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Mother’s Day Weekend Things

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Sometimes Mother Nature is like “Hey, looks like you’ve overextended yourself this weekend.  How bout I make it pour rain and snow and clear some of those Rockies game out of your schedule?”  She’s cool like that.

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So instead of going to Friday night’s Rockies game (which they actually did play some of but I was not about to sit in the rain to watch), we hit the grocery store and seeing as it’s Friday Pizza Night at Whole Foods, we picked ourselves up a pie for dinner.

Are black olives not the best pizza topping ever?  Took me right back to my childhood.

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Since we were hosting Mother’s Day Brunch, the first half of Saturday was all about prepping food and cleaning the house.  Seriously though, entertaining is the best way to ensure that you regularly clean your house.  After all most of the prep was done, we took ourselves up the street to Denver Beer Co.

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For a Colorado crawfish boil, naturally.  DBC flew fresh crawfish in from LA for the occasion and $35 dollars got you two beers + all the crawfish and fixings you wanted.  Favorite moments were Joey squirting the very uptight-looking girl sitting next to him with claw juice and the guy next to me who was trying to peel his crawfish with a napkin then just ended up eating five pieces of corn instead.  Some people just aren’t made for messy eating 🙂

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Remember how it SNOWED last Mother’s Day?  Yeah, it snowed again this year.  I should probably stop thinking it will be nice enough outside for us to have people over and be able to sit outside.  How is it two weeks from Memorial Day — the day I usually consider the unofficial kick off to summer — and we still have snow?

Anyway, that menu!

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Not even gonna pretend to be upset about having taco extras for lunch leftovers this week.  We had a slight, okay TWO slight, mishaps with our coffee maker (apparently, it’s not up to the task of making an entire pot of coffee) but eventually, Joey and Lori got things working right and of course, MOMosas 🙂

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My sister was working that morning so we had to give our mom separate Mother’s Day celebrations 😦  I got my mom a bar spoon, you know so she can make “a pitcher of martinis!”  I sure hope she’s sharing that pitcher!  That picture happens to be right after she tried to hang the spoon from my nose.  I told Joey this was a good looking picture and his response was that he always looks good, so no surprise.  So humble, that one.

We spent the second half of the day at Joey’s aunt and uncle’s.  There was homemade German Chocolate Cake and that’s all you need to know.  P.S. Penultimate episode of Mad Men… noooooo!

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In other news, THE SUN IS BACK.  It’s supposed to warm up this week and I feel so good about that!

Quick & Easy Margaritas

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Extended Title: Quick & Easy Margaritas That Taste Like Heaven & Make You Feel Amazing… Until The Next Morning.

I’m pretty picky about margaritas.  I wanted to say that as “I have refined taste in margaritas” but something about the fact that I like the sweet and not too strong tasting stuff, makes me think “refined” isn’t the right word for it.  And is maybe the opposite word for it.  So picky seems more appropriate.

Sweet.  Strong, but doesn’t taste strong.  Salt rim.  Or even better, a salt AND sugar rim.  That’s what I’m all about.  None of those tiny-glass coin-style things for me.  And since Joey and I have been on a homemade marg roll for the past few weeks and since margaritas were our signature wedding cocktail (that seriously messed up half our guests…), I thought I’d share our fool-proof recipe.  Oh and because Cinco de Mayo is Tuesday, so this post has no business remaining in my drafts folder!

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Step 1: Mix equal parts boiling water and sugar until sugar dissolves and bam, the quickest simple syrup there ever was.  You should probably let it cool in the fridge before mixing up your marg, though.

Step 2: In a shaker, mix the following:

  • 2 oz. Tequila
  • 1 oz. Triple Sec
  • Juice of 1 lime
  • 1.5 oz. simple syrup
  • Handful of ice
  • Optional: 2 oz. blood orange juice

Step 3: Mix equal parts sugar and salt on a plate, rub lime around the rim of your glass then coat in the sugar/salt mixture.

Step 4: Pour and enjoy!

But seriously, take caution, they don’t taste strong and they go down like water, but the next thing you know, you wake up Sunday morning with a headache and wax from your new outdoor citronella candles in your hair.

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P.S. Can we take a minute to talk about Spring 2015?  Specifically, how perfect it is.  Like how the sun comes out earlier and stays out later so there’s time to take a nap after work and still fit in three episodes of The Wire before bedtime, or time to bake cookies before you go on a run and it’s still light out when you get back.  And not to mention those blossoms and dining al fresco or the fact that it feels like this spring is lasting forever and I’m not even mad about it.

It’s all such a dream, isn’t it?