Hunger Games Overload (not really)

This weekend's travel plans coincided with me finishing my latest book, Agaat. So I picked up the first Hunger Games book for my Kindle app on the iPhone, knowing that I would have at least some free time on the plane, after two of my friends had recommended it to me over our trip to Austin. Very good - and a quick read. Especially when your flight is inexplicably (not really) delayed because your flight crew had not even left the airport they are coming in from, which is even more aggravating when you look up the flight and they weren't supposed to land until your flight took off anyway - how are they supposed to get across the terminal and do all of their checks - who knows? Not Continental. (I did see that we wound with one of the nicest pilots, who saw that we were all waiting on the jetway for our bags - yay tiny planes - and went out to check with the ground crew for us.)

Anyway - between the flight delay and the general coziness of being at the in-laws, I finished the first book Saturday night. Then our flight got delayed leaving, so I read a big chunk of that. Between me reading on the subways on the way to work and in bed this week, I'm almost finished. So good!

Weekend in Buffalo

We went up to Buffalo this weekend to visit Mr. D's parents. We were supposed to go snowmobiling, and then go to the ice castle festival, but this week's weather melted almost all of the snow. While we were at the festival, Mr. D and I followed a bunch of people out onto the frozen lake, and I fell within 10 steps - right on the heel of my hand (see below).

Valentine's Day Dinner

Hello - more pictures of food for the viewing. Mr. D and I continued our tradition of making ourselves a fancy meal for Valentine's Day (we celebrated on Sunday). Below is the main course: Butter poached lobster from the French Laundry cookbook.

Everything was delicious. I found out that I am pretty good at getting lobster meat out of the claws without breaking it. Mr. D handled the buerre monte (butter sauce), the beet reduction, and cooking the lobster. I chopped the veggies into teeny tiny pieces and sliced the leeks. I was in charge of the potatoes (on top) too, but they weren't quite right, I think they were supposed to be crispier.

Yumminess

I know, I know, it's been a long time since I posted. In my defense, I had a bit of a busy week at work, dinner with the girls from my old job, and a friend from business school was unexpectedly in town, too. I did manage to make the fabulous dinner you see below:

Cooking Channel is so amazing - there are so many good shows - this recipe is from Emeril's new show: Indian-Inspired Shrimp with Coconut, Chiles, and Tomatoes. The recipe is really quick and easy. I served it with rice with turmeric and some steamed broccoli. The next night I didn't have as much broccoli, so I cut it smaller and added it and some frozen corn to the rice while it was cooking.

One Truth, One Lie

So this is on the window of the deli on the corner - thank goodness we never eat anything prepared there!

Ice

These are what the trees look like today - somehow, I will have to try not to stand under them when they break.
Stupidly, I closed the lid of my laptop at work, so it wasn't connecting to the interwebs, so I couldn't remote in - blech.