One Month Behind, Catching Up...+ the night of July 3rd

Honolulu International Airport

...I got on the scale this morning and...oh boy...heheheh.

It's been exactly a month since I've returned to New York from a nice vacation back home in Hawai'i. How time managed to pass so quickly I'll never know, but lots of exciting things have happened in that month, most involving food and people...and a possible job change...but we shall keep that mum for now :)

I thought to post in chronological order, and in hopes of catching up on the lost month. But I know somehow, I'll end up not posting about the 4th of July weekend until early August, and silly stuff like that.

So I think I'm going to work in reverse.

Or post in whatever order I feel like!

Bear with me, will you?

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Part 1 of a 4 part post.
Weekend: 4th of July.
Day: July 3, 2008.

Don said, "we'll do a simple barbeque, something small."

I'm wise to his words. In the last few months I've learned that "something small" according to Don, always results in something "not so small and very delicious."

Rice in the pot, kalbi on the grill

And so on July 2nd he came back with a new grill and a hammock larger than the size of my bedroom. On the night of July 2nd, the hammock was hung in the backyard, (the first backyard I've seen smack in the middle of the city). The grill was assembled by Ian on the afternoon of the 3rd.

And later that same night, Don marinated kalbi and Ian whipped up a tomato salad with sherry vinaigrette and bush basil. The charcoal came out a bit past at midnight, along with some heat and tiki torches.

Wait. It's not even officially the 4th of July yet.

"A test run," he assured me, with cans of beer and a bottle of wine in hand.

Thus, my first midnight barbeque.