12 October 2008

Paul's Birthday!

Paul's birthday was nice. I got him a few things - a nice card, some of those gummy strawberries that he loves and a love letter...yes you read right. I also made him yummy things to eat - all things that he wanted!


Croissant French toast with strawberries and whipped cream, and sausage.



Paul's turkey dinner. We just made turkey breast, not the whole turkey - that would have been way too much turkey. We don't even like turkey, as a rule, but the smell is nice. I want to say that I made everything from scratch, but it's not true *sigh* Only the mashed potatoes, gravy, broccoli and turkey I made. The stuffing was boxed, but I did add onions and celery. The cranberry sauce was canned *deep sigh* and the croissants, heaven forbid were made by Costco...if my Mom were dead she would roll over in her grave...an Elia buying croissants what is the world coming to! But we had a great dinner and fun times for his birthday.

Cooking


My very generous Visiting Teacher brought me by some Roma tomatoes and fresh rosemary and parsley from her garden. It started me cooking again - sort of. I decided that I would be a good wife and make a tomato veggie ragu (although Paul would like me to insert that ragu means, that it is a red meat sauce) - mine didn't have meat in it - oh well. I also made roasted potatoes, Paul grilled some pork chops and I made focaccia. Yum! It was nice to use my kitchen again :)