Happy Sunday ya’ll.
Friday: My boyfriend and I got takeout Chinese and watched the first & only three episodes of the new AMC show “The Killing.” It’s absolutely genius. A totally creepy, fascinating, addicting, brilliantly-directed murder-mystery show set in the Pacific Northwest, which is…….my FAVORITE place for films/tv shows to be set. That sounds really random but it’s true. Because of the rain and the mountains and water, the green/grey/blue/brown colors, the fog, and the fact that it’s almost always dreary, the cinematography is stunning and makes me want to live in a cozy cabin, on a hill in the rainy woods with a sick view of the water. Movies like Twilight are a good example. Basically anything set in Seattle or Oregon or Vancouver, etc. There’s just something about the rain, fog, beautiful vistas and tall, lush trees that makes me want to live out there, even though I’m a sun worshipper who gets depressed when it’s below 70 degrees. NEEDLESS to say, you should watch The Killing. It’s SO. GOOD. Also on Friday {and speaking of rain}, before getting the takeout, I grocery shopped for an all-day brunch/moviefest on Saturday. I looked at the weather forecast early in the week and saw that it was supposed to be pouring rain/thunderstorming ALL DAY Saturday, from morning to night, SO, I made the plan that second to grocery shop on Friday so that we wouldn’t have to leave the house for a SINGLE thing or reason on Saturday, and could eat yummy brunch food and watch movies all day long without ever having to step outside into the rain. I got my boyfriend & his friends in on the plan, and it was something to look forward to all week. I highly recommend doing a similar thing the next time you check the weather and see a 24-hour rain forecast. I planned a menu of French toast with strawberries, bacon, poached eggs + asparagus + grated parmesan, and hashbrowns. All of the ingredients TOTAL cost $35.00 and it fed six people, with tons leftover, which made it a six-dollar meal…like..what? It also tasted as good as restaurant food, was just abSURDLY easy to make, and made me realize again how much more cost-effective/better it is to make your own food. Which brings me to….
Saturday: Woke up around 9:30 and my boyfriend & I began the cooking. The French toast was SO. SO. SO. easy to make. It was my first time ever making french toast and it takes literally about 5 minutes of prep time and 3-5 minutes to grill. 
I used:
Texas Toast
Half & Half
Cinnamon
Nutmeg
Vanilla Extract
Eggs (obvi)
Maple Syrup
You mix 2 eggs (or more depending on how much you’re serving), 1/2 cup of half & half (I used half and half instead of milk- so much creamier ), 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon, 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract, and a pinch of nutmeg. Coat each slice of Texas Toast in the egg mixture, and throw it on the stovetop on mediumish heat, over melted butter. Then pile chopped strawberries and maple syrup on top! It was orgasmic. Weirdly enough {because I know nothing about anything food-related}, the Texas toast was my touch…every single recipe I found on the internet ( including the tens of different French Toast recipes on the Food Network, Paula Dean, Martha Stewart, etc.) ALL said to use day-old regular white or wheat bread, or challah bread, or a bunch of other kinds of bread that weren’t TT, which really surprised me. I thought using Texas Toast was what people did. It was the PERFECT thickness and texture and it cooks perfectly because it doesn’t get too soggy and there’s always a slight crispness in the middle. I have no words to describe how yummy it was.
The rest of the food was a joke too. Bacon is bacon. Poached eggs are poached eggs. And steamed asparagus is….you guessed it. There are no ingredients other than salt and like one step to each food. The potatoes weren’t exactly hasbrowns but BETTER. You cut fingerling potaotes into fours and throw them into a big mixing bowl, sprinkle with salt, olive oil and rosemary and place in the oven.
Then we spent the next few hours watching movies back-to-back. We started with Human Centipede, because apparently we are totally out of our minds. It’s the infamous horror flick about a psycho German doctor who kidnaps and sews three people together to make a giant crawling human. Hahaha it was………one of the most fucked up things I’ve ever seen but SO entertaining to watch with a group of friends, full on brunch food, drinking Mimosas on a thunderstorming Saturday. We all cuddled under our big blankets, lit a bunch of candles, and snuggled. After HC, we watched Man on Wire, the JAWDROPPING documentary about the tightrope walker who walked across the twin towers on a wire…with nothing beneath him but…the ground. I am still in shock from it. And next we watched The Game, with Michael Douglas.
Today I had work all day, at CB2, then I napped, made a grilled cheese on leftover Texas Toast (oh mah godddddd), and an all-new LIVE Killing is on tonight. WAHOOOOO.
Hope yalls had a great weekend wherever you were.
-Hyperbs
