It was hard to decide what we wanted so we did a little of everything. We started with the Black Truffle Hummus. This was the best hummus I have ever had! It was so smooth and creamy. The bread they served it with was toasted slices of French baguette with melted cheese. It was the right ratio and paired perfectly. Preston ordered the Mussels tapas. I ate one, couldn't resist. I love and miss mussels. We each ordered off the entrée menu for our main dish. Preston got the glazed ribs with creamed corn. It came with an order of fries too, didn't realize that. I ordered the Ancho glazed chicken with corn risotto. So yummy! We finished it off with their fried Cheesecake. Now before you wrinkle your nose at fried cheesecake, we saw the order at another table and it didn't look bad. It was 2 flauta looking things with cheesecake filling inside. Flaky crust and not greasy at all. They were surrounded by chopped strawberries with sauce and then sprinkled with powdered sugar. We will be going back there for sure.
Saturday we drove all around the area where our house is being built and found the perfect park! It's in the neighborhood behind ours and we could easily ride our bikes/walk. However getting there is a downward hill so coming back is....upward hill. Not sure how much we will bike. The play area was pretty awesome and filled with kids. It has a trail around the place too so it will be perfect when I'm off work and want to get some exercise. I can take the little guy for a stroll. We went further east and made our way into downtown Carrolton. Cute! Apparently we didn't look like we lived there as a man sitting outside an antique store asked how we liked his town. I found it both funny and bothersome. We then made our way back home and drove by some golf courses. Pretty sure we will joining something somewhere in about a year.
We had a couple of hours to spare before we were going to a surprise birthday party! One of the books for our book club is called Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn. It is the same author as Gone Girl, which was a great book. I ended up reading all afternoon and today finishing it up! Another great book.
Today we tried a new brunch spot called Buttons with some friends for brunch. It is down the street and features a soul food buffet with live jazz band at 1pm. The food selection was really large and we all enjoyed the offerings. We will be going back there also. Probably a little later in the morning/noon so we can get the full effect. More people were showing up as we were leaving and the band was getting started. I would like to go back for dinner too to try their regular menu. Any place that has an item on their menu listed as Chicken Wangs is going to be good.
Now this is random. I like Pinterest and use it often. Not super often, but about once a week if that. I rarely pin my own stuff. It's typically someone else's pin that I just repin. About 10 months ago I pinned a chowder recipe that I wanted to try. Still haven't made it, but it's out there. Well...all of a sudden I was getting notification of people repining my pin. Finally I logged in to see what was all these random people repining that I pinned?! It is the chowder! and it's not even mine!!! As of today it has over 60 repins, which I'm sure is nothing for some people that do their own pins, but this was just something I repined in passing. Didn't even think about it. So strange, but fun. Here is what it looks like so you can get the full effect of how random this is. PLUS it's not even winter time people. Why do you need a chowder recipe in July/August.
That was our weekend. Still have several hours left of our Sunday. It will more than likely be spent doing a load of laundry and trying to be productive. Next weekend is a trip to the lake, yippee!
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Gone Girl! Now, that's a book! Page turner and wicked! I wrote about it on my blog too (read most of it on the plane)!
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