The past weekend was a perfect balance of happy, excited, stress, relaxing, fun, and drunk!
Those weekends don't happen often and when they do it's hard to come to terms with them ending (I actually shut off my alarm thins morning and went back to sleep thinking it was Sunday...witch it was not and I was late(ish) for work).
Anyways as traumatic as that was that's not really what I am here to talk about.
Part of all the flurry of mostly good things that happened this weekend was finding out my roommate that I don't get along with is moving out (we actually found this out a week before I think...but I was in shock for the week). So with someone leaving and someone new coming in we get a chance to sort of restart, to make house rules that are actually followed and do a little redecorating and fingers crossed the person we want to move in can! I am very excited in case you couldn't tell!
Seeing as I was in a really good mood, I obviously wanted brunch and since all of my friends/ people I force to eat food I cook were busy I thought maybe it would be nice to just have a Kelsey and Joe brunch.
What ended up happening was a totally unplanned celebratory roommate brunch, with my roomie that's staying! To make this all more crazy, because it wasn't planned I had to go to Shaws in the morning, witch means I woke up before Joe got dressed (even put on lipstick because I was feeling fancy) took the train to Shaws and walked home! That's impressive for a Saturday morning!
So I decided that I wanted to make a somewhat healthy brunch (weather or not I actually did or not is up to debate) but we had over-easy eggs on potato sausage hash, with sourdough toast and a strawberry arugula salad with grapes and lemon pepper dressing!
How I did it: I got tiny red potatoes because they were cute and on sale so I washed and cut them into little chuncks then boiled them for just a little bit, while those were boiling I thawed the sausage I had and chopped strawberries for the salad and made the dressing (juice from 1 lemon and about 1tsp. olive oil and some fresh ground pepper). I then strained the potato and set aside while I chopped up the sausage then on the flattop grill I mixed the potato and sausage with a little Italian grinder spice, ground black pepper and a tiny bit of crushed red pepper, I then covered it and put the salad together. Once the sausage and potato start getting crispy start to toast the toast and fry the eggs, when that's done you are done! YAY!
I actually got some rectangle white plates/platters (like on fancy food network shows) and had this all plated really nice but we forgot to take a picture, we suck!
I totally didn't think the boys would like the salad or the whole concept of morning salad but it was well after noon when we sat down so they tried it and well at least said they liked it...small victories.
We had no mimosas (or any other booze) because Doug was sick and we needed the champagne I had for a toast earlier in the week anyways.
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