Sep 21 2017

Family Favourite Recipes

Best Butter Chicken Curry

Butter Chicken Curry Recipe

Ingredients

  • skinless chicken breasts 500g, cut into chunks
  • ground turmeric 1 tsp
  • ginger a thumb-sized piece, peeled and grated
  • garlic 2 cloves, crushed
  • lemon 1/2, juiced
  • butter 35g
  • onion 1 large, thinly sliced
  • makhani or other curry paste 3 tbsp
  • tomato puree 1 tbsp
  • ground almonds 2 tbsp
  • full-fat natural yogurt 175ml
  • chicken stock 150ml
  • coriander a handful of leaves
  • basmati rice to serve

Method

  • STEP 1

    Toss the chicken with the turmeric, ginger, garlic, lemon juice and ½ tsp salt. Heat the butter in a large wide pan then cook the onion for 10 minutes until softened and starting to turn golden. Add the curry paste and tomato purée and cook for 3 minutes. Add the chicken and cook until opaque.

  • STEP 2

    Mix the almonds and yogurt in a bowl then stir into the pan and cook for 2-3 minutes. Add the stock and simmer gently for 10 minutes. Scatter over the coriander and serve with basmati rice.

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Jul 10 2017

Terrence Malick’s Song to Song

Song To Song…..

Welcome back to Malickland, the perma-twilight world where Hollywood’s most beautiful wander around fields/beaches/city underpasses while their disconnected musings whisper on the soundtrack. Terrence Malick’s eighth drama doesn’t deviate a jot from his normal MO.

Thematically, it is perhaps closest to the portrayal of jealousy and betrayal in 2012’s To The Wonder, but Malick finds a more engaging iteration of these emotions, still shot through with formally exquisite filmmaking but buoyed by the movie-star charisma of Michael Fassbender, Rooney Mara and particularly Ryan Gosling.

In outline, Song To Song is a simple relationship drama about an aspiring musician, Faye (Mara), who flits between likeable songwriter BV (Gosling), and predatory music producer Cook (Fassbender, doing his pervy scoundrel thing) In Malick’s hands, this wisp of a plot becomes a framework to hang a series of fragments illustrating the film’s central idea — the search for living an authentic life, be it through romantic love, parental connections, sex or music. Malick certainly doesn’t shy away from Big Themes: nature versus grace, the difficulty of monogamy and the difference between our public and private lives all come under the microscope.

But this is Malick at his most accessible. Like the Fernando’s sections of Take Me Out directed by the world’s most visually adept filmmaker, we get to hang out with Faye and BV as they go to gigs, goof around in open-top cars and throw loo rolls from high-rise buildings. At one point Fassbender even does an orangutan impression. You have to work to join the dots, but particularly in the Faye/BV scenes, the vignettes take on a beautiful, almost balletic quality. If nothing else, the film will keep Twitter in Movie Stars Do Cute Things gifs for years.


May 23 2017

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