Over the weekend Happy and I have been getting in touch with our roots.

On Friday we had dinner at Cafe Mozart, a German restaurant near work. I tried Spaetzle (to check it off of the Onmivore's Hundred) and had some sauerkraut just to make sure I still didn't like it ( Read more... )

I can now check off "hot dog from a street cart" from my list of the Omnivore's Hundred.

I still don't like hot dogs. Not even from New York street vendors.

As I was cleaning out all of my starred items in Google Reader I came across The Omnivore's Hundred, a list of things that one blogger thinks every good omnivore should try in his/her life. I assume that when I starred it I meant to post it to my blog (as the instructions indicate) and just never got around to it. So now here is hundred.

( Better late than never. )

Even I have started to get in the inaugural mood, despite earlier hopes of missing the DC inaugural madness. Today I baked inaugural cupcakes.

After trying the $3.50 cupcakes from Red Velvet I decided to try my hand at making my own red velvet cupcakes with cream cheese frosting. The cake is every bit as good as Red Velvet’s: light and fluffy, ( Read more... )

http://freakonomics.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/15/pasties-pasties-everywhere/

I got a ride into DC this weekend so that I could spend time hanging out with Happy. I got to have a home cooked meal (insert drool here) on Friday. Yesterday we wandered around Arlington because, no matter how resistant Happy is to the idea, we cannot afford to live in DC. Then we went and got Ethiopian for dinner and I went to bed early ( Read more... )

 http://wine-econ.org/2008/06/12/the-welfare-gains-of-wine-market-globalization.aspx

Colleen and I went shopping at the Galleria this afternoon. The plan was to eat at the Cheesecake Factory and buy two pairs of shoes that I need... The plan was later amended to include a pair of khakis and a khaki skirt from Express, two other pairs of shoes, and a purse.

It was a good day.

Last night I went downtown to meet Farheen for dinner. We went to Star Pizza and had some good food, afterward we hung around her apartment and went to get desert at the "Chocolate Bar ( Read more... )

Tomorrow is the last day of my last Spring Break ( Read more... )