Wednesday, January 16

 

And the rice isn't yet expired,

and it's an eat quick on the way to class kind of day.



Tuesday, January 15

 

Rice pudding is one of my all-time favorites.

I had just the right amount of rice left over from Sunday's dinner to make rice pudding for the treat for fhe yesterday.

And rice pudding sure makes a great breakfast.



Monday, January 14

 

I always loved the saltine toffee.

Then I gave up chocolate &

it was a joy that I denied myself for years.

 

But then today I decided to make it by melting peanut butter chips on top instead of chocolate chips. I don't know why I didn't think of this sooner, because it may have even been better than the chocolate kind. But it's been so many years since I've had chocolate, so I can't really know for sure. All I'm trying to say is that these were delicious.



Sunday, January 13

 

Today our branch was in charge of the Multi-Stake CES dinner.

We made Hawaiian haystacks.

 

But the real star of the meal was the cake.

Stacey made like 8 different bundt cakes.

They were not only delicious, but beautiful.

 

I officially have a new baking hero.



Saturday, January 12

 

Giant plate of meat.

It's a decent meal for $10.

 

The best thing about Longhorn Steakhouse is

the awesome roles & cinnamon butter.

The other best thing is that I can get my french fries as cheese fries.



Friday, January 11

 

I was looking forward all day to date night with Michael,

and luckily he agreed to Ole Tapas.

 

I'd eaten there once before & wasn't extremely impressed,

but I wanted tapas & didn't want to drive through the rain to Wilmington.

 

And the experience was immensely more delicious this time.

 

We were going to try to be brave & order

calamari with squid ink sauce,

but when the waiter told us it would dye our mouths black,

I opted out.

We chose calamari with artichoke.

I think it was a good choice.

 

My favorite of the 5 dishes we ordered was the

remolacha.

I think it's a beautiful word.

Remolacha.

It means beets.

I love beets.

We used to eat them when when we were little,

but then we somehow forgot about them for like 15 years.

I've just rediscovered how wonderful they are.

And fresh beets are so much more delicious than the canned ones we used to eat.

Especially when roasted and served with queso fresco, romaine & parsley oil.



Thursday, January 10

 

Sometimes the fridge gets so full that there isn't room to even think about putting anything else in there.

I hate it when that happens.