Matt poses with the remains of our complementary crème brûlée from RingSide Steakhouse. We had a delicious dinner for our twenty-fourth anniversary.
There was a plan to eat at a steakhouse in Boise that fell through, so I knew I wanted a steakhouse experience for our fancy dinner out. I got a delicious steak, baked potato, roll, and both a martini and a Manhattan. Plus we got onion rings, which were just the right kind of fried.
It was a good meal!
Never again will I make a cake that requires me to crumble cake and mix it with frosting then mold it into a shape. Never. Again.
The Easter Egg Cake from Serious Eats came out much better than mine did. I would have been better off making the cake that site links to, which has better layers.
The problem started when I didn’t cut the layers correctly, leaving a big gap between the back and front halves of the cake. I ended up cutting the circumference of the back half and mushing up that part of the cake to make some cake spackle to bridge the difference between the high and the low.
Here’s the finished product. I ended up running short on frosting (blame the cake/frosting spackle?) and by the time I got all the crumbs moderately covered, I just sprinkled the sanding sugar on top rather than make a pretty design. I was done.
It didn’t cut nicely in layers, which makes sense as much of it wasn’t a layer but was cake spackle, but it did taste good. Especially with Rick’s homemade ice cream.
I was supposed to meet a former coworker for tea, but she forgot. That meant I had a great solo tea experience at Bardo tea. It gave me time to dive into one of my books for my Hollywood Movie Musicals Project: A Song in the Dark.
Whatever could I be making???
My brother grew butternut squash this year, and I got one for my birthday.
He grew them on a trellis, and the result was a longer part of the neck of the squash, which is great because that’s the easiest part to cut up.
It was a good squash.
It was a small Thanksgiving, but we had turkey, stuffing, green beans with mushroom sauce and fried onions (note that the mushroom sauce and onions only cover part of the green beans due to preference), mashed potatoes, and homemade rolls.
It was a good feast!
The stars aligned and Matt’s flight from Indianapolis connected through MSP at a time when Angel Food’s airport kiosk was open. And that means I got a cupcake and a donut.
Thanks, Matt!
Matt and I had a feast at Gado Gado in celebration of my birthday. Can recommend.
I had a gift card for Door Dash and used to to order delicious lunch from Pollo Bravo including chicken, salad, three sauces, the most delicious potatos bravas, and some Basque cheesecake.
When I ordered, I added that I was very excited to be celebrating my birthday with their food and they decorated my delivery bag and threw in a free cookie! Above and beyond, Pollo Bravo, above and beyond!
I also opened my cards from Matt, which came with chocolate.
I’ve long been a fan of Elephants Delicatessen’s Chop Chop Salad, and today I decided to screenshot the ingredients so I could recreate this salad, should I have need.
Yum!
