Garden Prep Done

Way behind schedule this year, but got the raised garden boxes tilled, chopped down dead plants and a few overgrown mixed greens. Ready to plant next week.

We're doing a few things different this year:

1. Lakeside Garden Boxes - no squash, cukes, or other gourds will be in the Upper Garden Boxes this year. We're going to give it a rest this year and plant these in the boxes down by the lake (which haven't had gourds in two years) to try to combat the vine borers that destroy our crop each year.
2. We're planting a LOT more carrots this year - they were great last year, all 6 of them ;-).
3. We're planting a lot more mixed greens this year - I also have a bunch in my office in a planter. Need to eat more leafy stuff.
4. Tomatoes and tomatillos are getting moved down to the lake as well. We're going to replace that area with some herbs and more mixed greens. We had 0 tomatoes last year, and only a handful of tomatillos. I don't know what we did wrong last year.
5. Corn - we definitely are going to plant pink corn again this year. It actually doesn't taste bad, but my 1st Grade teacher mom and the kids really liked it.

Café Montè Bistro @ Philips Place

Café Montè was great. My wife and I first met on February 26th 2005 at a complete dive bar named Jeff's Bucket Shop, which is located down an alley and underneath a restaurant in the basement level of a building - great place, but we chose to celebrate our anniversary of this meeting at a place she had been trying out for lunch with some friends, Café Montè.

I don't have any pictures, but the food was absolutely wonderful. She ordered the Trout Amandine, and ate half of it and saved the rest. I had the Beef Short Rib Bourguionne, which was sitting in a bowl in a cradle of mashed potatoes and tiny little onions - this is one of those places where you leave remembering how good mash potatoes can really be.

The only disspointment was their crème brûlée, which obviously did not have a freshly done "brûlée", but the top layer was also thin and hardly crunchy at all. It may have been the worst crème brûlée I've had. BUT, the desert was a stark contrast from the otherwise excellent meal!

So many good meals, so few posts...

I'm going to post an update soon...

Cheater, Cheater, Pumpkin Eater

I fell so far off that slow-carb wagon you wouldn't believe it. I stopped working out. Gained all the weight back plus some. Have to be in NY for client dinners the rest of the week, but coming back with a vengeance afterwards.

Slow Carbs

I've cheated some - especially on the alcohol part. One night, I had been good all day and then in an uncontrollable rage I slammed by a handful of chocolates and chased it with a filled-to-the-brim glass of milk.


But, overall, this has been a pretty easy diet, and despite my cheating, I lost 9 lbs. I'm in my last week of my trial 4 week run at it before I start my exercise regime.