use real butter

We went by the post office today and I was delighted to wrangle this out of our post office box:

a classy surprise for our birthdays

Thanks Kell! What a sweetheart you are. Certainly one of the brighter points in my day. I finally figured out what to send to YOU! It will take a little time… but I think you’ll like it.

I wish I could bake my thesis.

Alright! Today was the first snowfall of the season at our house! Nothing accumulated in Ned, but it snowed on and off all day and the temps hovered between 28 and 34 degrees. Very nice, because you know what this means… the start of a good base - I hope!

snow! snow! snow! snow!

You know that whole E. coli scare with bagged spinach? I managed to buy a $7 box of organic spinach from Whole Foods on Thursday. Luckily, I was too tired to remember to sauté any for Jeremy’s birthday dinner. Then I heard about the recall on the morning news and this morning we checked the FDA website and learned that our brand was one of the recalled brands. Whole Foods was offering refunds, and so we took our box of beautiful spinach back.
here’s a better look at the stratigraphy of the tiramisu

Jeremy turned 33 today. Happy Birthday, love! I picked up some goodies from Whole Paycheck and whipped up a simple dinner tonight per the Birthday Boy’s request.

I made spicy tuna handrolls, maguro sashimi, pan seared scallops with saffron beurre blanc, and for dessert - tiramisu. A sampling of the flurry of activities:

lovely hunk of tuna (maguro), pan searing the scallops

mix the mascarpone filling, layer the tiramisu

sprinkle with cocoa powder

sashimi

scallops

mini tiramisu (extra ingredients went into a small ramekin)