It works for me on so many levels. I am pavement girl after all!
Chasing Pavements
Lemony Asparagus Salad
12 years ago
30 March 2009
28 March 2009
Return of the Beer Flight
My friends are awesome. Seriously. Major kudos to Amber for having us over for Pot Roast night. She has proved that adding a little bacon makes everything better. Kudos go out to Kristen for bringing the beer so we could continue the tradition of beer flights with pot roast. This week's offerings were:
Anchor Steam
Tire Byte Golden Ale
Top Dog Doggie Style Classic Pale Ale
Smithwicks
Hop Hound Amber Wheat
Anchor Steam
Tire Byte Golden Ale
Top Dog Doggie Style Classic Pale Ale
Smithwicks
Hop Hound Amber Wheat
Leinie's Berrywiess
It always strikes me funny - I forget that Leinenkugals isn't local here. They haven't heard of it! It is the beer of my college years, what can I say. Brings me back to pitchers on Saturday nights at Murphy's. Good times, both then and now! I look foward to my next oppertunity to celebrate at Murphys (next weekend perhaps?) as well as the next flight of beer!
It always strikes me funny - I forget that Leinenkugals isn't local here. They haven't heard of it! It is the beer of my college years, what can I say. Brings me back to pitchers on Saturday nights at Murphy's. Good times, both then and now! I look foward to my next oppertunity to celebrate at Murphys (next weekend perhaps?) as well as the next flight of beer!
Iron Chef: Guinness
I am an Iron Chef Success! The event was supper club. The theme was Guinness in honor of our good friend St. Patrick and the whole Irish thing.
The menu:
Guinness Cheese and Crackers
Corned beef and Veggies in GUiness Sauce
Guinness and Oat Bread
Irish Trifecta Cupcakes
It was amazing. Seriously. The corned beef was coated in brown sugar and then Guinness was poured over it. It was seriously good - ranked up there wtih desert bacon.
Trifecta Cupcakes: Guinness and chocolate cupcakes with a Jameson's enhanced chocolate ganache filling and Baily's frosting and green sprinkles.
Everyone had a great time and the weather cooperated so we had room for folks to hang out on the patio. Peeps, I'm trying to be a better hostess - my house is so perfect for entertaining, we must have more oppertunities to socialize chez sarah.
The menu:
Guinness Cheese and Crackers
Corned beef and Veggies in GUiness Sauce
Guinness and Oat Bread
Irish Trifecta Cupcakes
It was amazing. Seriously. The corned beef was coated in brown sugar and then Guinness was poured over it. It was seriously good - ranked up there wtih desert bacon.
Trifecta Cupcakes: Guinness and chocolate cupcakes with a Jameson's enhanced chocolate ganache filling and Baily's frosting and green sprinkles.
Everyone had a great time and the weather cooperated so we had room for folks to hang out on the patio. Peeps, I'm trying to be a better hostess - my house is so perfect for entertaining, we must have more oppertunities to socialize chez sarah.
26 March 2009
Tigers all around!
I must have gone to a really good psychic this year. Right now i'm still sitting pretty with my bracket.
It doesn't hurt that I have no regional loyalty. I just watched Mizzou bust 3/4 of the brackets in our office tourney. Yay Mizzou. Who ever thought they would hear me say that one?
It doesn't hurt that I have no regional loyalty. I just watched Mizzou bust 3/4 of the brackets in our office tourney. Yay Mizzou. Who ever thought they would hear me say that one?
21 March 2009
Hoosier Visitors
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of getting some visitors from up north. My cousin Abby and my biological non-niece Nora came down to spend part of their sping break somewhere warm. I can't say I blame them, South Bend was getting 8 inches of snow while we were basking in balmy 75-80 degree spring weather. This was the first time either Abby or Nora had stepped foot into the deep southern state of MS. They had an enjoyable trip down on the Amtrak, and we had fun times together.
No trip to Vickburg is complete without stopping by the Military Park!
Nora was particularly fond of my children, her last word the night of her first night here was Daisy. I think Daisy and Ma-sen listened to her better than to me!
I picked them up on Saturday afternoon, and we took a trip to Lorelei Books. HOw cool is it that Nora's face lit up and she got totally excited when we said bookstore!!! She isn't the product of two Literary People by chance, huh?
Sunday we made a day of it - first heading to the Park at Catfish row, a fun new park down near the Mississipi River. Seriously, parks weren't this nice when we were little!
No trip to Vickburg is complete without stopping by the Military Park!
Nora was particularly fond of my children, her last word the night of her first night here was Daisy. I think Daisy and Ma-sen listened to her better than to me!We were very sad to see them go, although I think the Jersey Girls were pretty tired out! Until next time, it was a great trip!!
20 March 2009
Bracketology
For some reason some of my coworkers are suprised that I know about bracketology. Go Figure.
Peeps - I'm from the Big 10. We are a basketball school, we only pretend to be a football school. Anybody remember the Flying Illini? Actually, I don't. I'm too young. But I do remember the Smilin' Illini.
18 March 2009
16 March 2009
Some Fun Quotes
"You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me." — C.S. Lewis
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." — Gustave Flaubert
"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness." — Lemony Snicket
"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" — John Waters
"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books." — Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair)
"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book." — Jane Smiley (13 Ways of Looking at the Novel)
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." — Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." — Groucho Marx
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." — Oscar Wilde
"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond." — C.S. Lewis
"I am simply a "book drunkard." Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them." — L.M. Montgomery
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx
"There is no friend as loyal as a book." — Ernest Hemingway
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." — Ray Bradbury
"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." — Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." — Paul Sweeney
"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." — Madeleine L'Engle
"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read." — Abraham Lincoln
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." — Anna Quindlen
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the inheritance of generations and nations." — Henry David Thoreau
"Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live." — Gustave Flaubert
"Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness." — Lemony Snicket
"If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!" — John Waters
"Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books." — Jasper Fforde (The Eyre Affair)
"Many people, myself among them, feel better at the mere sight of a book." — Jane Smiley (13 Ways of Looking at the Novel)
"The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid." — Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book." — Groucho Marx
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." — Oscar Wilde
"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond." — C.S. Lewis
"I am simply a "book drunkard." Books have the same irresistible temptation for me that liquor has for its devotee. I cannot withstand them." — L.M. Montgomery
"A room without books is like a body without a soul." — Marcus Tullius Cicero
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx
"There is no friend as loyal as a book." — Ernest Hemingway
"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." — Ray Bradbury
"She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain." — Louisa May Alcott (Work: A Story of Experience)
"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could call him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though." — J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)
You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend." — Paul Sweeney
"A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe." — Madeleine L'Engle
"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read." — Abraham Lincoln
"I would be most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves." — Anna Quindlen
"Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the inheritance of generations and nations." — Henry David Thoreau
03 March 2009
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