Suburban Adventures

My oh my I am terrible at blogging. I just don't have the discipline, and I get too caught up in doing things to actually sit down and write about them. In my defense, I've been busy. After galavanting about Europe with Grace and Adam, (Oh yeah. I meant to write about that. Oops.) I left Bloomington for Nashville, and then Nashville for Brooklyn. In the process did some pretty cool stuff.

Like picking blueberries in my mom's neighborhood. Golden Bell Farms (4084 Clovercroft Rd., Franklin, TN 37067) is a U-pick blueberry farm. You go to the shed, get a bucket, and then get to work walking up and down the rows of blueberry bushes searching for ripe berries. When you're done, the farm owners weigh your bounty and then charge you by the pound. I picked blueberries there two years ago - because of the late freeze and drought, the farm wasn't open in 2008 - and had four pound of berries to show for an hour's work. This time wasn't so productive. I guess they had record berry picking over the weekend, so the pickings were kind of slim. I still walked away with one and a quarter pounds of fresh blueberries, and it only set me back $3. Golden Bell Farms is open Monday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday, and conversely closed Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. 

Peter's Sushi

330 Franklin Rd.

Brentwood, TN 37027

615.370.1493

On Tuesday Christina and I went to Peter's Sushi, which the last time I visited it was a goofy little neighborhood sushi bar and Thai restaurant in a suburban strip mall. I grew up in Brentwood, and the place is seriously a ghost town on weekday nights after 7 pm. I was seriously befuddled when we showed up to the Kroger shopping center and found that someone completely revamped the stripmall (fancy brick, huge signs, more restaurants, and no TCBY- noooooooo), AND the place was hopping. We had to wait 45 minutes for a spot at the sushi bar, but it was totally worth it. 

We ordered some hot sake, one of the daily special rolls (salmon, white tuna, tomato, avocado, and cream cheese wrapped in soy paper), a red dragon roll (shrimp tempura, crab, and cucumber topped with tuna and avocado), and Christina's fave, salmon nigiri. The sushi came with miso soup and a salad topped with bright orange ginger dressing. It was all awesome, and the damage wasn't too bad. The special roll was $10.95, and the red dragon roll was $13. Nigiri is always too expensive for what it is, but this was artfully done and made the $4.50 a little less of a blow. The sushi is so freaking good there I don't think that I will ever get around to trying the Thai food, but if anyone's had it you should let me know how it is.