Date Night

Yesterday my mom and Wayne took the kids home to Boston with them for school vacation week. Harper and Patrick will be spoiled, entertained and loved to bits and we will go down on Saturday after a full week of work. With the kids gone, I thought it would be nice to go on a date to our favorite local restaurant. As an aside, I hesitate to promote this resto because it is owned by a big corporation based in Florida and they seem to want to develop our mountain which can't help but change the rural nature of our perfect little town. However with the state of the economy, their plans have been scaled back and slowed down. In any case, the restaurant has outstanding food, a friendly, local staff and is five minutes from our house, so we patronize it in spite of our concerns. But they are closed on Tuesday nights! So rather than go to one of the other restaurants, which are fine for groups or a family dinner out, but nothing great, I decided to cook a special meal at home. I made Steak au Poivre, pan roasted asparagus, sauteed mushrooms with sherry and blue cheese mashed potatoes. I had this really amazing French blue cheese that I bought in Montreal and couldn't resist including it in some way. It was a fabulous meal, if I do say so myself. The steak came out perfect; everything did! And I bought an extra nice bottle of cabernet. Neil got the house nice and warm with a raging fire in the woodstove, lit some candles and put some jazz on the hifi and date night was saved!

(Neil thinks I'm dorky, but I like taking pictures of food. I like reading other blogs that have pictures of food and so I like to include my own pictures of food on occasion. I actually am kind of dorky.)