Rewind: Saturday - Football, Family, Food

I know it's Tuesday but I realize I forgot to post about my Saturday. I had such a good day that I wanted to share it with all of you!

Breakfast

I wanted to try something different than my usual low fat vanilla latte so I chose the Northern Light Turtle latte from Caribou. It was good but tasted too much like dessert for my morning pick me up:



Panera power sandwich: Bread, egg, ham and cheese. This is my favorite "fast food" breakfast sandwich. I can taste all the ingredients individually and when all the flavors mix together it makes an amazing breakfast sandwich.



Lunch

Saturday's in my house are dedicated to college football. This Saturday was fun because we had family over to enjoy the Michigan vs. Indiana game.

Before our guests arrived I put together a veggie tray full off carrots, broccoli, cucumbers and peppers.





To dip the veggies I made some low fat ranch dip:

I think everyone liked the veggies. I know I did!

My plate x 4:

What is a football game without a beer? I drank 2 Magners Irish Cider beers. If you like cider beer and haven't had Magners, you must try it!

Cappy & Solera

The dogs go CRAZY when we have guest over. They get SO excited to have new people to play with! They jump on and bark at our guests to welcome them. Not the most welcoming situation for a lot of people but it's better than being peed on when you walk in the door. I won't mention which dog, Solera, but one of them used to get way to excited and not be able to control his bladder. Thank goodness that phase is over with!

To give our guest a break we gave the dogs their favorite treat, Bully Sticks:

Give the dogs one of these and nothing else in the world exists. It's all about the Bully Stick:

Dinner



After Michigan won the game we ordered some Chinese food from Tamarind.



This place has good food but the Customer Service sucks. After I placed the order for delivery I received a call telling us we ordered to much food so they had to charge us more for delivery. We ordered 3 meals and egg rolls, I don't think that is an excessive amount of food. It wasn't the fact that they charged us more money for delivery (although that didn't make me happy) it was the way they handled the situation that makes me think they need to take a customer service class.



We most likely will not be getting Tamarind food anymore which really stinks because the food is really good!



My plate: I ended up eating half the egg roll, a little bit of noodles and some broccoli dish over rice.

Patrick made me a Jeff Lewis martini to enjoy with my meal. I think one of the reasons I married P was because he can make a great martini:)

I drank half.

Dessert

Leftover s'mores pizza!

Solera sitting by our feet in hopes of catching any bit of food that might fall off our plate:

and Cappy getting depressed as our guests started to leave. He was hoping they would stay all night so he could curl up in their laps and sleep!

Good people, good conversation, good food and happy dogs - Couldn't have asked for a better Saturday!

Question:

How do you like to spend your Saturdays?

BLACKHAWKS WIN!!!

I spent the evening watching this:

Chicago Blackhawks Hockey!!! This series has been difficult for me to watch. I'm a competitive person and I really wanted Chicago to win this win. I can't even begin to explain how much anxiety I've had watching all these play off games! But in the end, all the anxiety is worth it cause the boys have won it all!!!

As I sit here typing this post I'm surrounding by sights and sounds of the hockey win. I look outside my window and see buildings lite up with red lights and "Hawks" outlined in high rise windows. I can hear people screaming with joy and car horns blaring in the city.

The scene at Wrigley was crazy. Tons of people flooded the streets when the Hawks won:

All those red dots in the middle of the picture are of people in the street:) I'm getting so old. I would rather sit on my couch and celebrate by blogging and taking pictures of my TV than heading out in the crowds. Oh well, I did enough crowded parties in my younger years:)

I'm so proud of the boys and can't wait until they are back in their city!

Breakfast

My favorite oatmeal from Caribou. Maple crunch:

Iced Northern Lights Vanilla Latte:

Lunch

My lunch time consisted of going to Target and spending more money than I should have. This is an issue that I always seem to have whenever I step foot into that store. I just love it!

Walking back to the office I stopped at Subway and picked up a spicy italian sandwich:

Veggies, yum:

Happy Hour

Patrick and I stopped in Ceres to have a cocktail. I had my usual raspberry vodka and lemonade:

Dinner

We had dinner delivered to us tonight because I wasn't about to miss one second of the game due to cooking or anything else for that matter.

I wanted something Chicagoy (yes I know that is not a word). Deep dish pizza from Giordano's was in order:

My plate with a slice of pizza and a bit of pasta:

I had 2 pieces of this deep dish pepperoni pizza. These slices are so big that I really only needed to eat 1 but I was starving!

Baked mostaccioli as a side dish...holy carbs!

The humans in the house were getting a treat tonight so it was only fair that the furry creatures in the house got one as well. We've found (the hard way, don't ask) that pizza doesn't sit well in their stomachs so we got them bully sticks:

Both humans and furry creatures are sitting happy in this home in Chicago:)

Question:

Do you ever find yourself getting anxiety over sporting events you aren't participating in?

Weekend Activities: Thunder Storms and Celtic Fest!

I was having a ton of fun with my camera this weekend so this post is going to be picture heavy.

Friday started off with a thunder storm that drove the dogs to their favorite hideout, under the chair:

 

Had my new favorite snack of apples and Mighty Maple Nut Butter:

 

Friday night is Pizza night for the husband and I. We had Sarpino's:

Saturday

I dragged my husband out of the house early Saturday morning so we could grab some breakfast at a local diner.

Standard vanilla latte x 2:

 

French toast that was made with cinnamon in the mix:

Sunday

Woke up Sunday with one intention for the day. Celtic Fest at Millennium Park in Chicago!

Prerequisite for a Sunday morning outing, Caribou vanilla latte:

 

It was a beautiful day and I think the pictures will speak for themselves.

Views around Chicago:

Hilton Chicago showing some Blackhawks love:

Chicago Celtic Fest:

Drinks and Eats

We stopped at the Timothy O'Toole's booth and picked up some Pulled Pork Sliders w/ Jameson BBQ sauce:

The sliders came with potato chips:

I only ate half a slider because the flavor wasn't all that impressive. I would have preferred the pork been cooked in the BBQ sauce but instead the sauce was just placed on top of the pork.

The husband picked up these messy looking Irish Nachos. Somewhere under all those peppers, cheese and corn beef is a pile of chips. I think this was Patrick's favorite meal of the day!

Kettle one cosmo in the park:

After watching the Irish dancing and walking around the park I was hungry.  So we stopped into one of my favorite places, The Gage:

First up, Kettle one cosmo: 

  

My favorite fries ever.  They come with a curry dipping sauce that is A-MAZING!

After chowing down on the fries at The Gage it was time to walk home.  I loved seeing all the flowers in bloom:

I had a great weekend, hope yours was great as well!