BY?JOANNE BRUNO
Most days I like to think that I?m above all marketing ploys.? I don?t own a television, so that makes it easy to avoid commercials that try to convince me that eating light yogurt that is flavored after popular desserts will help satisfy my cravings while still keeping me slim.? (And yet somehow fails to mention that these yogurts also contain high fructose corn syrup.? ?Light? they maybe, but healthy?not so much. Moral of the story: read ingredient labels. Rigorously!)
And then, there?s pomegranate juice.? I don?t drink juice because I?d much rather eat my calories, but I almost always have pomegranate juice on hand.? Somehow, somewhere along the line, some ad lauding its antioxidant and health-promoting properties got under my skin and into my food.? But I don?t regret it for a second.? It adds such a great sweet-tart flavor to stews and soups, and with an ingredient list that is made up entirely of pomegranates, it?s something that I can feel good about consuming.
This stew features both pomegranate juice and pomegranate molasses, which lend an earthy sweet note to the lentils and barley that is both delicious and good for you.? A truly winning combination!
Lentil-Pomegranate Stew with Spinach and Raisins Recipe
Serves 6, adapted from The Tropical Vegan Kitchen
Ingredients:
1 tbsp olive oil
1 medium onion, chopped
4 cups vegetable broth
4 cups water
1 cup lentils
1 cup barley
1 tsp ground turmeric
1 tsp salt
freshly ground black pepper, to taste
1 cup pomegranate juice
1/2 cup chopped parsley
4 scallions, thinly sliced
1/2 cup golden raisins
8 oz fresh baby spinach leaves, coarsely chopped
1 tbsp pomegranate molasses
Method:
- In a medium stockpot, heat the oil over medium heat.? Add the onion and cook, stirring, until softened, about 3 minutes.
- Add the broth, water, lentils, barley, turmeric, salt and pepper.? Bring to a boil over high heat.? Reduce the heat to between low and medium-low and simmer, covered, 30 minutes.? Add the juice, parsley, scallions, and raisins.? Simmer, covered, until lentils and barley are tender, another 15 minutes.
- Stir in the spinach and pomegranate molasses, cooking until spinach has wilted.? Serve warm.
Joanne Bruno?is a food writer and third year MD/PhD student.? Find more of her delicious ramblings over at her blog:?Eats Well With Others.?
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Regarding Frankenstein, Levy is planning to use motion-capture SimulCam (the same process he used on Real Steel) to film the monsters:
It?s an interesting approach, but it worked splendidly on Real Steel.? As for when production might begin on Frankenstein, Levy admitted that the production start on another Frankenstein project has affected his iteration. He and Fox are making sure their Frankenstein is just right before it goes forward:
Previous reports claimed that Fox was wary of the large budget for the project, but Levy says the concern has more to do with finding the right cast:
As for Fantastic Voyage, Levy says they?re currently making script tweaks, but he?s got a very specific vision for the finished film:
Though Frankenstein and Fantastic Voyage have been on Levy?s radar for a while now, his next project might actually be a comedy that he only recently began working on. While on the set of Neighborhood Watch, which he?s producing, Levy struck up a rapport with star Vince Vaughn who pitched him a comedy called Interns that would reteam Vaughn with Owen Wilson:
The pic would see Vaughn and Wilson as friends who get laid off and decide to become interns at a Google-like startup. They soon discover that they?re completely lost in a sea of fresh-faced twentysomethings who know infinitely more about the digital world than they do. It?s material that?s definitely in Vaughn and Wilson?s wheelhouse, and something I?d love to see them hit out of the park. Levy revealed that if they come up with a great script, they could possibly shoot the film this summer:
:02 Update on Frankenstein: ?I?ve been tinkering/toying with both Frankenstein and Fantastic Voyage. The teams that I?ve been prepping are the same that I did Real Steel with. Both movies would involve some of the same technology. In the case of Frankenstein, my whole approach is based on a mo-cap SimulCam playback so that it?s not a dude with scars on his face. It?s not just kind of latex and a costume; it would be a motion-capture performance of the monster?I can give away maybe not too much by saying there?s more than one in our version?and then I would go to Europe, shoot the movie, do scenes with the real actors and I would be able to see the motion-captured monster in real time due to SimulCam, so yes that is our technological VFX paradigm for Frankenstein.?
2:23 Talks about where they?re at in the development phase of Frankenstein and how I, Frankenstein has affected their film: ?Frankenstein is a great script. Everyone now knows, because people have seen Chronicle, that Max Landis is a hell of a goddamn writer and his script for Frankenstein is awesome. Here?s what doesn?t help: there?s another movie that is already shooting called I, Frankenstein? It?s a wildly different movie, but in the culture it?s another Frankenstein movie, it?s gonna come out next year. So if anything, that movie has kind of raised the bar for the studio and I to cast the living hell out of our Frankenstein. That script is ready to rock, I am ready to rock on that script, but as was reported it?s not a small budget. My Frankenstein, it ain?t gonna get done well and the way I would insist on doing it for $35 million. So anytime you?re in like $70-$80 million for a movie, you?re really thinking about ?Well who are these two guys?? in our case it?s Igor and Victor Frankenstein, ?What?s the juicy pairing that makes that a good bet? That makes that financial bet smart and worth it?? because I am in the business of not squandering the money the studios give me to make movies. I haven?t let them down yet, I don?t wanna let them down. So the [initial] report was off in that it wasn?t about ?Oh no we got the budget to Frankenstein and we don?t wanna make it?, it was more like ?Okay if that?s the budget, we?ve gotta make sure we cast it really, really right? and so that?s the moment we?re in.?
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