Hope y’all had a great long weekend – it felt amazing to have that one extra day and we did a lot of relaxing over here. Ever since writing this post about treating my IBS, I’ve received quite a few requests to blog about my daily eats. I know I fill this space with pictures of pork belly, bourbon, and tons of tacos, but I promise I cook Sunday-Friday:) It’s taken me almost 5 years to figure out how to…
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The weekend was lovely. I hadn’t really seen Matt in a while because of Key West and his weekend soccer tournament plus weekday travel for work. It was wonderful to go on a date! HG Supply has been on our list for quite some time, so we were both really excited to have dinner there. HG stands for hunter gatherer and the menu is Paleo-inspired; the food is simple and clean, and so was the space! I had a fabulous…
Tiring night number five, but hopefully it’s the last! Tonight was supposed to consist of just little cooking and cleaning and a whole lot of relaxin. But it didn’t turn out that way. I got started on the right foot with a quick Indian meal and a beer. This beer was perfect! One of my favorite holiday beers of 2011! After dinner, the plan was to make peanut butter buckeyes, one of my favorite holiday treats. If you’re not familiar…
Today’s weather was peerrfect. I don’t remember it getting this cool this early in the year though. I guess this is atypical? Matt took me to Foster’s Market for dinner tonight in honor of finishing his first round of business school exams. Foster’s is an adorable marketplace with salads, sandwiches, baked goods, and a daily hot food item. I used to go to the Chapel Hill location growing up, but have never been to the Durham one. We sat outside…
Day one… involved lots of driving! We made the seven hour trek from Albuquerque to Phoenix, stopping for a picnic of leftover Great Harvest bread, grapes, cheese, and a Thai shrimp salad we picked up from Whole Foods. And a beer – a yummy brown ale aged in hazelnut barrels? This picnic tasted sooo good after six hours of airport travel and two hours of driving! When we finally arrived at our resort, I was very impressed. It’s the…