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August Dinner and a Movie Roundup

September 9, 2009
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Okay, so it’s two weeks late, but there wasn’t much of a turn out this month and I’ve decided to make this my last Dinner and a Movie. Hopefully my co-host Susan will pick up the torch and run with it because it has a lot of potential. I’ve been working on a more personally [...]

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Dinner and a Movie: Wallstreet

July 25, 2009
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Dinner and a Movie, is a monthly food event which I co-host with Susan from Sticky Gooey Creamy Chewy. Each month, one of us picks a theme movie for the month. To participate, just watch it, cook something inspired by it and share your creation with the rest of us.
This month, I decided to [...]

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Chop Suey

July 20, 2009
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Chop Suey is a stir-fried dish which can include a variety of meat and vegetables in a cornstarch thickened sauce. While allegedly from the Guangdong Province, chop suey is widely believed to have originated in the US during construction of the Transcontinental Railway. Whatever Chop Suey’s origin, it’s become synonymous with American Chinese food.
One of [...]

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June Dinner and a Movie Roundup

June 23, 2009
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To mark the arrival of monsoon season in South Asia, this month’s Dinner and a Movie was Monsoon Wedding. It’s a drama that deals with some disturbing themes and yet still manages to be fun to watch. It’s a great movie with several interwoven plots and some great cinematography, but more importantly it inspired these [...]

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Dinner and a Movie: Monsoon Wedding

May 22, 2009
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It’s that time again for the next Dinner and a Movie, and for June I’ve chosen Monsoon Wedding. With monsoon season in full swing in June, it seemed a fitting choice for the month.
I know my last movie was wedding themed, but I’ve had this particular movie in mind since I started this event because [...]

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April Dinner and a Movie Roundup

April 23, 2009
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The theme for the April Dinner and a Movie was Wedding Crashers, and I’m glad to report that not a single person submitted a wedding cake. The movie isn’t really about food, and I was so happy to see that people got creative, going in 5 very different directions. It really captures the spirit of [...]

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Dinner and a Movie: Wedding Crashers

April 3, 2009
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When Susan from Sticky Gooey Creamy Chewy and I started Dinner and a Movie, we wanted to make it a fun, low-pressure event without much structure. Since the whole point of the event is to be creative and come up with a unique interpretation of the movie through food, I upped the ante this month [...]

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Pasta Fazool

March 28, 2009
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“When the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie… That’s amore“. This 50’s era hit is one of my favourite songs when doing karaoke. I always manage to get a good laugh out of my audience belting out this Italian American classic at the top of my lungs. I’ve always told myself they [...]

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