Fun Friday Night

[DeeDee]

I know I'm in my 40's now but I am just wondering at what point my idea of a good night without the kids became - shower and shave off body hair, moisturise and then sit and paint my nails in my pj's while I listen to music. ??

Total amateurs job but it will be coming off tomorrow evening anyway. I get a whole night and day to myself  

 

What do you do when you have a free night?

[Cyndee]

Hi Dee, I go over to friends house for dinner / movie sometimes on my free nights, sometimes I have friends over here, and I cook and be the hostess. It's fun....

 

Cyndee -

[Jani]

Ahhh, freedom to do as you wish is a wonderful thing!  Without kids around for quite some time we've done as we please without a thought.  There is certainly something to be said for laying about doing nothing, pampering oneself is always good. 

[DeeDee]

2 hours ago, Cyndee said:

I cook and be the hostess. It's fun....

I love cooking for friends - what is your go to dish?

2 hours ago, Jani said:

Ahhh, freedom to do as you wish is a wonderful thing!  

You are not wrong Jani! - As much as I would never want to live without my kids I treasure the moments of peace. I will need to go grocery shopping tomorrow and do some basic household chores, but it will be a quiet weekend while the rain drums down on the windows. I'll even try to sit up for the Superbowl, which has become a tradition of mine to watch ever since I saw my first match in 2000. It was the only thing on when I came home from the late shift and unlike footy in the UK no one could tell me I didn't know what I was talking about. ?

[Cyndee]

Well since we're from the Pacific NW, an easy "go to" dish has been fresh grilled AK Copper River Sockeye, with lemon, and few other choice herbs, tossed salad, and home baked sour dough bread, we also get lots of AK king crab, we do live in this fresh seafood nirvana...

 

It's been raining here all day, so i've caught up on some of the chores around the house, I'm the part time maid ya know....

 

Enjoy your weekend, and the moments of peace Dee

 

C -

 

 

[Jani]

I love salmon and I eat it once a week, frequently twice.   I can get wild Atlantic from Norway, otherwise its farmed.  Grilled with herbs, yum! 

[DeeDee]

I am fortunate in that living rural allows me the luxury of accessing fresh seafood here too, though I have never liked salmon, I do love trout and sea bass. I went to a chip shop (sells battered and deep fried everything - think chunky fries and fish, sausages) on the Orkney Isles one summer that listed the name of the boat in the harbour that each menu item had come from. It is something I am spoilt with and struggle when I go to big built up areas, even my local butcher can tell me which croft my lamb was reared on and my eggs are collected fresh and left in honesty boxes at the side of the road. It has made me unintentionally snobby, but at least I support my local businesses.

I really love fresh baked sourdough bread, I used to make bread all the time, but it never seems to last when I get near it!

 

I am getting hungry now, I must go and do a shop!

Enjoy your weekends x

[Cyndee]

That sounds wonderful and seemingly a throw back to a different time using those honesty boxes Dee. I also love the fish and chips, we usually get the deep fried Halibut around here, lot's of Ketchup please....

 

Have a great day Dee and all !

 

Cyndee -