My engineer, his best friend, and I had dinner at a super yummy place in Jersey City tonight, Edward's Steakhouse, where the guys ordered from the raw bar. I forget the type of oyster THIS one was, but oh my... putting aside the, um, shape of the contents, the sheer SIZE of the oyster was, well, gargantuan. I mean, look at the fork next to it. Jeez.
Jimmy, my engineer's buddy, was similarly impressed. So much so that he took a photo of it with his iPhone.
I'm still sighing over my "Flat Iron Steak, cocoa and coffee dusted, with wild mushroom mashed potatoes" garnished with julienned (flash?) fried sweet potatoes [like the potatoes in this photo] -- the meat was delicious, and the 'taters had an entire creamery's worth of butter and milk/cream in there, but it was all: Oh. So. Good.
And the other stuff...! Like the homemade potato chips (which my sweetheart mercifully moved down the bar, out of reach) which you can see in the lower left corner of this photo.
I guess the gazillion points I had tonight are just getting me used to the foodfest coming up tomorrow, where I am informed there will be such things as pineapple upside down cake made by my sweetie's mom (yum!!!) and sweet potato casserole w/ marshmallows (umm...ick, and not made by his mom).
Since I don't want to step on anyone's toes by bringing something that is their specialty (it is an extended gathering, with many family friends of my engineer's parents), I settled for 2 dozen roses.
In preparation for tomorrow's festivities (and tonight's decadence), I spent part of this afternoon in the exercise room here at my engineer's condo complex. Since it's frequently deserted, I was also unafraid to sing along with my mp3 player. Heh.
And now, I am going to crawl under the covers (it's freezing in the NYC area tonight) and wait for my fella to return from hanging out with his buddies during an impromptu atop at the Man Cave: since I used his keys to come home, I need to buzz him in.
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