The Devil Wears Prada

The Devil Wears Prada is an American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman. The screenplay, written by Aline Brosh McKenna, is based on Lauren Weisberger's 2003 novel of the same name. The film adaptation stars Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly and Anne Hathaway as Andrea "Andy" Sachs. The film was released in 2006.

A smart but sensible new graduate lands a job as an assistant to Miranda Priestly, the demanding editor-in-chief of a high fashion magazine.

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Movie Plot In New York, the simple and naive just-graduated in journalism Andrea Sachs is hired to work as the second assistant of the powerful and sophisticated Miranda Priestly, the ruthless and merciless executive of the Runway fashion magazine. Andrea dreams to become a journalist and faces the opportunity as a temporary professional challenge. The first assistant Emily advises Andrea about the behaviour and preferences of their cruel boss, and the stylist Nigel helps Andrea to dress more adequately for the environment. Andrea changes her attitude and behaviour, affecting her private life and her relationship with her boyfriend Nate, her family and friends. In the end, Andrea learns that life is made of choices. As seen on IMDb

Cast

• Meryl Streep as Miranda Priestly
• Anne Hathaway as Andrea "Andy" Sachs
• Emily Blunt as Emily Charlton
• Stanley Tucci as Nigel Kipling
• Simon Baker as Christian Thompson
• Adrian Grenier as Nate Cooper
• Gisele Bündchen as Serena
• Tracie Thoms as Lily
• Rich Sommer as Doug
• Daniel Sunjata as James Holt
• Colleen Dengel as Caroline Priestly
• Suzanne Dengel as Cassidy Priestly
• David Marshall Grant as Richard Sachs
• Tibor Feldman as Irv Ravitz
• Rebecca Mader as Jocelyn
• Alyssa Sutherland as Clacker
• Ines Rivero as Clacker at the elevator
• Stephanie Szostak as Jacqueline Follet
• David Callegati as Massimo
• Paul Keany as St. Regis Doorman

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Slow-Cooked Pork Gammon

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Slow Cooked Pork Gammon

For a Delicious dinner for any occasion or even for a Sunday family meal the Pork Gammon won't disappoint you.

Preparation Time: 30'	Cooking Time: 150'	Serves: 4 portions

Ingredients

• 1 pork gammon with 1.8-2 kg skin
• salt
• pepper
• 350 ml. beer
• 3-5 cloves of garlic
• 4-6 bay leaves
• 1 onion cut in half
• 1 tbsp. rosemary

For the potatoes

• 10 potatoes
• fresh herbs
• 1/3 cup olive oil
• 2 tbsp. mustard
• salt
• pepper

Method

• Remove the gammon from the refrigerator a few hours (2-6) before cooking. Carve the skin of the plait with a very sharp knife, taking care not to go deep and cut the meat itself. Smear the skin well with salt, almost as if you were massaging the pork for 3-4 minutes so that the salt penetrates all the cut points and comes in contact with fat and meat. Leave it with the salt for 40 'in your kitchen. In the meantime, preheat the oven to 180ºC (or at a lower temperature than 120º-160ºC if you choose slower cooking). Cut the onion in two or four and the garlic cloves. In a small bowl that evenly holds the stalk standing, place the stalk in the centre like a pyramid, pour in all the ingredients and then the beer to form the base.
• Moisturizing element in the cooking process keeping the meat juicy and flavouring it along the way. Do not pour the beer over the meat, because it will carry away the garlic and salt and pepper that we want to keep in the folds. There is enough fat to keep the meat moist during baking, so the beer on it will not add anything.
• You'd roughly expect it to be ready at 180ºC at 2:15 ', but, safe driver is the internal temperature to reach 80ºC and not the time. When the indoor temperature exceeds 80ºC, it is certain that the interior is fully cooked, so you take the gammon out of the oven. If it does not have a skin, the process ends here. If it has skin, raise the oven to 260ºC. You will notice that the skin has been 'cooked' to a great extent, but it is clearly chewy and therefore impossible to eat in this form.
• Put all the ingredients for the potatoes in a pan and mix. Cover the pan and bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes. Open and pour all the juice from the gammon on the potatoes and place it on top of the pan with the potatoes. Continue baking.
• With a spoon and/or brush you take the beer that is in our utensil together with the herbs and smear well the skin and the whole gammon, so that it goes wet everywhere in the crevices and under the folds of the skin, to better complete the final phase where we will seek to make the skin crisp.
• Because having liquid, the abrupt heating will create more bubbles than water vapour and so the skin will stretch and cook perfectly.
• Finally, transfer the gammon on a grill with the pan underneath so that its skin is fully exposed to the high heat and there is a pan underneath to collect any liquids that will drip. When the oven reaches 260ºC, quickly put the gammon back in, so that there are no large heat losses.
• Leave it for about 10 minutes until the skin is puffy and visibly crispy. Remove the bun from the oven and leave it on a cutting surface for at least 10 minutes before serving at the table to balance and re-integrate back into its tissues. , all liquids that have come out of them during cooking.

