Yes, planning makes things work better

Two weeks ago, I wrote about how gaming and then a baladi event didn't quite work out. Well, this weekend, very similar plans went much better! Planning is everything . . .

Saturday, M., Y., Bonnie, and I hit Nil Bleu again. They still don't have a site for me to link, but they do have some tasty Ethiopian food. On that topic: We have an Ethiopian cookbook (which goes by the rather generic title Exotic Ethiopian Cooking), but it lacks a recipe for gored gored. If anybody out there has a gored gored recipe, please write. However, I know that gored gored is supposed to be raw while the dish we like is cooked in spiced butter, so what I'm really after is "something like gored gored, but cooked."

Sunday was the second run at things. Again, I went to play Unhallowed Metropolis . . . but this time, we played. It was good fun, even if I did ham things up with a lousy Prussian accent. To be fair, nobody tried to stop me. Then we went to Café Sarajevo once again to see Bonnie's baladi troupe perform. This time, dancing happened! We also arrived early enough that the kitchen was open, so I got to try burek for the first time, which I really liked. The café advertised this as Bosniac fare, but the dish seemed more Serbian in style. (Yes, I'm acutely aware that I could get shot for saying that in some places.)

And unlike two weeks ago, I'm ending the weekend with an Italian brandy  (di Poli) instead of a Noilly Prat, which is probably a more fitting drink for the end of a weekend.