My First Receipe!

This is a butternut squash receipe from Rachel Ray . I made it for dinner tonight. Yum O.

I could even see serving this as a side at Thanksgiving.

The Red Room

Saturday evening, E and I went to dinner with one of my girls Kim, and her bf Will. I love Kim, shes like the skinner version of me. Actually people always ask if we are sisters.

Anyways, we went to the Red Room in Shadyside on Highland Street. We had reservations at 7 and the place was empty, and my inital thought was "OMG, we really are in a recession". However, by the time our appitizers arrived the place was packed.

Of of my favorite blogs is by this awesome chick in CA, and she writes wicked restaurant reviews, so to take a page from her and showcase the fabulous restaurants we have in Pittsburgh. Let me be known that I cant quite bring myself to bust out my camera in the middle of a meal, but I will get there.

So we started of the meal with some pretty good Cabrenet from Sonoma valley, it was 33 for the bottle, but it was quite good. For appitizers we shared the red bean hummus and the red pepper fondue. The hummus was served with tortilla chips and honest it was just like a regular ol' hummus. Nothing to write home, or to blog about.

But....the red pepper fondue was amazing. It was cheesy, had a nice kick of spice to it and you could still taste the sweetness of the roasted red peppers. The fonude was topped with what we believed to be a balsamic reduction and the serving bowl was practically wiped clean.

On to the Entrees....

We decided to skip the salad/soup course because when your drinking its just not nesscary, we did however have another bottle of wine. I had feasted on the seared scallops with saffron linguine with black lobster sauce. It did not look good at all. It looked rather green. But it was out of this world AMAZING!! The scallops were cooked to perfection and melted in my mouth like buttah. The linguine was cooked to al dente and the serving size was plentiful.

E had the filet au poirve. ( Did I spell that right?) I should mention that he asked to steak to be cooked medium well, and well it came out medium rare. Now, I know some may say "oh, hes ruining the steak that way, blah, blah" but thats what he likes. The steak was served on top of truffeled gnocci, baby carrots, some other veggie and a congac demi glaze. The demi glaze was very, very rich. He loved the meal, and he was too buzzed to noticed his steak wasnt cooked enough.

All in all I give the red room 4 out 5 stars. We will be back.

And to make this post with pictures, heres a pic of me and kimmy at her 25th birthday at the Sonoma Grille.

So did Aubrey get kicked out?

I love Making with the Band. I remember watching Da Band in college ( the second season) and it was hilarious. So, when Puff ( love how we are on a first name basis) was making a girl band, I was like sweet! I was so excited.

So, I have to tell you that I loved Aubrey from the get, in fact, I brought several pictures of her to highlighting appointments a few years ago. Shes raw talent. She can sing and dance, and shes hot. So she was instant favorite. So after like 3 seasons, Puff finally made the band and of course, Aubrey was in it. Their first CD is great, its not the Beatles or anything but its pretty good. I requested "Showstopper" at my wedding. I love Danity Kane.

When Christina Augilera came to the 'Burgh on her Back to Basics tour I excited to find out that DK was the opening act. So were the Pussycat dolls, but they are okay. They were awesome.....

fast forward a year and have...how can Aubrey be leaving? Its not the same without her.

Team Aubrey!

Trax Farms

I love fall, Saturday E and I went to Trax Farms to buy some apple cider, pumpkins and sweat. Why does it have to be 80 degress the day we go to the farm? In any case it was fab. I love seeing all the little kids climb over pumpkins and I cant wait to to that when we have kids. The pumpkins were in abundance.

Happy Autumn!

*What I did on my Summer Vacation*

Summer is long gone, but since I'm a bad blogger I thought I would post about what I did this summer.
It was good to E and I. Summer kicked off when E returned back from a work related trip to London. I had to stay home. Then we watched my younger cousin Jenny get married. Awww.

The we had a fabulous vacation....we went to Little River, SC. Its right on the border of North and South Carolina. Lots of fabulous southern charm, cute Pirate lore and lots of sun. It was a good time.