Happy Thanksgiving!

Asian Fusion

Last weekend, we were out shopping for a small piece of furniture and found a random Asian fusion place for lunch. It turned out to be great! The ginger dressing on the salad and the miso soup were fantastic.

Austin got his baseline, Pad Thai with tofu. It was tangy and flavorful.

I got a bento box--the teriyaki shrimp were amazing as were all the other components. We want to go back and try more dishes when we have time (!).

More Autumn

It's been too long. Work has been keeping me busy and the fun, bright points along the way just haven't made it to the blog. There was a haunted corn maze by night, a batch of fantastic beer-cheese soup, walks along the trail near our house, and more. Maybe I need to get better at using my phone to snap a quick picture and do some mini blog posts. At any rate, one weekend certainly warrants a full-on post.

A nice thing about being back in the Midwest is that we're much closer to family and friends again. In mid-October, I was able to make the quick, two hour jaunt to IA to see a dear friend. You know you have a dear friend when she keeps a section in her recipe collection with your name on it. Wow!

It was fantastic to see Sharon's home, meet her adorable 10 month old, meet the dogs, and get to talk to her husband more. We went out for dinner with Sharon's friend who I had been looking forward to meeting and Courtney was an absolute delight. Later, there were walks around campus and parks, both receiving gifts from and preparing goodies for our friends from this summer's LadyMoon, lunch in a cute part of town, and more. On the second night, Sharon prepared her amazing pesto-pear flatbread. It was fall on a thin crust.

We also enjoyed some cauliflower-broccoli cheese soup and a rustic pear galette for dessert. There was mulled wine and a fire just to add even more coziness to the evening. It was a perfect weekend.