Saturday Night Dinner with Friends

We spent Saturday night having dinner with some close friends at home. Paulo and Pauline Jimenez, our Chilean friends together with their 9 month old baby Gabriel, came all the way from Kendall in Miami. Jun and Lot Dominguez also came. Gabriel is just so cute and the two kids were really looking forward to having him at home. We don't have the kids' old playpen anymore so we just laid out a sleeping bag, put a lot of soft toys and let Gabriel fascinate himself and us.

It was just a simple dinner for us. Some red cabbage and red pepper slaw, Bacalao a la Vizcaina and broiled chicken marinated adobo-style plus some wine and sweets for dessert. There's nothing like just relaxing with friends and as always we enjoyed the time together.

Sunday Brunch with Friends

Yesterday was an easy day! After attending the 9am church service at our local church, Christ the Rock Community Church (www.crcconline.org), we went to 'The Ark Restaurant' together with Jun and Lot Dominguez and Richard and Ellen Parchment who are visiting from the Cayman Islands.
The restaurant has this Sunday Brunch Buffet which is just terrific and it has become the Parchments' place to go to when they're here. I can't blame them, it's my favorite too! Their salad bar is just so good, it even includes caviar (of course it's not the very expensive kind) and my son David has learned to like it as well. I tried it with the smoked salmon. Not bad! I once saw Emeril Lagasse doing it on his show. They also serve poached dill salmon, big 'peel and eat shrimps', a variety of smoked fish and the best carving station our side of the planet. They usually have 4 kinds at any time but will always have roast turkey, sometimes leg of lamb, filet mignon or flank steak but they always have 'prime rib au jus' which is so good and tender. If you know me, I always try to make it the 'best deal', he he!

Anyway, it was a long brunch since we were there from 10:30 am to almost 1 pm, just trying to catch up on things but it was fun and the company was just good.