I have a lot of catching up to do.
But until I get that sorted,
have a photo of the most delicious cupcake ever.
{ what's your poison today? }
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During the insanity that is this week,
I like to reflect back on what a lovely weekend it was...
...sailing lazily across the bay...
...wandering around town....
...eating my weight in various street noms.
I'm going to pretend I'm still there, ok?
{ how's your week goin'?}
It turned out to be a delicious weekend.
On Saturday we attended a fundraising event for Relay for Life Tacoma, where I essentially ate my weight in crab -- all for a good cause!
And if that wasn't enough...
...I decided to make a roasted squash and onion pasta* on Sunday. An interesting flavor combination that made the entire house smell great.
*my recipe didn't call for garlic, btw.
Yeah.
My weekend was basically devoted to food.
{ have any delicious adventures this weekend? }
Alyssa, of the lovely Just Putting It Out There recently hosted a super fun blog swap.
Swappers needed to share:
1. something for luck
2. something they love
3. something delicious
Check out what my awesome partner, Amy, sent me to help fend off the winter blues:
a gorgeous photography print, some delish chocolate and a sweet little paper crane.
All wrapped up so pretty, don't you think?
Pop on over to Amy's beautiful blog, No. 15 , to indulge in her absolutely stunning photography.
Thanks, Amy!
{ what do you do to keep the winter blues at bay? }
On Sunday we took a bit of drive into the southern boonies.
The Green River Gorge is an impressive site, even more so as it feels like you are driving dead into the middle of nowhere.
Can you believe this is only like 15 minutes from my house?
Also. we cracked up at this sign in downtown Enumclaw.
A chilly day outdoors calls for homemade soup. I even feel warmed up just making it.
(Except for the bit where we had to open a bunch of windows because the onion fumes were making hubbers cry and cry and cry.)
Am I nerd that later I sat down and watched PBS' 25th anniversary of Les Miserables concert? It was like 'unintentional French evening.'
(That makes more sense if you realize I made onion soup.)
{ what adventures found you this weekend? }
I can't believe I only worked a combined total of one day last week. Amazing. But now I feel all discombobulated being back to the daily grind. These past 4 days went by much too quickly. Sigh.
So here's some lessons I learned from this weekend's madness:
1. If you are going to make pie, don't ever forget to add sugar. Also helps if you have had more than 4 hours sleep.
2. Always look for that stupid plastic bag of guts inside the turkey BEFORE you cook it.
3. Never underestimate the amount of people that will line up outside of Target on Black Friday. I swear to jeebus it was like 300 people. Insanity.
4. My baby cousins are the cutest girls alive. Highlights from our family gathering:
Peyton running down the hallways shouting her own name "Peeeeytooooon!"
Parker perfectly ennunciating "Peyton. Is afraid. Of da dogs."
I can't wait until Evie starts talking...
How do I have no photos from this party???
For those of you who joined me in my "live" blogging adventures, it was wonderful to have you along. Cooking for only 2 other people feels a bit lonely at times, so it was nice to share the misadventures with you all.
{ so. how was your weekend? }
Pssssssst - the Thanksgiving meal did turn out well. nearly everything was edible, and nothing caught on fire. win!
Over the course of the last week, I've been contemplating attempting a "live" blog posting, as we prepare our Thanksgiving feast. Since most of the bigger plans we undertake end up as a series of boggled misadventures, I thought, if nothing else it would be good for a few "lol"s for you all.
Slapsgiving 2009. omg look at all those freakin' white walls!
This is probably a horrible idea, and end up being terribly unfunny, and I'll have to delete it and hide in shame from the 3 of you who might be reading blogs today. But that's just the risk I'm willing to take.
Allow me to update you on the day thus far:
4:39 am - I am awake. I don't know why. Kittens are meowing outside our door. Must. Ignore. Supreme cuteness.
7:39 am - Unable to sleep, finished reading a novel, and finally arose. Informed by hubbers that the kittens knocked over a 3 foot tall shelving unit during the night. How was it THAT wasn't what woke me?
8:03 am - Have realized the ingredients forgotten for today's meal are preventing any action on the cooking front, have declared emergency trip to grocery store. Inhaling coffee to make the trip bearable, and made the decision to execute said "live blog post." (at least now you know how ended up here.)
