FULL DISCLOSURE Y’ALL. My absence has been a result of not
only my computer crashing but my FAILED attempts to make Coconut Pumpkin Soup
(I hate pumpkin, and according to Dr. Karen Andes, aka pumpkin soup expert, you
NEVER add celery), Bhindi Masala and Spinach & Potato Curry (shoutout to
Hamidah for helping me destroy these meals; I really tried Kushal. I’ve failed
the Indian cuisine. I guess I have to
get a new Indian cookbook). **Picks of my those meals at the end of this blogpost**
Anyways
lessons learned, I finally made a delicious meal to post about!
Spicy Fried Ground Turkey with Hot and Sour Noodles
Spicy Fried Ground Turkey Ingredients:
2 garlic cloves
1 small onion
½ tbsp. minced ginger
2 tbsp. vegetable oil
1 lb ground turkey (recipe originally calls for ground pork)
2 tbsp. fish sauce
1 tbsp soy sauce
2 small tomatoes, chopped
3 tbsp. cilantro
Salt and pepper
Hot & Sour Noodles
Ingredients:
Vermicelli noodles; I used some good ol’ linguini b/c it’s
what I had. Just being real.
4 tbsp sesame oil (don’t be shy with this)
3 tbsp. soy sauce
Lime juice (if you wish- sour component)
1 tsp. sugar
4 scallions, finely sliced
1-2 tsp. hot chili sauce, or pepper flakes
2 tbsp. cilantro, chopped
This dish is super easy; you can eat it by itself or with
the meat. You can actually eat this HOT or COLD. BAM. Versitility. Boil your
noodles, simple enough, all the college students out there know how to do this.
Toss your drained noodles with half the oil. Mix the remaining oil, soy sauce,
lime juice, sugar, scallions and chilli sauce or flakes in a bowl. Toss the
noodles and mixture together in a warm wok. Top with chopped cilantro. YUM.
Apologies for the late Halloween post. Between my computer
crashing and a few cooking disasters I just couldn’t get it together. Anyways
here it is:
Rosemary’s Baby (1968)
My Score: 8.0/10.0
IMDB Score: 8.0/10
Rating: R
Favorite Line: “Pain begone I will have no more of thee.”
Director: Roman Polanski
Stars: Mia Farrow, John Cassavetes and Ruth Gordon
I asked a few of my friends and family to help me choose a
good Halloween movie and they helped me choose a classic. Rosemary’s Baby is
about a young couple who move into a new apartment building with evil tenants.
Rosemary is a housewife and her husband Guy is a B-rate
commercial actor. So for some arbitrary
reason they need to move to a new apartment building. Their friend, Hutch, from
their old apartment building warns them about the building having bad joo-joo.
They don’t listen. They move into the apartment building from Hell to meet
their doom, her doom. Poor Rosemary.
Anyways before they even moved in they noticed that the old
woman that previously lived there had pushed a huge dresser in front of a
random closet. “Why would she do that?” they ask. Well, of course we find out
later**. Rosemary moves in and does what housewives do in 1960’s movies.
Absolutely nothing. Wait! She decorates and cooks of course. The only kind-of-friend she has at the apartment
promptly “kills herself” the day following their meeting. Meanwhile her
mediocre husband stresses about the fails and successes of his mediocre acting
career. Unhappy with her sad existence, life without purpose, and annoying
neighbors she begs her husband to allow her to have a baby. He eventually
concedes.
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| Be afraid. Be very afraid. |
Little does she know after an undeniably weird dinner party her
mediocre husband and the neighbors (Mr. and Mrs. Castevet) have hitched a half-cocked
scheme to impregnate Rosemary with the Devil’s baby so the Castevets and the
rest of the Wicans in the building can worship and raise Satan’s baby and so
Guy, her husband, can be the star in some play. On the night of conception the
Castevets drop off some homemade chocolate roofie pudding. Rosemary hates it
and refuses to eat it. But her husband whines and guilt trips her into eating.
BUT she holds on to some of her dignity by shoveling the pudding into a cloth
napkin; I guess since she’s the one that’s going to be cleaning and doing the
laundry later this wouldn’t warrant discussion in the future.
So she’s roofied. She’s out. Well…kind of. She didn’t eat
all of the pudding so basically she’s paralyzed and slips in and out of one
freaky reality to another weird dream state. In reality, she is surrounded by
all of the BUTT NAKED Wican tenants of the apartment building while a demon
rapes her. She awakes the next day with scratches on her back and proceeds to
ask her husband why she has scratches all over her back. He explains that he
was drunk and in the mood so he raped her, simple as that. End of discussion.
CRAZINESS. Her only response: “we could have waited until the morning when I
was conscious…”
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| It wasn't until 1993 that ALL 50 states recognized marital rape as crime. However, majority of states still have some exemptions given to husbands from rape prosecution. |
Voila. She’s pregnant. The Castevets set her up with a world
renowned doctor; he insists that she not take any prenatal vitamins and only
drink Mrs. Castevets bizarre but nutrient packed natural shakes. She stupidly agrees.
Rosemary suffers from pain throughout most of her pregnancy while friends and
family tell her how horrible and sick she looks; yet, she waits until right
before the pain stops to maybe consider getting a second opinion. Yada yada.
Her old friend, Hutch, that tried to warn her in the beginning tries to warn
her again and ends up dead this time. But he leaves her a book with clues as to
who the Castevetes actually are; she starts digging and finds out her husband
made a deal with the devil to blind the lead actor in a play in exchange for
sacrificing her child! Almost there, Rosemary.
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| How she looked for majority of the movie: A mess. |
She tries to resist and run away but with all of the male chauvinism,
sexism, and Rosemary’s lack of common sense she ends up being trapped back at
her apartment building and forced into labor. She’s kept unconscious and told
her baby died. Is this the end? There’s still 15 minutes left!
The neighbors come and collect her breast milk. A baby is
crying next door. A mother’s intuition. Her husband’s a pathological liar. All
of these factors lead Rosemary to believe: Hey, something’s up. So she figures
out there’s a passage (through that random closet**) that leads to the Castevet’s
apartment.
There’s a party going on, a ceremony of sorts. And there’s
her baby in a black veiled basinet. She rushes over to it and takes a look! “What
have you done to my baby!” “It has its father’s eyes”, the good doctor replies.
Huh? Oh yeah, Rosemary is the last one to know that it was the Devil that raped
her and not her nasty husband. She pouts for a while and then is convinced to be
the mother she is inherently meant to be and raise the demon spawn to rule the
world in the future. WOMP.
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| ROSEMARY, HE IS NOT THE FATHER! |
Kind of a disappointing ending. I would have appreciated
Rosemary going crazy and blowing up the entire building Rambo style or at least
killing the Satan baby or her HUSBAND!! But, alas it is what it is. Still a really
good horror movie of the times!
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| Looks nasty= Tastes worse Pumpkin soup |
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| Bhindi Masala + Curry Looks Good= Tastes Eh. |
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| Solution= Make junk fried rice= YUM. |
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