Monday, January 26, 2009
delinquent....
6:30 get up.
8:10 say bye to Brian cuz he's still sleeping cuz he's sick.
8:30-5:00 work
5:35 get home, play with dog
6:00 elliptical/rock out to my itunes
6:40 celebrate being done working out by singing along as loud as possible to music & lyrics soundtrack while making dinner (hope brian doesn't come home mid-song)
7:30 play Animal Crossing (brian's sometimes home around now....)
8:00 watch a netflix
10:00 go sleepy, have crazy dreams
the 6:40-10:00pm time slots usually switch around depending on brian's moot court schedule
to all the kid's book readers out there....here's a link for you. anything by neil gaiman - i encourage you to read it.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
In the News
The story, tragic. The imagery, comic. Imagine a squirrel running with its tail on fire, lighting up everything it passes...
Also, it's time to note that Janet has a replacement computer, so there's not much excuse for lack of blogging from her these days!!!
Monday, January 5, 2009
2008 - out. 2009 - in.
A rundown of the menu is as follows:
4. Pasta Amatriciana - originating from the town of Amatrice - it's a tomato based sauce with pancetta and with a bit of spice. Delicious! Wine: Alsacacian Pinot Noir (not common)
5. Coquille St. Jacquen en Surprise (with the ever-so-tacky transaltion of "scallop surprise!") This is Brian's specialty, made all but one of the past 9 dinners, made by Brian all but one of those. Sauce: sause a la saffron avec tomates fraiche (safforn sauce with fresh tomatoes) Wine: Alsacian Gevertztraminer
6. Steak au poivre - Here we got the finest ribeye cuts that were offered at North market, coated with fresh cut peppercorns, cooked and flambeed with cognac, and coated with traditional au poivre cream sauce. We were so excited to dig in, we realized only afterwards we didn't take the requisite photo. Here is evidence that the dish was indeed prepared. Wine: I can't remember!
7. Chocolate cheesecake with raspberry wine reduction (made with Door County Raspberry Wine) and served with fresh raspberries. Wine: shamefully, we had no port, but enjoyed some Poire William (pear infused Cognac).
Part of the dinner was joined by our friend Randy - also a native Wisconsinite. He prepared the non-french dishes. Sorbets were also a pineapple-rosemary, and a grapefruit-coriander (which tasted like gold bond powder). Keith blamed me for sleeping in and not preventing his damaging the sanctity of the grapefruit sorbet. Thankfully, there was enough juice for me to make a "normal" batch. As a side note - Keith is notorious for trying to make magical spiced creations with sorbet. Such flavours have been "tomato-garlic" and "wasabi." We are generally opposed to him doing this, but from time to time he still gets away with such cullinary...um...experiements.
More blogging to come. Janet's computer has finally bit the dust, and we're working on a replacement.