IT'S INTERMISSION TIME FOLKS, DINNER AND A SHOW.

                                             

                            IT'S INTERMISSION TIME FOLKS

                                    DINNER AND A SHOW.

Hello everyone and welcome back to, "Intermission time" "Dinner and a show"

Today we are going to start with drinks to keep your guests entertained while you cook. These will be drinks for adults and drinks for the kids, if you have any, if you don't you can just make the adult ones, either way they are great tasting and easy to make. 

Drink 1.

Fruit-punch champagne:

You will need:

1 or 2 gallons of Hawaiian Punch or cheap brand that fits your budget 

1 or 2 bottles of  Korbel Brut California Champagne or your favorite unflavored champagne 

A large punch bowl that can fit 3 gallons in it 

Bag of ice

Chill the Punch and champagne over night so it is cold

When chilled, pour the punch in the bowl, add the champagne, mix together tell well blended, add a cup or 2 of ice if you want. Serve in smaller glasses cause your goal is not to get someone drunk before dinner, your goal is to get them relaxed and comfortable and talkative to you and your other guests. 

Drink 2.

Fizzy Lifting Drinks

• 4 cup sprite
• 4 oz vodka
• 4 rock candy sticks
• 4 Pixy Stix
• 2 cups of ice

Fill four glasses with ice then pour Sprite into each glass. Add an ounce of vodka and one Pixy Stix packet to each drink. Mix them with the rock candy sticks make sure you get different colored rock candy sticks just for color and show. You can make this for your kids just don't add the vodka.

Shark Bite

1 fluid ounce simple syrup

• ¾ fluid ounce spiced rum
• ¾ fluid ounce light rum
• ½ fluid ounce Blue Curacao
• ½ fluid ounce lime juice
• 2 cups ice cubes, divided
• 3 drops grenadine syrup, or as needed
• Combine simple syrup, spiced rum, light rum, Blue Curacao, and lime juice in a cocktail shaker. Add 1 cup ice, cover shaker, and shake until chilled, 10 to 15 seconds. Fill a glass with remaining 1 cup ice. Strain rum cocktail into glass. Add drops of grenadine into cocktail.

Now that your guests are feeling good it's time for dinner.

So what can go with your great new drinks, well I have a few ideas, lets get to it shall we:

Fried Chicken Sandwich

 1 cup all-purpose flour

• ½ teaspoon ground paprika
• ½ teaspoon garlic powder
• 4 skinless, boneless chicken breasts
• 5 tablespoons vegetable oil, or as needed
• 1 large tomato, sliced
• 4 leaves romaine or iceberg  lettuce
• 4 whole wheat buns, toasted or whatever hamburger buns you want to use is fine. 
• Mix flour, paprika, and garlic together in a shallow bowl. Coat chicken thoroughly with flour mixture. Heat oil in a heavy skillet over medium heat. Working in batches, cook chicken in hot oil until golden brown and no longer pink in the center, about 5 minutes per side. Drain on paper towels. Layer chicken, tomato, and lettuce on your buns and enjoy.

Now lets talk about movies, what movies go with fried chicken sandwiches:

•                                             The Revenant 
• This is one of the best movies I have ever seen and you should watch it if you haven't yet. Lets get to the story shall we:

• During late 1823, Hugh Glass guides Captain Andrew Henry's trappers through the territory of the present-day Dakotas. While he and his half-Pawnee son, Hawk, are hunting, the company's camp is attacked by an Arikara war party which is seeking to recover its Chief's abducted daughter, Powaqa. Many of the trappers are killed during the fight, while the rest of them escape onto a boat. Guided by Glass, the survivors travel on foot to Fort Kiowa, because he believes that traveling downriver will make them vulnerable. After docking, the crew stashes the pelts near the shore.

  While scouting game, Glass is mauled by a grizzly bear and left near death. Trapper John Fitzgerald, who is fearful of another Arikara attack, argues that the group must mercy-kill Glass and keep moving. Henry agrees, but he is unable to pull the trigger; instead, he offers money for someone to stay with Glass and bury him after his death. When the only volunteers are Hawk and the young Jim Bridger, Fitzgerald agrees to stay for money, to recoup his losses from the abandoned pelts.

