Showing posts with label red wine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label red wine. Show all posts

Monday, December 19, 2011

Tonight

Tonight is Supper Club!! I cannot tell y'all how nervous/excited I am!! I'm hosting this year and I'm also cooking my first cut of meat. You see, I don't do red meat. I'm not against eating it; I'm against having to cook it myself. I'll happily eat it if someone else cooks it. The thought of having blood on my hands gives me the heebie jeebies.

My neighbor-man came over last night to help me prep this piece of meat since I wasn't sure what to do with the 4 pounds of roast I had just purchased. Fortunately, he had red wine handy and is a sweetheart! We seasoned it, tenderized it, and left it to sit in red wine over night. Neighbor-man is even going to pop it into the oven at the correct time since I'll still be at work! How did I get so lucky to live next to a good guy?!

Gah I hope this dinner works out tonight! I have 10 ladies counting on me to have the main dish. I'm doing a better job about taking pictures because I remembered to take a picture while we were prepping the meat last night. Tonight I plan to take several photos of the table and meal to share with y'all tomorrow!

Happy Cooking!
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Weekend Recap

Man, it was another busy weekend. I thought life would slow down for at least one weekend before the holidays began but I was wrong.

The weekend began with what I thought would be a very low key night home alone. Roomie went out for a birthday dinner. I happily cleaned the bathroom and proceeded to enjoy a night with an empty house. I was very wrong about how my night would turn out.

I ended up going to AC's house, drank a tad too much red wine, had a dance party, then came home to find an inch of standing water on my bathroom floor!!! Luckily, I was smart enough to turn the water off to the toilet which was the root of the problem. Then it took my about 2 hours to clean up the mess. I finally crawled in bed about 3am- so much for my low key night!

My old greek man of a landlord sent his worker-guy to our house first thing Saturday morning. He had everything fixed in about 10 minutes. Thank goodness!!

This past weekend was also the chili cook off/engagement party. I'm proud to say that I won 3rd place in the cook off!! Go me! I cooked a white bean chicken chili. I was surprised how yummy it turned out. Sadly, there were no eligible men at the party so that was a bummer.

After the chili cook off/engagement party, a group of us headed over to AC's house again. This time for a couple games of cards. Once the cards came out, so did the hat box. I wish I had taken a picture, but everyone ended up in different hats- cowboy, genie, Darth Vader- ya know, the norms!

Alright, I'm off to dinner with the newlyweds, Mr. & Mrs. H. I was a bridesmaid in their October wedding and have not seen them since. Can't wait to catch up and enjoy a yummy dinner. The new Mrs. H is a very good cook :)