It’s been a really fun weekend!! Here’s the recap:
Friday – We ate dinner at Depalma’s, an Italian restaurant in downtown Tuscaloosa. We hadn’t been there in almost 2 years, but it was even better than I remembered! I got the Spinach Fettuccine Alfredo with Chicken in it…yum! We’ve heard that their pizzas are awesome too, so next time we might have to try one.
When we got home, I made a cheesecake from a recipe I found on allrecipes.com called Chantal’s New York Cheesecake.It turned out really good! I followed the recipe exactly, except for the part at the end about leaving it in the oven to cool for 5 or 6 hours. That would have required me to stay up til about 3 A.M., and I wasn’t that dedicated, so I only let it cool for about 2 hours before refrigerating it. Supposedly, letting it cool in the oven like that prevents cracking. Mine had a small crack in it, but it still looked good! Next time, I might add more butter to the crust because mine turned out a little crumbly.
Saturday – I made breakfast for Travis (normally he has to settle for cereal!), cleaned, and went to the Rec Center to exercise. For dinner, I tried another new recipe from allrecipes.com called Zippy Chicken Corn Chowder. I loved it, and Travis said he liked it too. It actually turned out to be pretty spicy, but it wasn’t too spicy that I didn’t like it. I only made a few changes to the original recipe: I left out the red pepper and leeks and added some onion instead. I also substituted some cayenne pepper for the hot sauce and used milk instead of half-and-half. Yum!!
After dinner, we went over to Alisha and Katie’s for their Valentine’s Day Party. I took my cheesecake and some brownies I’d made, and we had a few other snacks. The big event of the night was the Photo Scavenger Hunt. We split up into four groups of four, and we had exactly one hour to go to as many places on the list as we could find and take our picture. At least 3 of the four group members had to be in the picture, so that prevented the group members from splitting up. The different places/things on the list had different point values, depending on how hard they were. I was in a group with Travis, Mollie, and Jason, and we got 2nd place!! Here are some pictures from the night:
There were several other fun pictures from the night, but it would take forever to load them on here with our slow Internet. We would have gotten a ton of points for getting inside Bryant Denny, but we didn’t think we’d have enough time to find a way in and get all the way back to Riverside on time. We also would have gotten a lot of points for jumping into the Riverside pool, but none of us were that dedicated (the pool was pretty slimy), although if we had, we would have won! Alisha, Katie, Alan, and Kyle all jumped in though!! They were pretty hard core :)
Overall, we had a blast! I hope we do another scavenger hunt soon!
One reply on “Yummy food and a Valentine’s Day recap”
>Erin, that sounds like so much fun!!!! I wish we had’ve been in town for that :)