well, after a long weekend of getting flights cancelled and arriving a day late, we've had some fun things going on.
Saturday night we had dinner at 90 acres - great space and great food: I would recommend! http://ninetyacres.com/
Sunday night we went to see Jersey Boys on Broadway with the family and ended up having dinner at Park & Orchard in Rutherford, NJ. Excellent food and amazing wine bible, but wierd space and service.http://www.parkandorchard.com/
We got stranded today here (no planes and it's snowing AGAIN tonight), so we ventured out while the sun was shining to create some adventure. We headed to a Beer Advocate top-rated liquor store Oaktree in S. Plainfield that is a Buy rite. Check out their impressive inventory here: http://www.oaktreewines.com/InventorySearchBeer.aspx.
All I can say is I finally yelled - "We have to get out of here!" I felt like a kid in a candy store...luckily their prices were tremendous. They even kicked in some cool microbrewery pint glasses because we made such a large purchase. Unfortunately, they, along with the beer we did not get around to trying, could not be brought home with us, but I did take a chance on Delta losing my luggage and smuggled a single Dogfish head 120 minute IPA back with me. More on this once I actually get to taste it (yes, it AND my luggage survived!)
We stopped to get some tremendous pizza at Cosimo's in Westfield, NJ. Rated the best pizza in NJ by the Star-Ledger. I have to admit that it was pretty great. We got a broccoli rabe/sausage/onion pie, and it lived up to the hype. http://www.cosimosrestaurant.com/
Then we drove through a bunch of beautiful towns I've never been in before, saw lots of snow and deer and sledders, and generally had a fun day. If I get inspired, I'll embed my sledder pix in here later.
We came back with a bunch of beers to try as a group (and ordered some more pizza!) Many we've had, many are things we can't obtain in the ATL. Here is the order we tried them in:
Duchesse De Bourgogne
Rodenbach Grand Cru
Hitachino Nest White Ale
21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon
Southern Tier Raspberry Wheat
Elysian Night Owl Pumpkin Ale
Lagunitas Brown Shugga
The Bruery Dark Orchard
Founder's Kentucky Breakfast Stout
Troeg's Nugget Nectar
We left behind some Southern Tier chocolate stout, a dark rye and a few nice IPAs in 750 ml bottles. Also, our extra Nugget Nectar and 21st Amendment Watermelon. I have a sneaking suspicion none of it will make it until our next visit, but that's OK - we love to spread the beer love.
As fun as it was, I'm happy to be back in my home sweet home...it was snowing buckets today, and I thought there was no chance our plne would take off (it did.) Time to hit the gym to work off all the pizza and beer!!
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Winter Weekends full of cooking!!
Been a great weekend for cooking!
Friday
A friend came over for wine and cheese on friday - and i remembered that I really need to start logging these events. I wish I had starting taking pix of wine and cheese night 8 years ago - I would have some great photos and archives to look back on!
One of the wines we had was excellent and a gift from Mom -http://winelibrary.com/wines/32998-2005+Tir+Na+Nog+Grenache+750ML
Another was a bottle our friend brought over, Lyeth Cabernet Sauvignon...can't remember the vintage on that one.
The cheeses we had included a Talleggio, aParranno, a Boule de Perigord with black truffles.
We had some olives, steamed atrichokes (I need to work on my technique with these), and fresh roasted red peppers, along with some hot soppresatt and regular peppered salami. Pepper shooters and peppardews, too. We also had the usual array of dips, this time featuring my favorite mint and pistachio pesto and some almond olive paste.
Saturday
I also made several casseroles for a baby shower I co-hosted saturday. I made a chicken and spinach manicotti and eggplant parm. Did not make my own sauce due to time restrictions, but got rave reviews on both nonetheless!
We also made some chili for a chili cookoff at a friend's house. It came out "OK". Better luck next time, I think. We really need to work on our chili skills...
Sunday
Breakfast was a fritatta made with anaheim, poblano and red pepper surplus from the chili making yesterday. It was excellent with some added colby cheese and fresh cliantro.
Currently, I am making a lamb and eggplant stew based on a recipe I found online. So far, it smells good, but I'm not convinced it's going to come out as well as expected....well, I guess we can always fall back on leftover cheese! And if it turns out well, I will post the recipe.
I have been doing a TON of dishes today : )
Friday
A friend came over for wine and cheese on friday - and i remembered that I really need to start logging these events. I wish I had starting taking pix of wine and cheese night 8 years ago - I would have some great photos and archives to look back on!
One of the wines we had was excellent and a gift from Mom -http://winelibrary.com/wines/32998-2005+Tir+Na+Nog+Grenache+750ML
Another was a bottle our friend brought over, Lyeth Cabernet Sauvignon...can't remember the vintage on that one.
The cheeses we had included a Talleggio, aParranno, a Boule de Perigord with black truffles.
We had some olives, steamed atrichokes (I need to work on my technique with these), and fresh roasted red peppers, along with some hot soppresatt and regular peppered salami. Pepper shooters and peppardews, too. We also had the usual array of dips, this time featuring my favorite mint and pistachio pesto and some almond olive paste.
Saturday
I also made several casseroles for a baby shower I co-hosted saturday. I made a chicken and spinach manicotti and eggplant parm. Did not make my own sauce due to time restrictions, but got rave reviews on both nonetheless!
We also made some chili for a chili cookoff at a friend's house. It came out "OK". Better luck next time, I think. We really need to work on our chili skills...
Sunday
Breakfast was a fritatta made with anaheim, poblano and red pepper surplus from the chili making yesterday. It was excellent with some added colby cheese and fresh cliantro.
Currently, I am making a lamb and eggplant stew based on a recipe I found online. So far, it smells good, but I'm not convinced it's going to come out as well as expected....well, I guess we can always fall back on leftover cheese! And if it turns out well, I will post the recipe.
I have been doing a TON of dishes today : )
Monday, January 25, 2010
Quote of the Day 01/25/2010
"To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter." - Aleister Crowley
What do you think Mr. Crowley would have thought about social networking and web 2.0?
What do you think Mr. Crowley would have thought about social networking and web 2.0?
Nice AIIM Article on E records management implementation
Got this Carl Weise article via @juliecolgan RT @BethMayhew
Implementing Electronic Records Management: A lot more than software http://ow.ly/109Ez
It may be very handy for communicating our process to colleagues; sometimes users have a tough time understanding why we "can't just throw up a folder structure" and let them have at it. It's a liiiitttllle more involved than that.
Implementing Electronic Records Management: A lot more than software http://ow.ly/109Ez
It may be very handy for communicating our process to colleagues; sometimes users have a tough time understanding why we "can't just throw up a folder structure" and let them have at it. It's a liiiitttllle more involved than that.
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