This is a weekend recap, but even as I do it, I wonder why I would or if I should bother.. There's an element of weirdness, and a tendency towards either shame or towards gloating in "How I spent my Summer Vacation" even when you're doing it in third grade but these are the gifts I was given so there can be no conceit on my part, just humble gratitude for all the way my weekend was lovely.
Besides, I'm doing a recap, for a couple of less lofty reasons. Foremost is my tendency to do things so I can blog about them later, versus being actually engaged in my life.
Bad. Very very bad or at least highly undesirable and veering precariously off the path of all the really good stuff.. you know.. the kind of life that puts the B in Being.
This weekend, I decided not to blog because quite frankly, I'm a little over it all at the moment. "It" being all the over sharing we do in text rather than genuine communing with each other, so, late Saturday night when my husband turned to me to ask if I wanted to catch the last set of a gig a friend of ours had at a local Mexican restaurant, I agreed, even though it's not the type of music that appeals to my natural inclinations and we'd already eaten. To be polite, he had a few beers, and I had a good sipping tequila while we listened to a group of really talented and really under paid musicians. As a side note, I didn't realize until recently that's it's a little thoughtless to linger at a table for hours after you've finished eating dinner even if you plan on tipping well because you're depriving the server of their next customer and let's face it, no matter how well you tip, you're not going to tip enough to make up for an entire other customer...(things my husband knows and tells)
Sunday was the LA Times, a hike in the chapparal with my hyperactive/ADD dog who loves being off leash, an objective study in frustration from 17 mile drive, the rare "cheap" good red, and dinner from my
new favorite toy. (fyi... it's a pressure cooker and I am in love....)
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Pebble Beach Open Sunday Dinner
Steamed Artichoke
(have I said love the kitchen toy)
Love Dip
(recipe to follow at some point, but this is not a food blog,
I repeat, this is not a food blog
Suffice it to say, this is a tongue in cheek title
and
there are copious amounts of garlic involved. )
Cabbage and Beet Slaw
in
Buttermilk Mint Dressing
with
Goat's Milk Farmers Cheese
Pot Roast with Horseradish Sauce (love.the.toy.)
Smashed Potatoes with Truffle oil and Crème Fraiche
First Spring Peas, tossed with Sauté Mushroom
and
Browned Pearl Onions
Dishes.
A lot of
Dishes....
but I don't do them, so I don't mind
(and if I am a woman to be envied, it is because I married very well)