'Milk’ is a bland mixture of style and subject

'Milk’ is a bland mixture of style and subject

EARNEST AND INTELLIGENT: Josh Brolin portrays San Francisco City Supervisor Dan White, left, and Sean Penn portrays gay rights activist Harvey Milk in a scene from “Milk.” FOCUS FEATURES

Wonton skins

These wonton skins are filled with a spicy ground pork mixture, then briefly steamed to create delicious Asian-style dumplings.

The Valley’s Jewish community marks the Passover miracle

IMPORTANT INGREDIENT: Russell Goldwin, 8, of Chandler pours water into the dough mixture to make matzoh Sunday at Barness Jewish Community Center in Chandler.

For rotisserie owners, there’s no excuse for not cooking the turkey outdoors

This 8-pound turkey was roasted on a rotisserie after being rubbed with a mixture of spices.

Arizona Weather

Pedestrians walk through a mixture of snow and rain, Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2013 in Tempe, Ariz. Snow, hail and rain left a blanket of white in parts of the Phoenix metro area Wednesday afternoon. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Healthy Halloween food

You combine fresh orange juice with unflavored gelatin, then chill the mixture in the empty orange shells. Once the shells are cut up, the individual wedges are ringers for actual orange slices. except that they jiggle in a slightly spooky, Halloween-ish way.

Divine Design: 3 kids prompt a renovation to open up space

By using an eclectic mixture of dark and light cabinetry, quartz and granite counters and traditional and modern accents, this once-cramped kitchen got a space-expanding spruce-up and is now kid-proof and parent-approved.

‘Entrees’ serves up delivery to teachers, elderly

Senior chef and store manager Brad Metzger teaches a Kids Cooking Camp class by instructing the students on the proper mixture for a batch of cookies. (Adam Gaub/Maricopa Tribune)

Get a bead on an ancient human ornament

ONE PIECE AT A TIME: This beaded jaguar head was created by a traditional Huichol artist from Mexico. The beads are affixed to the surface using a mixture of beeswax and pine pitch. The jaguar head is on display at the Bead Museum in Glendale.

Ceviche makes the perfect cool summer dish

Rainbow Ceviche, as prepared by chef Robert Madrid of Deseo in Phoenix. Ceviche is any mixture of fish or shellfish that is “cooked” by the acid of a citrus marinade. Because no heat is involved, it makes a great summer supper.

Lightning blamed in fires at six E.V. homes

A Mesa firefighter from Engine 201 watches Thursday as a water and foam mixture is put onto a Mesa home on 11th Street and Westwood. The house fire was believed to have been started by lightning.

Food-Cooking With Science

In this image taken on Friday, Sept. 14, 2012, Chef Francisco Migoya, left, demonstrates how to make strawberry sorbet by applying liquid nitrogen to a puree mixture at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y. This esteemed cooking school north of New York City is dramatically pumping up science instruction, saying that tomorrow's chefs will need more technical know-how in the age of molecular gastronomy and sous-vide. (AP Photo/Mike Groll)