I am now the proud owner of a Pepper Yellow KitchenAid Mixer and I can’t tell you how happy I am about that. In fact, it was clear to me as I was unwrapping the box and discovering the awesomeness inside that I couldn’t think of anything else I would have rather had. How cool is that? And I didn’t even have to ask for it!
For my 41st birthday we played it cool and had our friends Romain and Liz come over for dinner. A nice intimate evening made all the more cosy with the fire going. Seb made dinner and I was so impressed (because he rarely cooks) that I photographed him in his apron (see below) making little goodies for the meal. Clearly he needs to spend more time in the kitchen because what he produced was outstandingly delicious. We had blanquette de veau (Veal with a blanket sauce?) and mousse mascarpone et chocolat (Chocolate and mascarpone mousse). Dinner was to die for and the mousse nearly did us in…it was so rich and velvety we couldn’t stop eating it until it was all gone so a serving for six quickly disappeared into four happy bellies.
In between dinner and dessert I opened my gifts as we all sat around the fire with our red wine…it was like Christmas but I got all the gifts! Romain and Liz gave me a beautiful large bamboo bowl with a blueish sheen on the bottom. The colour is really gorgeous and it almost seems a shame that they put it on the bottom but it’s beautiful none the less.
Seb lugged in two seriously heavy boxes from the car and we were all dying to know what was in them. The wrapping was so beautiful! I opened the little one first to discover an Italian hand crank pasta maker. Cool! My first thought was “now I can make ravioli!”. On second thought I might start out with linguine and work my way up but either way I’m looking forward to it.
The second box held the golden chalice of the kitchen world. I literally squealed like a schoolgirl when I ripped off the wrapping and saw what it was. Everyone was impressed with Seb at this point. I am one lucky chicky.
Right now my beautiful mixer is sitting in the middle of our dining room table beaming at us like the sun because we have no room on our dinky little counter top for it. It’s kind of funny but as far as I’m concerned it’s part of the family and it deserves to be there until we redesign the kitchen around it.
You are one lucky chicky, I am glad you had a great Birthday. 143