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callistotoniI haven't had any Internet access at home since Wednesday. Add to that being busybusybusy and you get a lack of LJ updates.
In brief:
Had a nice Thanksgiving with JIMR and madbaker and crew, at JIMR's aunt and uncle's house/modern art gallery. Good food, beautiful view, nice day.
Friday was JIMR's B-day, and I got to spend part of the day with her and madbaker's fuzzy upstairs neigbor shopping in Berkeley. Dropped money at The Spanish Table on cheap majolica to use to serve luncheons for the 16th C. Slackers Club ;-) . I really like the stuff I got, but since the design is pink/rose-colored and I haven't seen that color in the period majolica it is arguable how period it really is. But it was the design I liked best, so there. Then we checked out the new-ish shopping district on 4th St. Got to chat with Jessica, the woman who made Ysabeu's ciphers. She'll have a booth at 12th Night and I'm looking forward to seeing her SCA stuff. :-)
Saturday was All About Brandee. Team Brandee got her bathed and clipped. From the time I left the house to the time a got home was almost 8 hours, so you can guess how tired I was. Sorry to have missed stella_nordica's Orphans Thanksgiving, but I wasn't good for much when I got home.
Sunday I sewed all day. It was 99% handwork, so it doesn't look like I got much accomplished. But now the bodice and skirt of my 12th Night dress are done and put together, and the lining of the sleeves are sewn. Now I need to draft the sleeve pattern and get that done. I also tea dyed the material for the partlet. Came out darker than I wanted, but the deed is done and I'm going to use it anyway.
Work is busy. I have to go back east on Dec.12-13th, and I'm not looking forward to it. And I've got to finish up a report ASAP.
I havent' ridden since Tuesday, so tonight should be *interesting*. But it will be good to get back in the saddle again. And Brandee was a complete angel about the clipping, I'm happy to say. But now she'll probably be friskier, and the turn out spaces are too wet now, so lunging is in my future. (I hate lunging.) :-P
Back to work.
In brief:
Had a nice Thanksgiving with JIMR and madbaker and crew, at JIMR's aunt and uncle's house/modern art gallery. Good food, beautiful view, nice day.
Friday was JIMR's B-day, and I got to spend part of the day with her and madbaker's fuzzy upstairs neigbor shopping in Berkeley. Dropped money at The Spanish Table on cheap majolica to use to serve luncheons for the 16th C. Slackers Club ;-) . I really like the stuff I got, but since the design is pink/rose-colored and I haven't seen that color in the period majolica it is arguable how period it really is. But it was the design I liked best, so there. Then we checked out the new-ish shopping district on 4th St. Got to chat with Jessica, the woman who made Ysabeu's ciphers. She'll have a booth at 12th Night and I'm looking forward to seeing her SCA stuff. :-)
Saturday was All About Brandee. Team Brandee got her bathed and clipped. From the time I left the house to the time a got home was almost 8 hours, so you can guess how tired I was. Sorry to have missed stella_nordica's Orphans Thanksgiving, but I wasn't good for much when I got home.
Sunday I sewed all day. It was 99% handwork, so it doesn't look like I got much accomplished. But now the bodice and skirt of my 12th Night dress are done and put together, and the lining of the sleeves are sewn. Now I need to draft the sleeve pattern and get that done. I also tea dyed the material for the partlet. Came out darker than I wanted, but the deed is done and I'm going to use it anyway.
Work is busy. I have to go back east on Dec.12-13th, and I'm not looking forward to it. And I've got to finish up a report ASAP.
I havent' ridden since Tuesday, so tonight should be *interesting*. But it will be good to get back in the saddle again. And Brandee was a complete angel about the clipping, I'm happy to say. But now she'll probably be friskier, and the turn out spaces are too wet now, so lunging is in my future. (I hate lunging.) :-P
Back to work.
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Date: 2006-11-27 10:29 pm (UTC)Blargh. The joy of business travel :(
I'm glad you had a good thanksgiving, though :)
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Date: 2006-11-27 11:27 pm (UTC)Why is it that native Californians say "back east"? "Back" implies returning to where you are from. Californians are from here, not there. Just to be contrary, I try to use "out east".
JIMR
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Date: 2006-11-27 11:42 pm (UTC)We started with an amuse bouche of octapus terrine with trout roe and mandarin orange. The trout roe was tasty. Octapus was good but chewy as octapus is wont to be.
I then had a salad of beets and goat cheese. There were cute little beets, one red, one orange and one yellow, and a generous portion of goat cheese on top of frisee and served with long toasts for the cheese. Himself had foie gras soup. Yes, I skipped the foie gras soup but the taste I had was mighty yummy.
I skipped it because I had seared foie gras for the next course. It was served with a balsamic and fig reduction with a fig and toast. Himself had a fishy pastry thingie with a lobster sauce.
Then came the OMG eggs. Himself has been playing with eggs with truffles for awhile and makes quite yummy stuff. Roland, the chef at La Folie, has opened whole new vistas on what can be done with eggs and truffles. The top of the egg shell was removed. The egg was taken from the shell, mixed with truffle and other yummy things, put back in the shell and baked to a creamy custardy consistancy with no curds. It was served in the shell with a garnish of chive, a shaving of truffle and a very thin piece of toast to dip in the shell.
My main course was duck breast served and duck confit with dried cherries baked in an apple. Himself had very yummy baby cow. We had an '89 bordeaux from our wine cellar with this course.
Dessert was a chocolate mousse covered in chocolate with a carmel sauce for me and almond cake with almond goo for himself. Then, of course, a tray of little confections for second dessert.
Yum yum yum
JIMR