Anniversary

The weekend was our anniversary. 6 years. We had been in the talks to do something for months but with all that was going on in the world what could we really do. When we travel we like to go places. We are foodies and we like to sit at the bar while we eat to engage in small talk with strangers. Sometimes that small talk gets pretty interesting. We make friends. That’s just not happening. I know things are open, but we are still living like it’s March.

So what did we do? We just did absolutely nothing. I decorated the house with candles and roses and kisses while Bekah was out Saturday and we just had a lazy romantic weekend at the house. We watched chick Flix’s and horror. We cooked. We had drinks. We had conversation. It was a rather nice weekend. It will be nice to go somewhere again, but if it’s just us and our house again, I’m okay with that to.

I don’t have anything to say about the week. I was trapped in the office most the time. Each day felt the same. LONG.

Horror Film

Prince of Darkness. Another Carpenter film. This is the one that started it all. Introduced me to true fear. Warped my sweet little brain. Gave me a phobia of black beetles (I guess that’s a form of Entomophobia?). Gave me my favorite genre of movies. I had to have been 6 or 7 at the time. My parents went out to eat with my aunt & uncle so the older cousins were in charge of baby sitting my brother and I. (At that time their was just 2 of use, youngest hadn’t come along just yet). Once my brother was asleep my cousins thought it a good idea to put on a horror film and let me watch it with them. I thought this was so cool. This was forbidden. Something mom & dad wouldn’t allow. I had no idea what I was getting myself into. Brief spoiler free synopsis. The church has been hiding the origin of evil. A team of scientists from a university are brought in to study an old relic that’s been kept underneath and old abandoned church. A priest who knows more than he is telling accompanies them. Weird scary s*** ensues. No spoiler to say that the origin of evil is contained in that relic. This was my first movie experience with the devil. It scared the s*** out of me. One scene, in which a man literally falls apart and becomes a mass of crawling black beetles has scared me for life. I’m not afraid of much. Can handle roaches. Put a harmless black beetle on me and I might scream like a child. The film is also very smart. As a kid, I didn’t understand all the physics mumbo jumbo. I understand a lot of it as an adult and appreciate the film even more for it. I highly recommend this one for your Halloween viewing.

For our anniversary weekend we start of Saturday night with carry out from The Wharf. We had bottle caps and cream of jalapeño soup to start off with. Main course we split beer batter shrimp and Hawaiian chicken. Win.

Bekah made some Huevos Rancheros from scratch. This was a first for her and it was excellent. A great anniversary brunch. I was totally impressed.

Spinach manicotti for our anniversary dinner. One of Bekah’s al time favs.

Bunless mushroom Swiss burger. This was the best I’ve done. All I can figure I did differently was add red onion into the meat. The mushrooms I usually blanket with Swiss but I used as a garnish. I might have cooked the mushrooms differently. Who the f*** knows. Bekah said “remember this one”. I will try.

Made one of my 3 orange chicken recipes. This one is the simplest because I don’t have to make the sauce. I just use whichever store bought I feel like. On this night it was Panda Express. It was a good batch.

Okinawa taco rice. Bekah cooked.

Italian seasoned pork tenderloin w/ spicy Brussels sprouts & a raspberry chipotle sauce.

Originally it was going to be Bibigo steak but it got COLD. I couldn’t pass up some soup. I got home and went through the pantry looking for what ingredients I could throw together. I had green enchilada sauce so why not make up some sort of green enchilada chicken soup. Onions, peppers, corn, pinto beans. It can’t be bad. It wasn’t bad. It was great.

Cocktail of the Week: Hot Chocolate w/ Stout Jameson. Great cold weather drink. BTW, I clearly don’t endorse the message on the mug.