Oh Scandia!

Mellow Friday night/Pizza night/Movie night. Feeling lazy, we tried that Pillsbury dough in a canister (next week we’re going to pre-bake the crust) with summer sausage and green olives (next week we’re going to rinse the olives). Yum!
Spiderman 3 mostly sucked. I’m over Tobey Maguire (I can't even be bothered to google the spelling of his name).

We drove to Scandia on Saturday to visit VP – so nice to get out of the city for a while – although there were HUGE Bachman/McCain/GOP lawnsigns all over. A couple of signs for Obama/Franken/hope here and there.
She has such a cool home - can't see any neighbors, has her own pond, an apple tree - we were sort of jealous.

Saturday night we had dinner at Porter & Frye in the Ivey Hotel. Amazing! CC and I both had beef tenderloin that was sous-vide (cooked in a vacuum bag at low temp) that was so tender. Mashed potatoes and mushrooms with a healthy dose of white truffle oil. Pork terrine to start, an heirloom tomato salad with crème fraiche sorbet, fun drinks. Dinner lasted two and a half hours!

Laid around yesterday. It was odd to see periodic snow flurries outside. We stayed a bit bundled and, thanks to the blinds in the bedroom, the house didn’t feel cold. In fact the heater didn’t run all day!

And back to Monday. I’m starting on the November menu. We inventoried the freezers, so I’m trying to incorporate a lot of those meals. It’s time to see the cost-savings next month!