Festa Week - Sunday
Nov. 14th, 2011 05:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
figarofigaro1Sunday was a quiet day. We slept a little late and hung out at home. I was browsing a new cookbook, How To Eat Weekends. It made me have a craving for Vietnamese food, so we went to Winooski to Pho Pasteur, where I enjoyed my usual fare: spring rolls, egg rolls, and barbecued pork bún.
B had cashed in some of our credit card points and we had gift cards for William Sonoma. The All-Clad large roaster was on sale. So we got that, kind of as a joint birthday gift. As an added bonus, the rack also fits our All-Clad chicken roasting pan. And since we were downtown, we went to My Little Cupcake and got cupcakes for evening dessert and had one in-store too! Yay for tiny cupcakes!
For dinner last night, I made a recipe from How To Eat Weekends that was chicken parts in a cider glaze with fried sage leaves for a garnish. It turned out to be quite tasty. I also made some kale and a loaf of bread to go with.
I was perusing boxes the other day and found a bunch of old photographs that aren't sorted in my photo boxes or stored digitally anywhere. In that same box were some old calendars. I remembered I was doing a long-term project that was taking the old calendars and going through them and capturing dates of past vacations and operas and the like. So for a while yesterday I was mentally lost in 2000-2002. I'm pretty good at sleuthing out things that are puzzling, but I'm stuck on a weekend at the end of May 2000 that has some cryptic notes on the calendar. "The Gathering begins" and some more days that mention "The Gathering." I suspect something, but need to confirm dates and can find no other mention of it anywhere. Very strange.
I think another long-term project is going to be scanning in the pictures in that old box. I know it has all of our pictures from when we did our car-touring Ireland trip. That will be slow going with my scanner, but there's no rush to get them all done at once.
Even though I'm writing about Sunday, it's Monday and I'm knocking at the door of 49.
B had cashed in some of our credit card points and we had gift cards for William Sonoma. The All-Clad large roaster was on sale. So we got that, kind of as a joint birthday gift. As an added bonus, the rack also fits our All-Clad chicken roasting pan. And since we were downtown, we went to My Little Cupcake and got cupcakes for evening dessert and had one in-store too! Yay for tiny cupcakes!
For dinner last night, I made a recipe from How To Eat Weekends that was chicken parts in a cider glaze with fried sage leaves for a garnish. It turned out to be quite tasty. I also made some kale and a loaf of bread to go with.
I was perusing boxes the other day and found a bunch of old photographs that aren't sorted in my photo boxes or stored digitally anywhere. In that same box were some old calendars. I remembered I was doing a long-term project that was taking the old calendars and going through them and capturing dates of past vacations and operas and the like. So for a while yesterday I was mentally lost in 2000-2002. I'm pretty good at sleuthing out things that are puzzling, but I'm stuck on a weekend at the end of May 2000 that has some cryptic notes on the calendar. "The Gathering begins" and some more days that mention "The Gathering." I suspect something, but need to confirm dates and can find no other mention of it anywhere. Very strange.
I think another long-term project is going to be scanning in the pictures in that old box. I know it has all of our pictures from when we did our car-touring Ireland trip. That will be slow going with my scanner, but there's no rush to get them all done at once.
Even though I'm writing about Sunday, it's Monday and I'm knocking at the door of 49.