  After the others leave, Fitzgerald attempts to smother Glass but is discovered by Hawk. Fitzgerald, afraid that Hawk's loud reaction to his attempt to kill Glass could alert Bridger, who is away gathering water, stabs Hawk to death as Glass watches helplessly. The next morning, Fitzgerald convinces Bridger, who is unaware of Hawk's murder, that the Arikara are approaching and they must abandon Glass. Bridger protests at first, but he ultimately follows Fitzgerald after the latter leaves Glass half-buried alive in a makeshift grave. Bridger leaves his canteen, in which he engraved a spiral symbol, with Glass. After they depart, Fitzgerald admits that he lied about the approaching Arikara. When Fitzgerald and Bridger later meet Henry at the fort, Fitzgerald tells Henry that Glass died and Hawk vanished. Bridger is complicit in the lie about Glass's death, even though he did not know anything about Hawk's disappearance.

  Glass begins his arduous journey through the wilderness. He performs crude cauterization of his wounds and eludes the pursuing Arikara by jumping into white water rapids. He later encounters Pawnee refugee Hikuc, who says that "revenge is in the Creator's hands." The men share bison meat and travel together. As a storm approaches, Hikuc constructs a makeshift sweat lodge for a feverish Glass to shelter in. After a hallucinogenic experience in the lodge, Glass emerges to discover that his wounds are healing but Hikuc has been hanged by French hunters. He infiltrates their camp and sees the leader raping Powaqa. He frees her, kills several hunters and recovers Hikuc's horse. The next morning, Glass is ambushed by the Arikara and driven over a cliff on his horse. He survives the stormy night by eviscerating the horse and sheltering inside its carcass.

  A frightened French survivor staggers into Fort Kiowa, and Bridger recognizes his spiral engraved canteen as Glass's. Believing that it was stolen, Henry organizes a search party. Fitzgerald, realizing that Glass is alive, empties the outpost's safe and flees. The search party finds the exhausted Glass. Furious, Henry orders the arrest of Bridger, but Glass vouches for Bridger by stating that he was not present when Fitzgerald murdered Hawk and he was later deceived and threatened by the higher-ranking Fitzgerald. Glass and Henry set out in pursuit of Fitzgerald.

  After the two split up, Fitzgerald ambushes, kills and scalps Henry. Glass finds Henry's corpse, places it on his horse to act as a decoy, and shoots Fitzgerald in the arm. He pursues Fitzgerald to a riverbank where they engage in a brutal fight. Glass is about to kill Fitzgerald, but he spots a band of Arikara downstream. He remembers Hikuc's words and pushes Fitzgerald downstream into the hands of the Arikara. Elk Dog kills and scalps Fitzgerald and the Arikara (who have found Powaqa) spare Glass. Near death, Glass retreats into the mountains where he is visited by the spirit of his wife and is heard breathing throughout the credits.

If you looking to watch a funny movie, here is a really good one you will love it's called:

                                          The Ridiculous 6

In the Old West, Tommy (Adam Sandler), known as "White Knife" by the American Indian tribe who raised him after his mother was murdered, is to marry a member of the tribe named Smoking Fox (Julia Jones) as arranged by his adoptive father Chief Screaming Eagle (Saginaw Grant). Following a run-in with Will Patch (Will Forte) and his Left-Eye Gang who claimed to have removed their right eye, as well as a one-eyed food proprietor named Clem (Steve Zahn), Tommy is visited by a bank robber named Frank Stockburn (Nick Nolte) who claims to be his biological father. Frank tells Tommy that he is dying of consumption and had amassed $50,000 buried in a meadow, which he offers to Tommy and his tribe.

The next day, a group of bandits led by the ruthless Cicero (Danny Trejo) come to the village and want Frank to give them his "big score.” Frank has the bandits kidnap him so he can lead them to the money at the so-called "Singing Windmill", in return for the bandits not attacking Tommy or the Natives. After searching the meadow Tommy is unable to find the stash of money and sets off on a quest to steal the amount needed and save his father.

