foods!

Yesterday we went to Jess & Rachael’s. We made some delicious food and ate for a long long time.

We started off with a nice salad:

spinach and endive salad with red onion and pears

Then, onto another salad:

sweet corn and black bean salad served with shiitake bacon

Next was couscous and a lentil salad:

parmesan and green onion couscous

lentil salad with toasted almonds, red onions, cilantro, and lemon zest

There was also calamari and tempura veggies:

fried calamari with 2 dipping sauces: a rosemary aioli and chunky marinara sauce & tempura veggies

Lastly, there was tuna tartare:

tuna tartare with sweet soy reduction, sriracha, toasted sesame seeds, and green onions served with fried wontons

Rachael enjoying some foods and wines.

Jess eating some tuna tartare.

It was super fun…and we nibbled for around 5 hours. Crazy. Yummy. We should do it again.

PS – There are a few more pics on my flickr page. Check ’em out if you like.

Sweet Stuff!

Alright, here are some pictures from the trip:

(going around a mountain on the way to the cabin…pretty much the longest 20 miles ever.)

(this was our cabin. we stayed at Lands Creek Cabins. it was really nice.)

(this was right beside our cabin and sounded so good.)

(so i was checking out the guest book, and apparently i’d stayed there before…hmm…)

(on the main street of bryson city.)

(these mushrooms looked like they were carved out of wood. weird.)

(these are from the train ride on the Great Smoky Mountain Railroads.)

(this house was pretty sweet.)

(these were pretty weird…there were lots of these, just floating. the guy doing the announcements on the train said these were vacation houses and couldn’t be used for more than around a week at the time. i wanted to ask questions though…i mean, this is gross, but when you flush the toilet, where does it go? ugh)

I have about this many more on my flickr page if you’d like to check them out. I know you do.

Sweet Stuff!

So I’m doing this blog again…maybe it’ll be a Sunday thing…even though Sunday’s almost over.

1. I renewed my Flickr pro account! Yay! It went out around my birthday and I’ve been missing all my extra pics and it wouldn’t let me upload new ones. It was pretty devestating. But now I have it again. You can relax!

(This is from the Statesboro Goodwill….I really should have bought that picture. I don’t know what I would have done with it but c’mon!)

2. I was riding my bike some before it started raining every day.  Seriously rain, stop it!

3. I uploaded a bajillion things to my etsy today! Woohoo! I still have a few more to do tomorrow. My new-ish stuff looks pretty summer-y.

4. Atlanta makes me laugh sometimes.

See those few plants behind the sign? Yeah, that was it.

They weren’t kidding when they said spot.

5. So I was thrift store shopping the other day and outside the store found a roll of film. Used film! (I hope!)

I always want to find  random pictures for some reason. And, lookit, I found a whole roll. I hope it’s something great like this:

And not like this:

6. Someone’s birthday is coming up and I’m very excited to be making the cupcake version of this:

Sweet huh?

7. I really love PostSecret, but this scared me! haha