Friday, May 23, 2008
Friday, May 16, 2008
Debbie's Dog Discourse
This blog is becoming quite the collection of dog pictures. Here's another one. We took Zed and Winston to the dog park tonight. Best day of the year so far - sunny and 80. This evening we had a few stray rainclouds. We got a little wet, but look at the gorgeous rainbow.
Speaking of dogs....another one in the family now. My niece Katie got a puppy for her birthday. Coco is the pup's name. When my niece sends me a picture, I'll post it.
Sunday, May 4, 2008
Best Meal in a Very Long Time
I had the best meal in a very long time this evening. We went to Cafe Levain and tried their Sunday night prix fixe menu. Everything was excellent. Well, it didn't start out so well. Our waitress essentially forgot about us for a good 10-15 minutes. I was ready to walk out...thankfully we didn't! We both ordered the Vegetarian menu once we had the waitress' attention. I also ordered the wine flight.
Everything they served was excellent to the nth power. First we were served a soup that was made up of micro greens, a vegetable called ramp that I had never heard of and it was all pureed. It was so extremely interesting. It was sweet, then spicy, then tart, then...well, I don't know how else to describe it, but it was such an interesting concoction. It was bright green in color - that was a bit disturbing, but once you tasted it....mmmmmm.....
The next course was a fingerling potato salad. It was also quite tasty. It had fresh green beans and from what I can tell now.....quite a bit of garlic. ;) It was so good though. Even the lettuce that is typically very bitter in taste was good.
The main course was the gnocchi. For those of you that know me well, you will be surprised. I was eating straight mushrooms - not small pieces on a pizza, but big pieces of mushroom with nothing else. Of course when I mentioned it to Steve he had to remind me that it was probably cooked in A LOT of butter. Still - delicious!
We ended up having a profiterole with mint chocolate chip ice cream for dessert. Just the right ending for a fabulous meal!
In addition, I had 3 tastings of wine to go with the various courses (minus dessert). Very good wine as well.
The food and the waitress' attention after a rough start made the meal very memorable. By far the best meal I've had in quite awhile.
Thankfully we went for an hour long walk prior to dinner. Probably could have used a similar walk afterward. :)
Everything they served was excellent to the nth power. First we were served a soup that was made up of micro greens, a vegetable called ramp that I had never heard of and it was all pureed. It was so extremely interesting. It was sweet, then spicy, then tart, then...well, I don't know how else to describe it, but it was such an interesting concoction. It was bright green in color - that was a bit disturbing, but once you tasted it....mmmmmm.....
The next course was a fingerling potato salad. It was also quite tasty. It had fresh green beans and from what I can tell now.....quite a bit of garlic. ;) It was so good though. Even the lettuce that is typically very bitter in taste was good.
The main course was the gnocchi. For those of you that know me well, you will be surprised. I was eating straight mushrooms - not small pieces on a pizza, but big pieces of mushroom with nothing else. Of course when I mentioned it to Steve he had to remind me that it was probably cooked in A LOT of butter. Still - delicious!
We ended up having a profiterole with mint chocolate chip ice cream for dessert. Just the right ending for a fabulous meal!
In addition, I had 3 tastings of wine to go with the various courses (minus dessert). Very good wine as well.
The food and the waitress' attention after a rough start made the meal very memorable. By far the best meal I've had in quite awhile.
Thankfully we went for an hour long walk prior to dinner. Probably could have used a similar walk afterward. :)
They Were Wrong - thankfully!!
We were forecasted to have snow once again this weekend, but thankfully the meteorologists were wrong! Yesterday was brisk, but sunny. Today is not so windy and high could possibly reach 70.
Of course I'm stuck inside working on a paper for Statistics - it is as fun as it sounds! Null Hypothesis testing, t-tests, f-tests, and p-values. Anyone out there get it? Neither do I. Sigh.
I'm about ready to switch and continue working on a presentation I have to give tomorrow night on The Aging Workforce and it's impact on businesses in the near future. That is a bit more up my alley (not the aging workforce), but rather the interest in the topic. :)
Hope everyone is finally enjoying some spring-like weather.
Of course I'm stuck inside working on a paper for Statistics - it is as fun as it sounds! Null Hypothesis testing, t-tests, f-tests, and p-values. Anyone out there get it? Neither do I. Sigh.
I'm about ready to switch and continue working on a presentation I have to give tomorrow night on The Aging Workforce and it's impact on businesses in the near future. That is a bit more up my alley (not the aging workforce), but rather the interest in the topic. :)
Hope everyone is finally enjoying some spring-like weather.
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