A Warm January Weekend

Saturday (9AM!) we organized a tailgate for the Villanova game.  Mike spent part of Friday night cooking up some chili, which I actually only got a spoonful of, since it went like hotcakes the next day.  He also made the best breakfast burritos ever made.  It helped to console our broken hearts when Nova lost a near 20pt lead to lose the game.

Also, we debuted our homemade beer which everyone seemed to like a lot.  Either because it tasted delicious or because it was free beer.

One of the (if not THE) first tailgaters 

Chili and breakfast burritos warming up

 We also enjoyed ladder golf, courtesy of Chris.  I became addicted after my first well over-thrown toss.

I think this about captures how good the food was.

Some of Miggy's friends showed up as well

Sunday we did our first Chopped night - our version of the cooking competition show on TV, where contestants are given 4 surprise (and surprising) ingredients they must use to make either an appetizer, entree or dessert in a given amount of time.  I decided that Mike would be amazing at it, and we are always curious how the dishes on the show taste.  I chose these four ingredients for Mike to make an appetizer:

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Pasta salad with pear-raspberry baby food vinaigrette, and fried smelts over a sour-cream and onion spinach dip

The fried smelts and sour cream and onion dip was fantastic!  I would definitely order it somewhere.  The pasta salad was actually pulled off quite well and earned an -A.

First taste of the baby food revealed it definitely required some creativity to make it work

Tonight we have band practice at Mom and Dad's and this weekend Mike's coworker, Chris, is treating us to a day of skiing at Elk Mountain as a wedding gift.  Meanwhile, I shall work on some baby gifts (wink wink!) and study for the FE exam.