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The Devil Wears Prada

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Greek Mpriam

The classic recipe for traditional oven Mpriam. The easiest and fastest food of the summer. We love briam with feta and bread.

Preparation Time: 15'	Cooking Time: 45'	Serves: 6 portions

Ingredients

• 4 eggplants 
• 4 zucchini 
• 4 large potatoes 
• 4 tomatoes fresh, alternatively a can with peeled tomatoes 
• 4 cloves 
• garlic 
• 2 onions 
• 2 tbsp. chopped mint 
• 2 tbsp. chopped basil 
• 2 tbsp. chopped parsley 
• 1 cup of olive oil 
• 1 cup of water 
• salt freshly 
• ground pepper 

Optional

• 2 small carrots 

Method

• For the traditional oven mpriam, preheat the oven to 200 ° C in air and resistors
• After washing and cleaning the vegetables, cut the aubergines into 6 pieces, the zucchini at 6 (like big bites), 4-5 cm (they will shrink when cooked), the tomatoes at 4 and the potatoes like the aubergines, at 6 
• Put the vegetables mixed in a deep pan 34 or 36 cm. 
• Grind the garlic with the olive oil in the blender and pour over the food, add salt and pepper and sprinkle with the herbs. 
• Mix them by hand or with two spoons. 
• Pour over with water (does not need too much, the vegetables will release their juice). 
• Place the pan in the preheated oven and bake 40΄-45΄ for the first half-hour covered. Then we uncover it. 
• Briam is a food that is served lukewarm or at room temperature. 

Accompany it with feta cheese or put feta in the pan 15' before serving in order to melt a bit.

Enjoy - Kali Orexi...!!!

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Ratatouille

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Ratatouille

Ratatouille is an American computer-animated comedy film produced by Pixar and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It was written and directed by Brad Bird. The title refers to the French dish ratatouille, which is served at the end of the film and also references the animal type of the main character, a rat. The film was released in 2007.

A rat who can cook makes an unusual alliance with a young kitchen worker at a famous restaurant.

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Movie Plot A rat named Remy dreams of becoming a great French chef despite his family's wishes and the obvious problem of being a rat in a decidedly rodent-phobic profession. When fate places Remy in the sewers of Paris, he finds himself ideally situated beneath a restaurant made famous by his culinary hero, Auguste Gusteau. Despite the apparent dangers of being an unlikely, and certainly unwanted, a visitor in the kitchen of a fine French restaurant, Remy's passion for cooking soon sets into motion a hilarious and exciting rat race that turns the culinary world of Paris upside down. As seen on IMDb

Voice Cast

• Patton Oswalt as Remy, a rat with heightened senses of taste 
• Ian Holm as Chef Skinner, a diminutive chef and the owner of Auguste Gusteau's restaurant
• Lou Romano as Alfredo Linguini, the son of Auguste Gusteau and Renata Linguini
• Janeane Garofalo as Colette Tatou, Gusteau's rôtisseur
• Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau, France's most famous chef
• Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego, the restaurant critic
• Will Arnett as Horst, Skinner's German sous chef
• Julius Callahan as Lalo, Gusteau's saucier and Poissonnier
• James Remar as Larousse, Gusteau's chef garde manger.
• John Ratzenberger as Mustafa, Gusteau's chef de salle
• Teddy Newton as Talon Labarthe, Skinner's lawyer.
• Tony Fucile as Pompidou, Gusteau's patissier
• Jake Steinfeld as Git, a former lab rat and member of Django's colony.
• Brad Bird as Ambrister Minion, Anton Ego's butler.
• Stephane Roux as the narrator of the cooking channel.

