Good Morning Darlings!

Since Shane’s cake turned out so well, I thought I would go for it for Kerry and Ryan’s birthday dinner on Friday night. Oh, it was so good!

We kept this a small affair – only five of us. Arancini started the night right. If you have never had these, they are risotto balls stuffed with cheese and fried. Oh my golly. And I won’t lie, I bought these beauties at Trader Joe’s – less cooking for me! Yay!

They’re bigger in person. Anyhoo, the menu was rack of lamb, pesto mashed potatoes and a veggie medley. That veggie medley also came from Trader Joe’s, but it was not so tasty, so lets not mention it again, shall we?

It was a nice, low-keyed night with great friends, wonderful lamb, luscious wine and scrumptious dessert.

Our Ryan is moving to China, so I thought it best that he eat with chopsticks all night. I couldn’t wait to see what he did with the mashed potatoes. Just kidding, we replaced them with utensils after we all got a laugh.

And then it was time to sit down to dinner. With this group there is always a ton of giggles and the best fun.

And that lamb – Honey, you did a fabulous job!

Although I am embarrassed to say there are no photos of dinner. Too busy devouring the food. Oops!

This was the four layer lemon curd cake with 7 minute frosting. Part of the recipe is from “America’s Test Kitchen” – the curd part. I was so worried about messing up the cake that I used a mix, but I made the curd and the frosting from scratch. So that counts, right? Golly it was tasty.

Ryan looks happy.

While Kerry expressed his joy another way.

And I could tell you how to bake this cake but the blog “Piece of Cake” does it so nicely I am going to route you over to her. It even comes with step by step instructions. And she’s funny, too.

That cake was so wonderful we all had a second piece. All of us. Nom Nom Nom.

xoxo, Patti

Today blogging to Neil Diamond – You’re So Sweet