I don't think I've ever lost my appetite when I've been sick, and since I felt mostly cold/allergy sick, Neil and I decided to eat all weekend (I mean it's almost Fat Tuesday, right?)
Friday we just ordered in and watched Gravity, which I really liked! I never really wanted to see that movie, but in a quest to see as many Oscar pics are possible before Sunday, we made ourselves watch it. Sandra Bullock (we call her Sandy) was really great and, as always, Gorgeous George played a great role. Overall, I really liked the movie, but I didn't think it was Oscar worthy.
Saturday Neil went to work and I took Clark to the park for a bit and then came home and worked myself. Once work was out of the way we went to the grocery store to stock up for the night and weekend. Pretty much daily we talk about how much we loved our New Years Eve menu, so we decided to try to do a mini version of that menu.
My friend Mary Kate sent me the recipe for a caprese dip the other day and we HAD to try it. Just tomatoes, mozzarella and basil put int he over for 15 minutes. Yes, please.
After this we took a breather and watched Bridget Jones (I mean, it was about 4:00 by this time, we had to pace ourselves, big night).
We then had a little piece of seared Ahi Tuna, which was great!
Later in the night we had oysters, which are my FAVE, and they were MASSIVE!
Cant' have oysters without champagne.
At that point I went into a food coma and fell asleep for a bit and woke up to Notting Hill on TV which revitalized me long enough to have some mussels. When I say some, I'm pretty sure we had about 150 mussels each.
They were awesome and Neil did such a great job making the mussels and the sauce! Can't wait to do it again!
Since I'm a total fat girl and am convinced sea food will never fill me up, I can completely admit we got way too much food and didn't finish what we planned on eating throughout the night. Plus, I'm old and fell asleep early.
Saturday was just what the doctor ordered and I woke up feeling much better! We bummed around, took the dog out and enjoyed a mellow Sunday. We had some left over food from Saturday that we didn't eat, so for lunch we had octopus!
Neil and I also had some food cooking during the day for our lunches during the week. Someone smelled something good cooking and sat in the kitchen staring up in the stove for awhile.
Last night we went to dinner with Neil's parents and his sister to celebrate his dad's birthday! We went to a place we saw on Check Please a few weeks ago and it was great to catch up with the Bermans! We got home in time to catch the end of the awards (phew)! To wear one of those dresses just ONE day would be the best thing ever! I was obsessed with the red dress Pink wore. 12 Years a Salve comes out this week on demand, so I can't give my feedback on the Oscar choices yet, but I was really happy to see Jared Leto and Matthew McConaughey win, they both definitely deserved it!
While we were watching the Oscars, Neil discovered that Clark LOVES the back scratcher! Who knew!
Have a great week!!
