Because Man-Cub doesn't live near me, we were unable to "celebrate" Valentine's Day on the actual day. But he still wanted me to make some of Gigi's cookies for him, as I have every year. And after seeing my picture of the cookies I got from Gigi, he wanted icing on them. On Thursday, I decided to make some to give to him this weekend. After making them, I found a whole new appreciation for the ones Gigi sent.
Not only do they have to chill for an hour, when they come out of chilling and you want to roll them out to use the cookie cutter, it's rock hard! So it took me a while, but I finally got it all rolled out and was able to use my cookie cutter...which I soon realized was tiny and gave me a TON of little cookies. Good thing they don't grow so I could bake them in large batches.
Then of course, after they were all baked, I had to icing and sprinkle each little one. Seriously Gigi, I just learned to love your cookies even more. Luckily the Office was on TV so I had some entertainment while doing all the work. And I must say, they turned out quite delish.
Then Man-Cub came to visit. Being in Greeley, we prefer to buy ingredients and make our own dinners so we can save our money for the extra yummy restaurants in Fort Collins. So we went through some of my recipes and made a Chicken Marsala pasta for dinner with homemade Olive Garden bread-sticks. The pasta was wonderful!!! ....but the bread-sticks were kinda just like garlic-y dough. So we ended up throwing them all away. :( But it made for a good little V-day dinner!
And while we were out getting groceries, I bought Beast a colorful little plant for his tank so it wasn't so boring and dark. I think he's a little scared of it though. Or maybe he's just mad it's taking up space, but he'll get over it, because it's cool.
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