Sorry, a little sarcasm accidentally snuck into my title. \u00a0It couldn’t be helped. \u00a0It was actually another in my long streak of safely mediocre weekends, which is OK. \u00a0Friday, Donette came home from two weeks straight in Chicago so we decided to go enjoy each others company at some new, exciting venues. \u00a0We selected the Brooksider, and after that became tiresome we tried a place down the street called “Jalapenos.” \u00a0Nothing wrong with a little familiarity. \u00a0It might be a bad sign that I could tell the name of every single staff member I interacted with, at both places. \u00a0Or it might be good, I don’t know.<\/p>\n
Saturday we had chores to do. \u00a0Stuff around the house, doggie school, stuff like that. \u00a0We did go out for a bona fide Date Night for our evening entertainment. \u00a0We really don’t get to see each other too much lately, so we decided to hit the town a bit. \u00a0We had a nice dinner at the Savoy Grill<\/a>, which was awesome. \u00a0Top notch, if a bit out of my price range. \u00a0After that…. \u00a0Well I’m not sure how to best describe the next outing. \u00a0It had been so long since we’d gone out, I actually thought it sounded like a great idea when she suggested Le Miserables<\/a> at Music Hall. \u00a0Really, I did; \u00a0I was honestly looking forward to it. \u00a0I think it was about six seconds into it when I realized “Holy crud, this is the show I renamed “Phil Miserable” after we saw it at Starlight.” \u00a0Yep, the same. \u00a0Except this was inside, with no bats to watch for \u00a0diversion and worse seats. \u00a0What can I say, I just don’t think theater is my thing. \u00a0I tried to gut it out, but I’m not sure I put on a very good front because she mercifully suggested we call it a night at intermission. \u00a0I don’t think she was liking it too much either really; \u00a0We were too far back and couldn’t see very well. \u00a0A nice evening out though, it never hurts to try new things. \u00a0Well, maybe a little bit.<\/p>\n Sunday I spent the better part of my day trying out my super-duper new dutch oven. \u00a0I made a massive pot of turkey gumbo with all the turkey leftovers from Thanksgiving. \u00a0(Yes, Food Safety Majors, they’ve been stored safely frozen since then.) \u00a0It came out OK I guess. \u00a0The new pot performed admirably, but I didn’t get my roux dark enough. \u00a0Ran out of patience, again. \u00a0Geez, if a nice dark roux can really be made in 20 to 30 minutes like all the recipes say, I’d sure like to know how. \u00a0I gave up at 50 minutes, and it wasn’t near dark enough. \u00a0I was just tired of stirring. \u00a0It cost me in terms of finished product though; \u00a0Just not quite as much flavor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sorry, a little sarcasm accidentally snuck into my title. \u00a0It couldn’t be helped. \u00a0It was actually another in my long streak of safely mediocre weekends, which is OK. \u00a0Friday, Donette came home from two weeks straight in Chicago so we decided to go enjoy each others company at some new, exciting venues. \u00a0We selected the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1392,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}