Wedding Pie

Happy Sunday.  Happy Thanksgiving week.  Happy birthday Scorpios.  But most importantly of all, HAPPY HAPPY WEDDING DAY TO MY DEAREST FRIENDS AIDIN AND J.C.

As you can probably guess, I made three wedding pies for Aidin and JC's nuptials this evening.  Trying to honor fall tradition and find pies that fit a wedding is very difficult, but of course, I prevailed.  The first was a chocolate cream pie (my mother's secret recipe that involves very intricate chocolate science), next came a pecan pie (I wanted to try dark chocolate pecan pie, it sounds amazing but you can't have chocolate cream AND chocolate pecan at one wedding), and finally, sour cream apple pie (in my opinion, the best incarnation of good ole apple pie). 

I absolutely loved being a part of Aidin and J.C.'s special day.  Their wedding was exactly what it should be: friends and family gathered to celebrate an amazing relationship.  I couldn't be happier or more excited for them.  They were meant for each other, and I have no doubt that they'll have a beautiful life together.

True love (and pie) conquers all.











P.S. Saw Twilight this weekend.  Horrifying.  Bought the soundtrack.  Not proud of myself.

Winning

So, I had A LOT of grading to do last night and couldn't cook.  So sorry, but progress reports take precedence over... pretty much everything, eating included.  But TODAY, I made one of my usual favorites, Balsamic Chicken.  It's a great staple and tastes good with pretty much everything I can make.  And who doesn't like balsamic vinegar?  Makes everything better.  It's like fancy delicious ketchup.  I'm shaking my head as I re-read that comparison, but I'm going to stand by it. 

The reason I chose my fancy delicious chicken was because it's a perfect compliment to my VERY HEAVENLY RISOTTO!  A friend once told me that I overuse capital letters, but I DON'T THINK THAT'S TRUE ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING SO BUTTERY, CHEESY, AMAZING.  I can honestly say that this was the first weekly meal that I felt confident making, and even strayed a little from the recipe.  I used chicken stock because I couldn't find bouillon at WalMart (quelle surprise), and in so doing successfully left the nest of bad cooking.  No burns, no cuts, no forgotten ingredients, nothing left cooking too long.  Absolute data-perfect success.

So I'm sorry if you opened the blog to hear about another sad misadventure, because today I am winning.

Pet Peeves

You know what my biggest pet peeve is?  The fact that Christmas starts the day after Halloween.  We skip right over Thanksgiving, my birthday, and Scorpi-season in favor of awful music and shopping advertisements that are more of the same year after year.  So I'm not going to say 'tis the season for chili, even though it is.

The Valley had wonderful fresh weather this weekend, and my classroom has been a little calmer, which tells me that it is finally November.  To celebrate the arrival of my favorite month, tonight I made turkey chili but did not make corn bread.  The chili was delicious, so spicy and turkey is apparently very good for you.  The corn bread burned itself and my hand in the oven so it had to be thrown out.  Thank goodness I predicted that a tragedy such as this would strike, and bought back-up tortillas at the store today. 

Lucky girl that I am, I also have ALL of the beef stroganoff I made last week.  I stayed at school so late on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday that I got a free meal out of it!  Go me.  This week, I have planned many evening activities to get myself out of the classroom early enough to enjoy a decent dinner.  Happy fall, everyone.