Hello friends. Well I know its been a crazy long time since I've posted anything. As most of you know I was on a very limited diet for a good part of last year and really ... what's the point of blogging about grilled chicken and salad with low-cal dressing? Its not worthwhile eating and certainly not worth reading about. But now I'm off the strict diet ... and back to eating some yummy-yum-yums its time to get back to blogging.
This first post is actually 6-months old ... I just didn't get around to writing it till now. Last October I turned 45 and for my birthday weekend I got my best girlfriends together for a long weekend at a BEAUTIFUL cottage on Georgian Bay in Parry Sound.
My wonderful friends planned various surprises for me, including an amazing massage and pedicure, as well as organizing amazing food for us to eat. They decorated the cottage while I was having my massage and I came down stairs to find the dining room all decked out for our big dinner later that night.
Molly made some incredible nutella/peanut butter/banana french toast for breakfast. Man ... did I stuff myself with that! It was delicious. Unfortunately I wasn't on the ball enough to get the recipe or to take any photos of it. Everyone loved it though, that's for sure.
As evening approached, everyone went to work contributing to their portion of the birthday dinner. They at least let me be in charge of the Signature Cocktail of the birthday party evening. That is the purple concoction in the foreground of this picture. We went through quite a few pitchers of these Signature Cocktails and there were many dead wine and vodka soldiers by the time we were packing up to leave at the end of the weekend! Main course was grilled chicken and ribs (my request) with roasted potatoes and salad. Here is Karen, slaving away at the bar-b-que.
The recipe is from LCBO's Food and Drink magazine and it is fantastic. Just look at that meat.
I can't even wait for it to make it to the table!
We ate (and drank) like royalty that night and I owe all the work, planning, cooking to my wonderful friends. Thank you so much to each of you! You made this birthday and entire weekend so special for me. I will remember this forever and trust me, it will be hard to top this weekend in the future.
This party was my first experience with "Cupcake" wine and we also had cupcakes for dessert. But by the time we got through the main course there was little room for any of us to be able to eat cupcakes ... and you all know how much I love cupcakes! (hint for future posts ... stay tuned). I had a special thanks for each of my girls who were able to spend the weekend with me. It wasn't easy for some of you to pick up and leave your families and responsibilities for me and I truly appreciate that you were all there.
There were also a few other friends, who although they were not able to make it to the cottage for the weekend they still contributed to my on-going birthday celebrations and treated me to a day at Bleu Spa and an AMAZING meal there. We won't talk about how drunk I got ... and how I really was spinning out of control! But I send a special thanks to each of you too.
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