A Perfect Rainy Fall Saturday, Part One. (What Happened).

Saturday I by some miracle (OR, thanks, amy!) didn't have to work & it poured rain every single minute
& I missed the Garlic & Arts Festival & Deerfield Town Yard Sale
& OMG! Bret Michaels at the Big E
but yet, it was a beautiful day in every way.

Saturday started out right by watching Breakfast at Tiffany's well after midnight in my living room, me for the millionth time, & getting to show this utterly fabulous movie (yup, I'm ridiculous) to someone for their first time.
(big glamorous sunglasses & croissants & coffee)

& then waking up to a rainy farmer's market morning, & pears picked for me by todd & emaline.
(this is one of my most favourite recent drawings)

later, the view from paul & elizabeth's after running there in the rain while it really poured & the wet streets sparkled.

Following dinner, Ben Folds at the Calvin.
This was drawn in almost pure dark by the way, but this concert was so excellent, I had to pull my sketchbook onto to my lap
& at least attempt draw what I felt,
anyway.
Totally wonderful show, so grateful that I got to be there.

Good day, yeah.
& Part Two: What we actually ate for dinner, coming soon.

Food Blog? Art Blog?

I told you this was coming.
The recent incredibly pleasant cool fall nights have definitely inspired me to cook more.
Some meals from the past week, here at 133.

Sunday dinner.
For a former vegan whom used to be terrified to cook meat at all, I think I've come really far. Steak (london broil, best I can afford) simmered in red wine, butter, olive oil, garlic & shallots, with yukon gold new potatoes & broccoli. & so fucking much butter you wouldn't even believe it.
(but I believe in butter).

& one of my classic recipes, inherited from mum, a roasted chicken with fresh thyme & rosemary, garlic, olive oil, butter & white wine, with fresh local carrots, potatoes & brussel sprouts roasted in the same pan. This meal consistently wins people previously frightened of them over to the true deliciousness of brussel sprouts.
plus great leftovers with chicken sandwiches & now I have chicken soup to look forward to.

DnDnE last week, yes that coconut curry.

& then the next night we did a little more DnDnE , so we had the leftover curry plus sauted spinach, garlic, & summer squash in olive oil & butter, & more salad (baby mixed greens & sprouts) (loving sprouts lately)
(oh & the rice was brown basmati, both nights)

& more on the subject of awesome reinvented leftovers, my dinner from last night, very late, while watching Breakfast at Tiffany's. I had some leftover spicy red sauce (with applewood smoked bacon) that I had previously eaten with some tiny raviolis. I made some chicken apple sausage, spinach, portobello mushrooms in olive oil & butter & garlic & combined them all & ate it with raw milk goat cheese & kalamata olive rosemary sourdough bread & baby greens salad & goddess dressing at 2am. yup.

WAY more of this to come, my friends. It's only gonna get colder here in new england.
& I'm only gonna wanna cook
(&draw)
more.

Playing Pool At Ye Olde.

Melissa playing pool at The Watering Hole the other night, from various angles.
9.29.09

I am quite astonishingly terrible at playing pool, but love to draw you playing it.

DnDnE, 9.30 & 10.1.09, Part Two: Liz

My version.

Rin drawing me while I was drawing him.

Rin & Beth, Drinking & Drawing & Eating.
(yes, Rin does have a cat on his head)(hi magpie)

It WAS a really incredible moment.

& Beth drawing tonight.

& for some reason, I PRESENT,
this photo of a sheep, I don't know, we really liked it.
From this week's New Yorker,

& I haven't even posted the drawings of the food!!!
OMG.
Stay tuned for THE POST WHEN THIS BECOMES A FOOD BLOG.

DnDnE, 9.30.09, Part One: Beth

We are trying to make this Drinking & Drawing & Eating thing "A Thing".
aka I cook a lot of delicious crazy food & invite YOU over & dance around in my kitchen barefoot
& we draw everything.

Beth's version of last night's coconut curry + art friends:

A really awesome portrait of me
(except we are trying to use the word "awesome" less)
this one actually from my birthday but just scanned tonight

& me & rin, last night

Everyone, please, encourage Beth to let me scan more, or start posting here herself. These are really freaking mad great drawings.
(or marks on paper, whatever you wanna call it, lady)
we need more of this shit 'round here.

Tasty paintings!

So, Liz made a curry and it was really really good! It had coconut milk and some beautiful veggies depicted above.

Fall makes me all excited about red wines. Here in the valley the weather has been chilly and beautiful, perfect for drinking Reds again!



Someone should tell her than she can't taste the complex flavours of this wine's oaky, spicy, complex finish because smoking fucking DESTROYS the palette.

Just sayin'.

A Northampton Fairytale.

Just a typical night on the town, I guess.
I kind of wish it wasn't like this, but it seems like it is.
Noho, September, 2009, of course Tuesday night.
& (drawn in my random stolen moments at the grocery store the next day.)
Grocery Comics, Part Four.
WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT.

Peace. I wish it didn't always turn out like this.
But at least we always have real good dancing in this town.