Sunday, April 21, 2024

HBD Celebration

Today is my eldest's 30th birthday. It's a celebration day (!!) I love that we get to celebrate together.

I cooked the pak choi ... from this to this. It was tasty -- I'd like to grow more next year. Easy spring plant.





I finished 2 more components to the peanut butter Oreo chocolate cake. This was a tester for my hubby -- a very sloppy cupcake. I'll assemble the cake this morning. It SHOULD look better than this lol.




Cream layer is cream cheese, whipped cream and crushed PB Oreos. Buttercream is PB with cookie crumbs. Tops with a ganache I'll make today. 

After I cleaned up and sat down (and read) for the evening, I realized the icing and filling have Oreos and my DIL is GF. Ugh. I made a GF cake, but forgot about the cookies. Took everything out again and made a vanilla bean buttercream. 

As much as I prepped yesterday, today is still a full kitchen day. 

The menu ...

German cheese spread (easy recipe in a food processor)
Lemon hummus (easy in a blender)
Pigs-n-blanket (also easy)

Cowboy chicken 
Loaded mashed potatoes
Lazy deviled eggs (with 2 different toppings)
Broccoli salad

Cake and ice cream
Tinto Verano

All simple things but lots of components and steps. I'll be happy to take a break from the kitchen this week (mostly).

I finished this book -- it was very good (and a bit disturbing in a creep-good way) ...



Started this and it's really, really good so far. Hope it keeps up this level of story.




That's all from here. I need to get moving -- family arrives at 2 o'clock.  Later gators.

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