The Don

We quite regularly catch up with one of my oldest and closest friends (who really feels more like my other brother), which generally revolves around food and movies. He is the kind of person who just knows really random things, and is always keeping us up to date with whatever movies or tv shows are good, plus he pretty much knows every good restaurant in town- especially if they serve duck. We like to stick to themes when we are together, so we'll watch all vampire movies, or all zombie movies or all end of the world movies, all in one go and if we're eating indian it has to be all indian. Its really fun. He is an absolutely amazing cook, and ive been asking for a while if he can give me some tips, so he came over a few months ago to help me make something Japanese because he is going to be going on exchange there next year. He made it seem so simple, but with my skills every time ive tried to reproduce it (which is actually quite a few) it really has not been the same.

Being vegetarians in our house he modified it to suit, but we made what he called a 'Tofu Don' which was sushi rice, topped with an egg omelet, seaweed (yummmm!!) and bok choy, with our own made teryaki sauce. It was amazing!! I had been asking him to come over and help me make sushi, but he said that because it was dinner time he thought this would be more suitable, and us having that brother-sister like relationship i shrugged him off, disbelieving that anything could be better than sushi.... i was wrong! We then made this soup thing; i cant remember what its called, and it was one of the most delicious meals we've had in a long time. I was so proud, and we had so much fun in our tiny little kitchen. He definitely keeps me in line because i take short cuts, and also im italian so pretty much every meal begins with a bita of olive-a oil, and he had to try to reprogramme that out of me because "this is not how you cook asian food." Next time hopefully will be indian!