July Recipes - Day 13 - This Is Not Rice Pilaf

Yes, that's the name of it and it goes very well with the Poulet au Paprika from July 11.

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This is not Rice Pilaf
Recipe by Laura Calder

¼ cup butter
2 onions, sliced
2 cloves garlic, peeled and crushed
1 tablespoon chopped fresh thyme
Salt and freshly ground black pepper
1 ½ cups rice

Heat the butter in a sauté pan and gently fry the onions until soft and slightly golden. Add the garlic 1 minute, along with the thyme. Season with salt and pepper and set aside.

While the onions are cooking, bring a large pot of water to a boil. Salt it, as for pasta, and boil the rice until tender (about 18-20 minutes works for me). Drain well. Toss with the onion mixture and heat through.

This dish is very good with Poulet au Paprika.

15/100 Things - Raiders of the Lost Ark

Another one of my favorite movies of all time, Raiders of the Lost Ark gave me the action hero that I'd always wanted but I didn't know it.

He is the culmination of all action heroes - dashing, brash, irreverent, brilliant and afraid of snakes! What more could a girl want? This movie was simply lots of fun. It had the quintessential bad guys in the Nazis and the quintessential search in the search for the Ark. It took the cliched hero of old and gave him a rakish spin with Indiana Jones and his hat and whip. Indy screwed up a lot but we loved him even more for his foibles.

He is Han Solo in his own adventure, literally. The first was the best of the movies but the whole franchise was great fun. John Rhys-Davies gave us lovable Sallah, Indy's pal and his source of info in Cairo. Belloq, rival gone evil and working with the Nazis. Marion, Indy's once and future ladylove, who actually annoys me quite bit. If she's so tough in Tibet, why is she such a weenie in Egypt?

Never seen it? Do.

Indy is the man George Lucas would have been if he weren't Luke Skywalker!