dinner at my parents house

the most amazing person that i've ever met passed away recently and i went home for his funeral. i lost my camera charger, so i can't really take pictures, but i think some of the other people who were there maybe took some and i can update this later.

there was a really amazing memorial in richmond on saturday, and then a visitation time with his parents in northern virginia on sunday. sunday was mother's day. so after the visitation, kendall, tyler, melissa, katie, morgan and i went ot my parents house where they fed our sad little faces.

there was a nice salad and grilled shrimp and grilled marinated chicken and beef. my parents take entertaining very seriously and my dad had bought my mother a new patio umbrella that has a base and hangs over the table, rather than coming up from a pole in the center. plus they have a ridiculous grill. but really, it's the meat i wanted to talk about. the chicken was marinated in saffron and something liquidish and the beef is marinated in pomegrante paste and ground walnuts and other things. it's the bomb.

soon i will move into my very own place. there i hope to have many little dinner parties. and i also hope to have a new charger for my dumb new camera. which i also plan on taking on a tubing trip this summer if it ever gets warm enough to go into the water. boo ya!

din ho!

on recommendation from the fearless critic, we went to eat at din ho. while we waited to order we read from the chinese horoscope placemats. we is totally not compatible. i can't remember now who i am compatible with, no one probably. SIKE!!! whatever.
this place was really cheap, i got a big old dish of duck and roast chicken and it was like $8. it was ok, it was a little bit too much though. i never want to share a meal with the person i'm eating with because a)if you both order you can try different things b)ordering one meal is cheap and tacky. i am neither of these things. i can't remember what he got and from the pictures, i can't really tell. was it fish? a fish dish is probable. but my duck had lots of bones and was cut in a way that shards remained embedded in the meat. i hate having to spit things out at a restaurant. i mean, like separating parts of the food in my mouth. anyway, the food was good and cheap cheap cheap. which once again, i am not.

meatfest at cody's!!!!

this post should have been written weeks ago. but well, it wasn't. luckily i have pictures to refresh my memory.
i went with cody, sara, maury, lindsay, and lindsay's gf whose name i don't remember (oooooooooh nooooo, i'm sorry) to hamilton pool one day last month. afterwards we made a really nice dinner at cody's house.

the day prior i had attended this building event that cody's work had hosted and they had served this amazing amazing napolito dish you can apparently get at el milagro on saturdays. i tried to recreate this and was not very successful, but well, i don't think it sucked.
we also grilled scrimp, and snausage, and steak. and lots of grilled vegetables. del.i.cous. i don't even know what the website thing is and i'm pretty sure i didn't write it correctly, but oh well.

T&S Seafood

Maury and I went to Whole Foods yesterday for lunch because i wanted a salad or something kind of healthful and there are a million options there. plus i still don't really know about all the restaurants in town. while we there maury bought some restaurant guide. so we read through it and decided on a place that we had both heard about from others that neither of us had gone to.

in the guide it made it seem like t&s was going to be lined with fish tanks, the premise is that your food is caught in front of you and then taken and cooked up, real fresh like. we ate lots. so much that neither of us could eat our entrees. we got these little shrimp cakes and then a pork and salted egg and mustard greens soup that we shared.

for his entree maury got flounder which was the special for the night and i got lamb stew pot. i forgot how fatty lamb is. i ate a bunch of his flounder though. i even ate the head. like pretty much the whole head. i ate the eyeballs too.
sometimes it's hard for us to have a good time together. this was not one of those nights. thanks maury i had fun!!!

also, the walls were not lined with fish tanks at all. bummer.

Liberty Bar in San Antonio!!!

i first went to liberty bar last may when my friend helene was visiting from DC. maury and i took her to see the alamo and we had a lot of fun on a water taxi on the riverwalk. i mean, it was totally shitty fun. not like real fun. sike!

so anyhow, that day we ate at liberty bar which totally reminded me of the east coast. the building has high ceilings and the whole thing is slanted. it's just really charming and the staff is nice.

today jonny and i went to san antonio so that he could see the wonder that is the alamo and go to thrift stores and to eat at liberty bar.

what a joyous occasion! i ate steak tartare!!!!! i was actually pretty worried about it and it wasn't bad, but it was very similar to eating cream cheese and lox with all the good good fixins, and i think that i would prefer to do that. also, i was afraid to finish the whole thing because i figured it would feel pretty horrible to be full on raw ground beef.



jonny ate some boring pasta dish. tighten up jonny! i think he liked it.

also, jonny and i being the voyeurs that we are watched people (seemingly homeless? or maybe just adventurous) doing it under the bridge just catty cornered to the restaurant. we had pretty good seats for the show. but then the fuzz busted it all up. is the fuzz the police? because that is who i am talking bout.

also, one time jonny was reading this here blog aloud whilst sitting next to me. my writing sounds like a high school paper. never read mi blog aloud.

p.s. while we were in san antonio we went into a hall of mirrors. it was actually really cool. here you see too too many jonnys. two too many.

LBJ Ranch

on sunday we took our friends who were visiting from virginia to LBJ national park. while en route my boss called and was like "why are you going there?" i realized when we got there why she had asked that question. there really wasn't anything there. except for a bangin picnic we had packed, a box of records and a portable record player, and a box of wine.

first off, i think the portable record player heightens any experience. we had a nice meal that consisted of proscuitto, some funny cheese, hummus, fig and hazelnut spread, and spinach and strawberry salad. oh and bread. oh and chocolate. oh and anchovies. was that it?

at some point we realized that there were longhorns and white-tailed deer fenced not to far from where we were eating. we checked them out and walked past that area to the pedernales river.
we hung out for a while on the river listening to records and being kids. i love my friends.

Woodland!

Roomate DATE!!!

i had received an email from my friend, Janelle, who lives in Philly about a blog she had read on apartment therapy about a restaurant in Austin, called Woodland. (pant, pant, pant)

so our lease is about to be up and our rent is going to be raised and we took this as an opportunity to get together and discuss our options.

we figured woodland would be a good place to try out. it is super cute, the staff is nice and there is a fake tree in the dining room. we got in there pretty early so we didnt have to wait for a seat and were able to just jump right in with our wine drinking.


i like friend dates. we laughed and laughed and made sure everyone knew that we were having a better time than them. sike! double sike!