Chipotle, white truffle oil & garlic

For all those people out there who doesn´t think these three ingredients go well together. Think again! I´ve now used them in four different dishes and they are like a marriage with three ingredients in it. I first found the combination chipotle and white truffle oil when I was watching Aaron Harvie on Masterchef Australia Season Two. He made his famous Fennel and Prawn Tortellini with Chipotle Truffle Oil. The dish was so tasty according to Judge Matt Preston that he smashed the plate on to the floor, because he didn´t want any other person to taste it. You can find the recipe Here: Here:

I´ve made my own dish called Corn Chowder with chipotle, white truffle oil & garlic. Chipotle goes really well with mashed potatoes and Chorizo too. I just had these three ingredients in my fried rice dish and it tasted amazing. So don´t be afraid to experiment and live out your creative side when it comes to cooking. That´s what it is all about.

Latest Jackietalk

Here comes my latest entry. God, I´ve not written on this blog for a very long time. The last time I wrote, I wrote about Tom Hardy and how I waited for The Avengers to come out. Well, the movie has come out finally. During this time I´ve come to learn about Tom Hiddleston who plays Loki in Thor and The Avengers. I´ve put Hardy and Hiddleston together and like to call myself a Hardstoner fan. Both actors are soo good, and I can´t wait until The Dark Knight Rises comes out in the movie theatres. I´m very sleepy, so I´m off to bed, but I promise, I´ll be back soon enough.

Some thoughts........

Been awhile since I last posted something other than an update on this blog. My head is full of stuff and my energy level is going through the roof. I need to start writing something again, I need to vent and get all the stuff out. Feels like piercing a baloon that has too much air. A lot of things are happening in the movie and tv-industry for me at the moment. Josh Lucas with The Firm, Nick Wechlser and Revenge and Emily and David with Bones. All on the same channel in Sweden. Tv3 ROCKS BIGTIME FOR ME RIGHT NOW!!!!! In the movie theatres they have just released Tomas Alfredssons Tinker, tailor, soldier, spy and they are about to release THIS MEANS WAR, both movies starring the talented Tom Hardy. Jeremy Renner has just released Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol and in april comes The Avengers out.

Speaking of Tom Hardy, I´ve just started to watch a bunch of Tom Hardy movies and tv-series, and they are so good. They are both thrilling as well as well-written. I love team Hardý and Charlotte Riley. You´ve got to see Wuthering Heights and The Take with those two. They got major on-screen chemistry which I can find is extremely rare usually among off-screen acting couples. Here you got two very talented people with a lot of passion for their work and the sparks are flying everywhere. There´s heat in their performances because their characters got a lot of passion and heat. The scenes explodes of heated moments as the characters show their feelings with words.

As I sit here writing all this things, I turn around and observes these two boys playing X-Box. They have grown soo much in such a short amount of time. They have developed into two very lovely boys. My friend is one very lucky lady. The way they adore her. They are soo cute, and little Vincent seems soo much more mature now. He´s turning five next month, but I still remember this little boy when he was three and very naughty lol. Well, just a bit naughty. Not that naughty.

New Title, new address; IT´S JACKIE5IVE YAY!!!!!!

I´ve decided to turn my Bloghomage to Benicio Del Toro into Jackie5ive Productions Blog instead. That way I can write about anything I want. I´m not so limited. Which is a great thing and such a freedom for me. No tying down to anything or stick to this or that subject. What a relief. So welcome to a new era in my life.

IT'S BEEN A WHILE

Yes a very long time indeed I'll say. Do you ever get that feeling that you've misses out on something, but you don't really know what it is.
It feels like I've been asleep for a very long time, but it wasn't until recently I started to awake.
Like I started to become alive and everything feels different. You view things in another way and you realise that something amazing has started to happen to you.

