So yes, I converted the phrase "throw back thursday" to Yoda speak. I may have found a Yoda-talk-converter online. Right now I am hungry and bored at work, forgot to eat lunch.
A little background: my boyfriend, Spike, is a huge Star Wars fan, before dating him I had never seen any of the movies. Not gonna lie... I never intended to either (sorry). Anyway, I had been giving Spike a lot of shit for making me watch the movies. I procrastinated as much as possible (which ultimately resulted in a 5 month stint of "no, I'm too tired for the force right now," and "okay finnnneeeeeee.") Okay, I started feeling guilty. I was kind of being a bitch about something Spike cared about. So I did what I do best, turned it into a theme.
In case you haven't realized by now, I fucking love themes. Anything I can turn into an elaborate project, I... do. I don't mean to, but I just have so many ideas and once I get started I don't know how to dial it back.
I googled the shit out of "Star Wars theme dinners" and while some stuff was inspirational, others were lame as shit. So for all you people out there (if there are even people out there reading this) who want to throw their significant other an awesome Star Wars themed dinner, or maybe just, you know, spice up a Tuesday evening, here's what I did:
The appetizer: Yoda Salad
I took a head of lettuce and balanced it on an open Tupperware. Got water chestnuts (pre-cut in a can), black olives and cucumbers. Then I took toothpicks and just put the eyes together (water chestnuts with black olives on top), nose (end of the cucumber), mouth (cut out slice of cucumber) and for the ears I just cut the insides of the cucumbers out in a triangular way to look like Yoda's ears. It looked pretty stupid just sitting there on an open Tupperware container, so I grabbed a tanish-brown dish towel I had and wrapped it around it to look like Yoda's cloak. AND IT WAS PERFECT! (I made a separate salad on the side we could actually eat because it seemed cruel to cut into Yoda).
The dinner: Tauntaun biscuit with spaghetti & sausage guts a la vodka
I saw this one online. I bought some Pillsbury biscuits and shaped them to look like the dead tauntaun from Star Wars episode V (not sure if I'm actually correct on the movie there). But remember that scene where Han cuts open the tauntaun to keep Luke warm? Its like that, yo. Put the biscuit in the oven to cook. Made some spaghetti a la vodka with some sausage to look like guts and set it up to look like it was spilling out. I was surprised it came out so good. I'm not really a baker.
The side dish: Light Saber Asparagus
I deff wanted to do light sabers for the dinner and was having a hard time coming up with a way. In the end I sautéed some asparagus and added some pit-less black olives to the ends. Another alternative I was thinking of (that would've been more appetizing) was mushroom stems, but I couldn't find the right shrooms so last minute. (We took off the olives before eating the asparagus... because like... ew.)
The dessert: Princess Leia Cupcakes
I also got this one off the internet. Made some cupcakes (vanilla) covered the top with white frosting (that bitch pasty) then used sprinkles to make eyes and mouth). The cool part was then you take frosting, put a slab of it on one side of an oreo and stick 2 on either side of the cupcake to look like her hair.
Of course then I went onto getting a couple cute party stuff from The City, For Partying is (am I playing it out? too much Yoda speak??). And of course, threw my hair in some buns, dressed up in a white outfit and instant Princess Leia.
Ultimately, Spike was really happy. And I think that was when he realized I was a complete dork... who I kidding? He's probably known that since day 1.
There you go. Star Wars Dinner.
A little background: my boyfriend, Spike, is a huge Star Wars fan, before dating him I had never seen any of the movies. Not gonna lie... I never intended to either (sorry). Anyway, I had been giving Spike a lot of shit for making me watch the movies. I procrastinated as much as possible (which ultimately resulted in a 5 month stint of "no, I'm too tired for the force right now," and "okay finnnneeeeeee.") Okay, I started feeling guilty. I was kind of being a bitch about something Spike cared about. So I did what I do best, turned it into a theme.
In case you haven't realized by now, I fucking love themes. Anything I can turn into an elaborate project, I... do. I don't mean to, but I just have so many ideas and once I get started I don't know how to dial it back.
I googled the shit out of "Star Wars theme dinners" and while some stuff was inspirational, others were lame as shit. So for all you people out there (if there are even people out there reading this) who want to throw their significant other an awesome Star Wars themed dinner, or maybe just, you know, spice up a Tuesday evening, here's what I did:
The appetizer: Yoda Salad
I took a head of lettuce and balanced it on an open Tupperware. Got water chestnuts (pre-cut in a can), black olives and cucumbers. Then I took toothpicks and just put the eyes together (water chestnuts with black olives on top), nose (end of the cucumber), mouth (cut out slice of cucumber) and for the ears I just cut the insides of the cucumbers out in a triangular way to look like Yoda's ears. It looked pretty stupid just sitting there on an open Tupperware container, so I grabbed a tanish-brown dish towel I had and wrapped it around it to look like Yoda's cloak. AND IT WAS PERFECT! (I made a separate salad on the side we could actually eat because it seemed cruel to cut into Yoda).
The dinner: Tauntaun biscuit with spaghetti & sausage guts a la vodka
I saw this one online. I bought some Pillsbury biscuits and shaped them to look like the dead tauntaun from Star Wars episode V (not sure if I'm actually correct on the movie there). But remember that scene where Han cuts open the tauntaun to keep Luke warm? Its like that, yo. Put the biscuit in the oven to cook. Made some spaghetti a la vodka with some sausage to look like guts and set it up to look like it was spilling out. I was surprised it came out so good. I'm not really a baker.
The side dish: Light Saber Asparagus
I deff wanted to do light sabers for the dinner and was having a hard time coming up with a way. In the end I sautéed some asparagus and added some pit-less black olives to the ends. Another alternative I was thinking of (that would've been more appetizing) was mushroom stems, but I couldn't find the right shrooms so last minute. (We took off the olives before eating the asparagus... because like... ew.)
The dessert: Princess Leia Cupcakes
I also got this one off the internet. Made some cupcakes (vanilla) covered the top with white frosting (that bitch pasty) then used sprinkles to make eyes and mouth). The cool part was then you take frosting, put a slab of it on one side of an oreo and stick 2 on either side of the cupcake to look like her hair.
Of course then I went onto getting a couple cute party stuff from The City, For Partying is (am I playing it out? too much Yoda speak??). And of course, threw my hair in some buns, dressed up in a white outfit and instant Princess Leia.
Ultimately, Spike was really happy. And I think that was when he realized I was a complete dork... who I kidding? He's probably known that since day 1.
There you go. Star Wars Dinner.
I love it.
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