Happy weekend! The days are just flying by. It was nice to have the day off yesterday for Veteran’s Day and I’m ready for the weekend! Here are five from this week:
1. Kids Update – The kids have been busy! Last weekend my son was in Saratoga with his Boy Scout troop. Yesterday he attended our town’s Veteran’s Day ceremony and then did road clean up. He also has stage crew and jazz band.
Tuesday night our daughter went to a special performance of The Radio City Holiday Spectacular with her boyfriend and his family. She also finished up a Red Cross babysitting class and babysat for the first time yesterday. She’s super excited to start working and earning her own money.
Sadly, most of my husband’s and my time is spent planning our schedules around chauffeuring our kids to and from their activities!
2. Reading – This week I finished reading a Netgalley ARC of The Lifeguards by Amanda Eyre Ward. It will be published in April 2022. I didn’t really enjoy it and I’m not sure if my ARC wasn’t complete, but I found the ending to be very abrupt.
3. Cooking – This week I made Instant Pot Broccoli Cheddar Zucchini Soup with No-Knead Bread.
I also made Nourish Bowls that my husband claimed could rival any restaurant bowl.
4. Watching – I’m almost done watching Maid on Netflix, which is based on a non-fiction book. The show is good….just very depressing.
I also watched Passing yesterday on Netflix. I read the book last week, which is the first of the Netflix book club. The show followed the book fairly closely.
5. Baking – Besides the no-knead bread we had with dinner this week, I also made blueberry muffins. I just left off the crumb topping that the original recipe called for.
6. Eating – We love The Hummus and Pita Company in Brookfield, CT. We stopped for lunch after shopping last weekend. We shared this bowl, a falafel laffa (that was humongous, but not photogenic!) and fries.
We also got lunch from Brooklyn Organic Kitchen for Hudson Valley Restaurant Week. They are a restaurant in Mahopac that makes all their dishes either vegan OR traditional. This is a picture of their take on a short rib dip.
7. Drinking – STASH kindly sent me a variety of teas to try. So far, I’ve made a big pitcher of cranberry pomegranate iced tea. I have a bunch of other tea drinks that I’m looking forward to making.
ICYMI this week on the blog:
Tuesday I shared my October Reads.
Thursday I shared an updated post on Hudson Valley Holiday Events.
Sharing with Friday Favorites! Have a great weekend!
Now with my second son just a few months away from driver’s ed. I can see a time when we won’t be needed for driving anyone anywhere! Looks like another delicious week of recipes. We had some no knead bread with soup this week too!