Another nasty day here in NYC. Matthew started the day cracking jokes about being back in Vancouver. I don’t really know what he was talking about though, cause every time I’m there its all sunny and beautiful.
So we aren’t leaving the house today. We’re cleaning out the office. The place becomes a dumping ground when we’re busy, and weeks of being away have made it unbearable.
I decided that we needed to make something simple and delicious for dinner since we’ll be in no mood to cook.
Enter: The Salad
First seen at Pizza night at Theresa’s. We devoured it.
The Salad is awesome. Its hearty enough to be a dinner salad while still being relatively lowfat and vegetarian. You can follow Martha’s recipe or just do the following
Cut up 2-3 beets (peel first, and make pieces thin/small)
2 carrots
1-2 red onions
toss with olive oil, salt and pepper.
Roast until soft
Cut up 1-2 heads of butter lettuce
Place roasted veggies on top
sprinkle with goat cheese
dress with balsamic and oil and salt and pepper to taste
We are planning on serving it as the first course for Thanksgiving. We have a few extra seats so let me know!
Tags: recipe
November 8th, 2008
This photostream of the Obamas on Election Night made me tear up with its awesomeness (Just like every single other thing I read about election, I’m a bit of a mess). Imagine even 4 years ago being able to look this closely into the life of the candidates.
(from Gael)
Here is another example. Get out your tissues.
(from Melissa via Twitter)
I don’t know, maybe its just me. I have been fighting off a raging sinus infection for weeks and the antibiotics are finally slooooowly working even though I still have a killer headache. All. The. Time. Its put a bit of a damper on things. Plus the weather has been nothing but crap all week. Its grey, grey, grey, sometimes wet and a little too humid for November. That always puts me in a shit mood.
Luckily there are things like this around to make me laugh. Thanks internets!
November 7th, 2008
Friday night we went down to DC for the Coldplay concert with Gary and Michelle. Surprisingly very few of the concertgoers were dressed up for halloween but the few that were, wow. They kind of stuck out, I’ll just say that.
The mood in DC was very festive all around, lots of sexy cops, sexy nurses and people dressed as bananas. It was quite a mix. The concert was really fun, and I even had the opportunity to enjoy a crystal light slurpee on the way home. Who knew they existed? Refreshing and delicious, and sugarfree.
Since Gary and MIchelle live in a Virginia suburb we were all set to visit the boy museum near their house on Saturday. When we woke up and headed out for breakfast it was about 65 degrees so we changed our plans and decided to go to Great Falls Park instead. The park was Great! there were Falls! It was GREAT! FALLS!
It was super cool, and the weather was unbelievable although none of us were dressed for hiking we still had fun.
My favorite part was the sign in the ladies room that said “Do not fall over the edge, You will DIE!” There was a whole bunch of people so I didn’t take a pic, but now I really wish I did.
We hiked around all up and down and all over the place, Michelle in her leisure suit and everything. Poor thing thought we were going to Eggspectation!
Whie Gary was busy pondering life on a tiny rock
And Matthew was busy climbing up to the top of mountains
Michelle and I sat here for a while, just enjoying the day without trying to get ourselves killed
*and also really irritating the shit out of that chick who was trying to meditate on the rock next to us.
What did I tell ya, good times had by all!
Tags: fun, travel
November 5th, 2008
And we did.
Today I voted for the next president of our country.
I am excited for change.
This is only the beginning.
November 4th, 2008
Today is my Nephew Lunden’s 4th Birthday.
He enjoys leisure time at the lake
A gourmet dining experience
Helping the less fortunate
An afternoon of riding
And shaking his tail feather
Happy Birthday Lundy! We love you and miss you! HUGS!!
Tags: nuggets
November 4th, 2008
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October 31st, 2008
I am aware that my posting has been a bit lax since I went back to work at the office. I seriously don’t understand how people do it 5 days a week and then have a life on top of that. It is exhausting! All the talking to people all day, and the matching outfits to shoes, and the subway. It’s enough to make a girl want to get in bed at 8 every night.
So that’s what I’ve been doing. Pretty much eating dinner and getting right into bed. Matthew was here all week but worked until midnight so I didn’t really see him, and then he left for Maryland. I’m free to do whatever I want all the time and that happens to be catching up on Pushing Daisies and Top Model.
Wha? Is anyone surprised?
Last weekend we did actually leave the house and drove to Montreal for my niece Liliane’s first birthday.
As expected there was quite a bit of this:
There was a also a bunch of this:
of COURSE some of this:
All leading up to this:
ahhhh,
“The Return of the Homemade Skillet Pizza - Francophone Version. Pizza Takes Montreal”
If only they made a really huge circular cast iron pizza skillet thingy we would really be in business. The teeny skillet is a little scary, well…for some people.
It took about 9 hours to make a bunch of mini pizzas that we all split when it came out of the oven, so you’d get 2 bites every 15 minutes. Thankfully we had some wine chilling for Liliane’s party. (Sorry that you didn’t get any delicious rosé Theresa’s friends, we had to wait a long time between pizzas!) All we did all night was make teeny tiny pizzas, wait the 10 minutes for the oven to heat back up and then 2 minutes for them to cook, shove them down and repeat, repeat, repeat. Lucky for us we had the idea to make a salad to go with it. Oh the salad. THE SALAD as it is now known. We did not get pictures of THE SALAD because we were too busy enjoying the act of taking multiple bites in a row but it was so amazing I have made it 2x since we’ve been home. Oh, its just a salad you say? Well you are wrong, its THE SALAD!
Don’t worry, I took some pics when I made it last night.
You’ll just have to wait.
Tags: nuggets, pizza, travel
October 27th, 2008
Peek-a-boo! I’m still here…just crazy busy.
We went to Montreal last weekend and had a blast celebrating my niece Liliane’s first birthday. More to come…
Tags: nuggets
October 24th, 2008
My new found semi-vegetarianism has led us to a few new recipes. Something I really wanted to try was homemade pizza because well…it’s got pizza in the title.
The Inspiration: We followed the cast iron skillet method.
The Skinny: Instead of making our own dough (ha) we went down the street to Anthony’s and got some from them. Then we sauteed mushrooms and onions and, cut up some fresh mozz and other veggies and defrosted sauce from the freezer.
The Verdict: The pizza was amazing! Each pizza only takes 2 minutes to cook. The annoying part was that we didnt know how it would come out so we did one small piece at a time. This is NOT the method to use at your next pizza party. Its very sloooowwwww. You have to wait a few minutes between for the oven to get hot again, or the crust will not be right. We basically stood in the kitchen eating our salads while waiting for the skillet to heat up. Also - we did not need most of the toppings, we are happy with mushrooms and a lil onion.
The always important upskirt:
Perfection! It was totally worth it! I think Fridays are going to be homemade pizza night at our house.
Tags: pizza, recipe
October 14th, 2008
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