Tuesday night is craft night.

Generally, this means that a handful of us get together and work on whatever sewing and/or crafty projects we are currently working on. Of late, this has been largely focused on wedding-dress-making, and with the wedding and honeymoon actually happening this month, we have had the past couple weeks off. So, despite this being the final Tuesday of July, it was our first craft night of the month.

Here's what we accomplished:

Fine Art Trifecta: Eating, Drinking, and Discussing.

That's right - pretty much nothing. At least in terms of crafting. As it turned out, I (Cindy) was not the only one interested in socializing but completely unmotivated to actually craft last night. So, when Greta showed up toting two bottles of three buck Chuck and dark-chocolate-covered-almonds-with-sea-salt just as I pulled the slightly-too-melty brie with farmers' market sun gold tomato preserves out of the oven... the mentality went from "Maybe we'll start making shit when Greta gets here" to "Fuck it, let's eat, drink, and talk." Which makes this post totally allowed on the food blog. Except, of course, that we failed to get any pictures of the actual food. But trust me when I say Brie + Sun Gold Tomato Preserves + Crushed Almonds = Delicious. [In case you're wondering about those Sun Gold tomatoes, they're orange, they look a lot like apricot, and don't really taste much like what your brain says is tomato. But they're delish nonetheless. And really, really good on baked brie.]

Tonight, we experimented with Red Snapper, which neither of us had tried before. It was a tasty piece of fish, accompanied by rice, and topped with tomatoes, shallots, kalamata olives, and thyme. We did take pictures, but they didn't turn out very well - funky lighting or something, but here's a shot anyway:


Red Snapper with Thyme, Tomato, and Olives (Click for recipe)

Guess I'll have to do some learning about photographing food. Tasted good though. Up tomorrow is a Zucchini "Tagliatelle" with mint, cucumber, and lemon which sounds pretty good. Hopefully I'll do better with the camera so we can share.