Foyle’s War: Apple Brown Betty Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Tired of the mediocre fare on current streaming? I have the series for you. Attention, anyone who loves mysteries, history, World War II settings, English villages, and consummate acting.
Read MoreOften 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.
Seven Kings Must Die: Gossip’s Cup Ale Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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Wow!. This is a new Uhtred. Uthred the peacemaker with no woman by his side. His hair is graying, and he and his men now spend their time like old soldiers, recounting their battles and washing it down with plenty of ale.
Read MoreThe Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society: Potato Peel Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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She’s smart, beautiful, successful, and a very handsome, wealthy American is head over heels in love with her. So why is Juliet (Downton Abbey’s Lily James) in a funk?
Read MoreThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas: German Potato Soup Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Let us hope that this simple story will remind us of that vow we all took in the Holocaust’s aftermath: Never forget.
Read MoreCharlotte Gray: Soupe au Pistou Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/I think it is time to give this 2001 World War II film a second look even though the critics and general public were not so impressed with it when it came out. Cate Blanchett is marvelous in the title role as a Scottish girl working with the French Resistance in Vichy France, giving us a woman’s perspective on that hellish time and place.
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Texas Antique “Weekend”: Bud's Buttermilk Pie Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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It's that time again. Head for Texas or just take a vicarious trip to the little town of Round Top, for a Country Antiques Show that will knock your socks off.
Read MoreThe Shawshank Redemption: Sangria and Seviche Recipes 🥁🥁🥁🥁1/2
/Those of you who liked the quiet dignity that Morgan Freeman brought to Million Dollar Baby, should catch his earlier work in The Shawshank Redemption, where his mournful voice fits the raw prison setting and provides a touch of class even in this bleak world.
Read MoreCadfael: Medieval Roasted Partridge Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Think Father Brown time warped back about 8 centuries. Cadfael’s not a priest but a 12th century monk who solves medieval mysteries.
Read MoreFather Brown: Strawberry Scone Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
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Father Brown is more concerned with saving souls than solving mysteries, but he’s pretty darn good at each. The BBC series, like his reassuring presence, is as comforting as a cup of tea and a warm fireside, even if an alarming number of corpses litter the idyllic English countryside.
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An Affair to Remember: Pink Champagne Cocktail Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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In what is arguably the most romantic film ever made, Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr exchange witty and self-effacing banter on the long way to love, their airy chitchat hiding two vulnerable hearts.
Read MoreDelicious: French Potato Truffle Tart Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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This must see 2022 film will restore your faith in modern cinema. Everything in it is a work of art, from the delicious food, the scenery that resembles fine paintings, the piquant satire, brilliant script, and the outstanding acting.
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Brooklyn: Irish Pasta Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This sweet little gem of a film is a tropical island in a cinematic sea of violence and nihilism. It’s a lovely reminder of old fashioned film making that probes our better selves instead of laying bare our baser instincts.
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Run All Night: Champ - Irish Mashed Potato Recipe 🥁🥁🥁1/2
/It’s not predictable. It’s inevitable. And that’s a big difference. It’s what you get when pros like Liam Neeson and Ed Harris endow their characters with a tragic vision.
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Thirteen Lives: No Bake Thai Cheesecake Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁
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You are there right with them. The two cave divers that are the focus, but also Thai forces and more than 10,000 volunteers attempting a harrowing rescue of the twelve boys and their coach trapped in a cave in Thailand.
Read MoreThe Beguiled: Sautéed Mushrooms with Red Wine Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/Inside the white-walled southern Seminary for Girls it is all Christian charity and moral righteousness. But just outside a forest centuries old speaks of primitive passions. And all the white gowns, crystal, and delicate china inside are merely a fragile facade against age-old desires.
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Love Is All You Need: Italian Lemon Butter Chicken Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁
/This is a romance for grownups. It is not fueled by hormones, fast cars, or booze. Time does not stand still. Instead our own mortality waits quietly in the wings, its presence alone urging us on.
Read MoreEvelyn: Dublin Coddle (Sausage, Bacon. Potatoes, and Onions) Recipe 🥁 🥁 🥁 🥁1/2
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Forget that grotesque Oscar nominated The Banshees of Inisherin, and watch another Irish film with another Irish star. This one is over 2 decades old, but it resonates from an era before the world had turned itself upside down.
Read MoreThe Quiet Man: Lamb Shanks Braised in Guinness Stout Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
/It’s St. Paddy’s Day! Why not come with John Wayne and Maureen O’Hara to Ireland? This vintage film is also a trip back to the high-flying fifties, when we were feeling our oats, flexing our muscles, and flaunting our bold Yank ways.
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Seven Years in Tibet: Tibetan Butter Tea Recipe 🥁🥁🥁🥁🥁
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A delightful journey where snow capped peaks, avalanches, hostile armies, and cutthroat bandits are just the background. The real war is internal, with Brad Pitt as the Austrian mountain climber who is as walled off from others as “Tibet, the roof of the world.”
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