Legs by William Kennedy

So I´ve just finished reading the book Legs by William Kennedy and I started working on this blog on the 7th of May this year and today is the 16th of October. I gave myself a year to complete my mission on, but due to lack of finding the right movies and the fact that the nine out of ten books that I got hold of are already finished, I´ve got to change my plans a bit. What I´m going to do is that I´m adding books that are some kind related to the other books or I´ve been inspired to read by doing this project. The next book that I´ve started to read is Jack Kerouac´s On the road. I picked that book because it seemed to be the obvious choice when it comes to start reading Jack Kerouac. Benicio Del Toro mentioned him in one interview he did at Charlie Rose while promoting the movies about Ernesto Che Guevara. Speaking of the man himself, after watching the movies I became interested to learn more about Che, so I´m going to include the following books written by him:

The Motorcycle Diaries
Guerrilla Warfare
Reminiscences of the Cuban Revolutionary War
The Bolivian Diary

I´m also going to add the following books to the project;

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
The Revolt of the Cockroach People by Oscar Zeta Acosta
The Rum Diary by Hunter S Thompson

I still don´t know which books to choose of the remaining three. I will probably come up with something later on.

When it comes to Legs I feel like I both liked it and disliked it. The way it was written both compelled me and distracted me. It was a funny mixture of something you love to hate and can´t get enough of. You just have to find something in it that makes sense to yourself, othervise, what´s the point? I felt like I was on a rollercoaster and didn´t know if I would return for one more ride or just simply stop. What has fascinated me throughout this whole journey with almost all the books I´ve read, I´ve never started a book feeling the same as when I finished it. That´s what I found so interesting about it, that I´ve discovered that nothing is what it seems from the beginning to end. Everything changes and it floats silently and still with slow motions.

When I started on this journey, the purpose was to find out for myself more about someone else. What I learned and discovered in the process was myself. I find myself being somewhere completely different from where I was in May. I´m more hungry to learn and know how things works. Our place in this world and what it is that makes people discover things about themselves and others. I feel like I´ve discovered something deep inside of me, something that I wasn´t even aware of. From doubt to discovery.

Some more thoughts about a brown buffalo

Some funny things came to my mind while reading The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo by Oscar Zeta Acosta. Benicio Del Toro who is the reason why I started this blog in the first place, plays him in the movie Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. In this book Oscar is refering to a lot of things that got me thinking of Benicio. Like that one time when he is starting to take drugs and he is not so familiar with the effects of the drugs. He starts seeing hair growing uncontrolable from his body and he has a Wolfman moment. I think that is very fitting and funny, since Benicio have played both Oscar and The Wolfman. In another chapter he mentions authors like Ernest Hemingway, Jean-Paul Sartre, Fyodor Dostoyevski and Kierkegaard. Existential philosophers at its best. He also mentions Ernesto Che Guevara. Another Benicio character. I just waited for him to start mentioning Benicio Del Toro although I knew that Benicio wasn´t even born yet.

LOOKING FOR A BOOK

In one chapter of the book Oscar talks about his college experience and a certain section from the book goes like this;

"We all gasped at his brilliant logic. We were astounded by his ability to force us to think, to reason and to question the findings of other men."

"He grounded me in the fundamentals of the short story by forcing me to read as much of the old fag Somerset Maugham as I could possibly tolerate."

The reason why I called this section of my blogentry LOOKING FOR A BOOK is because the one book that I´m looking for among my things right now is a book by Somerset Maugham. I´ve been inspired to search and locate all kinds of different new interesting books in the bookstores, and that author caught my eye and I just new that I wanted to explore his world. I didn´t and still don´t know what kind of books he´s been writing, but I like taking chances.

I like the ending that wraps it all up. His search for an identity and the acceptance of what he sees and his perception of himself. The whole understanding on who you are as a person, something that I still can have some issues with. But I like the braveness in this book. The candid answers and what he is willing to sacrifice and what he doesn´t give up on. Oscar´s storytelling for me is like an addiction. Who needs drugs when you can read this fantastic book. You save yourself some money and you keep your mind and head clear. The gallery of various characters that sweeps through this book are also very interesting. No matter if it´s In Cold Blood or City of Night or this book or any other books that I´ve read through this journey, the characters are always interesting and you get sucked in and want to know more about them. Like in movies or tv-series, you really want to be able to connect with the character on some level. If it isn´t believable you don´t care about them. They don´t have to be realistic, but you have to believe them.