As far as dinners go, this past week we had to use up a fair amount of leftovers to make space in our freezer. So let me start with last Thursday. We had something called "sesame chicken'less." Sesame chicken without the chicken. It was from Wegmans again, and made with soy nuggets. Super easy to make, and although this sounds chiche, it tasted like chicken! Ryan was hesitant to eat it because of an article he read. Good news: he didn't grow boobs.
Friday we had a fish fry at my parents house. I stuffed myself as always. Saturday I had to work and then clean the house for the big day, so I did not feel like cooking. We went to Panera and their service was terrible. One person ahead of me found an entire clump of hair in her soup. Needless to say I was skeptical about my soup and inspected in thoroughly. Ryan had a crappy sandwich too-it was supposed to come with avocado on it. When he went up to ask for some the person came back with an entire avocado in the shell still! Oh well, my fault for not feeling like cooking. We then went to a Birthday party for our friend's baby, but she is getting so big! Sunday since I was going to spend all day cooking, we got a rotisserie chicken from Wegmans and just ate that.
Monday I made the lobster ravioli I got the week before from Gondolas. It was very good. Ryan made a cream sauce to go with it and it was very tasty. For some reason I do not have a picture of it, but we are repeating it again this week so I promise this time I will take a picture.
Tuesday we repeated the sesame chicken'less-this time Ryan had real chicken and I finished the soy nuggets.
Wednesday I made shrimp orichiette, which I planned to make that Saturday but decided to go to Panera again. This is a go to meal for us as it is pretty easy to make and since it's a casserole, makes for easy lunches in the days following.
First off, I won our awards season competition! Yay for dinner courtesy of my husband! As expected, Anne Hathaway ran away with best supporting actress, and Jennifer Lawrence won her first Oscar for her role in Silver Linings Playbook. That's a big step up from her eating a squirrel just a couple of years ago! Much to my surprise, Christoph Waltz won best supporting actor for Django Unchained. I must admit, after watching this movie, he was very good. In fact, I think the movie fell apart after he SPOILER ALERT was killed. And then Daniel Day Lewis won best actor, which was also expected, but I was not impressed with his role. And then the academy must have felt bad for snubbing Ben Affleck for best director, because Argo won best picture. I'll leave it at that.
Oscar highs: Seth McFarlane singing "we saw your boobs," playing the Jaws theme to make people stop talking, the Jurassic Park and Gone With the Wind themes being played, the "Flight" sock puppets re-inactment, the Les Miserables performance where my girl crush on Samantha Barks grew to new heights-she looked fabulous in all her dresses, and of course, Suri's Burn Book tweeting gems like this throughout:
Zero Dark Thirty was not very realistic. Real torture involves kid birthday parties at Tori Spelling’s house. Trust me.
Oscar lows: Megan McCarthy and Paul Rudd not knowing wtf was going on as they presented, William Shatner, Seth McFarlane hitting below the belt with a domestic violence remark aimed at Chris Brown and Rhianna, it ending at midnight, the tribute to Bond (sorry, I hated it), and everything Kristen Stewart. Seriously, girl, it's called a hairbrush. Cavemen knew how to make and use one. Get it together. And maybe have your makeup artist cover up some of those bruises all over your body.
What did us foodies eat during the Oscars? Everything. I made tons of food- artichoke dip, chick-fil-a bites with real chick-fil-a sauce, pretzel rolls, fancy hot dogs (pictured below), fruit tacos, s'mores bars, and strawberry lemon bars. And I drank almost 2 bottles of wine. Boy did I feel like garbage in the morning. But it was a wonderful night filled with good friends, and me stuffing my face binge eating because I know I will never look like these women, yet also reveling in the fact that they probably haven't eaten since the golden globes, and I was on my third pretzel roll and double fisting wine.
A fancy weiner!
Next time I'll talk more about food, Buffalo, and a visit from our special friend!
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