6/4/07
Dear Blog,
It's been an interesting few days. I'll start with Thursday:
Last week I hadn't been cooking as much, so I decided to do a little experimentation on Thursday evening. I found a recipie in Rachael Ray's cookbook for something she called "Cowboy Spaghetti". I really enjoyed it, and will be adding to the rotation. Cowboy Spaghetti is really just a combination of spaghetti and chili, which follows Rachael's M.O. So far, I've added four recipies of hers into the rotation, and all of them combine two dishes into one in some way. The "Messy Guiseppe" is a combination of a sloppy Joe and spaghetti sauce, Thai Chicken Pizza is exactly what the name suggests, and the "Inside-out Margherita Pizza-dilla" is, again kind of obviously, a combination of a margharita pizza and a quesadilla.
After dinner, we went to catch some of the softball game between my sister's high school and a Catholic school. It was the first round of the state playoffs, and my sister's friend Kelly is a coach of the high school team. When we got there it was already 3-0 in Dracut's favor, when I left for trivia night - Kait stayed - it was 4-1. Later, Kait would tell me that they would win 8-1 to move into round 2.
Trivia night was just me and Geoff, but we had plenty of answers. Once again, a lot of questions from Tuesday night were repeated, but they were all ones that we would have answered already. We ended up winning the game by 6 points. We think we might be skipping out on one of the games in the future; my vote is we skip the Ground Round and play at the Old Court on Tuesdays, since the food is better, the gift certificate is for twice as much, and, most importantly, the place is within walking distance of my apartment. Also, Tuesday is pretty much a sucky day, anyway, so it'd be nice to have something to which to look forward.
Late Friday night my sister's best friend/hairdresser Megan arrived with her husband Brian after I had gone to work. I didn't get a chance to see them until Saturday afternoon, after I woke up and made my way down to Cape Cod. Kait had taken the two of them to Boston while I was asleep, so we arrived at about the same time. We went down to Falmouth and walked around downtown for awhile, and then went back to Mashpee for dinner at Cooke's. I got a chance to purchase some Buzzard's Bay beer, which I'd never had before. It was more bitter than I'm used to, but quite enjoyable.
Sunday was more of a rest day. After lunch at Dino's, I watched The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, the classic Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, while everyone else pretty much napped. Then we loaded the four remaining chairs from the set Kait bought at a consignment goods store into her car and brought everyone and everything back to our apartment. From there we quickly brought up the chairs and got all of Meg and Brian's things into Kait's car and got them down to the airport, stopping at On the Border for dinner on the way back. All in all, a very successful weekend.
Today I have to make my way down to the grocery store to pick up this week's meals, and I also want to schedule an apointment with Mr. Al to get my hair cut sometime this week. I'll let you know how it all goes on Thursday. Till then...
It's been an interesting few days. I'll start with Thursday:
Last week I hadn't been cooking as much, so I decided to do a little experimentation on Thursday evening. I found a recipie in Rachael Ray's cookbook for something she called "Cowboy Spaghetti". I really enjoyed it, and will be adding to the rotation. Cowboy Spaghetti is really just a combination of spaghetti and chili, which follows Rachael's M.O. So far, I've added four recipies of hers into the rotation, and all of them combine two dishes into one in some way. The "Messy Guiseppe" is a combination of a sloppy Joe and spaghetti sauce, Thai Chicken Pizza is exactly what the name suggests, and the "Inside-out Margherita Pizza-dilla" is, again kind of obviously, a combination of a margharita pizza and a quesadilla.
After dinner, we went to catch some of the softball game between my sister's high school and a Catholic school. It was the first round of the state playoffs, and my sister's friend Kelly is a coach of the high school team. When we got there it was already 3-0 in Dracut's favor, when I left for trivia night - Kait stayed - it was 4-1. Later, Kait would tell me that they would win 8-1 to move into round 2.
Trivia night was just me and Geoff, but we had plenty of answers. Once again, a lot of questions from Tuesday night were repeated, but they were all ones that we would have answered already. We ended up winning the game by 6 points. We think we might be skipping out on one of the games in the future; my vote is we skip the Ground Round and play at the Old Court on Tuesdays, since the food is better, the gift certificate is for twice as much, and, most importantly, the place is within walking distance of my apartment. Also, Tuesday is pretty much a sucky day, anyway, so it'd be nice to have something to which to look forward.
Late Friday night my sister's best friend/hairdresser Megan arrived with her husband Brian after I had gone to work. I didn't get a chance to see them until Saturday afternoon, after I woke up and made my way down to Cape Cod. Kait had taken the two of them to Boston while I was asleep, so we arrived at about the same time. We went down to Falmouth and walked around downtown for awhile, and then went back to Mashpee for dinner at Cooke's. I got a chance to purchase some Buzzard's Bay beer, which I'd never had before. It was more bitter than I'm used to, but quite enjoyable.
Sunday was more of a rest day. After lunch at Dino's, I watched The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, the classic Clint Eastwood spaghetti western, while everyone else pretty much napped. Then we loaded the four remaining chairs from the set Kait bought at a consignment goods store into her car and brought everyone and everything back to our apartment. From there we quickly brought up the chairs and got all of Meg and Brian's things into Kait's car and got them down to the airport, stopping at On the Border for dinner on the way back. All in all, a very successful weekend.
Today I have to make my way down to the grocery store to pick up this week's meals, and I also want to schedule an apointment with Mr. Al to get my hair cut sometime this week. I'll let you know how it all goes on Thursday. Till then...
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