Happy New Year!
Our plans for a low-key New Year’s Eve at home came to an abrupt halt when Matt got sick, so the steaks and lobster tails that we’d rushed around to pick up yesterday morning remained in the fridge and I was forced to singlehandedly eat a quarter of a wheel of brie wrapped in puff pastry. In other words, my night was off to a pretty decent start.
After the brie I ate even more cheese, this time mixed into risotto. I didn’t feel too guilty for eating so much cheese knowing that if things would have gone according to the original plan, I would have been chasing it all with butter-soaked lobster. Or, if things would have gone according to Matt’s original plan, we would have been eating nothing more than steak, lobster, and risotto. Who needs vegetables when you have steak and lobster?
To keep it feeling like a celebration I stuck to my plan of wearing my sequin skirt, even if it was paired with Snooki slippers.
2011 Resolutions
I’m not usually one for making New Year’s resolutions, but as I was cooking yesterday I came up with a few that I’m pretty excited about. Resolutions to lose weight or to exercise seven days a week aren’t really my style, but resolutions centered on eating (as long as it’s not followed by the word “less”) are totally my style. I decided to share them in case you want to use them, too. I set the bar pretty low, so they’re all manageable, but I always have the option to do more than the bare minimum.
- Try one new restaurant each month. I have a growing list of restaurants that I want to try, but I also have a habit of running to the nearest Chipotle instead of trying new places. Hopefully this results in eating a lot of good food as well as finding some new go-to places.
- Make something new from one of my cookbooks each month. I have a bookshelf full of cookbooks, many of which I rarely use. I need to either use them or get rid of them, and forcing myself to use them should make the process of whittling down my collection easier.
- Use one new ingredient each month. There are a lot of things that I’ve eaten at restaurants or read about in cookbooks but never actually used. Now I can motivate myself to experiment more.
- Run a 6+ mile run each month. I have to do something to compensate for all of this eating, and since most of my runs are around four miles, it shouldn’t be too difficult to tack on a couple of miles once a month.
What are your resolutions?
It can’t be all bad with lots of cheese, right!?! I love your resolutions, good luck with them! I wish I lived in a place that let me have a resolution to eat at a new restaurant each month… here I’d pretty much eat at every place in one year (including fast food places.)
And to think I told your father you’d never wear those slippers!! They do look nice with the sequins! I think I better to do the 6+ run every week to get ready for March 12th!
I like your resolutions and your NYE outfit–I’m all for fun celebrations at home. No cover charge required, you can have whatever you want (forget about those fixed menus) and you can dress as nicely or as not as you like!
I love your resolutions…perfectly reasonable but exciting nonetheless.