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It was my buddy and neighbor sarah’s birthday a few weeks ago.  She turned the big 3-0!  We celebrated it by having brunch at the Getty Restaurant.  The views were very nice and the food was pretty good.  I had the kobe beef burger with lobster soup.  Our table got the last of it…they ran out!

birthday girl had the french toast with panettone breadbirthday girl eating for two she got sprinkles cupcakes!!the most expensive cake eating ever!!

Happy Birthday Sarah!  I hope you had a good one.  Sorry no pictures of the museum.  I was too pooped to look around.  Sorry solo men.

My friend from college and I have so many memories together. We laugh at the silliest things and best of all we’re so comfortable with each other. Her and her husband are big foodies. They are such awesome cooks and I LOVE going over there house to eat! They totally live to eat and I love that about them. They totally go all out and so gourmet! So when it was my friends birthday, I was excited to find out her husband was having us over for dinner.  The hour and half drive was TOTALLY worth it.  I was so excited and busy eating, I forgot to take pictures. These are courtesy of the birthday girl. On the menu…..tomato & cucumber salad with red wine vinegrette on a hummus piadini.  Mustard’s “hanger steak” marinade with tri-tip and vegetable shish kabobs with a watercress sauce.  Garlic and rosemary roasted fingerling potatoes
and even homemade soup..tuscan whitebean with garlic basil olive oil! Dessert was a raspberry cake….I had food coma at the end as you can imagine.  Thanks for dinner!  I hope you had an awesome birthday!!  I love you A!

I love to bake….I love the precise measuring, the mixing, and the end product after you stick it in the oven.  So a little certain someone asked me to bake her some cookies and so I made cranberry oatmeal white chocolate chip cookies. After that, I got into the baking mode and decided I wanted to make brownies and then I had a large box of blueberries that I didn’t know what to do with so I decided to make a blueberry crumble. After all that butter, sugar, eggs and mixing…..