{"id":7536,"date":"2013-08-02T22:21:11","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T03:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/?p=7536"},"modified":"2013-08-02T22:43:45","modified_gmt":"2013-08-03T03:43:45","slug":"friday-night-before-bootcamp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/friday-night-before-bootcamp\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday night before Bootcamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark and his son and son&#8217;s girlfriend are off at Lollapalooza, leaving me and Rachael to have what Rach has started calling the &#8220;longest sleepover party of the summer&#8221;. I&#8217;m just trying to have some normal weekend fun before the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.today.wisc.edu\/events\/view\/55600\">distance student&#8217;s bootcamp<\/a> starts on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>We started with a pedi, after work &#8211; I have shiny purple toes now.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7537\" style=\"width: 347px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/purpletoes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7537\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7537\" alt=\"Purple toes - color #59 at the salon\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/purpletoes-337x450.jpg\" width=\"337\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/purpletoes-337x450.jpg 337w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/purpletoes.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 337px) 100vw, 337px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7537\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Purple toes &#8211; color #59 at the salon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A friend &#8211; Peter, the architect, came over for dinner. He&#8217;s in the process of selling the house in the country where he lived with his former boyfriend David (a librarian), buying a new place, and moving there &#8211; farther out in the country. For apps, I made zucchini butter tartines, the <a href=\"http:\/\/food52.com\/blog\/7500-jennie-cook-s-zucchini-butter\">zucchini butter<\/a> I made yesterday, spread on grilled bread &#8211; really good. Then I made this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.101cookbooks.com\/archives\/green-bean-slaw-recipe.html\">crazy Heidi salad<\/a> with way too many ingredients, a kind of cabbage slaw with green beans (I used frozen), yellow raisons, croutons, toasted walnuts, slivers of cheese, and a homemade mayonnaise with cream &amp; hardboiled egg yolk. we ate it on mixed greens, instead of arugula. <a title=\"White trash vs. vegetarian epicure\" href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/2010\/10\/05\/white-trash-vs-vegetarian-epicure\/\">I&#8217;ve made it before<\/a> &#8211; seemed to go together easier this time. We ate huge bowls of it, and then had Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s ice cream &#8211; Willie Nelson peach cobbler and coffee heath bar crunch  &#8211; with giant raspberries.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7538\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/giantrasp.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7538\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7538\" alt=\"Giant raspberries\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/giantrasp-400x400.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/giantrasp-400x400.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/giantrasp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/giantrasp.jpg 612w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Giant raspberries<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I forgot to chill the wine so we made <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/p\/ch7-tBTaZJ\/\">spritzers<\/a>, with ice &#038; wine &#038; elderflower liquer &#038; lemon fizzy &#038; lime wedges. <\/p>\n<p>Tomorrow, AM &#8211; farmer&#8217;s market, a little yoga, a few errands. A little cooking for a brunch to be delivered on Sunday morning, that I raffled off in the SLIS silent auction in April for National Library Week.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow I thought I&#8217;d finish posting the Tour de Jen tonight &#8211; but uh uh &#8211; think I&#8217;ll go crash on the couch instead. Here&#8217;s one more:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7539\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stopsquirrels.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7539\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7539\" alt=\"Stop sign squirrels\" src=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stopsquirrels-400x300.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stopsquirrels-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/debslunch.com\/debslunchblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/stopsquirrels.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stop sign squirrels<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark and his son and son&#8217;s girlfriend are off at Lollapalooza, leaving me and Rachael to have what Rach has started calling the &#8220;longest sleepover party of the summer&#8221;. I&#8217;m just trying to have some normal weekend fun before the new distance student&#8217;s bootcamp starts on Monday morning. 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