Welcome back to my blog! Mom and I started this weekend by
cleaning the apartment and running some errands. After completing this, we
decided to head to Concord, MA for the afternoon. Neither of us had ever been
and we were excited to discover a new place so close by to home.
We arrived around lunchtime and we wandered down Main Street
trying to find a restaurant to eat at. Mom and I stopped at a place called
Helen’s. It is a cute place where it seems that the locals go to. I had the
Mediterranean chicken kabobs and Mom got the hot pastrami sandwich. Both were
very good and classic. Mom had been craving a pastrami sandwich and it hit the
spot.
At the Concord information center, we heard about a used
book sale at the public library. As Mom and I are both book-lovers, we had to
go and spend an hour perusing through all the books. We got ten books for $20
books. I’ll post a book haul later this week with what I bought. The library
itself was also beautiful.
After dropping off the books in the car, we went to Sleepy
Hallow cemetery to see the graves of Thoreau, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel
Hawthorne and Ralph Waldo Emerson. We saw graves from before the Civil War up
to the early 21st century.
Feeling tired, Mom and I went back to the apartment to nap
for 30 minutes. Then we headed out to dinner in Lynnfield. We went to one of
our favorite restaurants, Davio’s. Mom and I decided to pace ourselves, so we
first split the Chicken Parmesan Spring Rolls. Yes, Chicken Parmesan Spring
Rolls. It sounds weird, but they are absolutely delicious.
Then we split a Caesar Salad, which was good but not great.
It paled in comparison with the Caesar Salad from Pearlz in Charleston that I
wrote about a few weeks ago.
For my entrée I got the shrimp fusilli dish and Mom got the
roasted salmon with horseradish-mashed potatoes. YUM!
Sunday morning started off with some soft-boiled eggs in
cute little cups, sesame baguette, bacon and condiments that were yummy.
That afternoon, we had reservations at Taj for afternoon
tea. Before that, however, we wandered through the Public Gardens and Commons.
Tea was perfect. I felt so civilized sitting across from Mom
with the fancy china around and the live violin player standing in the middle
of the room. Over the violin, there was a nice hum of conversation from all the
tables around us. I had the Taj Breakfast tea and Mom got the Pear tree green
tea. The first course had tea sandwiches including cucumber and cream cheese,
prosciutto and melon, smoked salmon, egg salad, crab salad and chicken salad.
The second course had the best part . . . the sweets!
Chocolate covered strawberries, macaron’s, madeleine’s, chocolate chip scones,
and citrus scones. My favorite was the madeleine or the chocolate covered
strawberry, but everything was amazing.
I would completely recommend the Taj for afternoon tea for a
treat. It was a great experience that I want to try and recreate at home and
with my friends.
After tea Mom and I went shopping along Newbury Street, the
5th Ave of Boston. I found some new places that I want to try out in
the near future for shopping and for eating.
Dinner was a light affair because we ate so much at tea. I
made some tortilla soup from the I LoveTrader Joe’s College Cookbook that was really simple to make and
satisfying. I put out some cilantro, shredded cheese, crushed tortilla chips
and avocado for garnish and then we dug in. Yummy without being too heavy, I
can’t wait to try more recipes from the cookbook.
Well, that is what I did last weekend. I hope that you
enjoyed! What did you do last weekend? I’ll see you soon with a book haul!
Bye!
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