Accidental Orderings

This week I did my first grocery order for the south. Sent it off on Tuesday afternoon and the groceries showed up on my floor at lunch on Friday. In this order I decided to spoil myself a little with a few treats that I hadn't had in a while- like some brie cheese (which I hadn't had since visiting my little brother in Ottawa when we gorged ourselves on brie, baguette, some fancy italian salami, and a little balsamic glaze and olive oil... it was too hot to cook, so we just ate that for supper one day, mmmm...)

Okay, sorry for that tangent, but brie cheese... yum, I decided to order some as a treat, but typed 1000 grams instead of 100 grams of it, and when I was taking the groceries out of their boxes and putting them away, I almost had a heart attack at the size of the piece of brie that I had apparently bought for over 30 dollars... It was almost a complete wheel/circle...

Oh, what can you do with a piece of brie, what can you do with a piece of brie, what can you do with a piece of brie, early in the morning? (following the footsteps of tuffysmom I created that song to illustrate my dilemma.. LOL! To the tune of your and my favourite Sea Shanty, "what can you do with a drunken Sailor"...)

For lunch that day, I cracked open the brie and a package of smoked ham slices, and had a sandwich and during that meal I felt already that I would overdose on brie before I might have the chance to finish it. Where was my little bro when you need someone to help you polish off a huge piece of cheese?!?! So, I started to think through my options... hmmm...

Option #1- try to sell some of it to other teachers... CHECK (called a couple of them and told them to come see me if they wanted brie... to date I have only GIVEN one piece away, it's too hard to charge friends, with all they give to you... oh, well at least it isn't being wasted!)

OPTION #2- well, this is not an option as much as a GIVEN! The meal I had planned for Saturday night with Melanie (who had her birthday Friday) and April, Trevor, Nancy, and Mark, is now going to be a meal that somehow requires brie!! CHECK (search online recipe database provides many delicious options, fettuchini and fresh tomato sauce with brie sounds not too hard, so THAT is what they are getting! (PS hope they like brie! hahaha)) I broke the rule in hosting dinner that says you should try a recipe that you have made before, and went out on a limb and tried this one for Fettuchini and brie Turned out quite nicely, everyone seemed happy and I made a dent in the brie stocks!

I couldn't think of any more options, I don't feel like eating yet today, and certainly not brie after two days of OD'ing on it. Any suggestions? Does it survive if it is frozen? Anybody know?

As per my weekend to date, I had a WONDERFUL time last night, hosting the above mentionned people for supper! It was a very interesting night, Trevor who works for the northern store, had to pick up boxes from the airport at 7:30 so instead of letting Mr. Grumpy (he wasn't too happy about it!!) go and do it alone, the 4 of us girls decided we would also don our workgloves and help out, so hopefully Trevor would be happy enough to hang out with us! So, Nancy grabbed her truck and we followed, good thing we did, it turned out that there were millions of boxes and they couldn't all fit into the Northern truck, so we loaded up nancy's truck to the top too. What adventures! I am on a mission to show April that even though there is not shopping malls, dance bars, etc. that you can find lots of weird and wonderful things to do up here! She seems to be willing to accept the hair brained ideas I have had so far, so hopefully we can change her mind about this place!

After helping with the cargo, we went back for desert at my house, and spent a couple hours chatting and telling stories and laughing. Isabelle, another secondary teacher, had some people over for supper but invited us all over to hang out after they finished so to top off the eventful evening, we all ended up over there, burning energy with some dancing and burning the midnight and the two AM oil... Hopefully we had a victory for the "show April the North can be busy and fun" campaign! (I write this thinking that she might actually get online and check this blog, I gave her the address but haven't seen her footprints through the page yet...)

Better get going for now! Hope you all had a wonderful weekend! G.