Red Curry Shrimp and Bok Choy Stir Fry
Ingredients:
Bok Choy
1 TBSP Garlic (minced)
½ TBSP Ginger (grated)
2 TBSP Canola oil
¼ cup of chopped green onion
½ cup chopped fresh basil
2 TBSP red curry paste
1 TSP soy sauce
1 tsp fish sauce
½ cup shredded carrots
Salt
Pepper
Instructions:
First, chop up the bok choy.
Then drizzle some of the canola oil in a sauté pan. Add half the garlic and ginger to the pan on medium high.
Add the bok choy at medium high heat. Saute for about 3-5 minutes. Add the carrots.
Mix the shrimp, red curry paste, garlic ginger, green onion and basil together.
Then add the shrimp mixture to the middle of the pan with the bok choy. Turn up the heat. Stir fry for 2 minutes.
Add bean sprouts, soy sauce, and fish sauce. Remove from heat.
Serve on rice, with noodles, or
eat it alone. The shrimp should be succulent and cooked to perfection! Enjoy!!
World War Z[zzzz]
My Score: 6.5/10
IMDB Score: 7.4/10
Rating: PG-13
Favorite Lines: "Movement is Life"
Director: Marc Foster
Stars: Brad Pitt, Mireille Enos, Daiella Kertesz... but mostly Brad Pitt's hair
I’ve been somewhat anxiously awaiting the release of World
War Z since I first watched the trailer in February. Yesterday I made the
decision to watch what could be a fairly decent zombie movie (the last decent
zombie movie I watched was possibly…I don’t know) or terribly horrible (the
absolute worst zombie movie in all of the lands is “Warm Bodies”…couldn’t be
worse than that, right?).
However,
what I didn’t expect the movie to be was meh… Yes, meh as in mediocre. When the
lights switched in the theater and the credits rolled I was disappointed at how
many unanswered questions still remained and how many loose plot lines remained
untied. As I walked out of the theater I realized I wasn’t the only one; many
people remained in their seats staring at the screen as if some Marvel-style
sequel lead-in scene was going to play after the credits. I looked back at the
screen too for a second expecting something… Unsure how I felt about the movie
at the moment I asked my friend if she liked the movie. She replied with a
drawn out “Yeaaaa…” as if to reassure herself that this supposed summer
blockbuster met some, if any, of her expectations. We continued our walk out of
the theater in silence.
Did we feel
this way because of some overly dramatic and depressing ending like that of “The
Sopranos” or “I am Legend”? No, it was just the opposite. Maybe, when the DVD
special features are released some better cut/alternate ending will be
revealed. I don’t know. All I know is I kind of want my money back.
Yes,
there were good parts, suspenseful, freaky parts—in the beginning and
middle-ish. But not enough. Some of the good parts, of course, included the
zombie-not-zombie people (still not sure what they are) jumping out of nowhere
and turning people. But I think at some point in the movie, I was more
frightened by some fool opening the backdoor exit to the theater/parkinglot. I
(and most of the people behind me) spent the next 10-15 minutes turning around
checking for a possible shooter and scoping out our escape route if something
did happen to go down.
Anyways,
I won’t give too much away but here are the thoughts and questions that went
through my mind throughout the movie. I highlighted spoilers in red.
1.
Wow, Brad Pitt looks horrible.
2.
Wow, he and his actress wife have the worst
chemistry ever.
3.
Woah, these zombie things are crazy or is the
camera just shaky I can’t tell; I’m dizzy.
4.
Brad Pitt, his wife, and kids sure had NO
problem thinking clearly and getting to safety
(compared to everyone else). I mean yeah sure he has connections with
the UN and everything but it took less than 24 hours for them to 1) find a
working car, 2) barely get attacked, 3) get groceries and medicine with ease,
4) find an apartment building and hospitable family to take them in (on the
first try), and 5) get a helicopter to come rescue them right on time….BUT
whatever.
5.
Apparently, magazines and duct tape are the ultimate
tools of survival during a zombie apocalypse…because the one arm you cover with
these materials will be the only body part zombies try to bite.
6.
Who are the people on this ship?
7.
How was the POTUS taken out by zombies so
quickly…really???
8.
How does the genius/last
hope of human kind accidentally shoot himself in the head?
9.
This has got to be the dumbest wife in the
world.
10.
Why would a wall stop ninja zombies?
11.
Are these even zombies…we’re throwing this term
around too loosely.
12.
Who let the bitten man
on the plane??????
13.
Aren’t planes
pressurized? So wouldn’t a bomb on a plane cause an explosion, rather than a
really big hole in the plane?
14.
How is it that only Brad
Pitt, a woman with no hand, and a zombie were saved by seatbelts during a plane
crash that tore the plane to shreds?
15.
Who tucked the hair behind Brad Pitt’s ear so
his basically unscathed face could be easily seen?
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Which one of y'all did it? |
16.
How did severely injured
Brad Pitt and the one handed woman walk from a deserted forest to the WHO with
no map, GPS, nothing…
17.
Why did the editing staff of this movie use the
same clips of zombies over and over for the WHO lab television scenes? Did they
think no one would notice?
18.
Everyone in this movie,
except for Brad Pitt (and the one handed girl to a certain extent—she does only
have one hand), is unlucky and completely useless.
19.
What virus did Brad Pitt
choose to take? I really wanna know. Polio? I bet it was polio.
20.
How did Brad Pitt get
rescued and returned to his family?
21. What happened to the little orphaned boy that was originally staying with his family? He can't get a rescue hug?
22.
What did I just pay for?
Go see the movie. Don’t go see the movie… Its up to you. But
if I were you and I had the choice I’d settle for Zombieland or a Walking Dead
marathon and call it a cheap day. DO NOT SEE THIS MOVIE IN 3D. I can’t imagine
that the extra $2.50 is worth it. Go see
Start Trek Into Darkness (again).
