My 4th of July was fun. We're remodeling our kitchen during the weekend, so my mom, my sister and I decided to make something special for (I guess you could call it) our Last Supper (side anecdote - I was working at the summer program, which uses a church's facilities, and I was reading a Sunday School activity that someone had posted on the wall, called "what do we know about Jesus?" and one of the bullet points was "he had a last dinner with his friends", which made me laugh. Yeah, he ate dinner with some of his disciple homies before boostin' on out to get crucified and stuff.) My mom's been wanting to try making risotto and this pork chop dish from Everyday Italian for awhile now, and we finally got to make it today. For us, cooking anything besides Chinese Food is a crazy huge deal, and we used up counter-fulls of plates and a whole bunch of effort to make our shrimp risotto, pork chops stuffed with spinach, cream cheese and sundried tomatoes, Italian wedding soup and salad. It turned out great - everything tasted so interesting (chicken broth + lemon zest? mmm.) and delicious.
Then I went out with Michelle and Steph to the Ferry Building to watch fireworks up close. I missed watching the fireworks last year since we were busy making s'mores, and I've always watched it from the shoreline near my house, which is nice, but the fireworks are about the size of ants. I had forgotten how intricate and huge the fireworks were - all those swizzles and colors and sparkles and bangs. The Oakland fireworks were on one side of us, and the San Fran ones were on the other side, so we were surrounded. It was pretty awe-inspiring. Afterwards we just hung around and talked some crazy talk at my house :)
-Wendy
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