How to eat your emotions?

I recently had the opportunity to have a weekend away from home, without my son, and visited a friend.  While my friend had a bit of a heavy load on her plate at this time, we were able to enjoy each other's company and eat and drink our way through our emotions.  How did we do this?  With great enthusiasm!

It started with a decedant dinner of steak & lobster served along side cesar salad with fresh homemade dressing.  A joint effort we started by naming our lobsters: Jose, Ferdinand and my specialty, Dinner!  You would think that by naming your food you might be less inclined to eat it, you would think wrong around us gals.  We gave our lobsters a salt water "hot tub" and started on the steaks.  Start with some seasonings, add a little olive oil, sear in the flavour and transfer to the broiler to finish and top with some crumbled Borsin.  My friend shared her "secret" recipe for cesar salad dressing and before you know it we were sipping our Francis Coppola Claret and digging in to our feast!  If there were room for dessert we would have had more lobster but instead we moved on to un-buttoning our top buttons and having some more wine.

The source of the inspiration: Canadian Living magazine.  The cover had the token how to loose weight article overtop of the decedant dessert that would make you break that diet in a heartbeat.  So instead of feeling bad we started making the angel food cake and fresh lemon curd.  Great effort on our part and quite a success!  The bowls were licked to an almost immaculate state and the aroma of the cake filled the house.  We almost didn't wait until the next day to endulge.  I must say that by this time we were feeling relaxed and there were smiles all around. 

We started the day off right with coffee and Bailey's.  Who says you have to wait until later in the day to start drinking?  Taking our lead from a country song, the motto for the day was "it's 5 o'clock somewhere".  Breakfast was searved and eggs benny with homemade hollandaise sauce was served, back bacon and all!  I don't there is anything else you can say except, YUMMY! 

Next steps after feeling only slightly guilty at the indulgence of the last couple of meals, was a brisk walk to the the local grocery and liquor stores.  We did after all have to prepare for this evenings dinner and, we had a hankering for beer.  Absorbing the sunshine and vitamin D we smiled all the way back home.   Lunch was quick and simple with Mac N Cheese and fake Mac N Cheese (for those of us allergic to yellow #5).  Beer in hand we prepared the mascarpone whipped cream for the cake and the layers were formed.  Tea time followed behind beer time very closely and before we knew it we had a replica of Canadian Livings temptation in our bellies.  I would say that we were ready for our next meal but, who am I kidding we needed to digest and it was definitely nap time. 

As a special treat I was on dinner duty and made one of my family specialties "Arroz con Pollo" or for those of you who are not fluent in Spanish "chicken rice".  As no two women in my family make it exactly the same mine is a combination of my mom's and grandma's with my very own flare.  Post nap time rice was accompanied by our need for a vegetable in the form of more cesar salad and, the traditional accompanyment of potato chips.  Pour me another glass and dinner was complete.

If you thought we were done, you would have been wrong.  We continued our evening with a an informal wine and cheese.  Nothing says a good evening like Genoa salami and Camambert cheese.  By the time we were ready to turn in I think we have successfully eaten our way through, happy, sad, silly, melancholy, funny, and too many more emotions to count.  It was a weekend spent with old friends and new friends alike,  enjoying each other's company, great food and terrific wine!  Shouldn't all weekends be like this?