The Commune took me out to dinner last night for my birthday.  We went to the Shed for their $3 slider night.  The Shed has added several new sliders to the menu, and the weekly slider event is pretty popular ’round these here parts.  I was ready to eat, so I ordered five different sliders: the barbacoa (delicious!), the pork schnitzel (addition of pear compote really added complexity to the sandwich, still my favorite), the chorizo with caramelized onions (a solid choice), the chicken salad (one of the best chicken salads I’ve ever tasted, mostly because it has bacon in it, heh), and the pork belly BLT (this particular one was all fat, which is the risk you take when ordering pork belly; considering every single other one I’ve ordered has been perfect, I’m not upset).  Truthfully, I was so full by the time I got to the pork belly slider that I couldn’t have finished it anyway.  Someone must have told our wait person that it was my birthday because they brought out a free dessert with a candle in it!  Yay!  It was the homemade ding dong, which is basically two layers of cake with a thick layer of sweet cream in the middle, covered in chocolate.  It was very good, not too sweet, and actually very light, but I was much too full to eat more than half of it, which is too bad because ordinarily I would’ve done it justice.  I guess if I’d known it was coming I would have foregone one of the sliders.  Oh well!  The Shed really did us right, as they always do.  Really like that place!

It’s a MILLION degrees here with a MILLION percent humidity.  Really.  Last night it was 91 degrees but the humidity brought it up over 100.  We walked to and from the Shed, and the heat on the way home, along with the mountain of food I’d eaten, made me feel sick to my stomach.  So I went home and laid flat on the couch and watched chick flicks until bedtime.  I miss Dice, but it’s certainly nice to lay there and watch chick flicks on a weeknight.

Today I went to Watershed with a colleague for lunch.  As many know, Watershed is a restaurant in Decatur half owned by one of the Indigo Girls.  Scott Peacock is the chef and he does Southern food magnificently.  Today I had the famous pork and fig sandwich with horseradish and boursin-esqe cheese.  I’ve had it many times before and it never disappoints!