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Weekend Roundup: The Vegan Invasion

March 3, 2014

So this weekend was so much fun and eventful. Friday night, Lily and I went on to a “Couples Date Night” at Southern Season where we had all kinds of fun “Learning To Make Sweet Potato Gnocchi,” “Eating A Four Course Meal,” and “Tricking Your Culinary Instructor Into Thinking You’re A Lesbian.” It was pretty exciting stuff.

Despite all her squawking about “feminism,” Lily’s basically a 1950’s housewife.

We tasted a lot of delicious food, including blue cheese crostini with rosemary honey and pecans, fire roasted soup with seared scallops, sweet potato gnocchi, seared filet mignon with shiitake mushrooms and spinach and apple raspberry tart. You can find all of those photos on my Instagram account.

See that gnocchi? I made that!

After dinner, Lauren came into town, and Lauren, Lily and Kathleen and I all went out in our best sequins downtown.

Captains of the sparkle brigade.

On Saturday, we stopped at Persimmon Cafe for hangover brunch before going to pick up my bestie / cousin at the airport. Rob at Persimmon was awesome enough to make a custom vegan butternut squash sandwich for Naomi and she literally couldn’t shut up about it the whole drive home. Lauren also kept talking about how everything she ate was “an explosion of flavor” in her mouth (I’ll leave that one alone) and said she dreamt about the orzo pasta salad that night. Basically, I’m converting everyone I know into a Persimmon fan.

She’s gonna love that I’m using her “mouth full” picture.

After we got Naomi from the airport, we all vegged out around the house for a while, watching Pete Holmes standup before heading over to North Charleston to hang out at Frothy Beard where we were joined by Charlie, Chrissy, and Kelly. After we drank a few delicious pints, we grabbed dinner at E.V.O. in Park Circle. Naomi almost died on the spot when she found out they had a vegan pizza.

And I have to say, it was actually kind of yummy.

Saturday night we decided to have a game night at my apartment with some friends instead of going out. It was so much fun! I love nights like that. Sunday morning, we went to Lost Dog Cafe because apparently Charlie had never had the biscuits & gravy from Lost Dog before which is basically a sin. It was outstanding and they easily catered to Naomi’s veggie-communism with a yummy black bean burger and some home fries. Everything was delicious as always.

But seriously that gravy should be illegal.

After catching up on SNL (Colin Jost!), taking naps to recover from our delicious brunch and night of revelry, and bidding Lauren adieu, Naomi, Lily, and I made a vegan cheese sauce, normal people queso, and guacamole to watch the Oscars with. Lily also went on the great Ben & Jerry’s Cores hunt (get it?) which we also enjoyed whilst watching Leo lose for best actor yet again.

#PoorLeo

And that was my weekend. How was yours?

Quote of the Week

Quote of the Week 7/16/12

July 16, 2012

This weekend I succumbed to spontaneity (and boredom) and drove to Augusta to hang out with Lauren for the weekend. It’s only like a 2.5 hour drive, so it wasn’t bad. After flipping through the radio channels on SiriusXM, I found that Howard Stern was doing an SNL on Stern special, where he compiled segments from different interviews he’s had with SNL cast members over the years and offers a backstage look at the history of the show. Being both obsessed with SNL and history, I’m pretty sure this special was made just for me. I learned a lot about the politics of the show and relationships between cast members that I never knew. It was really fascinating

Speaking of politics, I went into the campaign office with Lauren on Saturday and somehow let her talk me into making polling phone calls for an hour. I made about 50 phone calls and learned that people are really rude and hateful to people they don’t know on the phone. I definitely have some funny stories from it, and I’m glad I did it, but I don’t think I’d ever want to do it again. Now I feel guilty for all those times I went all “Crank Yankers” on telemarketers on the phone.

The campaign also threw a Watermelon and Ice Cream social from 3-5 Saturday afternoon, I went with Lauren under the pretense of helping out, but mostly I just wanted watermelon and ice cream. I got to meet Rick W. Allen and his wife Robin, who were both very genuine and nice, and if I were a registered Republican voter in Georgia’s 12th congressional district, I’d totally vote for him. Even though I’m relatively indifferent about politics in general, I really enjoyed myself at this grassroots political event. I also learned that if I join the Republican Women’s club in Charleston, I might get the chance to one day meet Nikki Haley. Now, I don’t really consider myself one political party or the other, but I LOVE NIKKI HALEY, and I’m not ashamed to admit it, Adrian. What other people are to Dr. Who, I am to Nikki Haley #FanGirlStatus.

But I digress! Sunday we hung out poolside at Lauren’s aunt’s house (whose backyard looks like something out of Pinterest. It’s gorgeous, and I’m super jealous). We spent about 4.5 hours lounging in the sun before hunger overtook us. We had dinner at Buffalo Wild Wings, and then saw Brave before I finally got back on the road for home.

Continuing on the political theme, this week’s quote comes from President Barack Obama’s 2011 State-Of-The-Union address. I love the irony of using an Obama quote in a blog post about hanging out with a conservative Republican all weekend. I was originally going to do a quote from Romney, but it turns out he’s not very funny. Who knew. Plus I know having a quote from Obama in my blog will make that vein in my dad’s forehead bulge out really far, which always makes me giggle.

”The Interior Department is in charge of salmon while they’re in fresh water, but the Commerce Department handles them when they’re in saltwater. And I hear it gets even more complicated once they’re smoked.”

–President Barack Obama

Obama can has cheezburger?

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