Weekend Review

Here's the weekend review coming at ya a day late, but I was recovering from Saturday's festivities still.

My packing skills. More wine than clothes.

Thursday after work, Kari and I drove up to Lutsen, MN on the North Shore. After a stop at Target, a struggle with some windshield wipers, we were on our way!

There was a lot of family time, exploring time, and boozing time.

Views from our living room and the walk to the Main Lodge.

A family that walks, planks, eats, laughs and brushes their teeth together, stays together.

We hiked at Cascade Park and visited Grandma and Grandpa's old place in Hoveland.

A short stop in Grand Marais for some fudge and beer.

 Yard beer bonging, white fedora's, little boys lining up for kisses and endless dancing.

This past weekend was jam packed and I wouldn't change a thing. It was fun to have all of our family together with no real agenda except the wedding on Saturday afternoon. Everyone had such a good time celebrating Pat and Summer's wedding, dancing endlessly and catching up with relatives we don't get to see often.

Food Truck Friday: Dandelion Kitchen

Earlier this week I got a craving for the best Cuban sandwich I've ever had from Dandelion Kitchen. I was obsessed with this sandwich last year and ate it probably once a week throughout Food Truck season.

I tracked down Dandelion Kitchen, I think its permanent spot is the plaza of the IDS Center, and searched the menu for my Cuban sandwich. Sadly, it was no where to be seen. 

Then I thought, Food Truck Friday posts are for me to get out there and try new trucks, or at least something new off the menu, so I went with the Grilled Ham & Brie sandwich.

Let me break it down for you. 

Grilled Ham & Brie: All local ham and creamy brie with house made fig mustard, sliced pear, arugula, and whole grain mustard.

Their whole grain mustard is why I loved their Cuban sandwich so much.

This sandwich was monstrous. There was a pile of ham with brie in between. A thin layer of pears (which I don't usually like) on the fig mustard which balanced out the saltiness from the ham and brie. The bread was perfectly toasted, yet still soft.

I was definitely smiling the whole time I savored this sandwich.

By the time you read this, like anyone really reads this, I'll be up in Lutsen for my cousins wedding. Shout out to Pat, the groom to be! Hopefully I'll be out hiking or walking the North Shore, so come back Monday for what should be a full Weekend Review.

T.G.I....T?

Today is my Friday! Holla!!!

Remember when we could say TGIF and not get in trouble because you said God and there was a whole Friday night line-up called TGIF? Now? Now, people get in trouble just for saying OMG! 

OMG! 20 years ago was so much cooler than now with the perms and side tied t-shirts and rolled socks and the worse thing you said was butt head.

I'm so thankful today is my Friday because here is how my day is going.

It started out by emptying the dishwasher at work to find that someone put plastic utensils in there. Have you ever washed plastic utensils?

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Followed by this email:

'Ali,

I am confused by the invitation you sent out. It indicated this meeting was cancelled. Can you please clarify?'

My response? 'The meeting was cancelled'. I'm not sure how you actually clarify that.

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And finally, while working on a mailing, I found  several of the envelopes that we get from our printer to already be sealed. Here's to re-printing 150 envelopes.

I'm off to lunch with my 'team', all three of us, then heading up to Lutsen for a family wedding.

I hope your day is starting off more tremendous than mine.

Sister Dinner: Red's Savoy

Last night was the second sister dinner at Red's Savoy. I've never been, and honestly I had never heard of them except for the occasional drive by in UpTown.

We decided that if we were going to do this then we had to go to the original in St. Paul. After a couple wrong turns due to our phones GPS system, we finally made it.

Source

It's almost like an old supper club. Very dark, dim lighting and lot of red booths. We picked a booth by the kitchen and were immediately greeted by our server.  She was your 'St. Paul',  gal, you know, a little rough, but she was a great server.

We ordered a pitcher of Summit while we decided what pizzas to get. We decided to get one sausage and pepperoni and one pepperoni, onion and jalapeno. They were both equally delicious.

 Red's Savoy is good pizza. It's loaded with toppings, seriously, no skimping at all. Just the right amount of sauce and a generous topping of cheese. The jalapenos were super fresh, and this is coming from a gal who doesn't eat a whole lot of jalapeno's, I guess unless it's in my bacon.

This is our second pizza place, and so different from Lola's. It's more classic in that it's your basic toppings. However, they did have one with pepperoni, onions and pickles, that's a pizza I want to come back and try. Have you ever put pickles on your pizza?

Next stop, Fat Lorenzo's!