The Best Seasonal Pumpkin Soup
Ahhh, Autumn. I love that light, smell, colors, fresh air (and even rainy days, sometimes). Cozy sweaters, stylish coats, tea the whole day, time for movies, books and tons of good food. One word: hygge. I know, that it might sound totally bromidic, but I cant do anything with that. Fall gives me mood swings, gentle inner vibrations, bad sleep and cold …
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That One Blueberry Meringue Pie
Autumn is a pie season. There's nothing better hot cup of tea or coffee with a big piece of your favourite pastry. I remember my very first pie I made. It was lemon meringue pie for 'The Toast' movie. Since then my cooking and baking skills improved, I became more confident, but also more demanding towards myself. Last year I had no…
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Game of Thrones: Quails Drowned in Butter (King's Landing Menu)
Brace yourself..The new season of Game of Thrones is coming! I bet you were waiting for this the whole year, torturing yourself with guessing what will happen with characters next (who will die in the new season!), is Jon Snow alive or dead, how bloody will be the war and who will get revenge. I'm singing the intro melody already for a week, I can…
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Strudel for Shoshanna
A few weeks ago I spent another wonderful time with Inglourious Basterds . There's a scene when brave Shoshanna meets her biggest SD Standartenführer Hans Landa face to face. This scene is one of my favorite in the entire film, because of it's huge tension. Hans Landa orders strudel, 'not so terrible one'. So I got really inspired …
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American Horror Story: Cupcakes for Bette and Dot
I've waited for quite long time to finally bake my first cupcakes. And because I'm not a big fan of that kind of desert, the only thing I was doing is putting paper forms from one place to another. But when I saw pink (but very and very dangerous in the show!) cupcakes in "American Horror Story: Freak Show", I thought that this is it.…
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Short Food Films
Usually, on Wednesday I post recipes and tutorials, but today we're going to eat with our eyes! Last Thursday I visited Food Films Festival and it was a really delicious experience to watch different shorts about food on wide screen. But it caused a majestic starving and I ran home to have at least a little sandwich. So If you're hungry - better…
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Cooking With Hannibal: Rack of Sacrificial Lamb
Well, 'Hannibal' season 2 is over. Someone got more, than expected from the season finale, someone really waited for more...mmm...sophisticated ending, but those who didn't miss out the very last scene (in the airplane!) were a bit confused and surprised. Now we only need to wait for what the next season will bring to us. Personally, I&…
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Cooking With Hannibal: Sacromonte Omelette
UPD: Buy an official cookbook ' Feeding Hannibal: A Connoisseur's Cookbook' HERE and also add to cart ' The Art and Making of Hannibal: The Television Series' book HERE . Also, check out the post how to cook an innocent lamb. Ladies and gentlemen, Rack of Sacrificial Lamb from Hannibal's second season finale is r…
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Easter Breakfast
Every year, my family and I, celebrate Easter in my grandparents home. Usually, my grandma bakes Easter bread, but this year I tried even two different Easter loaves of bread; made by mom and grandma. Baking Easter bread is quite challenging and needs a lot of patience and practice. One day I'll be brave enough to bake it on my own, but until now I …
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'The Best Offer' Pie
I hope you remember the film 'The Best Offer'(La Migliore Offerta, 2013) with Geoffrey Rush, who plays there Virgil Oldman, famous collector and aesthete, who gets in a weird but fascinating story? If you haven't watched it - I recommend to do this (you can read about the film here ) and if you did you have to remember a very special …
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Spinach & Feta Pie (Spanakopita)
This pie was on my list for a long time, but somehow as much as you think about doing something, the less you actually do. So one day I finally decided to bake this absolutely simple and delicious pie. So for the pie, we need: your favorite dough (filo dough or simple dough like this one ) 250-300 g crumbled feta cheese 200-250 g cottage cheese or…
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Nutella Pancakes
The Winter is finally over. It was the warmest Winter ever, also I spend incredibly great weeks with friends abroad, I had an awesome New Year celebration. This Winter was also hard and shocking. And now it's over. And I'm totally open for something fresh and new. Last weekend I thought: why shouldn't I start cooking something new? So I deci…
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Adventure Time with Finn and Jake: Nachos from the Land of Ooo
Cheers, guys:) As you know from time to time I cook dishes from films. I find this entertainment (no misspelling here;) really fun and sometimes challenging. Today I'll show you my first nachos, that have ever been made. I was inspired to do them by...Jake from 'Adventure Time'. I adore 'Adventure Time'. Once it blew my mind (…
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Short Weekend: 'The River' (2012)
Today I decided to bring something new to my blog. So, from now, every Saturday I will try to share one short film I really like. Today is my number one try:) 'The River' is a great short film, which i really want to show you. I've seen it on the Wiz-Art Film Festival and I truly fell in love with it! Fresh , funny, very …
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V for Vendetta: Eggs In The Basket
'Remember remember the fifth of November Gunpowder, treason and plot. I see of no reason why gunpowder, treason Should ever be forgot...' Welcome to the super program 'Cooking with V'! You'll never get bored with us! Today we will learn how to cause riots, reset parliaments and...cook eggs in the basket:) Super easy recipe…
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Welcome to Films & Pies :) My name is Solya and this blog is a place where I write mostly about films, food and all things I really enjoy.