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Greek Mpriam

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The Parent Trap

The Parent Trap is an American romantic comedy film co-written and directed by Nancy Meyers, and produced and co-written by Charles Shyer. It is a remake of the 1961 film of the same name and an adaptation of Erich Kästner's German novel Lottie and Lisa (Das doppelte Lottchen). The film was released in 1998.

Identical twins Annie and Hallie, separated at birth and each raised by one of their biological parents, later discover each other for the first time at summer camp and make a plan to bring their wayward parents back together.

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Movie Plot When two pre-teens named Hallie and Annie meet through their summer camp, their two lives are rattled when they realize that they are identical twins. With parents, British mother aka famous dress designer Elizabeth and American father, a winemaker named Nick, living in two different sides of the universe, the girls decide to make an identity swap in hopes of spending time with their other parent. The girls later choose to aware their guardians of the swap while at a hotel in San Francisco, which late reunites the divorced pair and sends them back into remarriage with each other. As seen on IMDb

Cast

• Lindsay Lohan as Hallie Parker and Annie James
• Dennis Quaid as Nicholas "Nick" Parker, Annie and Hallie's father
• Natasha Richardson as Elizabeth "Liz" James, Annie and Hallie's mother
• Elaine Hendrix as Meredith Blake, a 26-year-old
• Lisa Ann Walter as Chessy, Nick’s housekeeper and Hallie's nanny
• Simon Kunz as Martin, the James family's butler
• Polly Holliday as Marva Kulp Sr., the owner and director of Camp Walden.
• Maggie Wheeler as Marva Kulp Jr., Marva Sr.'s daughter and assistant.
• Ronnie Stevens as Charles James, Elizabeth's wealthy father
• Joanna Barnes as Vicki Blake, Meredith's mother.
• J. Patrick McCormack as Les Blake, Meredith's father.

Our Review

A Disney production for the whole family, tender, romantic, comedic, clearly standardized and faithful to family values. It contains beautified situations, bright scenery. With an expressive, talented little girl in her double role, who steals the show from the two protagonists, but also the heart of the viewer. The children will enjoy it.

Since we are talking about a movie that parents and children love, there could be no shortage of a delicacy that everyone loves just as much, and this is none other than the homemade delicious pizza !!! A 'cheat' meal that everyone will love and enjoy!!! You also can spend some quality time with family during preparing your dinner the special easy and enjoyable pizza of course!!!!


We wish you to enjoy both of our proposals. 

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Homemade Pizza

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Homemade Pizza

Fluffy homemade pizza with handmade dough and ingredients that are in our house.

Preparation Time: 15'	Cooking Time: 30'	Serves: 4 portions

Ingredients

For the pizza dough

• 500 gr of Self-rising flour
• 125 gr of soft butter (room temperature)
• 200 gr of warm milk
• 1/2 tbsp. sugar
• 1 tbsp. vinegar

Optional:

• 1 tbsp. dried oregano
• 1 tbsp. dried thyme

For the tomato sauce

• 1 can of peeled tomatoes
• 4 tbsp. olive oil
• 1 pinch of sugar
• salt
• pepper
• 4 leaves of fresh basil (chopped)

Method

• Put all the pizza dough ingredients in a bowl and knead them together into a ball.
• Prepare the easy pizza sauce. Put all the ingredients for the tomato sauce in a small saucepan. With a fork, press the tomatoes to melt and bring to a boil. Lower the heat and continue cooking for another 15 minutes, until the sauce is ready.
• Grease the large kitchen pan with olive oil well or alternatively put baking paper. With your fingers, spread the dough all over the surface of the pan.
• Spread the sauce, add some cheese to cover the whole pizza and then, garnish the pizza with the toppings you prefer.
• Bake in a preheated oven at 180ºC for 30 ′ until the dough is well cooked.

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The Parent Trap

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Forest Gump

Forrest Gump is an American magical realism comedy-drama film directed by Robert Zemeckis and written by Eric Roth. It is based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Winston Groom, and stars Tom Hanks, Robin Wright, Gary Sinise, Mykelti Williamson, and Sally Field. The film was released in 1994.

