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Rewatching Civil War, and I noticed you get a pretty good look at he recipe Vision has printed out for the paprikash he makes Wanda (Vision definitely touched that recipe with his grubby fingers).

Turns out you can find the exact recipe online! It’s from Saveur and you can follow the recipe here, in case you, too, have a sad witch whose spirits need lifting.

Chicken Paprikash (Paprikás Csirke)

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Serves 4-6

  • 1⁄4 cup lard or canola oil
  • 1 (3-4 lb.) chicken, cut into 8 pieces
  • 1 large yellow onion, minced
  • 3 tbsp. Hungarian sweet paprika, plus more for garnish
  • 2 cups chicken stock
  • 2 plum tomatoes, cored, seeded, and cut into 1" pieces
  • 1 Italian frying pepper, stemmed, seeded, and cut into 1" pieces
  • 1⁄2 cup sour cream, for serving
  • Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Melt lard or heat oil in a 6-qt. saucepan over medium-high heat. Season chicken with salt and pepper. Working in batches, cook, flipping once, until browned, 8–10 minutes. Transfer chicken to a plate; set aside. Add onion to pan; cook, stirring occasionally, until soft, about 8 minutes. Add paprika; cook, stirring, for 2 minutes. Return chicken and its juices to the pan. Add stock, tomatoes, and Italian frying pepper; bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium-low and simmer, partially covered, until chicken is fully cooked, about 30 minutes. Transfer chicken and sauce to a serving platter; spoon sour cream over top and garnish with more paprika.

“Each character’s strengths, skills, and personality dictated the chain of events,“ Bennett says. "Hawkeye is pretty much special ops, so he movies and operates as such–relying not only on his skills, but on his weapons, as well. The goal was to make him almost invisible in the first half of the scene–cunning, to the point he could fool Vision and his arsenal of technology. The idea was to keep the suspense or mystery about who, or what, was intruding into the compound. […] Wanda was supposed to come off as insecure and conflicted in the beginning. Then in the end, she shows you really don’t want to mess with her,” Bennet says. “Vision was great, because of the character’s creepy aspect. He’s an android, yet he can chance the molecular structure of his body. I like the element of contained or controlled power in Vision’s archetype. It was a challenge, though, to depict Vision in a menacing way, yet not so violent that it seemed he might kill Hawkeye with his next move. And then again the scene–and the violence–had to escalate in order for Wanda to react.” – Richard Bennett Lamas

This is an early version of Vision vs Hawkeye during the compound escape for Civil War. Notably, Vision is much more violent in this, less passive. It also shows us there were plans to have Vision able to interface with the compound’s security cameras–possibly explaining how he knew Clint had arrived in the finished film.

I’ll post other excerpts from the art book later, but I thought this was the most notable change.