We had a completely delightful weekend.
The kids spent Saturday night with Rockford’s parents so Rockford and I could go to dinner and a concert. We tried a new place for dinner, and I had the best carrot cake. The Best. They took a little disk of carrot cake, topped it with a large poof of cream cheese mousse and served it with walnut brittle. It was amazing. The plate also had a small scoop of root beer ice cream and a dusting of carrot and pineapple powder on it. The root beer ice cream was good but didn’t really match with the cake, and the powder was entirely unnecessary. The carrot cake & mousse were incredible, though, so I’m happy to overlook the superfluous additions. I’ve already found a couple of cream cheese mousse recipes to try, and I’m trying to decide what the best way to make carrot cake disks might be.
On Sunday afternoon before the kids came home, we caught a matinee of “Mud.” I liked the movie — Rockford described it as “Southern Gothic in the style of ‘Slingblade’ ” — but Matthew McConaughey’s teeth bothered me the whole time. The actor has super-straight, perfect teeth, but the character has a crooked front tooth. How do they do that? Sometimes the magic of cinema is distracting.
- Monday: Breakfast for dinner
- Pete wants pancakes again, but I might go with eggs & veggie sausages just to be safe.
- Tuesday: Butternut squash ravioli
- Poppy loves butternut squash ravioli. It’s one of the few things Pete doesn’t love. I may make some bacon to sprinkle on top of the ravioli just to lure him in.
- Wednesday: Grilled cheese sandwiches
- They’ll be standard-issue American cheese sandwiches.
- Thursday: Cheesy curried chicken
- Is this the third week this has been on the menu? I think it is.
- Friday: Pizza
