![]() I was also pressed for time, and didn’t read the instructions fully, so made a couple of inadvertent changes.ĭespite my errors, this recipe was excellent and one I’ll make again. I was making this while I had something else in the oven, so I had to change the technique slightly. If you try this recipe, let us know! Leave a comment, rate it, and don’t forget to tag a photo #minimalistbaker on Instagram. Or pair with The Ultimate Mediterranean Bowl, Spring Buddha Bowl with Quinoa & Lemony White Beans, Garlic & Herb Sweet Potato Nourish Bowl (30 Minutes!), The Simple But Good Breakfast Bowl (20 Minutes!), Kale Falafel Hummus Wraps (30 Minutes!), or anything else your heart (and belly) desires! More Creamy Dip Recipes It goes well with literally almost anything! Dip your veggies, flatbread, or naan. ![]() We hope you LOVE this white bean dip! It’s: We dare you to share this with other people - we admit it’s kinda hard! The magic happens when you throw everything together in the food processor, and just a few pulses later, you’ve gone from a few beans and peppers to a creamy, spicy, and super savory dip. Whirl it all up with cashew butter (or tahini) for creaminess, lemon juice for brightness and balance, and salt and pepper for extra flavor. Adding the white beans in with the garlic and shallots helps them get warmed and softened, leading to extra creamy results! Sautéing garlic and shallots brings out their natural sweetness and depth of flavor while also beautifully balancing the spiciness of the charred serranos. Placing them on foil keeps them from getting stuck to the pan, and it also gets wrapped around the peppers after roasting, which (pro tip!) makes them much easier to peel! It starts with charring serrano peppers in the oven, giving them a beautiful smoky flavor and toning down some of the intense spiciness of the fresh peppers. Use it as the base for grilled meat or meatballs – try pairing it with miso grilled chicken, Greek chicken meatballs, lamb koftas or Asian style meatballs.While not a traditional hummus as it doesn’t use chickpeas, this creamy, dreamy white bean dip is hummus-inspired with a smoky, spicy twist! How to Make Serrano White Bean Dip.Pile it onto flatbreads then top with sweet chilli halloumi or honey harissa halloumi.Serve with a selection of your favourite chips, crackers or crudites.And it’s as easy as that!ĭrizzle with more olive oil and scatter over fresh mint leaves and chilli flakes, then dig in. Get all your ingredients into the bowl of a food processor, then blitz for a couple of minutes, until super smooth and creamy. ![]() If you’re using a blender, you may need to add a little more olive oil or water, just to get things moving. You’ll also need a food processor for this recipe, or you could use a blender. I love the subtle warmth the cumin brings to the dip, but you can leave it out if you don’t have any. Lemon is a key flavour in the dip and fresh is always best. Ideally you want to use fresh lemon juice here, if possible. Bold Bean Co is my go-to when I’m in the UK. Go for a high-quality bean if you can – canned is fine, but I prefer jarred beans for the best flavour and texture. I’m using butter beans, but you can use cannellini beans, haricot beans, navy beans or lima beans here. You only need five easy to find ingredients for this recipe. It’s also incredibly versatile and a great base recipe – you could throw in some fresh or dried herbs (thyme, basil or oregano would be lovely), chilli flakes or a spicy paste like gochujang to switch up the flavour to make it your own. Use it as a base for grilled meat or veggies and watch it transform into a cosy loaded bowl, perfect for cold weather. The dip is actually equally delicious heated where it becomes a white bean puree. White beans need lots of fresh, bright seasoning to help them sing, so this recipe is loaded with lots of lemon and garlic which I wouldn’t skimp on – it makes for a wonderful zesty dip perfect for spring or summer. Chickpeas need quite a bit of help to become super smooth – they need to be cooked down until very soft before blending – whereas white beans can go straight from the jar to the food processor and create an incredibly smooth dip. I love hummus, but this white bean dip is a quicker, lighter version that still delivers a similar flavour in minutes. Serve with pita chips, a crudité platter or pile meatballs on top – this is a versatile dip the whole family will love. ![]() Light, zesty, fresh and utterly delicious, this super creamy white bean dip takes less than 5 minutes to make AND uses just 5 easy to find ingredients.
