My reason for coming home on the weekends= free beer.
JUST KIDDING! But coming home to a sinfully delicious and hoppy Middle Ages Wailing Wench beer adds incentive. My real reason for coming home a second weekend in a row is to celebrate my best friend’s birthday!
My mom will be another year wiser this Sunday, but because my brother and I have work/school on Monday morning we will be celebrating by going out to dinner on Saturday evening. We are going to a French restaurant that she picked out and I am BEYOND excited! I’ve never been to a French restaurant and I cannot wait to engage in a new cultural experience (complete with a nice Bordeaux wine of course 🙂 ).
I drove directly home after work today and sipped on a much appreciated beer with my dad as my mom prepared dinner. For dinner we had grilled steak with oven roasted potato wedges and an iceberg wedge salad with goat cheese and tomatoes in a red wine vinaigrette. Dinner was also served with a touch more beer. IT’S SO GOOD, I SWEAR!
I’m not a huge steak person, however; from time to time I CRAVE it and nothing else will do. I haven’t had red meat in a while and lately my meals have been fairly vegetarian, so I was long over due. I topped my steak with a bit of A1 Steak Sauce and had an abundance of ketchup on the side for my potato wedges. Home cookin’ at its finest! Thanks mom!
After dinner I proceeded to clean the kitchen. Fun Fact: I’m a freak about cleaning the kitchen. It doesn’t even have to be my own. I have been known to obsessively do the dishes at dinner parties.
When I finished, I desperately searched the freezer for my favorite mint chocolate chip ice cream but there was none to be found. I debated baking brownies but it was nearly 9pm. What is a girl with a sweet-tooth to do? IMPROVISE. I mixed ~1/3 cup Chobani Plain Greek Yogurt with 1 heaping tsp of Ghirardelli unsweetened cocoa powder and then added a mound of chopped strawberries and cinnamon to the bowl. Not quite ice cream but still delicious!
I’ve been awake since 5 AM and I’m exhausted. I think a ritual Farmer’s Market Saturday trip is in store for tomorrow (weather permitting), so hopefully I’ll be meeting you at the market!
Happy Weekend!
Nora
There’s nothing like a Mom’s home cooking!!!
happy bday to your mom! have a wonderful weekend!
Awwww Happy Birthday to your mom!! The French restaurant sounds like FUN!!
I can’t wait to hear about your experience at the French restaurant! My fave restaurant is a French fusion place, but I’ve never had classic French cuisine.
I’m a clean kitchen freak too. Unfortunately my two roommates are absolute slobs. It drives me crazy!
you are my clean kitchen soul mate!! I HATE a dirty kitchen so I am always the one who ends up doing all the cleaning up. no worries though – i enjoy it haha