A tale of two dinners....

Last night we had a nice dinner with some friends of ours and their newborn at a local microbrewery, Hoppy Brewing Company. Gropius agreed with Esen that it did indeed have a nice hefeweizen, even if it wasn't exactly the same as what you would get in Germany. I shocked Jess and Esen (who didn't realize I'm not a beer drinker) and enjoyed a nice pint of cider. Our research of local microbreweries continues!

I snapped this picture of Jess with Sophia:



Yeah, Jess is from North Dakota, how could you tell?? ;)

And the night before, we made a really tasty Asian-style Chicken Noodle soup, compliments of Martha Stewart. It didn't have any fat in it other than what is naturally occuring in the chicken breast and chicken broth we used. We had to add a bit more salt and I was pretty loosey-goosey with the red pepper flakes and we sub'd sugar snaps for snowpeas, but all in all it turned out well:



It went nicely with a cheap rose (the best kind!) we found at BevMo. Close up of the Udon noodles, red bell pepper, and chicken breast: