Saturday Night Fever...

(My sister is threatening to kick me off of this blog since she has been the only one to post lately. But since I haven't had the time to cook much of anything lately, I will have to take it on the road and share my food experience instead)

I had a rare opportunity to go on a date with my wife on Saturday night. It's not so much that we can't find a babysitter. My parents are usually happy to take the girls and stuff them with food the whole time they are there. We just use up those chances to do other stuff, usually with other people or something not so romantic like shopping. We were going to go to a comedy show but there wasn't anyone in town that we were really excited about so we just went out to dinner in the City instead. We have a friend that we met in San Jose who moved to Morocco to teach. Since then Britt has wanted to go try Moroccan food and this was a great opportunity to find a place. We settled on a place on Geary Blvd. called Aziza. It turned out to be a little fancier than we had intended I think, but the atmosphere was cool. We ended up eating pretty light and shared an appetizer of toasted goat cheese with a tomato compote, followed by sharing a baked meat pie called a bastila. It was delicious. It's basically chicken with a lot of fragant Middle Eastern spices inside a flaky pastry with sugar and cinnamon on top. I would love to try some of their other stuff in a future...maybe someone's birthday or something....

Since we kept it light we went out looking for dessert. I had always wanted to try this crepes place in Japantown. You can get both savory and dessert fillings in your crepes and they are quite popular. After finally deciding on a banana and nutella filling (Nutella is a popular choice and I don't think I've ever had the stuff. If it was good enough for Kobe Bryant...) We endured the wait. The line wasn't long at all but there is basically one lady making two crepes at a time so a crowd forms around the counter with their numbers. Luckily watching her make the thing is fascinating so it made the wait much easier. Britt got a kiwi and whipped cream with a scoop of ice cream (pictured). We both enjoyed it very much. It was a lovely evening spent both with my wife and with new food experiences...

(btw, since we started a French theme, we went home to watch Casablanca just to keep the mood. Then we french kissed, and then......)