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Seize the weekend

Sunday, August 24th, 2008 | General

Sunday morning and I’m enjoying my coffee. Weekend re-cap thus far….
Friday - Anniversary dinner. I was sooooo looking forward to that. We had a lovely walk to the restaurant, again one of the reasons why I LOVE where we live, and we arrived a tad early so we hopped over to the Mash Tun.

Enjoyed their delicious and creamy Cream Ale. Kim, the bartender, who is sweet as a Georgia peach pie even let me sample her specialty cocktails she created using her own infused vodka. One was a raspberry infused vodka and the other a lemon. Oh my those were heaven. Both of the girls behind the bar, we haven’t seen in ages. Since Ry’s got the Keg orator we don’t go out to the mash as much for beer, beer at home is much cheaper

Anyway, enjoyed re-connecting with them. Then we walked over to Ciao Vito. Ciao Vito was marvelous. It was really relaxing and surprisingly unpretentious.

I had fried risotto cakes stuffed with 3 different kinds of cheeses nestled in a bed of pesto, pine nuts and a delicious tomato sauce. It was heaven. Accompanied with a delicious caprese salad, all fresh ingredients, with a few slices of artisan bread dunked in the balsamic. YUM! Not too much and not too little. It was perfect.

Ry got nice and full from his delicious dish Sugo of Pork. We opted not for dessert as I had truffles still waiting at home and R. was full enough to not want any, so we hopped back over to Mash. Enjoyed seeing some doggies there, had a pint of the cream ale again and then walked home. It was a nice temperate evening and met more doggies on the way home.

Saturday - I embraced the day not as early as I would have liked but got a few chores done around the house. Ran to the bank and then stopped by the Hollywood Farmers Market located at 45th and Hancock. It was marvelous, unfortunately I arrived with a mere 15 minutes left to wander and smell and buy anything. The veggies looked amazing and my jaw dropped at the gynormous peaches, fresh berries, cucumbers, baby carrots that were just pulled from the ground, fresh baked goods were in abundance and I couldn’t deny myself a treat so I got a marionberry scone for me and a snickerdoodle for R.

My goal was to get something to make something for dessert to bring to a friends house who was having us over for dinner. The peaches called my name and they were an absolute delight. So I decided I’d make a peach pie. Even with a home made crust which alwyas gets the best of me, because pie crusts are just a bitch.

So I simply used flour, cold butter and cold water, kneaded, prodded, rolled and rolled. Luckily no one sees the bottom of the pie so that was good I could meld it together in the pie plate, then what I could roll out I simply cut out shapes of leaves and layered that on top of the pie, it worked and to my delight and surprise the pie came out delicious! Cooking and the juicy spillage is another story, there was lots as the peaches were so incredibly juicy.

I then ran over to Healthy Pets to pick up treats for the kids. My friend has quite the zoo at her house, but I love it. There are two doggies - Lou and Wilson and 3 kitties a Hershey/ Tuna, Henry and “the kitty”. “the kitty” has had a little bit of an identity crisis since adopting our friends and no name has really stuck so I just call her “miss kitty”.

Had so much fun there, petting, cuddling, catching up with A and hearing about work at my old working place and enjoying the evening, seeing the stars and eating damn good food. They grilled up fajitas, damn those are tasty.

So it’s funny how baking a pie can be incredibly time consuming, but I love it, I love making something with my hands and it’s something that people will enjoy, it’s incredibly fulfilling. It was a great Sat.

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