Wonderful Weekend

Monday was a very unwelcome guest at our house this morning. We both had nice, relaxing weekends (albeit we weren't together for most of it), and capped it off we a nice evening together on Sunday night. I'm a sucker for fresh produce, so when we saw strawberries on sale while we were grocery shopping I just knew we had to get some. Then we subsequently planned our entire evening around these strawberries. The original idea was to do chocolate covered strawberries, so we knew we needed a lighter dinner. Cue bruschetta. So delicious. Then Darrell decided that we also needed to finish off the vanilla ice cream in our freezer, so the strawberries went under the chopper, got drizzled with some chocolate, and topped off our ice cream (actually, there may have been more strawberries than ice cream. Whoops). It was divine. I didn't think to get a picture of our concoction (guess we'll just have to make it again...), but we also used our laid-back evening as a chance to cross another item off our 101 in 1001 list. Since we weren't really doing a sit-down dinner we didn't want to open a bottle of wine (especially since most all we have is heavy reds), and we just weren't in a beer mood, so out came our drink mixer. Darrell had the foresight to pick up some grenadine at the store, so without any difficultly we were able to whip up a Tequila Sunrise.

To be completely honest, I wasn't completely blown away by this drink--Darrell has concocted a few specialized drinks of his own which I definitely think are better. But it was still a good way to close out the night, and now we've officially made a drink listed on our mixer (despite the fact that it was one of the first gifts I bought Darrell when he got his first apartment over three years ago).


I do promise to have some recipes coming up in the next few days; I've got two or three of them ready to go but just don't have the time to get to them today!