i had a great weekend this past weekend in michigan, seeing friends, spending a day with my mom, celebrating steve's birthday, and helping host a bridal shower for my friend sharon. everything went amazingly well except that there's never enough time to see everyone as much as i'd like. (sigh).

while i was there, i was able to pick up a loaf (actually, two loaves) of my favorite bread at zingerman's, their parmesan pepper bread. mmmmmm... i felt silly carrying it onto the plane on the way home (although i did have a random stranger tell me she was jealous of whatever was in my zingerman's bag), but i'll be glad to have it. yum!
i was looking through their gift catalog tonight (soooo many yummy things) and just noticed an extremely funky new bread that they're making (and which i didn't see when i was there): peppered bacon farm bread, with nueske's bacon (best bacon i've ever had). wow. i may have to order a few loaves of bread at some point. mmmm....