Happy Friday! I hope everyone had a great week! Here are five from this week.
1.Visit with Family – Saturday we visited my brother-in-law and his family in Metuchen, New Jersey. Our schedules have been so busy and we hadn’t seen them since the summer! We ended up celebrating a belated Christmas with them. Our niece is 16 months old and is adorable!
2. Pastry Lu – we were asked to bring dessert to my brother-in-law’s. We stopped at Pastry Lu, a bakery on Main Street, right in Metuchen. We bought a flan, two types of Tres Leches, and a variety of small desserts including a pineapple carrot cake, coconut cookie, banana bread and a “not just a brownie.” Everything was so good! You can see the Instagram reel here.
3. Reading – This week I finished This Time Tomorrow by Emma Straub. This book involved time travel and I just wasn’t into it. It was a 2022 goodreads nominee for Best Fiction, which was why I decided to give it a read, knowing nothing about it. You may want to check it out though since so many others really enjoyed it.
5. Cooking – This week’s menu included an improvised version of the My Recipes Tofu Banh Mi, Vegan Taco Pasta, Caprese Pesto Pasta Bake, Boca Burgers with fries and homemade pizza.
6.Watching – My husband now has time to watch television! Friday night we watched Ted Lasso (Apple TV) and the newest episode of Shrinking (Apple TV)! We have also been rewatching The Blacklist (Netflix). We watched several seasons of this years ago. Somehow it came up in conversation and we found it streaming on Netflix so we are doing a rewatch. I remember nothing from the first time watching, so it’s like watching it for the first time! LOL!
7. Paying for College 101 – Having a junior in high school and starting the whole college process has been daunting. This week I joined the Paying for College 101 Facebook group. It’s a little overwhelming since seniors are getting their acceptance or rejection letters now so there are A LOT of posts! But I think it will be a very helpful resource for me.
8. Puzzle – I finished this Star Wars puzzle. Even though it’s 1,000 pieces, I didn’t find it too difficult.
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I am a huge Star Wars fan and I love that puzzle!!
It was fun to put together and I’m not a big Star Wars fan! The puzzle is my son’s!
I have that book in my library basket… but I’m not a huge fan of time travel books ordinarily so I keep passing it by but I do want to give it a shot just in case I end up liking it. All those sweet treats look yummy!
A lot of people seemed to have liked it, so I recommend giving it a try!
Those desserts look amazing! “Not just a brownie” indeed! I don’t normally love time travel stuff myself, but I think I like The Way Home (Hallmark show) specifically because they are going back to my own tween/teen years, haha. I generally hate when shows do one-off episodes in like the ’40s or the Roaring Twenties, etc.
The desserts were delicious! You should have seen the tres leches! So good!