Friday favorites: girls trip
This week I had the pleasure of going on a girls trip with my sister Cindy and my best friend Margie. (This photo is actually from last year’s trip. I gave the girls a break from my constant picture-taking this year.)
We rented a townhouse in beautiful Park City. It had all the comforts of home.
We watched several good movies on this television. My favorite was Lion. (If you haven’t seen it, you must!)
Cindy and I took a couple of long walks. The hills were killer on the legs and lungs, but the views were spectacular!
One of the best things about our annual girls trips is cooking for each other. It’s truly a labor of love, and Cindy and Margie are both wonderful chefs. As for me, I rarely cook at home. (Larry is kind enough to do that.) So it’s kind of fun to test out my skills on such an appreciative audience, so generous with their praise. Cooking is definitely something I want to do more of once I retire.
We each took responsibility for two meals. For my turn at breakfast, I served french toast, bacon, and fresh berries.
I got courageous at dinner and tried three recipes I found on different blogs: pan-seared pork chops with dijon mustard sauce and asparagus and peas with warm lemon viniagrette from All That’s Jas and healthy mac & cheese from Fit Bottomed Girls.
Of course we ate out a couple of times as well. Have you ever seen a more beautiful wedge salad than this one from Lespri Prime Steak and Sushi Bar?
And what about this crab and veggie omelet from Eggs in the City?
Okay, I’m just going to stop here, because now I’m hungry again! 🙂
***It’s your turn***
Do you have a favorite recipe? What is it?
Do you prefer to cook or eat out?
What’s your favorite restaurant?
My favorite recipe ?? ( I consider that a “recipe” is something you make while following instructions??)
Homemade ice cream. Strange I know , but I have to follow instructions how to make and how much of this or that is needed. You may think it’s made the same, just the “flavor” of choice is added, but not so, more creamer, sugar, lots of things change depending on your favorite flavor.
And of course, to answer the next to questions I only have to give one answer ….Ruth Chris Steakhouse . If you’ve been, you know where I’m coming from ?
Now I’m hungry!
I’m going on record as requesting some chocolate Nutella ice cream please. And, of course, I love Ruth’s Chris too!
I loved girls trip! (Although I missed the sisters that couldn’t come.) I always enjoy just being together and Park City is beautiful. We have had some really good times in San Francisco, Las Vegas, San Diego and a Criuse to Mexico! I would love to try some new places as well.
I agree Cindy. We have fun wherever we go. I’d like to take a girls trip to the Seattle area soon!
Guess I totally missed the question? One of my favorite recipes is lasagna, although I have many. I love trying each other’s meals as well as going out. I can’t narrow it down to one restaurant but lately I’ve LOVED the wild rice with kale salad at Cubbys. So good, and easily makes two meals!
I need to try Cubbys and your lasagna! ?
I just created a new recipe: Fun Nachos. I put retried beans on the bottom of a Pyrex 9×9″ pan, covered with taco-seasoned, cooked ground beef, covered that with lots of cheddar-jack shredded cheese and microwaved it until hot and the cheese was melted. I served it with bowls containing tortilla chips, sliced green onions, avocado, tomatoes, salsa, and sour cream. The “fun” was playing with our food, haha! Each “nacho” was built individually and so was a perfect bite for the person who built it. There were no boring, uncovered chips and best of all, leftovers could be stored because everything was separate, no chips soggy by the next day.
Missed you all terribly! Glad you had fun.
Sounds delicious, Connie! We missed you too.
What a yummy, fun trip that must have been, Christie. One of my favorite recipes is homemade Kung Pao chicken which I just made last night and served with fresh green beans and jasmine rice. So delicious! I got the original recipe here: https://www.budgetbytes.com/2014/05/kung-pao-chicken-vegetables/
I do a little modifying in that I added fresh snow peas last night and I add more broccoli than the recipe calls for. I also love my rice cooker, something I held off on getting for a long time as I feared it would be yet another appliance that collected dust. But it is the best! Thanks for sharing your lovely photos of scenery and food. Your trip sounded like so much fun!
It was delightful, Molly. Thanks for the Kung Pao chicken recipe. I am definitely going to try that. Yummy!
I loved the movie Lion–it was an amazing story!
A girl’s get together is fun! I still meet up with HS friends from time to time that live all over the country.
My favorite recipe? I have so many! We like Italian food and I make many different styles of pasta and sauces and all are good. My daughter loves my eggplant Parmesan .
That’s so great that you come together with friends from across the country. I also like Italian food, but I’ve never tried eggplant Parmesan. In fact, I’ve never tried eggplant at all.