Afterglow
July 29th, 2007
Doing nothing suits me absolutely perfectly. Give me good company, Diet Coke and maybe something with heavy cream, and I don’t have to leave my house. My favorite thing in the world is to sit around and chat with friends, and oh, I got to do that for 48 glorious hours this weekend, which was spent with Lawyerish – a LawJonniHer, if you will. Both nights, I stayed up until I could no longer speak in coherent sentences, and even then, I went to bed very reluctantly, and oh, I wish the world were perfect, and we could all live next door to each other, because then I would so totally buy the world a Coke and keep it company, preferably with some sort of fruit-based dessert.
Honestly, y’all, we didn’t do anything at all, and it was delicious. We sat around on our duffs and ate hummus and crackers and drank wine and talked, and I basically gave her the Spanish Inquisition, because it was the longest amount of uninterrupted time we’d ever had, and Jesus, there was SO MUCH to cover, and I know we missed things, and it kills me, just kills me. To sum up: I love her, I honestly love her, and I swear, I’m not just saying that in the overly hyperbolic OMG!! I LUV HER!! sense that is all too common these days. I mean, I actually love her in the very real sense, and I will not be dissuaded from saying so. You can’t stop me.
Speaking of delicious, we made Ree’s peach crisp, and though it was lovely, we did indeed undercook it at first, and it was a little … crisp for all the wrong reasons, but the second time we reheated it, it was perfection, but mostly I have to tell you that it’s all about the maple cream sauce, which is thick, luscious and would go swimmingly on almost anything in this world, and that very likely includes bacon. However, for my part, I would much prefer the crisp to be made with something like apples, which goes better with maple and butter and cinnamon, oh my!
And before she arrived, I must tell you that I made clafoutis, with a recipe adapted from one I pilfered from Smitten Kitchen, who took it from ceres and bacchus, and yea, it was very, very good. I opted to make it with raspberries instead of cherries, so technically it was a flognarde, and not a clafoutis, and, as someone pointed out, a flognarde totally sounds like something I made up or maybe the name of a wizarding race only found in the wilds of ancient Dacia, but I assure you, it is a lush, custard-like dessert with a really wonderful crust of caramelized sugar and floaty berries and hello, did I mention I fell off the wagon this weekend? It’s back to running and pre-packaged lunches tomorrow, because no one should eat a pint of heavy cream in one weekend, but it sure was great while it lasted.
The only fly in the otherwise perfect weekend ointment was that it ended, and this evening, it ended with me stepping in a plastic bag full of rain-soaked dog poop, which promptly exploded all over my flip flop-clad foot. Oh oh, and tomorrow promises to truly suck. But instead of worrying about it, I’m going to relax and remember how lucky I am.
Happy Monday!
*INXS or Vanessa Carlton. I have both, and you know, I always like Vanessa Carlton, with her teeny tiny voice and all.
**PS, I’m working on a Moon Cup entry, for those of you who were asking, I just haven’t been able to broach it entirely delicately yet, plus I was busy flapping my gums this weekend.
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1. Cassidy | July 29th, 2007 at 6:33 pm
I dated a guy once who was absolutely obsessed with Vanessa Carlton. If he was in route to my house and one of her songs came on the radio, he would sit in his car outside my house until the song was over. I always thought that was very weird.
Glad you had a great weekend! Nothing better than doing nothing with good friends!
2. -R- | July 29th, 2007 at 6:39 pm
I’m glad you had such a fantastic weekend!
3. Sundry | July 29th, 2007 at 7:04 pm
I’m totally jealous of your awesome weekend and I wish I could have awkwardly horned in, knocking brightly at your door with a bag of store-bought cookies (so TOTALLY lame in the face of… flog nard) and making up some weird excuse as to why I was just, you know, in the area.
4. deb | July 29th, 2007 at 8:07 pm
I totally snort-laughed at the wizarding race association. Flognarde sounds to me like a stuffy, prig-ish college professor, though I haven’t quite figured out how that meshes with something indescribably delicious. But I’m happy you enjoyed it!
5. Christine | July 30th, 2007 at 5:55 am
Gah, what I wouldn’t give for a weekend just to bullshit with friends. With clafoutis! And crisps! And yes, yes, yes to apples.
6. TwoBusy | July 30th, 2007 at 6:01 am
I knew a girl in college who had clafoutis all over her flognarde. Then she took some penicillin, and it cleared right up.
7. Artemisia (a.k.a. Sagebrushy) | July 30th, 2007 at 7:09 am
Yeah for good weekends, great food and fantastic friends!
I inhaled my morning coffee thinking about just what flognarde sounds like…
Thanks for the great start to the week, and happy Monday to you, too.
8. Heather B. | July 30th, 2007 at 9:01 am
Hey! Guess who is racking up the frequent flyer miles and will be knocking on your door on a yet to be determined, yet very soon, date?? GUESS???
9. mar | July 30th, 2007 at 12:38 pm
i would much rather have joined you folks than dropped a desk on my (now possibly broken & disturbingly bruised) toe while helping my boyfriend move yesterday. then much gimping up & down two flights of stairs in 80+ weather causing a sunburn on my albino self.
mmmm, flognarde.
10. AndreAnna | July 30th, 2007 at 5:37 pm
Those are my most favorite times – just sitting and talking with food and wine.
Those are the good things in life.
11. Mauigirl52 | July 30th, 2007 at 8:02 pm
So glad you and Lawyerish had such a great time! Looking forward to your Mooncup post. Speaking of which, did you hear the Today Sponge is back? (Similar subject matter….remember Spongeworthiness from Seinfeld?)
12. Maya | July 30th, 2007 at 10:20 pm
That, my e-friend, sounds like the weekend straight from heaven above. Also, to me (a person who couldn’t tell a flognarde from a clafoutis from a kazoo) flognarde sounds like a) a really good word to use while playing Boulderdash b) something kinky c) both.
Recipes?
13. metalia | July 31st, 2007 at 7:43 pm
I am DROOLING from your delicious snacks. Drooling, I tell you. So glad to hear that you guys had a good visit (like there was ever any doubt)!
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