It was bitterly cold here in Chicago this past weekend, so I didn't leave my apartment from Friday evening until this morning when I headed out to work. A friend and I had planned to see a movie yesterday afternoon, but I called her in the morning and said that, as much as I'd like to see her (and get out of the house), I wasn't going to stand outside in sub-zero wind chills waiting for a bus. Public transportation here on the south side is a joke, even on the best of days, let alone a frigid Sunday.
So we started tossing around ideas for doing something later this week, but soon realized that there weren't any mutually acceptable days. I finally said, "Well, why don't you just come over for dinner tonight?" She has a car, so getting around the city is much easier for her than it is for me. I made pork chops with a mustard-maple sauce (yes, it's the same recipe for the chops I made on Big D's birthday--I happened to have all the ingredients on hand), green beans with toasted pine nuts, and mashed potatoes. She brought a lemon cake with raspberry filling for dessert, and it went really well with the stuff I made. We also opened a bottle of riesling; I love riesling because it goes with almost anything. It's amazing what we can accomplish when we put our heads together. Even though it was planned on the fly, we had a wonderful meal that was perfect for this cold weather.
So we started tossing around ideas for doing something later this week, but soon realized that there weren't any mutually acceptable days. I finally said, "Well, why don't you just come over for dinner tonight?" She has a car, so getting around the city is much easier for her than it is for me. I made pork chops with a mustard-maple sauce (yes, it's the same recipe for the chops I made on Big D's birthday--I happened to have all the ingredients on hand), green beans with toasted pine nuts, and mashed potatoes. She brought a lemon cake with raspberry filling for dessert, and it went really well with the stuff I made. We also opened a bottle of riesling; I love riesling because it goes with almost anything. It's amazing what we can accomplish when we put our heads together. Even though it was planned on the fly, we had a wonderful meal that was perfect for this cold weather.
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