Holy Cannoli!

I have eaten several meals between this meal and the last I posted about, however, they were all just small gatherings at area restaurants and having waiting this long to post about them, they have lost their sentiment. or whatever. i don't really know what that means.

but i want to write about a really amazing meal i ate at my friends, Virginia and Eliot's house. Eliot's mother is a chef and was in town visiting her son and his beautiful wife. i love love love virginia and eliot. from the first time i ever met them. i loved them.

i don't really know their good friends and i always think it's nice to have a meal with people who are new and different. later on in the meal some of my closer friends showed up who had been working on an installation at a gallery. friends!

so, a meal of polenta souffle, mixed greens, mushroom soup, and green beans was prepared. delicious.

eliot's mom told us funny stories of things eliot said and did as a child. i should have written this post last week. so sue me!

i wish i didnt write such a boring post!

oysters on the half shell

jonny and i were goin to make salmon and asparagus and orzo tonight for dinner until we entered quALity seafood on airport boulevard. i asked about raw oysters and the guy scooped a ladle into this little bowl of oyster meat. it looked gross. when i clarified and asked for oysters on the half shell he told me that they sell them in boxes of 100. the price seemed reasonable and we took them home.

all 100, unshucked oysters.

some people got stabbed. others enjoyed raw oysters with horseradish, lemon, sriracha, and tabasco. gorgonzola and saltines were also added to the fixin's bar as the night progressed. we drank a lot of beer and wine and i think that a good time was had by all.

free meal!!!!!

so this was not actually my first meal back in austin. i drove 15 hours from atlanta to austin on wednesday, all alone. my first stop back in austin was my friends house, where my dog had been housed for the two weeks that i was away. my friend, maury bought me dinner which was so nice but unfortunatly my throat was too sore to eat.

my first real celebratory meal in austin was held after i picked jenny, my roomie up from the airport. she had just come back from a week in mexico, who knows what she ate! so she had plans with beatrice for lunch and i wanted to join in.


the weather was super nice and we wanted to eat outside but we didn't want it to be too meaty and we also couldnt really have mexican food. on the way, we picked up beatrice's friend stanley who took his lunch break with us.

beatrice ordered her favorite app and was enjoying it until stanley asked for a bite. we all watched as her face turned sour and she stuck out her tongue to reveal a shard of glass. and then again to push out a large piece of glass. we all stared in disbelief and she spit the rest of her mouthful into a napkin. we told the waitress who apologized, took the plate, and sent the manager out who comped our entire meal. only we hadn't ordered yet. all of our "should i get the soup AND the salad?" concerns were alleviated and we were all able to get everything that sounded appealing.


all though we were all pretty taken aback by glass in beatrice's appetizer, this had put a whole new spin on the meal and we all enjoyed ourselves fully.

also, the service was superb and the poor waitress more than made up for the kitchen's mistake. i felt bad because she pretty much was kissing her butt's for the rest of the time. or maybe she was just really sweet. you should eat at this place for suuuuuuure! plus i'm like pretty sure that luke wilson was eating inside while we were there. i mean, he was covered in glitter, so it must've been a celebrity? right? yes/no?

atlanta on tuesday

i got to atlanta on tuesday evening and went to see my friend, shauna's new baby. i definitely said things like "wierd, you have a baby" "baby's are so wierd" "wierd, you are like responsible for something". stuff like that. i guess babies are cool, or whatever, but like carrying a baby for 9 months and then giving birth to it and then raising it seems insane to me.



alien almost.

this is little eliot. just you wait until he's big enough to wear the onesie i got for him. jsut you wait.

i went to my friend katie's house to sleep and to eat. she had invited her friends over and i was really excited to hang out with some cool atlantics. ha. i know that's not what people from atlanta are called, but what the heck, right? so katie had invited some of her gf's over and she and i went to get groceries when i arrived. we decided upon a menu of fish tacos and quesadillas.


katie had come out to austin last sxsw and at that time i had met her friend shana, who i actually stayed with last may when i passed through atlanta. they are both very fun people. together we prepped and made our dinner.

