This was Laurita and my nice fast meal from last night. Yes, the color scheme is definitely in preparation for those fall leaves coming around here soon! The mango sauce is a winner. ALWAYS. And, this is the first time I have ever fried up (sautéed) potatoes! Crazy!
Last night’s delicious meal was much of an improvement from the same one about 2 months ago! See!- practice makes perfect! In all aspects of life. 
The cooking directions are the same for the beets and scallops and I made my recent mango sauce again, which tasted AMAZING! Yay for lovely weeknight dinner dates. 
Friday night happy hour was spent very happily with my girl, Jesica, and at Annabel Lee Tavern (within walking distance of her place! yay!). Neither of us had ever stopped by and boy are we glad this neighborhood has been bestowed upon by such a gem!
Here, below, is a Resurrection (yay Brewer’s- The owner used to be a bartender there!) and the most succulent and delicious duck fat french fries that Bawlmer has to offer!
This meal was fantastic. I don’t know if it is just because my mind is on cloud nine right now or what!
But I am surely seeing that everything taste better when life is swell and when you have the freshest most delicious ingredients!
This is the first real foodie meal I have made for just myself in a long time. The scallops are fresh off the ice at wegmans (just sauteed in lots of butter and lots of s&p) and the tomatoes came from papa’s garden, basil from my lovely plant and baguette with olive oil also fresh from wegmans! C’est Magnifique!
Well Thursday night was quite a lovely one on the town! Checked out the Body Worlds exhibit (not too appetite enhancing.. but nonetheless very fascinating!) Dinner at Thai Arroy in Federal Hill was delicious! I ordered (which is now becoming a standard) drunken noodles with duck! I would have to say that Thai restaurant has tastier drunken noodles, but this duck meat was fantastic!
Check out the rest of dinner below.
Monday night’s dinner was simple, quick and delicious! I have been making caesar dressing from scratch for a while now (thanks to my New Best Recipe cookbook!) and it is FAR superior to those little packets that come in bags of salad!
Check out the recipe below!
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On the way home from Burlington last weekend, I spent the weekend in New Haven, CT visiting my bestest buddy Becca to help her celebrate her 25th birthday!!
She knew of this classic diner that serves crazy cheeseburgers and is an amazingly classic and retro joint: Shady Glen. So cute! Here is our dessert (peanut butter chocolate ice cream sundae) (2 of them!) which was delicious and we also got their claim to fame cheeseburger!
This glorious looking meal was made for a birthday celebration dinner for miss Becca! I have never tasted a mango sauce so delicious in my life. It went PERFECTLY with the saffron risotto and tender mahi-mahi! And for our extra added health benefit, we figured we could roast up some asparagus for a side!
Check out the Food Network recipe below!
This delicious treat was made by myself and baker birthday girl extraordinaire Becca!
This was the end to our fabulous dinner on Saturday! I have neither made nor tasted a tarte tatin and I was very pleased! Be sure to make this with very ripe nectarines!
The recipe is quite simple actually, especially with pillsbury pie dough!
This is one of the desserts we made/devoured in Vermont! True to my name- I am in love with strawberries especially with ice cream and shortcake!!! YUMMMM.
We took the easy route and made the shortcake (enough for 20!) from a whole box of bisquick and used cabot canned whipped cream!
