Tuesday, July 13, 2010

Eggplant and flowers

But not at the same time!

I tried an amazingly good recipe the other day that I wanted to share with you. It's an eggplant parm recipe from Martha Stewart

I think it came out really well!

Eggplant Parm

It's also relatively healthy since it's baked and not fried but still tastes just as yummy. "
I only used one eggplant instead of 2 and had MORE than enough to fill a 9x13" pan.

I couldn't resist taking some pics of my flowers too. They are all bursting at the moment!

Purple Coneflowers


Butterfly

Have a great week!!

Thursday, July 08, 2010

Day trips

It's been a while but I still wanted to share of the fun day trips I went on recently. My friend Nicol was in town for a visit and we went EVERYWHERE! After picking her up from the airport in DC - headed to Alexandria for dinner and ice cream.
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We ate at the Fish Market and it was fun to sit up on their balcony and look over the activities on the street below. After dinner we drove home via DC and stopped at the monuments. It's always amazing to see the monuments at night all lit up! Please excuse the crappy cell phone pics!

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The next day we headed to Philly!

We walked around South Street and I had a cheesesteak at Jim's - my favorite!
Jim's Steaks

Jim's Steak

After South street - we headed to center city and saw the Liberty Bell and Independence hall.


Independence Hall

Liberty Bell
Finally - we went to Manayunk for dinner - such a cute little town!

manayunk canal

Next up was Baltimore - I took Nic to see my favorite parts of Baltimore - Inner Harbor, Fells Point, Camden, Hampden and everything in between!

Baltimore mosaic

Sunday was DC! We headed down early to get tickets for the DCDuck tour. We bummed around China town, saw a Nationals game and saw more monuments and landmarks.

DC Mosaic


It was a busy but fun filled weekend!