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Wholemeal Pancakes with Maple Butter and Pears – Room

07:22 AM, February 19, 2016 |

The Film:

The Dish:

Makes 6-8 pancakes- serves 2-3

The Reason:

“There’s so much of “place” in the world. There’s less time because the time has to be spread extra thin over all the places, like butter.” The world can be an overwhelming place. Particularly if you’ve spent the first five years of your life cocooned in ‘Room’ – a shed with a skylight, where the only person who knows the combination to the door is ‘Old Nick’. In the first 37 hours in the outside world our protagonist Jacob has seen pancakes, and a stairs, and birds, and windows, and hundreds of cars. And clouds, and police, and doctors, and grandma and grandpa. …

Vodka and Beet Cured Salmon – Bridge of Spies

12:25 PM, February 18, 2016 |

fish, Oscars festival, seafood, starters

The Film:

The Dish:

The Reason:

James B. Donovan (Tom Hanks) is not in Scotland fishing for salmon- despite what he told his wife. Instead he is freezing in East Berlin, attempting to do the best by his client (a convicted Russian spy) and his constitution (both literal and physical). This elegant starter makes good use of the fictional salmon he fished for and the vodka his client claims he’ll drink if he makes it back to Russia. The final dish is tainted as red as James’ reputation after taking a long bath in pureed beets and foor garnish there’s a bridge of poppyseeds to traverse – think of them as additional Teutonic …

Spaghetti with Mutton Ragu – Brooklyn

12:57 PM, February 16, 2016 |

Oscars festival

The Film:

The Dish:

Spaghetti with Mutton Ragu

The Reason:

Many things are more enticing in Brooklyn than the wee Irish town Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) grew up in. In Brooklyn there is opportunity. Over yonder there is the prospect of adventure, form-fitting bathing suits, Coney Island, love – and spaghetti. You just have to navigate the tides of homesickness first. It’s a kind of sickness so acute, that at first you want to die (or so we’re told). Though perhaps that ailment isn’t quite as bad as the motion sickness that strikes those who indulge in the mutton stew for dinner on the first night of the Atlantic crossing. This spaghetti is an …