Southern Comfort

After several evenings in a row of us being out or having people over, Topher suggested that we have a date night at home on Tuesday. Isn't he great? Knowing that his Georgia girl likes Southern cooking, he made a feast of comfort foods.

What We Ate:

• baked ham in a mustard-bourbon-brown sugar-ginger glaze - incredibly delicious! He used an Alton Brown recipe (this was a dress rehearsal for Christmas dinner, when both sets of parents will be in town and eating at our house!)
• collard greens
• baked macaroni & cheese
• homemade biscuits - we used the leftovers to make ham biscuits for breakfast the next morning
• Atlas Peak Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon - a true Cab! very oaky & dry, but with a good finish

After dinner, we watched "The Interpreter" (2005) starring Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, and Katherine Keener. Kidman plays a UN interpreter who accidentally overhears a conversation about a plot to assassinate a corrupt African leader while he's delivering a speech to the UN General Assembly later that week. Penn plays the US Secret Service agent assigned to first investigate, and then protect her.

Both Topher & I had seen it before, but I like it and wanted to see it again. Sure, there are a few holes in the plot, and some parts are a little predictable; but overall I think it's an entertaining, not-too-violent political thriller - an African conflict film set on the floor of the UN.