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Groups +Ĭarmageddon II is essentially more of the same. ![]() Getting to the finish line first is secondary, and in fact seldom happens the real winner is the one to trash everyone else, running over pedestrians on the way for extra profit. The framework is a futuristic race inspired by Deathrace 2000 and The Cars That Ate Paris: The contestants, in sport cars, monster trucks, and other motorized abominations, are placed on a track, a real populated area. In case you need to be told, this game sends the politically-correct-o-meter flying towards absolute zero, perhaps only beaten by Duke Nukem 3D. Whether this is a good or bad thing pretty much depends on how you liked the first. We’ve been improving the overall look and feel to the Frontend menus.Carmageddon II is essentially more of the same. We’ve fixed lots of localisation bugs, especially for German and Russian. Good news! We have partial support for the Steam Controller, so if you have one, give it a go! 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The peds have been given some attention to sort out some of their dodgy behaviour. ![]() We’ve been improving the ped audio, they should now sound far more terrified! You may notice that Carmageddon: Reincarnation looks very different from the last update! We’ve made numerous rendering improvements to give Carmageddon its sexy new look. Further multithreading work is ongoing and will result in future performance benefits. The initial stage, “decoupling the renderer” is in this update, and led to significant framerate improvements. The latest gains have come (as before) from a lot of general optimisations and bug fixes, but the main boost has been from the first stage of multithreading the game engine – a much-needed engine upgrade that’s been in the pipeline for a long time, and is now under way. Please note that these results are from comparing the new build to the current Steam build (i.e. Here’s the average results that we’re seeing by testing the Career Mode in normal gameplay conditions:Ģ0-35% increase across the board on 720p, standard settingsġ5-20% increase across the board on 1080p, standard settingsĥ0-60% increase across the board on 720p, standard settingsġ5-25% increase across the board on 1080p, standard settings The techies have continued beavering away, and we’ve been diligently testing the results of their labours. I highly recommend this film for Charles Dickens, period drama and mystery fans. Because of the scary themes I wouldn't recommend this film for small children but it would be fine for teens on up. My Recommendations: The Mystery of Edwin Drood (2012) contains a few creepy scenes, dark themes, a scene of murder (but no blood) and opium usage. I look forward to watching it again soon!Īlun Armstrong as Rosa's guardian Mr. Overall it's wonderful to have a lovely new adaptation of another Dickens classic and wonderful acting. There was a huge twist that I would never have expected and it leaves the viewer with a happy ending. There were many humorous lines and sweet scenes, adventure and mystery also abound.įor the most part I liked the ending that Gwyneth Hughes wrote it was a strong ending and fairly believable (which a mystery should be if it possibly can). From all that I can tell this seems a faithful adaptation of the original work. Beautiful costumes and scenery, many interesting characters and a twisted tale made this a great piece. Jasper to Rosa, I really enjoyed The Mystery of Edwin Drood. My Thoughts: Besides some scary themes and a few creepy overtures of love from Mr. Played very well by actor David Dawson who is a new face to me. A rather curious characters but he gets at the truth. Grewgious and when secrets need to be revealed he is sent to investigate. Other music in the film is a good combination of creepy and happy to fit every scene.ĭavid Dawson as Bazzard - Bazzard works for Mr. In one scene at an evening party Rosa sings a lovely rendition of 'Endearing Young Charms' accompanied by Mr. The boys choir has a beautiful sound and actor Matthew Rhys even sings a bit during the film. ![]() Music: As John Jasper is a choirmaster the church music is very important to the story and here it does not disappoint. Jasper wears two cravats throughout most of the film! Dickens specified to the illustrator of his original work Mr. Rosa's hair is frequently down in curls which might not be correct for the period but it suits her younger age. The ladies have lovely hairstyles and the guys have period mutton chops or sideburns. Each actor's costumes perfectly fit their character. Edwin Drood wears interesting printed cravats and elegant waistcoats in rich colors. Some scenes are very dark and scary but they are balanced well with brighter and cheerier scenes.Ĭostumes: Rosa and Helena have some beautiful Victorian style dresses and pretty shawls. Scenes:Beautiful country houses, charming gardens, a grand cathedral, spooky catacombs and dark opium houses. Hughes did a great job of including things crucial to Dickens plots: humor, friendship, tender love and an incredible mystery story! The ending has several twists and turns which greatly surprised me. A lot of Dickens' original dialog seems to be used and the only one scene that I could tell was added to the beginning to tie in the ending. Script:Written by Gwyneth Hughes, the first half is based on Charles Dickens' original work and last half is an original ending penned by the script writer. ![]() Tamzin Merchant & Freddie Fox as Rosa & Edwin ![]() ( Read more about the history of Edwin Drood in my post.) Jasper's obsessions push him closer to the edge of sanity, while the most disturbing secrets of Cloisterham remain buried. When two orphan twins Neville and Helena Landless arrive in town, Jasper's dark desires take shape and morph into shocking, drug-fueled action. But the opium is fracturing Jasper's mind so that even as his soul reaches for the sublime in his music, his darker self has conceived a murderous hatred of his nephew Edwin Drood, who, he believes, stands between him and the lovely Rosa Bud. He has spent his life in the stifling and claustrophobic cathedral village of Cloisterham in a state of frustrated ambition, and has become addicted to opium in an attempt to still his ennui and expand his horizons. Synopsis: John Jasper is a troubled man, his psyche split between darkness and light. ![]() Someone is killing children, and they are trying to hide the traces of crimes in order to preserve the reputation of the institution. 