Movie Foods - Hot Cocoa - Chocolat (2000)

This week's movie foods is hot cocoa; as it was Roux's (Johnny Depp) favorite incarnation of chocolate.

Recipe is as follows:

1oz cocoa nibs
8oz heavy cream
8oz milk
2 dried chilies
-- on microwave for 3 minutes, steep for 20 minutes

6oz 70% + chocolate
2 oz macadamia nuts
1 tbsp drinking chocolate
1/2 tsp of salt
1 tsp cayenne
-- whisk while heating to help the chocolate emulsion

CHANGE ON RECIPE: 
Add the macadamia nuts before - let it steep with the cocoa nibs and strain them. I didn't like their texture.
Even better, use essential oils instead of actual nuts - this way you don't deal with solids.

The only important warning I could give here is, be careful with temperatures when handling chocolate. It can split and burn.
You can vary many things from this recipe; but never deviate from how I melt the chocolate -- and please, do whisk.

Movie Script - Pandorado y Mazorcal -- Completed

it all started with a phone call before i embarked on my motorcycle journey.
she asked me 'what do you really want to do with your life, do not lie to yourself'
for me it was always movies, but at twenty eight, failed business, and no experience -
the only way i thought i would stand a chance is by coming back home.
i would write a movie script that is undeniable.
i think i have done that. it took me two years, a late late nights, and many
episodes of low self-steem and depression. but i have written
eighty pages that i hope lead me to glory.

the sad part is: writing the damn thing is just the start.
i think there are some legal steps i need to take.
then i need to develop a story board; while at the same time
it is time to whore out the script.
hopefully i find someone that i can work with that will respect the work.

if not - i will have to find ways to make money
and then ill produce myself.
had it been any other script i would be fine with just ending the journey here
but the story is my life, its semi-autobiographical.
-- i know im not wrong in thinking that i must be at the
creative helm for this story to work.

i do believe what i wrote is a story worth telling,
if i sound egocentric is because i have to:
i am practicing what athletes do before they perform -
have confidence.

my current fear is that someone may want to steal my work
that ill meet the wrong people.

anyways, i leave you with a scene on the script -
yes, it's an actual scene. it is the only portion that i have kept
since the beginning - one of the first scenes i wrote, and
it has not gone through any changes:

[It's in Spanish because--- I won't translate the scene unless I get enough requests to do so.]


INT. BERNARDO'S ROOM - A DISTANT DAY IN THE PAST

ALISA esta sentada en la cama con ambos pies en la cama, las
rodillas cerca de su cuerpo. La habitacion esta bien ordenada
y limpia - pero se siente vacia. La luz que proviene de la
ventana acentua la afliccion en su rostro.

BERNARDO se acerca y coloca un vaso de jugo de naranja en la
mesa de noche.

BERNARDO - Te encuentras bien? Por que ese
rostro.
ALISA - No tiene nada que ver contigo.
BERNARDO -Sabes que no me gusta verte asi.
ALISA - Entonces no hay necesidad de que me
estes mirando.
BERNARDO - No me refiero a eso, si te sientes
mal, a mi no me va bien. Hay algo
en que te pueda ayudar? Quieres ir
a algun lado?
ALISA - No
BERNARDO -En ese caso, si me necesitas estoy
aqui.
ALISA - Tampoco quiero eso.
BERNARDO - No entiendo, acaso hice algo mal?
ALISA - Te estoy diciendo que no es de tu
inbumbencia, acaso no escuchas!
BERNARDO - Cual es tu problema?
ALISA - (lagrimeando)
Nada! Siempre que hablas, no dices nada que tenga ni un poquito de
inteligencia. Siempre hablando tonteras. Estar contigo es como si
estuviese con un niño, un infante. Eres el peor cabron de mierda que
he visto, hijo de puta. Que clase de mujer va a querer estar contigo,
solo de verte me siento sucia y deforme. Acaso crees que me iba a
casar contigo, para que voy a querer hacer eso? Maldito adefecio,
solo dejame en paz, me sofocas. Te odio! Asi que no, no quiero nada de
ti. Me siento atrapada.

Alisa se levanta, coge sus cosas, y sale del cuarto.

CUT TO:

Movie Foods - Fish Soup - Paper Man (2009)

EASY MODE: Use a fish or vegetable stock cube [or powder] - and get the fish already prepared.

Onions, carrots, beer.
To create something out of nothing.
That is the idea of the fish soup portrayed in the movie

There are many flavor variations you can get with a fish soup of your own.
For this recipe I decided to go all out and infuse as many global profiles as I could -
You don't have to use them all - and it is all up to you. So that is I decided not to state amounts for this recipe - in part because I don't remember and in part because its not relevant; taste your damn food.

Pike, snapper, and tilapia. You don't have to use those fish - but they work great for soups; especially pike. Make sure they are fleshy fish that lend themselves well to soups and stews.

NOTE: in order to truly complete the dish; I forgot to add the toasted bread with cheese.

Fish Stock:
fish heads, tails and bones.
bay leaves, peppercorns.
Simmer for 20 mins - do not exceed an hour.

Seasoning Pouch:
cumin, achiote, oregano, dried chilies.

Soup:
olive oil, butter and flour - equal parts of fats and starch
carrots, onions, fennel, garlic
chili sauce, sardines, and tomato paste
beer
tomatoes, peanut butter
coconut milk - be careful, too much and it will be overpowering
add the fish stock - option to blend.

Gnocchi:
leftover baked potatoes
salt, flour, egg, butter.
Careful not to be too generous with flour.