Happy Birthday Mum!

Today is my Mum's birthday, and Ian and I cooked dinner for the family. It's so awesome when the 8 of us get together :) It was a night of fun, food and family.

And it was lovely for all of us to get together and celebrate our Mum, Mom, Mamma.

We served homemade hummus and bruschetta to start, with champagne cocktails. For dinner we started with my famous curried cauliflower soup (made with my homemade stock). For the main Ian made his famous Beef Wellington, with garlic green beans and frites with truffle oil.

Then we served store bought red velvet cake for dessert.

A Huge Big Fabulous Happy Birthday to my awesome Mum. I love you very much, and you make me so happy to have you as my Mum and as my friend. :)

With Love
~sarah~

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The Kitchen

What an absolutely fantastic day. I spent most of my day doing something I love, working in the kitchen.

A couple of months ago I was visiting my girls and we were enjoying the soup I made. One of the girls was "shocked" that I didn't make my own stock. This became an inside joke.

So today when I started to make soup, I realized I didn't have any vegetable stock...so I went into my green bin in the kitchen and made my own vegetable stock. And of COURSE I emailed the girls and let them know! Bwahaha :)

But I digress :) yup, I spent all afternoon in the kitchen...making stock, then soup, crostini and bruschetta mix and a casserole for tonight's dinner. Tomorrow my lineup is hummus and valentine smartie cookies, while Ian makes Beef Wellington. It's my Mum's birthday tomorrow and we're making her a wonderful feast :) and I'm having a fabulous time doing it.

I love creating delicious food in the kitchen. I like inventing, testing, baking, cooking, stirring...I just love the kitchen :)

Yay to weekends in the kitchen!

With Love
~sarah~

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Connecting

Three couples, six friends got together tonight for the first time in a long time.

Short but sweet...it's been too long and having the six of us (plus one) get together was wonderful. I love when we're all able to get together and share food and laughter and love :)

It's a moment of pure joyousness ;) a reason for being. Thank you.

With Love
~sarah~

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Being Spoiled!

Last night I worked late and then went straight to rehearsal. I didn't end up getting home until 8:30.

I don't regret the long day and late night. I got a lot of necessary things accomplished.

And my return home was greeted by my husband, slaving over a roast in the oven. My evening last night had a roaring fire in the fireplace, a glass of a big bodied Cabernet Sauvignon, roast beef with broccoli and roast potatoes.

Talk about perfection :). It was exactly what I needed after a long and busy day. I am truly spoiled...and I love it :)

Now, in this spoiled brat's defense, Ian did have the day off :)

With Love
~sarah~

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