Time flies, has been almost four months since my last weekend post. Mother’s Day weekend so…

• Saturday: Better half said she wanted a stove for Mother’s Day, I had bookmarked some stuff by BlueStar Cooking months ago because it looked cool, there’s a local distributor here in town that we visited on Saturday after the oldest’s soccer game. Great warehouse / storefront but nothing seemed to fit us. Lunch at Guero to go and a table inside at Jive on the 5th floor on a beautiful sunny day in Portland certainly fit us though. Came home and got the boneless lamb roast (purchased from Ponderosa Provisioners in Beaverton, highly recommended) started and then dug rocks out of the parkway strip (apparently that’s what it’s called?) for a couple hours (decorated with river rocks, has slowly filled with dirt and leaves over the past years and looks like a pile of dirt instead of something nicely maintained).
• Sunday: Mom got to sleep in, I made breakfast, she wanted “super greens” and a fried egg, tried these directions on for size, worked out pretty well. Got the lamb in the oven at 1pm, finished work on the rocks with Grandpa, got the potatoes in the oven while the lamb was resting, put together a really great salad with this dressing (doubled the recipe for the four of us and we had a bunch left over), sourdough bread procured, sliced and toasted and had dinner outside. Lamb was fantastic, we had two five pound legs while the recipe called for one 10-12 pound leg so I probably should have cooked it less (was at 141 degrees after 3 hours, should have been at 130 to 135) but the 500 degree toast at the end to crisp up the skin was a nice touch.