i was just slightly disappointed that this dinner did not seem as interactive as others. i really enjoy sitting in a round table environment and having some sense of community. that is what i strive for with every gathering and shared meal. this meal lacked that sense and i was really upset when most of the guests left shortly after the meal was done. everyone was spread out among the living room and the front porch and i didn't get to engage in too many conversations. maybe i was just tired or something.


katie, i hope that this post does not upset you. thank you for keeping me! am i betch?

oh katie and priss being cute together.

oh i forgot perly's

the morning that i was leaving richmond melissa, katie, bonnie and i went to perly's for breakfast. i love coffee. and i ordered my drink first and for some reason i ordered iced tea. then i heard "coffee, coffee, coffee" and i felt like somehow i had missed out on a morning tradition. but really, i didn't want coffee. i really love coffee, but when i'm actually tired, coffee does me more harm than good. i crash really hard from coffee. so i guess that's why i ordered tea? who knows. iced tea makes me nausueous faster than coffee, it's got a higher concentration of caffeine.

so anyway. at one point the waitress heard me mumble something along the lines of "i can't believe i ordered tea" and she was like "you want a stupid cup of coffee?" so then she brought me one and i drank it totally unwillingly. sike. DOUBLE SIKE!!!!

um. i'm drunk right now and don't have anything else to say. i love these bitches. here we done gone drinkining dem dumb cofferties! what uppppppppppppp?

Apple Annie's in South Carolina

I left richmond on monday morning headed to Florence, SC to see an old friend and former roomate, erika. i haven't seen her in about four years and we had much to catch up on. it's all the same, we can still just sit there and talk and talk. no stories ever get told in their entirety because each detail sparks questions which route the conversation in all different directions.



we went to a cute sandwich place called apple annie's where they serve $3 pitchers of yeungling. i love sandwiches. i love yeungling. i picked up four 12 packs of yeungling to take back to austin since we can't get it there. i always used to drink it when i lived in richmond and it was cheap and good. but now, i realize how cheap and how it good it really is. it's a shame we can't get it, but it probably wouldnt be so cheap if we could. right?

so we did so much talking that i totally forgot to snap pictures of us enjoying our meal. i had big filet of salmon and lettuce and bacon on a croissant. croissants are so decadent. erika ate a club sandwich.

the menu said that all sandwiches were served with fries and chips. we joked about it also coming with a baked potato and potato salad. it actually only came with potato chips. but i like chips and i especially love crinkly ones for the added crunch. and that's what they were.

Dinner at Ipanema

On Saturday night, my friend lauren came to hang out after she got off of work, but my msg induced coma prohibited us from making any real memories. i was given a raincheck for dinner the following evening in a tight window of time, between lauren getting off of work and then having to buckle down to finish a presentation for class.

also, my good friend bonnie had been out of town checking out a school with her boyfriend in pennsylvania. so the three of us decided to share a meal and lauren suggested ipanema. ipanema was always a favorite of mine, however, all that comes to mind is a hummus sandwich they served. although they have a more expansive menu, i was not in the mood for hummus, therefore, tried tirelessly to suggest other options. lauren and bonnie had a problem with every suggestion i made and then the few they agreed with were not open on a sunday night. while we decided, i had a sweet photo shoot with lauren's dog, dollie madison.


so ipanema it was. we ran into some friends as we entered, and what do you think they were eating? hummus sandwich, that's right.



we checked out the menu, made our selections and sat in a corner booth. i ordered a chick pea crepe thing and bonnie got some gouda sandwich and lauren had rockfish. obviously, i don't care as much about what we eat as the whole process, so let's not focus on that.



it was nice to catch up with my ladies over a bottle of wine and much shit talking. actually, it wasn't shit talking, it was more future plans talking.


and with much prefacing, i told them about a "career" i've been thinking of. i don't even want to mention it on here, but i am so not interested in being responsible and having a career and being a real adult. they thought i was silly for being so hesitant.

we all tried to look really displeased and bored in our pictures. it's really hard for me to keep a straight face.