Girl Time and Baked Goods

This weekend I visited Courtney again. Kevin took us out on the town, so to speak. They live in a very rural area but there's a great bar/restaurant--the Griffin Tavern not too far from their house. The atmosphere was nice and they had some live music--a band with a slide guitar playing Johnny Cash and Hank Williams tunes. It was fun to hang out somewhere different. And the food was good. I had the fish and chips, which were particularly delicious.

Kevin went to bed pretty early but Courts and I stayed up really late talking, having cocktails and then later singing Tori Amos songs (that's always what happens after we've had a few--to the annoyance of probably everyone around us. Either Tori Amos or the Indigo Girls). It was really great to have a girls' night with an old friend though.

We were mostly lazy on Sunday but Courtney had gotten an interesting cookie recipe that she wanted to try out so we did a little baking.


These cookies are made with rosemary and pine nuts. Sort of savory but sweet too. I found the recipe online. It's a bit putzy but if you have some time you'll be surprised at how good they are.

In other news on the home front, Troy has decided he wants to make a pie a week. I'm not sure I appreciate this diet plan but so far he has made a few really wonderful ones. This raspberry chiffon pie was really hard to photograph. The pictures don't do it justice. It's really beautiful, with three distinct layers--raspberry, chiffon and whipped cream. Troy has made it twice in the past two weeks now, once with a regular and then with a graham cracker crust. We decided that the regular pastry crust is the way to go, but both were amazing. Just don't use a bought crust. Or at least don't tell Troy if you do. He feels very strongly about pie and thinks using frozen pie crusts is sacrilegious!