Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday and I love Thanksgiving food. This year, we'll be experiencing a different type of Turkey for the holiday.

Savannah aka eating my way through the south.

We spent yesterday biking around savannah. Renting bikes and taking a few hours to see the city was a great idea. It was 90 degrees and walking would have been way too hot. The heat makes me grumpy. Biking makes me happy.




After dropping out bags at our hotel, the Savannah Riverside Marriott, we walked to the bike shop. Luckily there was an ice cream shop next door with homemade ice cream. Leopold's ice cream came highly recommended and did not disappoint.

Savannah has a lot to see (Bryson disagrees) but not a lot of these things take time so another plug for biking the city.

Forsyth park was enchanting. (Bryson just said "if by enchanting you mean a routine city park with a nice fountain.") but seriously, it is lovely. The dense trees cover the park and give it a feel of old southern charm. The fountain in the middle is beautiful.

Savannah was the first planned city in north america. King George commissioned it and there are 22 city parks.

We rode along the river front which houses old cotton warehouses now transformed into restaurants and shops. And the eyesore modern hyatt that hangs over the cobblestone street below. Seriously, whoever allows that to be build made a serious error in judgement.

Bryson really liked the peanut shop. We later realized they sold Virginia peanuts there.

For dinner we had reservations Olde Pink House. Delicious. BLT salad with fried green tomatoes, local shrimp over cheese grits, pork shank with mac and cheese and flash fried flounder with and apricot sauce, "one of the five best pieces of fish in my lifetime" said Bryson.

This morning we ate breakfast at Huey's and we really enjoyed that also. We filled up on bignets and I couldn't really finish my omelette. Maybe my eyes were bigger than my stomach. But I did try my hardest to finish the Parmesan garlic grits, again, delicious. And not that expensive. If it sounds like all we did was eat in savannah, you might be right.

After church we even found a fruit stand and bought a bag of Georgia peaches which we are snacking on.

We are on our way now to charleston and frankly can't wait to see what other food we find.

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South

Bryson and l made a weekend getaway to the south. We are in Charleston,SC and driving to Savannah, GA. Since I pretty bad at blogging after vacations, I figured I would blog while here.

We rented a car. The car is a mercury grand Marquis. It us the size of a boat. A house boat. Bryson, being a giant, loves it. I, being difficult, keep joking that no one under the age of 95 who is not employed in law enforcement drives this car. Bryson's response was "I don't think this is a law enforcement car, definitely an octogenarian car."





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We were talking about our future (way in the future) kids and Bryson was hilarious.

His quotes of the night:

"There is a chance our daughters will be gorgeous supermodels, or they will just be bigger Americans."

"That is why we went to the park and threw [the football], I was checking out your genes."

Baking woes

I am sitting in our smoke filled apartment typing away. Don’t worry; I haven’t taken up smoking, I just burned something real bad in the oven. Totally not my fault though.

I bought a Bundt pan a few weeks ago. I decided to break it out for my childhood favorite Sunday treat, pull aparts, a sticky but type treat. This Bundt pan is different than the one my mom had, in that the bottom and middle lift out. Apparently this is great for cakes, not great for pull aparts. I looked back at our oven and smoke was coming out at a rapid rate. Oh dear.

After furter inspection, the sauce in the recipe melts and goes right through the bottom of the pan which leads to a sugary puddle of burning, smoking goo in the bottom of the oven. Lovely. Pretty sure that is going to need to be cleaned at some point. Ugh.

I also am not sure how these gooey treats are going to taste after losing half their sauce (and I know this makes them lower-cal, but who wants low-cal treats?).

At least as I type the haze in our apartment is clearing out. I think the real question is though: how did our smoke alarms not go off at all during this mess? And should I be worried about that?

**They taste great still. And, since they are low-cal, I feel fine about eating half the pan.

My favorite things

I love candy. Love it. As in like it more than most people like their dogs. I openly admit it is a huge weakness for me. Husband is a take it or leave it kind of guy. I fully agree with this New York Times article: Is Sugar Toxic? That sugar is causing obesity, heart disease, cancer and a whole slough of other problems (rotted teeth). But I really like it.

Why am I babbling about Candy? Because I haven't eaten it for almost 4 months. B and I gave it up for New Years. It really was after he teased me about liking it so much and I said "Fine, New Years Resolution for both of us: No candy" I forgot that the Easter season is a candy lovers dream. Need evidence?

I think I was really hoping someone would bring him some at work and he would eat it, tell me and then it would be off by now. Not even close. He is solid. Sweets in general aren't tempting to him. And after he read about Steve Nash, a professional basketball player, who doesn't eat sweets and has inspired Shaq to go sugar free too, he was even more set on the dangers of white granulated goodness (or gloppy processed from corn goodness).

For anyone reading this, could you send B a snickers bar to his work address, then I won't eat them and maybe he will? Thank you in advance.

I bought a brush

My hair use to be real short. I loved it. B hopes I never cut it again. It was so short I would weave my fingers through it and it would be done. Now my hair is real long. It has been growing for two years. I still just finger comb it. I finally bought a brush tonight. I am pretty excited about this purchase. I hope it actually reduces frizz Like the packaging says it will (yeah right) when DC turns into a hot swamp this summer.