Boozy Fridays and a big old roast

So part of the beauty of not working is being able to drink with impunity on a sunny afternoon. As all the afternoon's here are sunny this could end up being pretty lethal. 

However I try and save it just for Sunday Brunches and the odd Friday afternoon.

This Friday a friend took me up to Roma, a lovely neighbourhood just over a mile south west of where I am staying. The plan was to go to Contramar, a rather chi chi Parisien looking restaurant that was absolutely packed by the time we got there (2.30ish - Some Mexicans finish at 2pm on a Friday!)

Neither of us wanted to wait an hour to be seated, so we had a mooch around, and found another pleasant restaurant the other side of the roundabout. The wine was flowing, and my salmon and rice was delish, if a little greasy and not remotely Mexican!

Their desserts didn't tempt us, so we went over to Crepes and Waffles, where they did have a plethora of puddings, AND more importantly 241 on Prosecco for 69 pesos! Brilliant! So I had to have 4 glasses (obviously) 

mini nutella waffles, with my friend's white chocolate crepes in the background, and our Lychee prosecco

Very cute Boxer with an underhung bottom jaw - puddum!

 I then went home and proceeded to drink more alcohol, which was amateurish quite frankly! 

Saturday was spent recovering from Friday's alcohol intake, and making a key lime pie ready for a Sunday roast round a friends.

I have had one Sunday roast since I got to DF at a restaurant. It was nice, but rather small, and limited vegetables. However these guys know how to make a roast! It was help yourselves (bit lethal for me) and I piled my plate with chicken breast, roast potatoes, minted peas, roasted carrots, broccolli and sprouts, cheesy leeks, stuffing and gravy. It was immense!!! So good I went up for more spuds (of course!) and all the crispy bits from the potatoes as well.

We needed a breather before dessert, but my key lime pie went down pretty well, as did the trifle the hosts had made (something else I hadn't had in quite some time).

Started eating it, before realising it needed a photo!

Again the bubbles were flowing, and I went home absolutely stuffed, but very very satisfied!!!

Then onto another gathering upstairs where I met an ex nun, and we had a bit of an earthquake.

Lovely, lovely weekend!