Birthday Bash Round-Up
Well I'm back home after 6 wonderful days. My cousin and her husband were a bit preoccupied with their Plugged In concert for charity on Sunday, this one to benefit Keep a Child Alive. The program has really taken off in their area and has grown exponentially, a lot of it by word of mouth especially within the homeschooling community. It keeps them very busy but fortunately not so busy that I didn't have a great time.
On Saturday we made Rachael Ray's Double the Meat and Hold the Lettuce Cobb Salad that we'd made last year and it was just as delicious as we remembered. For my birthday we made Mushroom and Gorgonzola Fettucine which was also as good as last year's and then we made a Best Strawberry Cream Cake from a Cook's Illustrated recipe my cousin found. As Rachael Ray would say - yummo! We used to go out to restaurants on my birthday but realized we could make better dishes than they served so for the past few years my cousin and I have been cooking my birthday dinner together - we have so much fun doing it that way.
I received JM's "Civilized Man" for my birthday (I'm probably the only fan who hasn't heard it *g*) but the best present was a totally unexpected gift from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lit_gal who gifted me with more userpics. I now have 105 though I have to see if I can return my lj to its previous un-Plus Account state thereby doing away with the ads which would drop the amount of userpics. It was probably the best present I've received in years, the more so as it came out of the blue. It makes me feel wonderful and it might hopefully be a portent that 2007 will be a very good year.
On Saturday we made Rachael Ray's Double the Meat and Hold the Lettuce Cobb Salad that we'd made last year and it was just as delicious as we remembered. For my birthday we made Mushroom and Gorgonzola Fettucine which was also as good as last year's and then we made a Best Strawberry Cream Cake from a Cook's Illustrated recipe my cousin found. As Rachael Ray would say - yummo! We used to go out to restaurants on my birthday but realized we could make better dishes than they served so for the past few years my cousin and I have been cooking my birthday dinner together - we have so much fun doing it that way.
I received JM's "Civilized Man" for my birthday (I'm probably the only fan who hasn't heard it *g*) but the best present was a totally unexpected gift from
lit_gal who gifted me with more userpics. I now have 105 though I have to see if I can return my lj to its previous un-Plus Account state thereby doing away with the ads which would drop the amount of userpics. It was probably the best present I've received in years, the more so as it came out of the blue. It makes me feel wonderful and it might hopefully be a portent that 2007 will be a very good year.