My party started Friday night at the Nicholasville Wine Shop. They have tastings every week so we enjoyed the free wine and chose bottles for the dinner yet to come. Here's me, Bekah Terrey, and Grace at the Wine Shop.
My birthday happened to fall on the weekend when tons of snow fell all across Kentucky. This did not deter the gang from preparing a meal reminiscent of those we had in Italy last May. Here's Lyndee chilling the dough for home-made gnocchi...in the snow.
Unfortunately, Grace's recipe for gnocchi was off in its "this recipe feeds so many people" field. We made enough dough to feed the entire US Army gnocchi for a year. We rolled and cut gnocchi balls for at least an hour. Luckily, Chris was lounging at the table, picking his guitar.
The gnocchi was topped with one of two sauces: a beef and bell peppers tomato sauce, or a basil pesto sauce. Though we didn't end up eating until 10:00pm and were starving, we were still stuffed way too soon for all the gnocchi we had:) However, that did not keep us from moving on to dessert. Knowing my love for all things lemon or mint, they made one dessert for each: lemon bars and a mint chocolate cheesecake. Note for future birthday desserts - blowing out candles on a dessert covered with powdered sugar can be problematic. See picture below.
Everyone slept over at our house that night and the next morning we sent the men in the kitchen to cook us some breakfast. I'm not sure Ben got enough sleep - or maybe he had too much gnocchi the night before.
After breakfast, we crashed in the living room, laughed as Grace danced to 80's music, and were generally lazy bums. It was the best "after-birth" party ever. But wait, even then, the party was not yet over. With so much snow on the ground, we went sled-ridding later that night at Jacobson Park and Shriner's Hospital. Eric wrapped himself, literally, around a light pole. Lyndee almost went skidding out onto Richmond Road. We busted two inflatable tubes. Play Hard.
All in all, it was the best on-going birthday party ever. Italy, vino, candles, mint, sleep-over, laughing, almost peeing my pants. It was all good!
2 comments:
so where are the pictures of sled riding. those have to be good if you were able to stop laughing long enough to take some! enjoy all those moments
We did take pictures of sled-ridding...but later realized there was no memory card in the camera. All were lost!
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