasties, and of course, romance with a capital R.
Read MoreThe Young Victoria: Cherries Jubilee Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/The swish of taffeta, light shimmering through cut crystal, courtly beaus, and stately horse drawn carriages – a cage, no matter how gilded, is still a cage. Young Victoria struggles for her breath of freedom and love with the will and passion that later make her a legendary queen.
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American Sniper: Texas Chicken-Fried Steak Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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They just don’t get it. All those sanctimonious critics in 2014 labeling American Sniper a war-mongering film celebrating a killer. Fortunately, the American public does get it, to the tune of its record-shattering opening that has netted over $100 million and $547 million worldwide now.
Read MoreThe Departed and Other Oscar Heavyweights: Drunken Strawberries
/It is awash with blood and gore and a kind of poetic profanity, but somehow this cops and robbers showdown manages to touch upon the vagaries of identity, the complexity of goodness, and the poisonous nectar of evil without missing a beat. Match that with a truly stellar cast that delivers the goods and you’re in for a 2 1/2 hour roller coaster that soars across the screen.
Read MoreTheir Finest: Wartime Welsh Cakes Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/England after their retreat at Dunkirk and during the London Blitz. Bad times for Britain. This fine film explores one little known way they fought back.
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Surrogates: Slow Cooked Boston Baked Beans Recipe 🥁🥁🥁
/Maybe your mother was right when she said to be careful what you wish for. You might just end up as a slovenly couch potato holed up in a dank bedroom while the perfect robot version of yourself gets all the fun.
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Secretariat: The White Carnation, A Triple Crown Cocktail Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/We already know the ending. The characters and the plot are not even approaching edgy. And yes, Disney does take a few liberties with the script. But nothing can take away that heart pounding finish when we watch what is arguably the greatest race horse who ever lived eat up the track at Belmont and leave the rest of the field in his dust.
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The Good, the Bad, and the Weird: Korean Barbecued Beef Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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You’ll love this madcap race across the Manchurian badlands on horseback, motorcycle, and military convoy with everyone from the local bandits to the occupying Japanese army in for the kill.
Read MoreWater: Sweet Indulgences Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This exquisite tale focuses on the cloistered lives of widows in 1938 India, its delicate brush strokes defying the garish oils of present day Bollywood.
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Traitor: Sudanese Cinnamon Tea Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This taut thriller has plenty of intrigue and action, but something a bit foreign to the genre – an almost philosophical exploration of the two sides on the War on Terror. And yes, it is co-written by Steve Martin, that “wild and crazy guy” who proves that his comic genius is founded upon a true cerebral nature.
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Septembers of Shiraz: Persian Yogurt Salad Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/You will be transfixed by this gripping tale of a “wealthy Jewish businessman summarily jailed and tortured” in Iran shortly after the Islamist Revolution. The vague accusations, the dark and solitary cell, the irrational swiftness between feigned friendship and brutality all exude a timeless quality that supersedes any specific setting.
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Singapore: Indian Fried Noodle Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Singapore is a splendid city, sort of a perfect Big Apple, with grand marble sidewalks, Moehn faucets gleaming in meticulous subway restrooms, and a tropical rain forest within walking distance from the designer shops along Orchard Row.
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