Rob and I had a very fun fall weekend this weekend! Saturday was great. we woke up and headed down to the fresh market where we got so many goodies. One of our first stops was to the cheese guy - we got chevre with black pepper and chevre with herbs - it is soft goat cheese coated in the herbs/pepper. so good!!! we also got some fresh veggies - plum tomatten and more zucchini!! and some apples, pairs and figs. We went to the Italian guy and got fresh parm- the woman cut it from a huge wheel of parm that was sitting out - bigger than a cake! - and some delicious mushrooms, artischoken and olives with pumpkin!! the cart has all kinds of goodies for antipast. among them are many different flavors of olives - we had to go for the pumpkin one! and we also got some pumpkin ravs at another stand. homemade of course! all of the homemade past looks so delicious - lots of tortellini and ravs stuffed with fresh goodness. mmm!!! we saw lots of cute pumpkins & gourds and picked some up to decorate our place for fall - along with some sunflowers and pansies!
Then we carried everything back and went back out for a run. i was thinking of everyone running the marathon as we did our 6 mile run around the river. (hope it went well for those of you that ran!!) we went down to a dam that allows the big boats to come through and around on the other side of the river. it was perfect fall running weather! i was pretty tuckered out after 6 miles but it was a great run!! we had some lunch (leftover past & chicken with some egg - runny for robs, hard boiled for me) then went back out to finish the grocery shopping at the grocery store. we got some wonderful bread there (it was still warm when we picked it up)and some veal (it's a staple here!) and chicken and fish and other goodies.
Came back to the crib and had some wine & watched some simpsons DVDs. then rob cooked up the fish (he's the inhouse chef on the weekends!) with some artischoken and lemon and past. de-licious! and we watched pirates of the Caribbean and also had some tiramisu ice cream :) it was a great day!!!
Yesterday, we hung around the house in the morning. One of my projects is trying to bring the basil plant back to life (we'll see how that goes!) so we had some plant time in the morning. had a good lunch - chicken with the plum tomats, artichokes and these wonderful little pasts that look like grubs and then went to take a walk. the day turned from overcast to nice! we walked over the bridge and into a part of town i had not seen yet. Rob said there is a college in that part - it seemed artsy and cool! we saw this great restaurant - tapas! It is right on the water on the otherside of the river with lots of big windows. hardwood floors and little tables - it looks like a US restaurant to me! It was closed but we will be headed back there to sample soon!
We continued our walk back to our side of the river. since it had gotten nice out, there were tons of people outside enjoying the day. there are a few little restaurants with outdoor seating right on the river. we stopped and had a beer and coffee (not one for each!) and enjoyed the beautiful day and all the activity. we saw a couple at the restuarant getting huge ice cream sundaes - one for each! so we will be back to sample those one day too!!!
we came home and relaxed in the place. we watched a couple of family guys and then some football! (reverse order from normal!) Rob was able to rig up some yahoo sports action to watch any of the 1pm (7pm for us) games. the ravens feed was pretty inconsistent so we watched the eagles (shout out to the Philly peeps!). It was a good game but unfortunately both the bird teams lost. boo hoo - maybe next week. while we watched, we had an app of fresh mozz, the olives with pumpkin and the tomatoes tossed with olive oil and with some delicious fresh bread we had gotten warm at teh grocery store. Dinner was veal cutlets with sauteed zuchs, mushrooms and the pumpkin ravs. the pumpkin ravs were delicious but rob and i agreed that they wold be better as desert than with dinner! we saved most of them to experiment with this week!
Today we woke up to some very good news - Mets won! yeah! and jets won! so at least rob's teams did well last night! Also, Carol, one of Katie's good friends and now my friend!, is in Heidelberg, Germany randomly for work. it's about a 2.5 hour train ride from here and I am going to try to go visit her today or tomorrow!! I've been waiting to go to Heidelberg with robs - that is where he lived right before he moved to bmore! I'm going to see if i can swing it - it would be good to have a little adventure and see Carol!
That's it for now. Enjoy and talk soon!
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