the gauntlet
Andy & I had a tasty home-cooked meal last night with the Gauntlet (a sweet bunch of guy friends who set the stage for boy bands before its conception into pop culture, but that's another story).
The main course was steak with onions - really simple but oh so tasty. The sweet onions were such a great complement to the delectable steak that PNG cooked. He's paying his dues to become a chef & has been working in restaurants the past year, so he managed to whip up 7 steaks in a blink of an eye. And to end the meal, he served chocolate tart, where the crust was just an excuse to prevent the creamy cocoa butter filling from spilling. It was divine *sigh*
We landed up watching some soccer after dinner & TKG patiently gave me a run down of the rules throughout the game. And then some. He also filled me in on how soccer betting works. Illegal betting, that is. It's a whole different world, with 24-year old bookies making and losing tens of thousands of dollars within a day *gulp*! But seeing how Andy & I won't even buy a $2 lottery ticket, listening to TKG's 'expose' was as close as we'll get to betting. (Although there's a possibility that they're [a] betting on my delivery date OR [b] betting on the gender. Shouldn't I get a cut??)
It was great hanging out with all of them, and hopefully having a kid won't change that. I've been warned that single friends go awol after one has kids, but I'm crossing my fingers that it'll be different with the Gauntlet :)
The main course was steak with onions - really simple but oh so tasty. The sweet onions were such a great complement to the delectable steak that PNG cooked. He's paying his dues to become a chef & has been working in restaurants the past year, so he managed to whip up 7 steaks in a blink of an eye. And to end the meal, he served chocolate tart, where the crust was just an excuse to prevent the creamy cocoa butter filling from spilling. It was divine *sigh*
We landed up watching some soccer after dinner & TKG patiently gave me a run down of the rules throughout the game. And then some. He also filled me in on how soccer betting works. Illegal betting, that is. It's a whole different world, with 24-year old bookies making and losing tens of thousands of dollars within a day *gulp*! But seeing how Andy & I won't even buy a $2 lottery ticket, listening to TKG's 'expose' was as close as we'll get to betting. (Although there's a possibility that they're [a] betting on my delivery date OR [b] betting on the gender. Shouldn't I get a cut??)
It was great hanging out with all of them, and hopefully having a kid won't change that. I've been warned that single friends go awol after one has kids, but I'm crossing my fingers that it'll be different with the Gauntlet :)
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