During his journey, Tommy discovers that he has 5 half-brothers: Mexican burro rider Ramon (Rob Schneider) whose innkeeper mother had a fling with Frank; mentally challenged yet happy-go-lucky Lil' Pete (Taylor Lautner) whose strong neck makes him immune to hanging; mountain man Herm (Jorge Garcia) who speaks incomprehensibly and helped his mother sell their moonshine; Drunkard Danny (Luke Wilson), the former bodyguard of Abraham Lincoln (Dan Patrick) who is guilt-ridden from accidentally leading John Wilkes Booth (Chris Kattan) to murder the president when he mistook him for a fan of the president on his way to the restroom; and African-American saloon pianist Chico (Terry Crews) who confesses to being half-White.

Meanwhile, Clem joins the Left-Eye Gang at the cost of his only functional eye and helps them abduct Smoking Fox. She escapes due to Clem's blindness and begins searching for Tommy and his brothers, now known as the Ridiculous 6.

After meeting Chico and Danny, the half-brothers have a run in with Chico's boss, sociopathic saloon owner Smiley Harris (Harvey Keitel), who was part of Frank's gang until Frank stole his cut of their biggest score and left him to die at the windmill. When Smiley attempts to kill the half-brothers out of revenge against Frank, he ends up being unintentionally decapitated by Ramon. The group later encounters Abner Doubleday (John Turturro) who is developing baseball with some Chinese immigrants.

The Left-Eye Gang soon catch up to the Ridiculous 6 while the latter are relaxing in a pond. The gang overpowers the Ridiculous 6 and steal their loot. Through Herm's ramblings, translated by Tommy, the Ridiculous 6 then decide to rob a gambling game in Yuma hosted by Ezekiel Grant (Jon Lovitz) and attended by Mark Twain (Vanilla Ice) and General George Armstrong Custer (David Spade). The Ridiculous 6 succeed, though Wyatt Earp (Blake Shelton) nearly jeopardizes their plan, and set off to ransom their father.

On the way, the Ridiculous 6 come across the Left-Eye Gang who have been left to die in the desert by Cicero. Tommy and the brothers rescue the Left-Eye Gang and reclaim the $50,000 they had stolen from them. That evening, Tommy sees a photograph carried by Danny that proves Cicero is the one who murdered his mother and sets off alone to rescue his father and confront the bandit leader. After meeting with Cicero and paying the ransom, Tommy confronts Cicero just and gets his revenge on his mother's killer.

The Ridiculous 6, who followed Tommy along with the Left-Eye Gang, have a reunion with their long-lost father. When Frank learns his sons exceeded his expectations by amassing $100,000, he reveals that he masterminded his abduction. But Tommy counters that his group had a Plan B: a hidden bomb inside the bag containing the ransom money. When the bomb explodes and commotion ensues, Frank runs off to a mine with Smoking Fox as his hostage. Tommy runs after them and successfully rescues his bride-to-be and captures his father.

Back in the Native Village, Tommy weds Smoking Fox with his half-brothers in attendance. Since the revelation that their biological father Frank Stockburn was no more than a two-bit crook, Screaming Eagle decides to adopt all the half-brothers as he did with Tommy. The Left-Eye Gang revealed that they lied about removing their right eyes, much to the anger of Clem.

In the post-credits, Abner Doubleday and his Chinese baseball team do a chant to detail their appreciation for the Stockburns.

This movie is so Ridiculous it is so damn funny, you really need to see it if you haven't it is great for parties or just for a couples night. 

The next and finally movie I will list here is:

                                                3:10 to Yuma

It's not a funny movie but it is one of the greatest movies of the west since the movie, Unforgiven with Clint Eastwood. This movie shows just how powerful western style movies can be. So, with that, lets get to the story shall we:

In 1884 Arizona, Dan Evans is an impoverished rancher and Civil War veteran, who owes money to the wealthy Glen Hollander. One night, two of Hollander's men set fire to his barn and scare off his cattle, warning that his house will be next if he fails to pay his debts. The next morning, as Evans and his two sons, William and Mark, look for their lost herd, they stumble upon outlaw Ben Wade and his gang, who have used Evans' cattle to block the road and ambush an armored stagecoach staffed by Pinkerton agents. As Wade's outfit loots the upended stage, Wade discovers Evans and his two sons watching from the hills. Determining that they pose no threat to him and his gang, Wade takes their horses and tells Evans that he will leave them tied up on the road to Bisbee. Wade's gang departs, and Evans rescues the lone surviving coach guard, Byron McElroy, left alive but severely wounded by Wade.

