Insomnia & Movie Night #3
So its a little past 4am on Saturday morning and I’m totally battling some insomnia. I really hate bogus-ness. I’m the girl who slept for almost 36 hours with only minor interruptions when I was 19! I had sleeping skills of epic proportions. Now it seems like I’m always either exhausted or wide awake. Meh. I’m getting old or something. Am I loosing my sleeping edge? Devon started snoring as soon as his head hit the pillow but I don’t feel tired yet. I guess I’ll fill the time by blogging.
On a positive note, Devon and I just threw an awesome Dinner & a Movie Night #3. We watched a French movie called Wasabi, with Jean Reno. We were lazy and watched the dubbed version instead of subtitles. It’s a really cool movie.
An over-zealous French cop returns to Japan after finding out that his long lost love died and named him in her will. Turns out that he’s the dad of her 17 year old kid, and he’s named guardian of her until she turns 18 in 2 days. Craziness ensues when he finds out that his ex-girlfriend was deep undercover in the Yakuza (Japanese mafia).
For dinner, I ended up ordering a big sushi tray from Central Market when I realised that we were missing our sushi-making implements. (Central makes a mean sushi tray, BTW) I made a tofu, noodle & veggie stir-fry and Devon grilled up some Chicken Teriyaki – using my dad’s recipe. We, of course, had sake. Both filtered and unfiltered. For snacks I served edamame, and random weird Japanese snacks (seaweed wrapped rice crackers, roasted green peas and sesame cookies) that i found in the Asian food section.
For dessert I payed homage to Jean Reno’s frenchness by making profiteroles. The pastry wasn’t from scratch, but I hollowed whipped cream out of pre-made frozen ones and refilled them with lavender ice cream and then drizzled some hot fudge sauce on top. We also had Mochi Ice Cream.
But yeah. Movie night #3 was a success. Now we need to start brainstorming ideas for #4. A super cheesy movie & Fondue? An old western & chili and cornbread? Bollywood & Indian? We’ll see.