Sam took a trip to Ft. Lauderdale, FL to see some friends, leaving me to fend for myself for the entire weekend. I can take care of myself ok, but I took the opportunity to invite a few of my new soon-to-be Cat 3 teammates over for some Friday night food and fun. Our plan was simple. Eat lots of yummy food and watch a totally, ridiculous movie. We succeeded on both fronts.
I immediately put Ray in charge of the meat. (You can’t have a man’s meal without some sort of tasty meat.) I knew that Ray would opt for something a little off the standard path. I was thinking he would choose grass fed beef or maybe some organic chicken, but he wowed us with some very nice Bison NY Strip steaks. If you’ve never tried it, give it a go.
I baked up some sweet potatoes and lightly stir fried some veggies to accompany our kill. The boys agreed with me that they were great, because there was not a single morsel left when we finished our feast. I think we even won a few races during our meal. At least that’s how it felt as we discussed tactics and told stories between bites.
Brian was assigned desert and he took up the assignment with the great enthusiasm. After consulting his personal recipe vault, he showed up with all the fixins to make Rice Crispy Treats. Yum! Half way through the preparations we called and audible and added some dark chocolate chunks into the mix. Man, you want to tune up those regular old RCT’s you have been making? Throw in a few chocolate chunks to upgrade your squares. They were awesome.
After dinner we burned off a few of those calories rolling with laughter as we watched Step Brothers, starring Will Farrell and John C. Riley. It doesn’t get much sillier, but it kept us in stitches half the time. Sometimes you just want to laugh at some stupid humor and these guys can deliver.
Following the movie we made our plans for hitting the trails in DuPont on Sunday. Good food and good friends equals good fun in my book. Best of all…we still have some of those Rice Crispy Treats left for the ride on Sunday!
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