salmon salad and scrabble

Heather and I made dinner together tonight, because that's the kind of adorable neighbors that we are.  Actually I offered to make dinner for Heather because she was saying what a crazy week she had this week.  Unfortunately she is not able to let go of control enough to let me make her an entire dinner by myself so we had to compromise with this.  She made the salad, I made the salmon.

The wine was from a vineyard that she visited in Napa last week.

It was a delicious meal.  Complimented by the after dinner game of scrabble (which I won).

Entertainment provided by this precious angel:

so good

Salmon with salt, pepper, and lemon juice

on top of

sautéed baby brussel sprouts and grape tomatoes with garlic and leeks

on a bed of brown rice.

Best served from a dish that's been hand painted by a best friend.

taking myself out

Yesterday was a strange day for me.  I woke up at 5:15 to take Heather to the airport and then drove straight home and went back to bed.  I didn't wake up again until like noon.

I spent the majority of the day cleaning which was good.  I found out at some point in the afternoon that I was going to have to work today, and in the morning no less.  I felt like I didn't want to spend my one day off sleeping and cleaning, but unable to find anybody available to hang out I ended up taking myself out to eat.

Well kind of, I harassed Joel while he worked, and I had dinner too.  It was nice, although my timing could have been better for me seeing Joel.  I ended up being there during old people time so he stayed pretty busy most of the time.

But at least I got out of the house, and you can't argue with this commute.

dinner for 3

Meghan invited Craig and I over for the delicious dinner shown above. Parsley and tomato with a tahini dressing for the salad and a torte for the main course which had layers of potatoes, zucchini, squash, and delicious cheesy herby crumblies.

The best part was that Meghan had special jobs for each of us to do. My jobs were usually taken away from me because I couldn't quite grasp what it was I was supposed to do. I would just get too excited about something else and stop paying attention to what I was doing. That's how I cook, maybe it's not "technically" the best way to do it but I make it work.

Anyways, while waiting for food to be ready we had lots of fun activities to enjoy including Meghan regaling us with tales of the murderous squirrel that she scares away by banging spoons on her fire escape, or exploring the creepy haunted apt next door. We played scrabble and both of them ended up muttering curse words at me under my breath. I don't know why.

The final dish was the berry bars as seen below. I just finished my last one this morning, it was even better several days later after the berry goodness had solidified. But fresh out of the oven was pretty good too.
I love dinner parties at meghans, I will miss them. Maybe i'll just fly back weekly...