{"id":221,"date":"2007-09-24T10:48:30","date_gmt":"2007-09-24T15:48:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/?p=221"},"modified":"2007-09-24T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2007-09-24T19:00:46","slug":"oh-goodie-monday-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/oh-goodie-monday-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Goodie, Monday Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find Mondays to be an increasingly tedious part of my weekly routine.\u00a0 This is a quite frustrating situation, given that there’s not much I can do about it.\u00a0 I guess I should look at the bright side;\u00a0 Monday night television now consists of Monday Night Raw AND <\/strong>Monday Night Football.\u00a0 Gosh, so many entertainment options.<\/p>\n

I supposed our Thursday night is worth a mention before I jump into the sparse weekend coverage.\u00a0 We don’t usually go out on school nights, together anyway, so just the fact that we left the house was news in itself.\u00a0 (Somebody usually has to stay home and babysit the dogs, but they are slowly getting a little better at being left alone.)\u00a0 Our destination was the Peanut downtown, where our friend Anne works every Thursday.\u00a0 The ‘Nut ranks as one of my favorite dinner destinations in the city, particularly when Anne is cooking.\u00a0 It might not be the most heart-friendly meal, and strays a bit from our recent attempt at a healthier diet, but you have to shock the metabolism every now and then I think.\u00a0 She started us off with her world-famous appetizer;\u00a0 Lays potato chips served with a cup of blue cheese dressing.\u00a0 Let the artery thickening begin.\u00a0 We followed that up with a bakers dozen of their enormous hot wings, then rounded the meal out with a triple BLT and fries.\u00a0 (The sandwich was loaded down with about a pound of bacon, and of course the fries came with another cup of blue cheese for dipping.)\u00a0 Whew.\u00a0 Now that’s eatin’, people.<\/p>\n

Not a bad weekend all-in-all;\u00a0 A little bit of partying intermingled with some thrilling culinary adventures.\u00a0 OK, maybe “thrilling” is a stretch, but we did actually cook at home a few times.\u00a0 Friday was shaping up into a non-event, so we decided to hunker down and cook some dinner.\u00a0 After taking a quick inventory of the freezer and the cabinets, we decided on grilled fish with a white wine and rosemary reduction sauce.\u00a0 It came out fair.\u00a0 Sounds better than it actually was.\u00a0 For the most part I just like saying “white wine reduction sauce,” the rest is secondary.\u00a0 That was essentially our Friday;\u00a0 The rest of the night consisted of bad television intermingled with a few riveting games of sudoku on the computer.<\/p>\n

Saturday afternoon wasn’t much to speak of, for me anyway.\u00a0 I walked the dogs quite a ways, while Donette hit the Plaza Art Fair with her friends Susan, Anne, Lucy & Katie.\u00a0 Luckily (miraculously) she didn’t buy anything.\u00a0 After that, we met up with a crowd down at the New Point Grill to celebrate Carol Brown’s 40th birthday.\u00a0 We had a good time but couldn’t stay long, because I had to work later that night.\u00a0 But, I never miss a chance to party on Kevin’ s dime so we stayed as long as we could.<\/p>\n

Sunday we spent our afternoon cooking and watching football.\u00a0 I was volunteered to smoke some turkey and brisket for our neighborhood block party that night, so that ate up most of the day.\u00a0 I used the Red Buffalo’s<\/a> award-winning turkey recipe, and was quite pleased with the results.\u00a0 For the most part it consisted of brining the bird all night, then smoking it at around 225 with a generous amount of butter and fresh herbs.\u00a0 Meanwhile, while the smoker was running, Donette took a shot at a new chicken<\/a> recipe.\u00a0 She smoked up a bunch of chicken<\/a> thighs, and I must admit they came out more-than-passable.\u00a0 Too bad girls are strictly prohibited from competing on the TFB team, we could use the help.\u00a0 But, rules are rules.\u00a0 Since food is the general topic of the moment, I suppose our lunch bears mention too.\u00a0 I made my first-ever frittata<\/a>, and it came out very nicely.\u00a0 If, like myself, you’ve never heard of a frittata<\/a>, I would liken it to some kind of cross between an omelet and a quiche.\u00a0 Here’s the recipe I used, if you feel adventurous:\u00a0 Italian Frittata<\/a>.\u00a0 Our Sunday evening was spent at the aforementioned block party.\u00a0 It was as much fun as standing around trying to talk to a bunch of people you don’t know can be, I guess.\u00a0 It was mercifully short at any rate, and broken up with frequent trips back to the house to “check on the dogs.”\u00a0 I won a door prize though;\u00a0 That made it worthwhile right there.\u00a0 A gift certificate to a nearby restaurant…\u00a0 More food!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I find Mondays to be an increasingly tedious part of my weekly routine.\u00a0 This is a quite frustrating situation, given that there’s not much I can do about it.\u00a0 I guess I should look at the bright side;\u00a0 Monday night television now consists of Monday Night Raw AND Monday Night Football.\u00a0 Gosh, so many entertainment […]<\/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-221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221","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=221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pkenagy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}