Birthday

Today was full of lots of my favorite things:

• sleeping in
• lovely birthday gifts (including The Essential New York Times Cookbook...woot!)
  
• chatting with my mom
• grocery store evasion (I love my husband)
• shoe shopping
  
• buying yarn
• good wine
• baking
• a fantastic dinner (have I mentioned I love my husband?)
  
• family time

Pete in the kitchen: pan-seared scallops served over white bean puree, with kale and chorizo and pine nut/shallot/raisin gremolata. Oh my.



I made a devil's food cake with vanilla-orange buttercream...the cake is from Sweet Maria's Cake Kitchen and the frosting is Grandma's buttercream with a bit of orange extract added with the vanilla.





Ahhh.