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OmniPlayer Pro for Mac is a comprehensive media player for almost any video and audio format on macOS. 'After Apple's announcement it was transitioning the Mac to Apple silicon, we felt that was the best time to completely rearchitect Capture One for the future,' said Capture One CEO Rafael Orta. Capture One is now well-positioned to swiftly evolve alongside Apple silicon swiftlyDavid Grover sat down with Sune Rastad Bahn, Senior Engineer on the Capture One R&D team, to discuss the recent update and offer insight into the development process and what customers can expect with the latest version of Capture One 21 on M1 Mac computers. ![]() Rumors point toward perhaps an 'M2' chip arriving this year in high-powered machines. The M1 chip is far from the last chip Apple will produce. Looking forward, digging into the underpinnings of the software allows the Capture One team additional flexibility moving forward. To sum it up, the software is simply faster. 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It's a significant departure from the Intel architecture that has powered Apple's computers - and still powers some of Apple's computers - for years. Apple's M1 chip, which powers models in nearly all of Apple's notebook and desktop lineup, plus recent iPad Pro models, is a powerful piece of silicon. ![]() And yet, by the end of the film, you sort of retroactively realize that some of the stuff presented ultimately didn't matter, and that maybe there was a better story to tell within the larger one. Sometimes attempts to give us quick shots of passengers in these disaster movies go awry, as we're usually introduced to a parade of caricatures and/or bad stereotypes, but Blood Red Sky is able to pull it off with moderate success. The film also lets us get to know several of the crew members and passengers, allowing investment in the collateral damage and, in turn, the overall stakes. Purcell's performance, meanwhile, is decent, not breaking the mastermind mold, but delivering satisfactory goods as the head of this hired hijack team. Like Nadja, Scheer's Eightball is someone who's going to cause expansive trouble, no matter whose side he's on, and he makes for a great foil for Nadja. Performance-wise, Alexander Scheer also shines as the wild card of a crew of villains led by Dominic Purcell. There's a terrific tug-of-war going on inside Nadja as she crosses lines and then pulls herself back from the brink. And even within that, she's a human trying her best to rein in these cravings and desires for the sake of her boy. She not only transforms via makeup and prosthetics, but also with her other-worldly movements and unleashing of animalistic rage. It’s a shame to see such a theme wasted on a cinematic flight not worth taking.Baumeister is a force to be reckoned with. This is really a story of a mother trying to protect her son and the lengths that parents will go to not only to keep their kid safe but to hide their monstrous side from their progeny. If there’s anything that works it’s how Horvath frames the relationship between Nadja and Elias, even if it gets too much attention. Throw in some clumsy attempts to integrate anti-Islamic sentiment into the narrative alongside a failure to really use the fact that the sun might come up on this transatlantic flight if they’re forced to reroute as a true ticking clock, and “Blood Red Sky” misses its potential in some way in almost every scene. The fight sequences on the plane all blur together both in style and substance, so it becomes increasingly impossible to care just as the tension should be taking off (and there's absolutely no reason that a movie with this plot should be over two hours long). One of the biggest problems is the under-lit direction throws a dim weighted blanket over the thrills. terrorists." The mother/son thing can be used to elevate that but it shouldn't be the main focus. The Elias/Nadja connection is designed to add heart, and it does that at times-Baumeister and Koch have a believable connection-but it feels like it’s at the expense of what this movie needed to be more than anything: dumb fun. We're here for "vampire vs. It’s impossible to get invested in any of it, in part because the POV is mostly that of Elias, stunned at the insanity happening around him as he worries most of all about the fate of his mom. Even as it becomes less and less logically sound, it never finds its spark or sense of tension. And yet even then it feels like its teeth aren’t sharp enough. This great idea is handled in stunningly routine fashion in “Blood Red Sky.” The sense of surprise or playfulness that you would think is inherent in a “Bats on a Plane” concept just isn’t here as “Blood Red Sky” only comes to life in bloody spurts after Nadja allows herself to go full vamp. She takes a drug to manage her “condition,” but the violence aboard the plane springs her to life, and it’s not long before she’s sucking the plasma of the men intent on murdering a plane full of passengers. “Blood Red Sky” is the story of a single mother who happened to have been bit by a creature of the night years earlier. Imagine this story told from the POV of the loosely-defined terrorists that then shifts to Nadja when the chaos agents realize that one of the passengers is actually a vampire. “Blood Red Sky” should be a film that takes a sharp turn at maybe the halfway mark or possibly even later when the “bad guys” realize there’s something they didn’t plan for on the plane. She clearly hides a secret but Thorwarth is depressingly uninterested in holding it for long. ![]() Nadja ( Peri Baumeister) is traveling across the Atlantic with her son Elias ( Carl Anton Koch) when it’s hijacked by a group of terrorists intent on taking it down. |
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