Wade travels with his gang to Bisbee to celebrate at the local saloon and divide up the loot, then chooses to stay behind to enjoy the company of the barmaid while his gang departs. Evans arrives separately with McElroy and delivers him to lawman Doc Potter, before trying in vain to negotiate with Hollander, who shoves him to the ground and departs. Enraged, Evans barges into the saloon looking for him, but instead encounters Wade emerging from an upstairs room. Evans coaxes a few dollars from Wade over the trouble the outlaw has caused him, delaying the outlaw long enough for the railroad men to ambush and arrest him.

The railroad's representative, Grayson Butterfield, enlists McElroy, Potter, Tucker (one of Hollander's men), and Evans to deliver Wade to Contention, where Wade will be put on the 3:10 afternoon train to Yuma Territorial Prison. Evans requests a $200 fee (equivalent to $5,400 in 2020) to deliver Wade for transport, which Butterfield accepts. From Evans's ranch, McElroy arranges for a decoy wagon driven by the town marshal to distract Wade's gang, now led by Charlie Prince, with the real prisoner transport departing later that night.

During the journey, both Tucker and McElroy provoke Wade; he stabs Tucker to death and throws McElroy off a cliff. Wade attempts to escape, but is stopped when William appears, having followed the group all the way from the ranch. When the group is ambushed by Apaches, Wade uses the confusion to flee into a Chinese laborer construction camp, where the foreman captures him. Evans, William, Potter, and Butterfield arrive to regain custody of their prisoner, but the foreman reveals that he lost his brother to one of Wade's robberies and intends to torture the outlaw to death. A gunfight breaks out between the group and the foreman's posse. The group manages to escape with Wade, but Potter is killed in the process. The rest of the group arrives in Contention hours before the train's arrival time and check into a hotel, where several local marshals join them.

Wade's gang members ambush the decoy wagon, killing Marshal Weathers and interrogating the lone survivor before killing him and departing for Contention. Upon arrival, Prince offers a $200 cash reward to any citizens who help rescue Wade. Numerous men volunteer, causing the town's marshals to desert immediately; Wade's men kill them when they try to surrender. Butterfield resigns as well, but agrees to keep William safe at Evans's behest. Evans agrees to deliver Wade to the prison train in exchange for Butterfield paying him $1000, getting his son safely home, ensuring their farm gets access to the spring water and to persuade Hollander to leave his family alone.

Evans escorts Wade out of the hotel, and the two make their way across town, evading continuous gunfire from the gang and the townsmen. Wade surprises Evans and nearly strangles him, but relents when Evans reveals that delivering Wade to the train is not only to provide for his family, but to restore his own sense of honor, and give his sons something good to remember him for. Wade then admits he has already been to Yuma Prison and escaped twice, and agrees to board the train, allowing Evans's contract to be fulfilled.

Wade helps Evans evade his gang, and as he finally boards the train, congratulates Evans on his efforts. Prince appears and shoots Evans despite Wade's order to stop. Wade steps off the train, comforting Evans in his final moments. When Prince returns his gun belt, Wade abruptly executes Prince along with the rest of his gang. William appears and draws his gun on Wade but does not kill him, instead turning to his dying father. Wade boards the train and politely surrenders his weapon. Evans dies as William tells him he accomplished his mission and got the money. Butterfield watches the train depart with Wade on it. As the train disappears around a bend, Wade whistles, and his faithful horse pricks up his ears and gallops after the train, indicating that Wade is already planning his next escape.

So there you have it, Drinks, food, movies, what could be better. I will through in dessert in my next post, so please let me know what kind of desserts you would like me to cover. 

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