More than a Menu

Hope you had a happy Labor Day weekend! We spent ours not laboring (except for some necessary laundry and grocery shopping). Hurricane Isaac did not arrive as expected on my actual birthday, but we still went ahead with our plan to have my birthday dinner over the weekend. Andrew took me to Horseradish Grill up near Chastain Park on Saturday night. Neither of us had been there before and we don't spend much time in that part of town, so it sort of felt like we were on vacation. (...is that sad? Or do you know what I mean?)

 
They had a cute garden out front, and it's just a classic restaurant inside (and on the menu). I say that because I guess we are so used to the restaurants in Midtown that are so "city"/trendy...but sometimes you want plain ole good American food. HG provided that, although the best thing we had was probably the dessert -- Kentucky oatmeal spice cake with caramel ice cream!

In the valet line... I think I embarrassed us with this one. ("Are yall in line? Didn't know if you were waitin' for a car or just takin' pictures." And sorry - my arm is just not quite long enough to avoid the monster shoulder effect in these self-taken shots...)
On Sunday we ventured to Lenox to check out the new Vineyard Vines store! If you are a VV fan, you should definitely make a trip. It is so pretty, and they have all the preppy merchandise you could ever want! Plus, how cute are the shopping bags?

Andrew had great shopping karma at Lenox, and I did not. (I might have been more patient if there weren't a jillion people there. Just walking through the place was like being in a pinball machine.) Unfortunately for Andrew, the girls at one of the stores told me that the particular item I was looking for was available at Atlantic Station. So that meant only one thing...more shopping on Monday!

But that gave us an opportunity to try out another new restaurant -- Yard House (edited because Yard & Haus was a store in Statesboro!) at Atlantic Station. It was huge inside! The menu was also massive, and we ended up with moo shu egg rolls, a BBQ chicken salad, a Cuban roast pork dip, a Fat Tire, and a blackberry pear cider. Totally goes together, right? It was a little expensive for lunch, but I think we'll go back!

After I finally had too much some shopping success, we got some groceries and headed home to round out the long weekend. (We actually ended up spending most of the afternoon-evening-night on ancestry.com. But that's another story for another day...) We were sad to see the long weekend go, but at least we only had to menu plan for a short week!

This Week's Menu:

Tortellini & Tomato Salad

Southwest Chicken Salad (Grilled chicken, black beans, tomato, avocado, etc.)

Bowtie Lasagna

Pulled Pork Sandwiches with Dijon Slaw, Chips & Quickles

Grilled Chicken Sausage and Peaches with Mustard Green Beans

This was a super easy "semi-homemade" dinner from last week. We didn't bother making actual skewers, and the sausages and peaches were just fine grilled separately. A surprisingly good combo! 

{Recipe Here}