happy faja day!

To celebrate Father's Day, we're having my parents over for dinner. I made arroz con pollo, one of my pop's favorites, and for dessert - lemon bars! I hadn't realized as I never made them before, but lemon bars are almost entirely butter and sugar - escalando!
So I found a solid recipe and just kinda winged it, left out a bunch of butter (a whole stick!!!) and some of the sugar. They came out awesome - a little sticky, but super delish.
I have to perfect my arroz con pollo recipe and then I'll add it here. Right now it's kinda from memory, which means it's a bit different each time, ha!
Happy Father's Day!

our estate sale find of the year (probably)

On Fridays, Ned and I have been nerding out and hitting up the local estate sales. We're mainly looking for records, but of course we sometimes see cool stuff we have to have. I've found a few small art pieces, retro kitchen stuff, mid century knick knacks, that sort of thing.
Well, a cool bar has been on our want list for about three years now - and we finally discovered great one at an estate sale just down the street. It was a total score, complete with all the glassware (that fit in custom-made niches) and in great condition for just $140. We were stoked! Our record room is really turning into a hip, pulled-together space. Haha it's only taken us like 4 years to do it.
Also this weekend we went to Antiques Roadshow! How funny is that? They were filming in San Diego and my parents won the ticket lottery - they would have totally gone, but they had a vacation this wknd, so Ned and I got the tickets!
I have to say we had fun, but it was a lot of waiting - I mean like Disneyland-in-Summer-want-to-go-on-Splash-Mountain kind of waiting. We had to queue to get into the event, then again to get into the main room, then again in the individual item line. But, I did get the see a few of my favorite appraisers, and there was definitely some good people watching, so we had a really fun time.
Have to run and do some housework, then we're making some BBQ!

flag day

Summer is finally here and we did so much cool stuff this weekend. Chad, Esther and Sylvie came in on Friday night as my braja was going to work on his car with my dad. We got to stay up late that night drinking on the jazz deck and chatting while Sylvie killed hundreds of noobs playing Call of Duty online.
Saturday Ned and I took Sylvie to the La Mesa Flag Day Parade and met up with Tina nd Robby. If you haven't checked this parade out, I highly recommend it. It's a very cute small-town American type event - with high school marching bands, Girl Scouts passing out flags and Tootsie Pops and a salute to veterans. Totally cool. We also took Lucky and Boo and everyone had a great time!
Later that night we met up with everyone at the Ranch for dinner - my mom made some amazing oven-fried chicken, I have to get the recipe! All the activity led Neddie and me to just chill at the house today - lunch and a beer on the deck followed by some NBA Finals. A really great start to summer!