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
It’s actually 97 degrees in Vegas today. Yikes! It’s like we’ve skipped spring this year!
Your menu looks delicious!
I love pancakes anytime of the day.
I like how you plan out your meals. I should do this so my Monday-Friday doesn’t look like pizza, pizza, pizza.
That carrot cake sounds amazing. I lost my McConaughey lust after Magic Mike but am always amazed at the wonders of Hollywood.
“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.”
This made me laugh out loud! It also reminded me how much Renee Zellweger’s mouth bothers me. She does this weird “pouty” thing with her mouth and I just want to grab her both of her cheeks and pull in opposite directions. And then slap her and tell her to “Stop it! Stop it now!” She does that in every.single.movie she is in. I actually like her as an actress but the mouth thing is such a distraction.
In other words, I completely understand what you mean about MM’s teeth. I want to see that movie, but now I fear I’m going to be watching HIS mouth the entire time!
I know exactly what you mean. Her face drives me CRAZY!
Glad you had a nice time out, but I totally get that questioning of “Hollywood magic”. Some things just don’t seem right. I’m sure he’s wearing a denture-type mouthpiece but ….
Also, I love that your menu is so simple yet delicious. I always think dinner has to be “fancy” when really it’s way too much work and I’m sure my family would be happy with anything as long as it’s made with love.
Cream cheese mousse…wow. It’s 5:30 am and now I’m wanting some. As for the cake discs- could you make some sort of muffin top thing? They have pans for those now.
Matthew McConowhatever kind of annoys me-he seems so smug. But then so do many celebrities.