9:14 am - Safely returned from grocery store, despite facing this:
(look, here's a photo, Stef!)
9:15 am - Realized forgot whipped cream. crap.
9:17 am - Gorge on sugary breakfast. Now hyper, and boiling eggs.
9:53 am - Spilt some, but pies are in the oven. Punkin pie filling smells pretty good, even when it's burning.
First attempted punkin pies ever.
10:01 am - Choppy chop veggies. It's almost time to stuff you!
10:04 am - Pull turkey out of freezer. Open 'er up to find guts are frozen and immovalbe inside. Hubbers is not happy.
10:53 am - Finally put turkey to rest in a bed of butter, butter and more butter.
10:55 am - My pies are cracked. Shit. Panda says this is a sign of a bad pie. dammit.
11:00 am - Put giant yams (sweet potatoes? whatever.) in to roast for a billion minutes. Contemplating a nap, but those eggs aren't going to devil themselves (are they? seriously, it'd be really great if they could).
11:01 am - Anyone else feel like Al Roker is really just phoning it in today? "If you want to know what your weather is like, well go on the Internet or cable." Gee. Thanks, dude.
11:23 am - Realizing I don't have cream for twice bake yams (sweet potatoes. whatever.). Guess the boys are getting the low fat version this year.
12:00 pm ish - Pulled out yams (sweet potatoes. whatever.). I love that oozey gooey thing they do.
12:01 pm - Starting to look distinctly more turkey-ish.
12:44 pm - Time to watch Mythbusters and smash up some yam-a-roos. Also, more coffee. Lots more coffee. And sugar (altho, let's not discuss how many cinamon rolls i've consumed today. k? thnxbai.) This no sleep thing is starting to get to me...
12:53 pm - WHY does the therm-o-meter say this turkey is done 2 hours early?! (Emily! totally died when i read your comment b/c it's the SAME DEAL!) It should be a 4 hour roast, not 2. I know my Nesco stand-alone roaster is the shizz, but SRSLY. Whatever. I'm leaving it in there. Pout pout pout.
1:50 pm - Yams (sweet potatoes. whatever.) peeled, smooshed, stuffed back in their shells, ready to baked all over again. Now, time for a pickled nosh.
2:00 pm - Trying to fight it. So tired. Brother-in-law coming over 2 hours early. Whatever. As long as he brings the whipped cream I forgot.
2:27 pm - omg BIL is here, and it's madden football time, apparently. You should probably just kill me now.
4:03 pm - ok I've failed at keeping you up to date these last 2 ish hours. I'll be back after finally eating, to recap. I'll leave you with this little gem for now: BIL (picks up thigh bone, pokes brother repeatedly): "LOOK! I'm boning my brother." Yep.
{ stay tuned for updates, if you dare. mwa hahahahahaaa! }
What's got two thumbs and spent 31 hours in the city of brotherly love this weeknd?
That's right.
I headed to Philadelphia for the lovely wedding of my dear college roommate, Julie.
Landing at 5:30am does have one advantage: you have no choice but to adventure out into the city.
My pal Tania and I headed over to Reading Terminal Market, an amazing collection of lunch counters, farm stands and any kind of sweet you can imagine.
We scored the most delicious Amish breakfasts.
And spent some time wandering around all the deliciousness.
Tiny jams!
Pumpkin whoopie pies.
I saved mine and it is sitting in the fridge awaitng my lunchtime consumption.
5 lbs of lollipop!
Beautiful chocolates.....
...and some strange ones, too.
It was a wonderful reunion weekend of sorts, but with only 8 hours of sleep in two days, I'm kinda paying for it now....
Stay tuned for further photos of my Philly adventures.
{ how was your weekend? }
The hubbers and I attended the Bite of Seattle food festival.
It was a glorious Saturday at the Seattle Center.....
...which meant one thing....
...it was ri-dizity-donk crowded!
But we braved the crowds, like the tough little foodies we are...
...to sample foods from all over the globe.
Yum!
{ how was your weekend? }
A return to the good ol' days of treasury space stalking.....
Maybe someone will take pity on me and buy me a donut....
{ nom }
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