The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other historical events unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweetheart.

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Movie Plot Forrest Gump is a simple man with a low I.Q. but good intentions. He is running through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His 'mama' teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army for service in Vietnam, finding new friends called Dan and Bubba, he wins medals, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, starts a ping-pong craze, creates the smiley, writes bumper stickers and songs, donates to people and meets the president several times. However, this is all irrelevant to Forrest who can only think of his childhood sweetheart Jenny Curran, who has messed up her life. Although in the end, all he wants to prove is that anyone can love anyone. As seen on IMDb

Cast

• Tom Hanks as Forrest Gump
• Michael Conner Humphreys as young Forrest Gump
• Hanna R. Hall as young Jenny Curran.
• Gary Sinise as Lieutenant Dan Taylor: Forrest and Bubba Blue's platoon leader
• Mykelti Williamson as Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue
• Sally Field as Mrs Gump
• Haley Joel Osment as Forrest Gump, Jr
• Peter Dobson as Elvis
• Dick Cavett as himself
• Sonny Shroyer as Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant
• Grand L. Bush, Michael Jace, Conor Kennelly, and Teddy Lane Jr. as the Black Panthers

Our Review

From Winston Groome's book, Forrest Gump is transferred to the cinema in 1994. Speaking of a good, well-intentioned naive, and obedient, to one whose whole life revolves around a humble dream and a box of chocolates, character, the protagonist Tom Hans. In the film we see the hero meeting personalities such as Kennedy, Nixon or John Lennon. The essence of the film, symbolizes a person with reduced intelligence who does not ask, is not searched and above all does not react.

In addition, the Film Academy nominated Forrest Gump for thirteen Oscars, eventually awarding it six.

While watching this movie (as young girl) I drank homemade lemonade, which my mom used to make -since we had a lemon tree in our yard- so, when I put the movie to watch it again, recently before post it on our blog, what I felt was nostalgia for that icy homemade lemonade. So, somewhat emotionally affected by this memory, I suggest you watch or re-watch Forrest Gump with a glass of cold, fresh lemonade on your side and you'll remember me ;) ;)


Enjoy...!!!

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Homemade Lemonade

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Homemade Lemonade

Homemade lemonade drives young and old crazy! It is ideally served with many ice cubes and mint leaves water or soda water.

Preparation Time: 15'	Cooking Time: 5'	Serves: 14 portions

Recipe ingredients:

• 500 ml of freshly squeezed lemon juice
• 500 gr of sugar
• 200 ml of water

Method:

• For 2 bottles of 700 ml of homemade lemonade, put the water and sugar in a saucepan on very low heat (without boiling). Wait until the sugar has melted and become liquid. Allow cooling well to room temperature.
• Squeeze the lemons and strain the juice into a fine strainer. Pour the strained juice into the cold sugar syrup. Mix very well with a whisk.
• Distribute the concentrated lemonade in sterile glass bottles and keep it in the refrigerator. In order to serve lemonade at any time, first, shake the bottle with the concentrated juice and put in a glass 1/3 of the juice and 2/3 of the cold water or soda. Mix well and then serve with ice cubes and fresh mint leaves.

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Forest Gump

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Greek Chocolate and Biscuits Dessert

In 10 minutes you will have made this dessert and you will have eaten it! Easy, fast and perfect!

Preparation Time: 10'	Cooking Time: 3h	Serves: 12 portions

Ingredients

• 250 gr digestive biscuits
• 150 gr of chopped chocolate
• 100 gr of butter
• 2 tbsp. cocoa
• 3 tbsp. coconut
• 4 tbsp. coarsely chopped walnuts
• 1 can of sweetened condensed milk 400 gr

To cover

• 250 gr. couverture chocolate
• 1 tbsp. seed oil

Method

• put the cookies in a food bag and remove the air
• beat them with a rolling pin or a pan to crumble 
• put the cookies, coconut, walnuts and cocoa in a bowl and mix
• put the chocolate, butter and sweetened condensed milk in a saucepan over low heat and stir to melt the ingredients
• allow the mixture to cool slightly and pour over the solids and mix with a spoon
• grease a shallow, elongated baking tray, 28 × 20 cm and pour the mixture while pressing to level the surface.
• freeze the dessert until firm

For the cover

• melt the chocolate in a baking pan
• add the seed oil and stir
• pour the dessert all over the surface
• freeze until firm (maximum 3 hours)
• dip a sharp knife in hot water and cut it into square pieces.

