Did you all enjoy spending all yesterday watching HP 7.1? Me too! After i got home from the gym, I put it in just to watch while I snacked and until I cooled down enough to shower (at least, that's what I told myself I was doing). At some point, I had to force myself to hit "pause" so I could get ready for the day. As it turned out, "the day" acutally involved a lot more Harry Potter watching, and shopping for just the right meal to prepare for watching it again with Derek.
I watched it twice yesterday. Don't judge me. I'll do it again later tonight, too, given the opportunity.
So we ended up eating what I named Cornish Tacos with a side of Spice Roasted Butternut Squash and Onions. The squash recipe is a Weightwatchers one that my boss gave me to try. The Cornish Tacos were really just the filling from the Cornish Pasties recipe from the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook cooked sans-pasty and put into whole wheat flour tortillas.
(*disclaimer: I've never acutally tried Baconnaise and I didn't do any research to make sure it's actually American, but I saw it at the store today and bacon flavored cholesterol-spread stuck me as being extra especially American. amiwrong?)
Basically, Cornish Pasty filling finely diced beef, carrot, potato, onion, and I added celery. Then it's baked for a while. I chose the roasted squash because the spice it uses is Garam Masala, and I like English food with Indian. It seemed right. I'm pretty sure they do stuff like that there. If any of you fives of readers are British, perhaps you can shed light on whether that sounds like something you'd do?
So anyways, we really enjoyed our Cornish Tacos, and Derek hardly fell asleep at all watching HP 7.1.
So, when you guys watch it again, use Maximum Movie Mode. It's on the Blu Ray copy for sure, I sort of doubt it's on the DVD. Anyways, it's totally great. At certain points, cast and crew members will sort of stop the movie to tell you interesting things. There's also the option to jump to extra little videos about things like Privet Drive and House Elves and stuff. (Anyone that's seen any of that stuff, did the kid that plays Dudley have a prosthesis on his face? I think he grew up too thin and they put him in like a fat-face. Maybe his makeup just looked weird. Something struck me as "off." And if not, I hearby officially apologize to him for saying his face looked weird.)
Today, we forwent (there I go, using my new favorite word again) the breakfast tacos, opting instead to eat them for lunch. There's a great little place in St. Paul called Caribe Bistro. Totally delish. We ordered 2 dishes and shared them both. The Caribe Eggs Benedict was probably the best eggs benedict I've ever had. It was different and interesting, and everything about it was wonderful. The taco portion of our meal was the Cuban Pork Hash. It came with corn tortillas (and we got a couple more tortillas, too). It made a very good taco. It was tasty and juicy. It had eggs on top.
Doesn't that look good??!
I took a picture of something else while we were there. Derek ordered a banana soda. If you like banana flavored candy, YOU WANT THIS. I had a few sips and was so jealous that I was drinking iced tea.
Ok, so PSA, if you ever see this bottle anywhere, BUY IT:
This afternoon at the grocery store, I finally found some Masa, which is the corn stuff used to make tortillas. I brought it home and Derek spent some time practicing with his new tortilla press. I think he got mad at the whole process, but I have faith that he's gonna get good at it and add a whole new dimension to taco eating. I'm looking very forward to trying some.
Finally, I'll leave you with one more for the OMG I <3 HP photo series.
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