Last night DH and I dined on sumptuously on seafood at the Red Lobster. We both tried lobster and didn't think it was all that -- but we loved the snow crab. Man that's good and it doesn't even need the butter! It was a wonderful day spent reading, doing a few chores, breakfast at IHOP, and quality time spent together. Although, now that we finally got Red Lobster out of the way, what are we going to do for next year's anniversary? Hmm. Maybe Bunky's (if it's still in business by then). That place always looks hoppin'.
So Heather can't workout tonight, and my clothes are on the line so I am going to opt for a skate with Tim instead of doing another TKD night with Master Eric. I mean, he's okay but I was there yesterday and I don't want everyone's schedule to get messed up. Besides my clothes are damp and working out in damp clothes suck.
I gotta figure out something for dinner tonight. Tuna casserole? That might be too much seafood overkill. What else...what else....
The Time Traveller's Wife is REALLY addicting -- in fact, I am going to go and read it now instead of sitting here wasting precious time typing this nonsense.
posted by hadjare @ 5:30 PM
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gah! Well I wished you a happy anniversary on Saturday right??? *embarrassed* It sounds like a perfect day.
i'm sure this is too late for your supper plans on the day you wrote this but maybe it'll come in handy the next time you're stumped for food fixin' ideas... i made it tonight by using up leftover vegetables from a recent trip to this great new produce store i found here in wheeling that is just full of incredible fruits and vegetables for amazing prices - they had figs, man!
so, anyhow: i started by sauteeing some thinly sliced onion in olive oil then quickly throwing in some green pepper from my mom's garden back in wisconsin that my sister dropped off on her visit this weekend. i then added in some portabello mushroom chunks but i know you don't groove on the fungus - so maybe you'd want to substitute some greek olives or something like zucchinni? i also chopped up two small green tomatoes that also came from my mom's garden but those aren't ordinarily something i'd have on hand... then dumped in a small can of diced tomatoes that i had first drained so i wouldn't have to cook off all that extra water. spices included kosher salt, black pepper, cumin, oregano, basil and garlic powder. aside from the vegetable chopping, it pretty much cooked together in less time than it took me to typed this up. i had toasted some buns on the george forman grill but pretty much any kind of bread would work well [and probably better than these buns, which were not very good bread] and the food prep was finished. all that was left was to dollop out some of this vegetable melange onto each bun, top with a slice or two of swiss cheese and eat, which we did with a fork while watching some of the Greatest American Hero DVDs recently checked out from the library. this was necessary because the italian sandwiches, for want of a better name, were kinda messy.
and, on balance, so was the GAH; i think we would have been more entertained by watching paul newman in Cool Hand Luke, which is a great movie, although a little depressingly christ-like overtoney at the end.
in other news, i decided to do something nice for erin a couple days ago, after reflecting upon your questions of a week or two back. [actually, i had planned to do just this sorta thing last week but she lost the keys to my truck while i was in maryland and i didn't know where she kept the spare key i'd given her last summer. but whatever...]
so, anyhow, i'm at the grocery store after work buying groceries and i'm just about to put the key in the ignition when i realize, oh heck, i was gonna buy the wife some flowers. so i go back in and, while i'm standing there dithering over whether or not this is a rose occasion or if the purple and white flowers i had in my hand were okay, who taps me on the shoulder but the wife. so we have a little laugh, she assures me the purple and white ones are perfect and i leave her to pick up the stuff SHE stopped for on her way back from class to go home... and pick up the real surprise, which was a pocket contractors calculator that can tell you how many tiles you need to do a certain sized room or how many gallons of paint you need to do a house or stuff like that; it's something she had planned to pick up herself a couple months ago but decided against after finding out it was a whole $11 more than she'd been told they cost by our field lab instructor [because they were out of stock of the ones he'd reccommended and only had the fancier metal ones and not the high impact yellow plastic one i wound up getting her, which is identical to the one that instructor - now my boss - had shown us in class.] if a goofy calculator sounds like a weird gift for your wife, well, i'd just like to say my old lady has a little more of the tech geek in her than she flashes about in public.
that said, i think she was happiest when she found me at the store, just to know i had stopped to get her flowers in the first place. or maybe not - it isn't like i'm a mind reader or anything.
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