Dinner with Neighbors
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 | Food
Last night we had a nice evening getting to know our neighbors just kitty corner from us. They live in a charming 1920 house, unfortunately they are receiving the brunt of construction happening just next door to them where a skinny narrow house is being built. I honestly don’t know how someone could envision a house on such a narrow plot of land, obviously someone with big dollar signs in their eyes.
They are a sweet couple, just married in Denmark and will be having a second wedding here in the states at Kennedy School. We are excited for them. They have the sweetest chocolate lab named Lucy. They are both graphic designers and Ryan & D (the husband) were able to get into some geek talk. D was a graphic designer at The Concordia Foundation, in fact, so alot of the Foundation employees know him. On a side note I start my internship there on August 7th. I’m really looking forward to it.
I think I was more excited about being able to cook a feast for people. First off, I LOVE my crockpot. You just throw stuff in there and turn it on and in a day’s time you’ve got a meal. It’s especially nice for Ryan, as he has been able to enjoy two meaty feasts due to the crock pot. The first meal in the crock pot that I made was BBQ pulled pork, which apparently was delicious. That took I think almost 20 hours of cooking in the crock pot. Yesterday I made a Carolina BBQ Pork, which was from the reactions I got, delicious as well. 
Makes me smile. I think I went a little berserk, because I also made
Greek salad, Mushroom fettucini, an asparagus salad with tomatoes and goat cheese, corn on cob, I grilled two portobellos for me the veggie Baked rolls to go with the pork, and a chive potato salad that I forgot to bring out. So yes, I enjoyed the opportunity to cook. I still think it’s a hobby I will further enhance upon being done with School.
D made a most scrumptious fresh fruit cobber, it was delicious with some vanilla ice cream, YUM! He had berries, nectarines and all sorts of deliciousness with a perfect light crumble topping.
I enjoyed a really nice Chardonnay by Bogle with dinner, it was really delicious, so much so, I polished off the bottle. It always concerns me when I do that, but really there are only about 3 glasses of wine in one bottle, so I figure it okay.
Lately, I’ve been trying to reduce the amount of Cooking Light Magazines I have all over the house, by tearing out the recipes I would most like to try to make and putting them in a binder. So at least once a week I’d like to grab a recipe and go, there are some meat ones too that I’d like to try, I’m pretty sure Ryan won’t mind at all.
We sat outside and I couldn’t believe the bee action we were getting. I brought out an “off” repellant but I think that only works with Mosquitos and not bees. They didn’t get too aggressive, but they did make it as a slight nuisance.
Before our neighbors came over, I realized how much I am liking not driving anywhere if I don’t have to. I drove out to Beaverton to meet with a PRSA (Public Relations Society of America) representative who had contacted me to do some volunteer work for them, of course she had me drive to her office out there on 153rd & TV Hwy and be there by 4:30 no less. The traffic was horrid, so I hit Cornell and took that over to Murray to TV hwy to 153rd and met her at VTM, a PR firm. Fancy shmancy place, with an open like work space and everyone looked so professional. Total opposite of the mego company I worked for. Anyway, it’ll be an easy project where I just update some of their records it’s basically to get me networked and get to know more people in the PR industry and have them recognizing my name.
That’s how you really get jobs these days.
Anyway, so now I have a house full of leftovers and we’re having friends over for dinner again on Friday, so it’s a busy week, but I love it. I love to share food with people, that I know, and if I’m the one cooking…even better.
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