the weekend that was - birthday edition

Birthday eve dinner at Zahav - amazing food and service experience. We loved it and will definitely go back. We did the tasting menu and sampled a good number of fabulous dishes. I'll boldly say I've never had better brussels sprouts and that the labenah ice cream was quite possibly made by someone actually from Heaven. Philadelphians, you should go. Dinner menu here and dessert menu here. We followed that with a stroll around Old City. It was a wonderful night.

Up at the crack of dawn on my 37th birthday on Saturday to head to Honey's Sit-n-Eat for breakfast. I had excellent breakfast quesadillas and got fried green tomato caprese to go. Holy shit, I'm glad I did. It was delicious.

We took to the dogs to the park close to our house for some family exercise. They loved it.

The afternoon consisted of browsing HomeGoods and TJ Maxx and finding nothing (WTH!), frozen yogurt, and a couples massage. Ahhh.

I got a fabulous surprise delivery from Kerry at Till Then, Smile Often: chocolate dipped apples and strawberries. They were an instant dessert hit. Thank you Kerry! You rock.

We had dinner at home in lounge attire per my request. MFD grilled steaks. I made sauteed local mushrooms and spinach, roasted sweet potatoes, steamed fingerling potatoes, and corn. My brother Stephen and Debbie joined us. I finished out my birthday with some big bad red on the couch. Glorious day.

Sunday food prep: Amanda from Voyage of the MeeMee's quinoa taco filling for this week's lunches, barbecue chicken with sauteed onions for this week's dinners, and Guinness roasted corned beef with a side of boiled cabbage/potatoes/carrots for Sunday dinner. Breakfasts for the week are breakfast burritos, snacks are strawberries, raspberries, raw carrots and cucumbers.

Not pictured:
1. Errands (Sam's, Giant, Target) and hausfrauing (the party doesn't stop because it's my birthday)
2. Basement purging - got rid of some chairs and other crap
3. Finished Night Film, fabulous book

Things you may have missed this weekend: 37 things about me for 37 years and how I did on my winter goals.

Tomorrow: 10 Tips on Decluttering.

Thank you all so very much for the birthday wishes. They made a great day even better. For you, my favorite Irish blessing for Saint Patrick's Day:

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