Projects

What a fantastic weekend of projects! Things I’ve been meaning to do but just haven’t... for the past year or so. It’s such a great feeling.

With the dismal year of skiing, R and I decided to stay in SF, do taxes and our respective projects. Throw in a dinner party and it was a busy weekend!

Chickpea snacks! With the first strawberries of the year.

He needs to start training for the Lake Tahoe Death Ride (crazy mofo - 135 miles at altitude, 5 passes, 15,000 feet elevation gain/loss) so he had to fix his bike. He had to also build up his commuter bike so our bedroom once again turned into the bike shop. Then he had to do the 50K maintenance on the car. I love it when he works on the car - he’s so cute! 


For me, here’s a rundown:

Project 1
Chickpea snacks.

Heirloom snowcap beans - yum! With water kefir fermenting in the background and the ever present cup of nettle tea for allergies.

Lunch! With leftover roasted potatoes, sauteed spring onions and oyster mushrooms topped with pea microgreens (they really taste like peas!) and green garlic. *mouth waters*

Project 2
Plastic purge! I spent part of both Saturday and Sunday purging plastic and putting all the foodstuffs in glass (easier said than done).

Cleaning of the plethora of glass jars

Project 3
Dinner party with lavendar grilled lamb loin, heirloom snowcap beans, roasted potatoes with thyme, roasted asparagus (throw the usual cleaning of house before guests arrive in there, too).

Project 4
Chocolate souffles for dessert! These needed their own project... even though they weren’t too much work. I’m just sorry I didn’t take a picture of them.

Project 5
Plant herbs and lettuce! 

Herbs! Lettuce! (been meaning to plant these for a year)

Project 6
GLUTEN FREE HO-HO’s!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ah, the labor of love: Ho-Ho's (before they were dipped in chocolate)

Project 7
Almond Milk.

Project 8
Feeding us breakfast, lunch and dinner and taking care of all associated dishes - I made every meal for the weekend at home (only R indulged in a roast beef sandwich from Avedano’s on Saturday - lucky him).

I feel like Martha effing Stuart. It was a brilliant weekend but I think next weekend will be spent outdoors (and throw a bachelorette party in there).

xox

And the finished product - they don't look as delicious as they taste.