DreamWorks Pictures "The Hundred-Foot Journey" Movie Trailer And A Tandorri Chicken Wings Recipe To Help Spice Up Your Memorial Day Weekend! #100FootJourney #FoodieFriday

Cast: Helen Mirren, Manish Dayal, Om Puri, Charoltte Le Bon

Director: Lasse Hallström

Producer: Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey, Juliet Blake

Executive Producer: Caroline Hewitt, Carla Gardini

Co-Producer: Raphael Benoliel

Screenplay by: Steven KnightBased on: The novel “The Hundred-Foot Journey” by Richard C. Morais

About the movie:

In “The Hundred-Foot Journey,” Hassan Kadam (Manish Dayal) is a culinary ingénue with the gastronomic equivalent of perfect pitch. Displaced from their native India, the Kadam family, led by Papa (Om Puri), settles in the quaint village of Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val in the south of France. Filled with charm, it is both picturesque and elegant – the ideal place to settle down and open an Indian restaurant, the Maison Mumbai. That is, until the chilly chef proprietress of Le Saule Pleureur, a Michelin starred, classical French restaurant run by Madame Mallory (Academy Award®-winner Helen Mirren), gets wind of it. Her icy protests against the new Indian restaurant a hundred feet from her own, escalate to all out war between the two establishments – until Hassan’s passion for French haute cuisine and for Mme. Mallory’s enchanting sous chef, Marguerite (Charlotte Le Bon), combine with his mysteriously delicious talent to weave magic between their two cultures and imbue Saint-Antonin with the flavors of life that even Mme. Mallory cannot ignore. At first Mme. Mallory's culinary rival, she eventually recognizes Hassan's gift as a chef and takes him under her wing.

“The Hundred-Foot Journey” abounds with flavors that burst across the tongue. A stimulating triumph over exile, blossoming with passion and heart, with marjoram and madras, it is a portrayal of two worlds colliding and one boy’s drive to find the comfort of home, in every pot, wherever he may be.

"The Hundred-Foot Journey" will be in theaters on August 8th, 2014!

Tandorri Chicken Wings Recipe below:

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Valetine's Day Cupcake Recipe and How to Easy Directions on Hoosier Homemade!

Below is the recipe and step by step directions on how to make these beautiful Valentine's Day Cupcakes from Hoosier Homemade!

(I copied this recipe from Hoosier Homemade's email newletter to share with you.)

The Valentine Cupcakes for today, have two of my favorite flavor combinations...chocolate and raspberry. As always {you know me} they are easy but impressive.

 

The cupcakes are filled with Raspberry Cream Cheese frosting and the tops are cut with a heart shaped cookie cutter. Here is how I put them together...{recipe below}

Bake and cool cupcakes, then with a serrated knife, cut the top mounded part of the cupcake off, set aside. I filled my cupcake liners a little more than I usually do, so that when they baked there would be an extra mound. Then to create the hole for the filling, I use an apple corer, try not to go down all the way to the bottom of the cupcake {if you do it's not a big deal} turn the corer and bring out the cupcake plug. Fill the 

 hole with frosting.

Then with a small heart shaped cookie cutter, I used one that came in a box with several other cutters from Wilton, cut out the heart. Mound the Raspberry Cream Cheese frosting in the middle of the cupcake, push a little to the edge.

 

Then place the top onto the cupcake, then carefully add a little more frosting inside the heart.

Chocolate Cake Recipe: {from Martha}

• 3/4 cup cocoa powder, unsweetened
• 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
• 1 1/2 cups sugar
• 1 1/2 teaspoons baking soda
• 3/4 teaspoon baking powder
• 3/4 teaspoon salt
• 2 large eggs
• 3/4 cup warm water
• 3/4 cup buttermilk
• 3 tablespoons oil
• 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  
   
  Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Line standard muffin tins with paper liners; set aside. Sift together cocoa powder, flour, sugar, baking soda, baking powder, and salt into a large bowl. Add eggs, warm water, buttermilk, oil, and vanilla, and mix until smooth, about 3 minutes. Scrape down the sides and bottom of bowl to assure batter is well mixed.
2. Divide batter evenly among muffin cups,I use about 1/4 cup of batter. Bake until tops spring back when touched, about 15 minutes, rotating pan once if needed. Cool completely.

