Thursday evening Roy and I trekked up to Falls Church/Alexandria in NOVA (Northern Virginia) to have a mini-date night and go to Danielle Walker's book signing of her recently published Against All Grain.
Roy and I drove up Falls Church, mostly traffic free, and with only minor snags from the GPS navigation we arrived with plenty of time to grab some dinner. We stopped into the Red Robin and had burgers. We both added bacon to them and I got some extra pickles (yay!), and 96'ed the bun. A side of sweet potato fries and a Angry Orchard cider and we called it a date! A Pre-anniversary date! Yup, on Friday we've been married 4 years. Sort of hard to believe how fast time flies.
After dinner, we hopped over to the Barnes and Noble, I jumped in the cue and Roy took to perusing the books, magazines and movies. The line was comically long in wait and short in people. Danielle is such a sweetie, she takes the time to chat with all of the people there for the signing. I thought it was wonderful. (the 2 behind me did not really think it all that brilliant and murmured about it most of the time in the line. I must admit that while I was waiting, I thought to myself that I should think of something witty to say or a question to ask, and I completely drew a blank. Yup, not a single thing to say, other than to smile. DOPE! Anyways, I met Danielle, told her how much I loved the book already, and asked her to disregard the flour that was already in between the pages... To which she laughed and said that is what the book was designed for! (thank goodness). Mine is DEFINITELY NOT a coffee table book. We don't even have a coffee table!!
To follow up, i thought I would make a recipe out of the newly signed cookbook. So I made the Peach Coffee Cake. I did however, not follow the directions 100%, because who does that?? Ok most people do. I am just not one of them. Call it lack of attention to detail, need to be creative, not being fully prepared to bake the recipe as prescribed, allergic to am ingredient, whatever you will. I just don't do it. So... since I had been berry picking on Friday, I added fresh raspberries in lue of a third peach, and instead of pecans (which would have been amazing!) I used walnuts in the topping.
This tasty treat made a debut at St. Asaph's coffee hour on Sunday. I mean, come on, no two people should eat a WHOLE cake by themselves! plus how am I ever going to win friends and influence them to the ways of paleo living if i don't share how wonderful paleo tastes?? Ok, so it was great, and everyone loved it. Roy even enjoyed it - which is saying a LOT because he doesn't like raspberries (too many seeds).
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