Getting this Chicago trip started…wisely.
Eleven City Bloody
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Late, late lunch.
A Foam Brewers IPA at Mekong is juuuuuust right.
Sunday Daiquiri
This summer we started making fresh strawberry daiquiris on Sunday afternoons.
They’re surprisingly delicious and you can’t beat fresh strawberries. We tried recapture a little bit of summer yesterday, and it was close.
It’s a simple recipe: 2 parts rum, 1 part lime juice, 3/4 part simple syrup. I blend it together with a small handful of ice (we’re not making slushies), and pour it over a glass of ice.
It’s nice.
Happy Turkeys, you guys.
It was delicious.
Weekend Getaway
Stole away to Nelson County, Va. with some of the tennis guys this weekend. We had one back over the summer, too, and it’s starting to feel like it could be a quarterly thing. That’s about as much of it as I can take.
We stayed up on the mountain at Wintergreen, but lucked into nice weather and played some tennis in the valley. Otherwise, it was eating and drinking. It’s a lovely place this time of year.
Don’t Look Back
Tacos and some cold ones on a dreary Saturday.
This counts as photogenic for tacos
Weird that taco day would be on a Monday, but I’m not one to fight a chance to hit up El Cap.
Sturdy Lad
One of the more recent signals of my slow decent into my dotage has been my enthusiastic stocking of bird feeders.
I say “bird feeders” but I’m mostly feeding this chubbinsky. He can still do most of the normal squirrel jumping and climbing, but he won’t be for long if he keeps this up.
Pink Drink Spring Finale?
Rounded out the themed spring podcast cocktails with a daiquiri. I wasn’t familiar with the straight-up cocktail, only the frozen slurpee-style variant.
This was a nice treat, if a little sweet for my taste. Rum, lime juice, simple syrup, and strawberries.
Before and After, Phở Edition
Fully vaccinated and dining responsibly. This weekend we hit Mekong, a family favorite, and I got busy on a big bowl of phở and a couple of cold ones.
Creeping closer to normalcy.