Raspberry Cream Cheese Frosting Recipe:

• 1 (8 oz) Cream Cheese, room temperature
• 1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
• 1/2 cup shortening (or more butter)
• 1/4 cup seedless raspberry preserves or other flavor you like
• 2 tablespoons Raspberry Liquor or liquid from fresh raspberries {I used liquid from frozen raspberries)
• 4-6 cups powdered sugar

 

Directions: Cream the butter, shortening, and cream cheese until smooth. Mix in the preserves and liquid. Slowly add the powdered sugar until you get the consistency you like.

And, there you have it...delicious but easy Valentine's Day Cupcakes for your kiddos and your sweetie!

Be sure to check in next week on Hoosier Homemade, she will be sharing Chocolate Goodness every DAY!
Until next time...Happy Baking!


Post a comment below with your favorite Valentine's Day recipes!

Gumdrop Cookies Recipe

My Mom used to make Gumdrop cookies a long time ago, and lost the recipe. A few years ago we went looking online, and we found it, or at least, a recipe close enough to it. This is the second time that I have made these, and each time, the dough turns out a little bit different. This time, it was more flat? I have no idea why, but they were good. I think that I might add more flour to them when I make more next week!

We found this recipe HERE.

Ingredients:

• 3/4 cup gumdrop, cut small (I cut them into 3 pieces, I also use 1 cup of gumdrops, instead of 3/4)
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1/3 cup soft butter
• 2/3 cup sugar
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 1 egg
• 2 tablespoons milk 

Directions:
1) Combine flour, baking powder, and salt.

2) Stir in gumdrops.

3) Set aside.

4) Combine butter and sugar.

5) Stir in egg.

6) Stir in vanilla.

7) Stir in milk.

8) Stir in dry ingredient mixture.

9) Drop by small spoonfuls onto greased cookie sheet.

10) Bake 10-12 minutes at 350F.

11) Remove from pan and cool on a rack.

Awesome Chocolate cake with Peanut Butter Icing and Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!

My husband's birthday was yesterday and I made him this very delicious chocolate cake with peanut butter icing! This cake is so delicious and it's not too sweet. I made two 9 inch cakes and put icing in the middle, then some mashed up Reese's miniatures cups, then more icing, then the second cake. Then I iced the whole thing and sprinkled more mashed up Reese's miniatures cups on top!

I used the Duncan Hines Super Moist Devil's Food Chocolate cake, and it's so moist and so yummy!

Here are two photos of the cake after I was done decorating it!

The recipe for the Peanut Butter icing is:

10 ounces of cream cheese, at room temperature (you could possibly change it out for fat free or low fat cream cheese if you wanted too)
1 stick (4 ounces) unsalted butter, at room temperature
5 cups confectioners sugar, sifted (I didn't sift mine and it came out fine)
2/3 cup smooth peanut butter, preferably a commercial brand (because the oil doesn't separate out)
(I used a little over 2/3 cup of Jif)

1) In a large bowl with an electric mixer, or in a big mixer like I use for mixing everything, beat the cream cheese and butter until light and fluffy. Gradually add in the confectioners sugar 1 cup at a time, mixing thoroughly after each addition and scraping down the sides of the bowl often. Continue to beat on medium speed until light and fluffy, 3 to 4 minutes.

2) Add the peanut butter and beat until thoroughly blended.


I got the recipe for the icing from Smitten Kitchen. Click HERE for the full recipe. It includes directions to make the cake from scratch and to put a chocolate-peanut butter glaze on top if you wish.

I don't like shortening, so this icing was awesome! I even found a recipe for peanut butter, Butter cream icing, but it included shorting. Click here if you'd like that recipe.

I can't really cook, but boy, when I put my mind to it, I can bake!!!