Anniversary Dinner

Last Wednesday, my husband & I celebrated our 9^th wedding anniversary.

For the first time in 2 years (thanks to the U.S. Army) our traditions continued together. Monday night we watched How I Met Your Mother & WWE Monday Night Raw, we watched Billy Madison on Tuesday evening, which was our first date movie & enjoyed dinner together on Wednesday. We can almost turn it into a week long celebration. The only thing that was missing was the Blue Bell Wedding Cake Ice Cream. We had decided early on that we would be going out for dinner due to it being a school night and saving all we can for our trip home at Christmas. But, we had a nice candlelight dinner with two of the world’s cutest boys.

For dinner, I prepared Beef Wellington with mushroom duxelles for MtAoFC Vol. 1 by Julia Child (see I told you that you needed to buy that cookbook) and modified it slightly by using store-bought puff pastry sheets.

Alongside the Beef Wellington, I served braised Brussels sprouts with lemon-pepper and parmesan cheese. Super simple recipe, just steam frozen sprouts for 5 minutes in the microwave, cut in half, and toss with EVOO and lemon-pepper seasoning. Then place in a baking dish cut side up, sprinkle with grated parmesan cheese and bake along side the Beef Wellington and then broil for 5 minutes to brown the cheese. After dinner we snuggled up on the couch and watched Survivor, cheered on Cochran and enjoyed a sweet Pumpkin Whoopie Pie!

The whoopie pies were a first attempt for me and they turned out great! Thanks to the lovely ladies once again at Our Best Bites for the recipe. I hope you all enjoy these tasty recipes!