The Weekend

Every week, I put my head down and get through five days of work just so I can get to my sweet, amazing weekends. I started this weekend with vague plans of sleeping in, enjoying the cooler weather, and being lazy all afternoon with Josh.

On Friday, we made lemon chicken for dinner, one of our go-to easy meals. I've discovered the perfect lemon sauce recipe is:

3/4 c. sugar
1 c. water
1 T cornstarch
The zest and juice of two lemons

I just simmer it all in a pot until it reduces enough to be a glaze/sauce for chicken and brown rice. I would have taken a picture but we devoured it before I could.

Our good friends came over on Friday night for cards and wine - two of my favorite weekend activities! I don't think we will ever get tired of card games. We ended up at the bar down the street for late night snacks and Ewa taught us about polish rappers :)

On Saturday I wanted to go outside and downtown somewhere, so I checked my usual events sources and found the Cooke Street Carnival in a little neighborhood right outside downtown Raleigh. We saw the food trucks as soon as we pulled up and knew we were in the right place!

Band from the back, my view, and Josh enjoying his first vegan lunch

There were a bunch of local artists and vendors, food trucks, local breweries, dogs and live music. We people watched for most of the time then walked around and did some (window) shopping.

NC necklaces, duct tape wallets, a sleepy weiner dog

We headed to a friend's house in Durham for a pumpkin carving party on Saturday night. We don't have any Halloween plans this year, which I'm okay with. I don't really feel like going out to a bar and fighting crowds, and I don't have any great costume ideas, so I was pretty excited to do something Halloween-y!

Shannan's halloween themed treat table, Josh getting serious about carving

 Today is our 2 year anniversary and we both have work/school all day, so last night I surprised him with a quick trip to a really good little local pizza place for a quiet Sunday night dinner. We had big plans to go to our favorite Italian restaurant downtown, but my friend's younger brother got married and rented out the whole place for his reception! Wow, what a ridiculously delicious place to have a wedding reception! 

Some lady asked if it was our first date (because Josh was being a little Instagrammer and taking pictures of the food!) and if we wanted her to take a picture of us. We took her up on the picture offer, but told her we have probably had over 700 meals together in the last two years! It was the perfect way to end the weekend.