Happy New Year everyone! I hope everyone had a great weekend. Lena and I had a nice weekend though not very exciting. On Friday, we went out with Pat and Lisa for Lisa's 32nd birthday. We went shopping on Saturday and spent the evening at home. We watched the March of the Penguins which we enjoyed and I made an awesome dinner. Center Cut Loin Lamb Chops broiled with herbs de provence, turkish olive oil, portugese sel de mer and hand cracked indian telicherry pepper. Mashed potatoes with sour cream and green onions and petite haricot verts with european butter and portugese sel de mer. I am more convinced than ever that the butter in the US is crap and now pay more for the European butter one can get a whole foods. Same is true for Olive Oil and salt. I know you may thing that all salt is the same but ask Dad about the salt I have from Portugal. It is so delicious. Anyway, lame-o Chaz and Lena barely made it to the New Year. I think our head hit the pillow at 12:01. Sunday we went for a walk and Lena went out with her friends that night. I stayed home with Oscar and cooked. What did I cook? The exact same thing. I had to make sure I had it down for posterity as this is going down as one of my all time favorite meals. Monday the weather was awful and we did not leave the house. We watched Million Dollar Baby (good but I don't see what all the hoopla is about). I guess they just had to give Clint a best actor and were running out of time. Mostly, I just read the book that Lena gave me for xmas. 101 days in bagdad. OK but I could have wrote it. Anyway, I hope everyone has a great year. Love to all.