A Study in Pink: Cold Asparagus in Walnut Drizzle Recipe (4 1/2 Drums)

It’s high octane irreverent, with revved up wit, pace, and humor. If you can cope with Sherlock Holmes as a self-described “high functioning sociopath” gleefully traipsing around modern day London on the heels of a serial killer, you’re going to love this Masterpiece Theatre rendition now available on Netflix.

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The Adventures of Tintin: Tfah, a Moroccan Apple Dessert Recipe

You owe it to yourself and your kids (or grandkids) to see this intriguing fusion of Indiana Jones and Treasure Island, with just a tad bit of Martin Scorsese’s delightful Hugo thrown in for good measure. Or you might compare it to more sophisticated Scooby Doo, with both Shaggy and his dog laying off the weed and elevating their IQ’s by about 30 points or so.

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The Black Dahlia: Roasted Spring Chicken With Garden Vegetables

The Black Dahlia: Roasted Spring Chicken With Garden Vegetables
A for atmosphere and acting, but C for a plot that is as contrived as it is confusing. The notorious and grotesque Black Dahlia murder flashes before us in bits and pieces – excuse the pun – but it is really no more than a backdrop for the cloud of lust and loyalty, duty and obsession that swirls around the interlocking lives of two LAPD detectives and their best gal in the film noir forties.
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The Secret in Their Eyes: Buenos Aires Hearts of Palm Salad Recipe

This 2009 Oscar winner in the Best Foreign Language film category is a slow tango through a twenty-five-year-old brutal rape/murder that has obsessed an Argentine detective. As with that exotic dance step, expect to find sudden reversals and quick dips into the past, not to mention the rose in the teeth romanticism in the form of the beautiful judge who helps him.

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Before the Rains: Indian Lime Rice Recipe

Charged with that oppressive atmosphere that is only released with a torrential downpour, this period piece is awash in seething tensions and passions. Set in Colonial India of the1930s, the ostensible focus is the torrid and doubly adulterous love affair between a British spice master and his Indian servant girl, but its real beauty is how it affects his second in command, Indian born but British educated.

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