Bon Appétit!

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The Help

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The Help

The Help is a period drama film written and directed by Tate Taylor and based on Kathryn Stockett's 2009 novel of the same name. The film features an ensemble cast, including Jessica Chastain, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, Allison Janney, Octavia Spencer and Emma Stone. The film was released in 2011.

An aspiring author during the civil rights movement of the 1960s decides to write a book detailing the African American maids' point of view on the white families for which they work, and the hardships they go through on a daily basis.

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Movie Plot Set in Mississippi during the 1960s, Skeeter (Stone) is a southern society girl who returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives -- and a Mississippi town -- upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen (Davis), Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up -- to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community. Despite Skeeter's life-long friendships hanging in the balance, she and Aibileen continue their collaboration and soon more women come forward to tell their stories -- and as it turns out, they have a lot to say. Along the way, unlikely friendships are forged and a new sisterhood emerges, but not before everyone in town has a thing or two to say themselves when they become unwittingly -- and unwillingly -- caught up in the changing times. As seen on IMDb

Cast

• Emma Stone as Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan
• Viola Davis as Aibileen Clark
• Octavia Spencer as Minny Jackson
• Bryce Dallas Howard as Hillary "Hilly" Walters Holbrook
• Jessica Chastain as Celia Rae Foote
• Allison Janney as Charlotte Phelan
• Ahna O'Reilly as Elizabeth Leefolt
• Sissy Spacek as Mrs Walters
• Chris Lowell as Stuart Whitworth
• Mike Vogel as Jonathan "Johnny" Foote
• Cicely Tyson as Constantine Bates
• Anna Camp as Jolene French
• Brian Kerwin as Robert Phelan
• Aunjanue Ellis as Yule May Davis
• Ted Welch as William Holbrook
• Wes Chatham as Carlton Phelan
• Shane McRae as Raleigh Leefolt
• Roslyn Ruff as Pascagoula
• Tarra Riggs as Gretchen
• LaChanze as Rachel Bates
• Mary Steenburgen as Elaine Stein
• Leslie Jordan as Mr Blackly
• David Oyelowo as Preacher Green
• Dana Ivey as Grace Higginbotham
• Tiffany Brouwer as Rebecca
• Carol Lee as Pearly
• Carol Sutton as Cora
• Millicent Bolton as Callie
• Ashley Johnson as Mary Beth Caldwell
• Nelsan Ellis as Henry
• Emma and Eleanor Henry as Mae Mobley Leefolt

Our Review

Kathryn Stockett's best-selling book, The Help, quickly gained success. After all, both the theme and the film itself have the right recipe, combining social reflection with well-written history.

The main characters are Skeeter and two maids: her favorite, Aibileen (Viola Davis) who resurrected her and the dynamic Minny (Octavia Spencer). These three women are at the heart of an attempt to demonstrate the irrationality of racial discrimination and the inhuman face of racism. "The Help" features carefully curated main characters, who are passionately played by the actors.

In "The Help", the balance between comedy and drama is never lost. Although Mississippi is inflamed by the hypocrisy and authoritarianism of the "superior" whites, giving us some genuinely moving scenes, the struggle of the black heroes to overcome fear and testify to their personal truth holds equally funny moments.

"The Help" manages to win and excite the audience. It talks about the past in a direct and timely way, while achieving the necessary connection with the present in the viewer's consciousness.

At this point and in a comedic spirit based on a historical scene of the film, we were inspired with our proposal for a Greek traditional dessert based on chocolate and biscuits. Anyone who has seen the film will understand our way of thinking, and whoever has not seen it, we believe will laugh and trust us. The proposal of the film as well as the proposal for the sweet tie harmoniously as it is worth seeing the film -if you haven't seen it before- accompanied by the sweet lychees that we suggest to you.

We wish you to enjoy both of our proposals. 

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Greek Chocolate and Biscuits Dessert

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