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So, I like this whole blog thing because it is forcing me to write, and I am somewhat of a lazy ass in that department. However, it seems like everyone has a blog nowadays, so getting someone to even read it is next to impossible. Oh well, not like what I had for lunch today is all that exciting. For anyone who cares, it was leftover rice and veggies cooked in maple syrup - I know that sounds weird, but it tastes so good. I put the maple syrup on a mix of vidalia onions, carrots and string beans, and it makes all the flavors pop really nicely.

It was a nice weekend, particularly Saturday, which was unseasonably warm and pleasant. I went to my first meeting of the book club that my old intern, Kyra belongs to. I like these girls a lot and it was such fun! Since we read Bill Buford's Heat (which is a bit of a Mario Batali history combined with the author's mid life crisis - he actually gets a thrill out of working his way up from the bottom in the Babbo kitchen, making no money and bearing the brunt of all kitchen discontent) they decided to have our discussion at Otto Enoteca, the extremely reasonably priced and yummy restaurant that Mario and his partner Joe Bastianich opened at the end of the book. I've been there a few times before, but it is always a treat. I think I am going to like this club. Afterwards, we went to B & N to get the next book (Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro) and even went shoe shopping. What a great day!

On Sundays, Nien and I are usually fully devoted to TV, but last night we cooked a big meal and our friend Justin came over, so TV took a back seat. We've had this bottle of sake in our fridge for a while now, so it was time to get 'er done. I came up with the brilliant, but somewhat misguided (for a Sunday night) idea of drinking sake bombs, and after a few, we were feeling pretty good. So in the spirit of fun, we decided to go to a 10:30 movie. we ended up seeing Zodiac, and it was good, but oh so long and I swear someone had cranked the heat in the movie theater to about 110. I was roasting and ready to fall asleep. By the time we made it home I pretty much nose-dived into bed.