This weekend was a masterpiece of empty calories that I am longing to repeat ASAP. Friday night we had friends over and I made a badass quiche, along with Brussels sprouts sautéed with onions and bacon, and mashed cauliflower. For dessert we had homemade ginger snap cookies courtesy of our delightful friends, and we washed everything down with loads of prosecco with freshly squozen (it SHOULD be a word) red grapefruit juice. It was perfection.
Saturday morning my mother unit and I had a breakfast date where I ate a breakfast sandwich on a croissant, hashbrown casserole, and a large coffee. As I've been on a huge irish breakfast tea kick, the coffee was extra gross tasting. (The place we ate has terrible coffee, but at least I knew how bad the coffee was. I was afraid of how and the tea might be.) After breakfast I returned home and read before taking an awesome nap. It was the best nap I'd had since my nap last weekend. It was glorious! It was rather chilly and it rained all weekend and I think those two things contributed enormously to the nap greatness. Post nap I had more leftover gingersnaps and a cup of tea. After my Love came back from helping a friend do some house construction we headed out to have dinner with the same friends from the night before. We feasted on enormous burgers and homemade French fries and it was so good I could hardly stand it. After we reached satiation we returned home to drink some wine and play some banana grams while I tried (and failed!) to recreate the ginger snaps of my dreams.
Sunday we woke very early unintentionally and drank coffee for a perfectly languorous amount of time before I decide to whip up some toad-in-a-hole. Being impatient and by now quite hungry, I opted to throw some ham on top of it all instead of bacon, and it was an excellent decision. I also made us small salads of cherry tomatoes and avocado with lemon juice, pepper, and salt. After a few more crappy ginger snap cookies it was time for another nap. When I woke up I had a hankering for cheese toast, so I made some. While I puttered around my Love started making French onion soup. It was incredibly delicious. Not having reached my cookie quota for the weekend I made my handsome chef husband his favorite chocolate chip peanut butter oatmeal cookies. The recipe is from the brown eyed baker and it is the best recipe we have had. I made that stupid 2-day chocolate chip recipe from the NY Times and it sucked. These cookies are the bomb. We ate them while watching the las two episodes of freaks and geeks. After some light reading, it was time for bed
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