Last night R grilled porterhouse steaks and Texas toast and made smashed red potatoes for dinner. I am so lucky. And we paired another delicious bottle of wine with the meal:
Funny name, fantastic taste.
One more bottle
It was a lazy day and a wine night
Today we had all the best intentions to get a lot of work done on the house, since we’ve been extremely remiss in that department lately and the four year mark of this remodel is knocking on the door. Honest.
However, an early rise by D, followed soon after by a 2 hour nap for her that allowed R to sleep in and me to go back to sleep too resulted in us turning this day into a fully lazy family day. And it was pure bliss.
We don’t get these often, and the skies have never come tumbling down when we’ve put off house work before, so we took full advantage. I did no cleaning or laundry, R hung not one inch of trim, D got to be in jammies all day after her bath this morning, and we spent the entire afternoon and evening catching up on and finishing the series Big Love. Ahh….
D’s cold is back – AGAIN – but her usual smiley little self was in full effect between naps, complete with laughing, squeaking, and scooting around the house. This afternoon I was blessed with 2 hours of my left arm full of this, though:
Followed by a little of this:
Tonight we cracked open 3 bottles of wine, simply because we can. They were great, too. I can’t remember the last time I actually thought each bottle we opened was really good. Here’s what our personal wine tasting entailed:
It’s been a wonderful day. And the best part? The weekend’s only half over!
Yum to the um!
So remember how I said R’s a great cook and loves to take pictures of what he makes? Well check out what we had for dinner last night. BLADDOW!
Mushroom ragout-stuffed rolled beef tenderloin. Um, yes please, I’ll have two. 🙂 He served it with a side of spaghetti, then made some extra spaghetti sauce to go on top of both the beef and pasta. What a man!! For a beverage, we enjoyed a bottle of this:
It paired nicely with the beef – a smooth, easy-drinking red with none of the harsh throat-burning that some merlots can cause (i’m sure there’s a technical *wine* term for that, like it’s caused by tannins, or whatever, but i like to dumb my descriptions down to my wine level – do i like it, or don’t i like it?).
‘Twas a great way to wind down the weekend. Saturday we spent the afternoon and evening at our friends T & S’s house watching some NCAA tourney bball action and letting D play with their little girl, which was a lot of fun. Yesterday morning I got some house cleaning and laundry done while R did all the preparations for dinner. D’s cold intensified infinitely yesterday, unfortunately, so she spent all day coughing and battling snot rivers out of her nose. Poor little thing. She’d cough so hard she’d gag, which would in turn cause her to throw up anything she had in her. 🙁 Fortunately she was only up once last night and seemed a little better this morning with much less coughing, so we have our fingers crossed that we don’t get a call from daycare asking us to come pick her up today. We both were amazed, though, at how happy and playful she still was through all of it – nose wiped a million times, jammies changed 3 times due to barf eruptions, coughs to the point where you could tell her throat was so raw and sore, and very little napping.
And now here we are back at Monday again. How does that always happen so quickly?? I hope you all had a great weekend!
Bottle of Red
A few weeks ago I thought it’d be fun to try having a glass of wine each night to improve my palate as well as experience a wider variety of vintages. The antioxidants are supposed to be heart-healthy too, so why not imbibe? Everything in moderation, my friends. Yeah, well, so far that’s failed. Best intentions and all.
But tonight I finally cracked open a new bottle. This one:
Cedar Creek Winery Cabernet Sauvignon. Not bad. A little dry for my liking, but then again I have a super sweet tooth, which applies to my drinks as well. I need to work on that with my reds.
I’ll try to keep you abreast of my travels through the world of wines, see which ones get the SM seal of approval. Cheers!