Pairing an iconic summer dessert with an iconic summer movie at the official start of summer felt like a no brainer to me, so we’ve got “Call Me by Your Name” and chocolate mousse with peaches today.

The recipe is vegan and gluten-free, making 4 “servings.”

Ingredients
1 block silken firm tofu
0.25 cups cocoa powder
0.25 cups sugar
4 peaches, sliced

Instructions
Pulse the tofu, cocoa powder and sugar in your blender or food processor. Plain tofu here is delicious, but we added some depth with yuzu-flavored tofu in our mousse.

Once the cocoa, sugar and tofu are evenly mixed into a mousse, serve it with your sliced peaches.

You can also simply slice your peaches in half then grill them and put a dollop of the mousse on top.

Serve and enjoy with “Call Me by Your Name!”

The Easy Route
You could try to find a premade vegan chocolate mousse or pre-sliced peaches to make this recipe easier.

The Pairing
It was hard to get through 2017 and the subsequent 2018 awards season without hearing about “Call Me by Your Name” and the breakthrough performance by Timothée Chalamet.

He plays Elio, a 17-year-old French American spending the last summer of his childhood at his family home during the 1980s in Northern Italy with his parents (Michael Stuhlberg and Amira Casar) and one of his dad’s American graduate students, Oliver (Armie Hammer).

If you weren’t tuning in to the hoopla surrounding “Call Me by Your Name” when it was released, the film is a slow-burn love story between Elio and Oliver.

Chalamet is at the height of his acting powers when Elio is at his most vulnerable, and this movie is a great example of how gifted an actor he is, with his distinct ability to tenderly but passionately play young men who are forging their place in the world and figuring out how they do or don’t want to fit in with society’s expectations.

As much as this movie is a romance story, it is also very much Elio’s coming-of-age story, and I think I enjoy the scenes where he’s on his own the most. No spoilers, but the final scene is coming to mind here most of all.

The Sufjan Stevens score and soundtrack to the movie make the coming-of-age aspects more meaningful to me, as I listened to a lot of Stevens’ earlier work when I was in the age range of Elio and Oliver.

“Call Me by Your Name” also solidified Luca Guadagnino’s place as one of the best filmmakers working today. I already thought he had turned out a masterpiece with “I Am Love,” but this movie really imprinted on me the first time I watched it.

My first viewing was a 48-hour digital rental, and my second viewing was in those same 48 hours. In fact, I even considered watching it a third time in that period. Instead, my third viewing came five years later in preparation for this blog post, shortly after we returned from our honeymoon in Italy, and watching “Call Me by Your Name” just made me want to go back and explore Northern Italy.

On top of everything else I’ve already mentioned, the cinematography and set design are fantastic, and whoever did the location scouting for the movie picked some amazing spots.

Honestly, every aspect of this movie is pretty dang perfect, in my opinion.

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