Baked Lemon Chicken and Vantage Point
Sunday, May 17th, 2009I love spending time at home during weekends, winding down and enjoying myself with my hubby. Today’s dinner was baked lemon chicken, which was an easy version of ayam rica-rica (a Manado specialty which actually is more complicated and uses more spices). It’s taken from Periplus Mini Cookbooks’ Indonesian cooking edition of the “Step-by-Step’ series. Here’s how it’s done:
Ingredients:
- 4 whole chicken thighs
- 2 onions, chopped
- 2 red chillies, if you don’t like them hot, remove the seeds
- 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- 1 spring onion, chopped
- 1/4 cup peanut oil
- 1/4 cup lemon juice
Combine onion, chopped chilli, garlic, oil and lemon juice in food processor, blend until smooth and spoon over chicken. Marinade for a few hours, covered, in the fridge.
When ready, place the chicken in a baking dish in a single layer and bake at 180 degrees C for 40 minutes or until cooked and browned.
The taste was not too bad, but what I would do next time is actually fry the chicken because then it would end up crispy.
Later on after dinner and cleaning up in the kitchen, we browsed through the TV channels and found one movie that had just started. The title was Vantage Point and I was thrilled because I had this on my ‘movies to see’ list as it came with high recommendation from my favourite author, James Patterson. Fortunately for me, before I could get to buy it, it was aired on HBO.
I loved the movie! It had great suspense, and a different way in presenting a story, as if we were watching from different people’s point of view. Although it did not disclose the real motives of the crime that took place (I will not spoil this for you in case you haven’t seen it), but I thought it was still interesting enough, since it seemed to base itself on some sort of a common understanding. It also had a fast story telling style similar to that of ‘24’.
Dennis Quaid was surprisingly decent for an action movie character, and Forest Whitaker was sympathetic as usual. A lot of other good actors that I don’t remember having seen in other movies. Definitely a good enough movie for our lazy Sunday.
