Halina Reijn is a versatile Dutch actress and writer and a native of
Amsterdam. While still a student,
she was asked to join the ensemble at the Theatercompagnie where she
had leading roles in plays such as Hamlet (as Ophelia), Lulu
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and Shopping & Fucking for which she received the prestigious Dutch
theatre prize, the Colombina, as “Best Supporting Actress” in 1998. In the
2006/2007 season, she is performed in four plays: The Taming
of the Shrew; Hedda Gabler. Oresteia, and Mourning Becomes Electra,
for which she was nominated for a Theo d’Or as “Best Female Actress.”
She moved into television in the early 1990s, and entered film around the
end of that decade; early features that starred Reijn were predominantly
Dutch outings with exposure confined to western Europe. However, she scored
a major international success as the second female lead in Paul Verhoeven's
World War II thriller
The Black Room
(2007) - (the Dutch entry for the Academy Awards as Best Foreign Language
Film). In 2008, she joined Tom Cruise, Kenneth Branagh and others as Margarethe
van Oven in the Hitler assassination drama Valkyrie.
Although Valkyrie proved to be box-office disappointment,
critics raved about
Halina's
performance.
What could be more appropriate way to celebrate
the classy Halina's birthday than with the classic Dutch Baby for breakfast
and later in the day watching
The Black Room?
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6
eggs, room temperature
1 cup milk, room temperature
1 cup sifted flour
1/4 tsp vanilla extract
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1/4
tsp ground cinnamon
5 TB butter
2 large. Granny Smith apples,
pealed and thinly sliced
grated zest from 1 lemon
confectioners sugar |
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- Preheat oven to 450°
F.
- Melt butter in skillet, tilting the pan to
melt the butter and coat the skillet. . Add apples. Cook, stirring until
apples are translucent, about 5 minutes.
- In mixing bowl whisk eggs. Add flour to eggs
a little at a time, whisking after each addition just until batter is
smooth. Add milk in two additions, beating lightly after each addition.
- Add milk, flour ,sugar, cinnamon. and
vanilla; beat for 5 minutes more. The batter will be thin, but very smooth
and creamy.
- Pour batter evenly over apples in the
skillet Bake in the preheated oven, uncovered
- Bake approximately 15 minutes or until
puffed and golden brown and the pancake puffs up around the edges - it
may puff irregularly in the center).
- Remove from oven . Dust the top with
powdered sugar and serve immediately. Once out of the oven, the
pancake will begin to deflate.
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