HOORAY! Saturday is finally here!
After a long, hard week, it's nice to have fun things to look forward to. Even when you wake up to freezing cold temperatures in your house (okay, only 65 degrees, but still) and SNOW (that's right folks) on the mountain. Did anyone happen to notice the date on this post? Snow in the middle of August. How dare Mother Nature!
Our original Saturday plans included water, friends, and wave runners. But given the forecast, we opted for more weather appropriate activities. Like weeding...
But luckily our friend and neighbor, Samantha, rescued us from our Saturday chore fate and offered another alternative--LUNCH! And not just any lunch mind you. But a gourmet lunch--featuring Tyler Florence's Grilled Cheese Sandwich. YUM! The perfect comfort food on a snowy summer day.
Here's a link in case you want to try your hand at a scrumptious sandwich. http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/tyler-florence/grilled-cheese-recipe/index.html
Of course we documented our fabulous lunch for the blog. Here's Jen before at Samantha's beautifully set table. Please note the real pink/red roses.
And here's our chef preparing our meal. Oh yeah, Samantha didn't want to be in the photo. But believe me, she's there slaving away! Notice the yummy salads in the front left of the photo. When I say gourmet, I mean gourmet.
We even had fancy mixed drinks. Don't worry Mom, no alcohol!
Notice our plates are practically licked clean! So, many thanks to Samantha for a fabulous lunch and for doing the dishes (although we offered to help). Cafe Sam gets five stars and two happy faces!
On a slightly different, but related note...
We saw two movies on Friday night: The Time Traveller's Wife and Julie & Julia. Both were great! We also saw 500 Days of Summer on Saturday afternoon. Again another pretty good film. Who wouldn't love 500 days of summer, right? Who wouldn't love 90 days of summer (hint, hint Mother Nature!)?
Anyway, we were inspired by the movie Julie & Julia and a challenge was issued! Watch for an upcoming Saturday blog where we attempt to cook (and eat) a recipe from Julia Child. Bon Appetit!
4 comments:
It SNOWED last week?! Wow. I knew it got cold and all, but no one mentioned the snow. Almost makes me feel guilty that I was in San Diego enjoying the sun. Almost.
Did I mention that we were driving a convertible when we were there? With the top down? Hmmmm....But now, just look at this Saturday....99 degrees!
Thanks Samantha for the delicious lunch! Cafe Sam is wayyy better than Tyler Florence! But, we still like Tyler. ;)
I have been totally looking forward to those movies. I'm glad to hear you enjoyed both.
Samantha's food looks so good. It makes me want to bust out a cook book or two.
Yeah, another recipe. I am so excited to try this one too. I haven't made the lemon chicken yet, but I will give you a full report when I do.
I hope that when you post about your Julia Child recipes that you pretend to be Julia Child and video you making them. Please do the lobster one and the poultry recipe she did at the end - can't remember if it was duck or goose or bald eagle.
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