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May 2018 - Birthday Weeks
By: Jack Date: May 30, 2018, 4:29 am
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Want to hear something weird?
In less than two weeks - from 29 May to 9 June, we have 5
birthdays in my immediate family. Last night was Ethan's,
tonight is PJ's, Saturday is Parker's, Sunday is Leif's, then
Daniel's is the 9th. After that, while Rhett's birthday is in
mid-June, my immediate family doesn't have another birthday
until Bobby's on 21 July.
Anyway, last night was Ethan's birthday. We had grilled sirloin
served under sauteed garlic-mushroom-shrimp (with which I've
been experimenting for two or three weeks now in preparation),
with roasted potato wedges, roast vegetable medley, and grilled
corn on the cob. I was beginning to think Ethan wouldn't make a
decision in time for us to have a dessert, but he finally went
with chocolate cake with fudge icing ala mode.
Bruce wanted to do the spanking, but I wasn't quite sure that
would be the best idea, since the prom kerfuffle. Instead, I
let Kenny and Leif handle most of it.
PJ stayed home with Ryan and Jake last night, and they're not
going to sleepover tonight, but they will be here for PJ's
birthday dinner this evening. Then they will stay over tomorrow
night, when Bridgette is apparently taking him out for dinner to
celebrate.
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Re: May 2018 - Birthday Weeks
By: kalico Date: May 30, 2018, 8:49 am
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Happy birthday to your birthday boys
Hugs kal
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Re: May 2018 - Birthday Weeks
By: Zyngaru Date: May 30, 2018, 1:47 pm
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[quote author=Jack link=topic=600.msg6078#msg6078
date=1527672553]
Want to hear something weird?
In less than two weeks - from 29 May to 9 June, we have 5
birthdays in my immediate family.
I was beginning to think Ethan wouldn't make a decision in
time for us to have a dessert, but he finally went with
chocolate cake with fudge icing ala mode.
[/quote]
My 5 brothers have birthdays within 2 weeks also. Three of them
on the same day. No, they are not triplets.
Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter fudge icing is the go-to cake
with my family. Mom put Peanut Butter in the fudge to make sure
it set. That was her fool proof fudge. So all of us kids grew
up loving it, and then the grandkids grew up loving it. Most of
the great grandkids love it, which means the great great
grandkids being born now will grow up with it also.
I am the odd boy out. My birthday isn't with the other boys and
my favorite cake is a Fresh Coconut Orange Sponge Cake.
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Re: May 2018 - Birthday Weeks
By: Jack Date: May 30, 2018, 1:53 pm
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Never tried peanut butter fudge (at least not home made), but it
sounds good - especially with a chocolate cake. I'll have to
try it some day soon.
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Re: May 2018 - Birthday Weeks
By: Zyngaru Date: May 30, 2018, 2:17 pm
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[quote author=Jack link=topic=600.msg6091#msg6091
date=1527706391]
Never tried peanut butter fudge (at least not home made), but it
sounds good - especially with a chocolate cake. I'll have to
try it some day soon.
[/quote]
The Peanut Butter also helps to cut the sweetness down a notch.
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Re: May 2018 - Birthday Weeks
By: Jack Date: May 30, 2018, 4:07 pm
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No fudge tonight, but we are getting very fancy.
This is an interesting one, because all four of my main cooks
are working together on it: beef wellington. With it, we're
supposed to be having green beans, baby carrots, asparagus, and
garlic mashed potatoes. For dessert, we're having a selection
of cheesecakes. The youngest pair are going to be joining me in
grape juice with their dinner, while the rest of the under 21
crowd will be allowed a glass or two.
I think my cooks are happier over this meal than PJ is going to
be - they enjoy a challenge.
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Re: May 2018 - Birthday Weeks
By: Zyngaru Date: May 30, 2018, 7:16 pm
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I've never had Beef Wellington. Would love to try it, but I
don't order beef dishes in restaurants, because it is difficult
to get the chef to cook the meat done.
I have to say this on that topic. There is a steak house in
Cincinnati where the chef came out to my table and told me he
could cook me a steak that was both done and tender enough to
cut with a fork. I gave him the opportunity and he was correct.
He prepared me the best steak I have ever eaten.
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Re: May 2018 - Birthday Weeks
By: Jack Date: May 31, 2018, 3:22 am
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It's funny, because I glanced at the recipe before approving it.
The thing is, I always have trouble between shallots and
scallops, remembering which is sea food and which is an onion,
so I expected something different with this.
It was delicious, and we had a great night. I think PJ might
have a new favorite food.
For dessert, we'd bought plain cheesecakes, and we had a variety
of berries, whipped cream, and several syrups (strawberry,
chocolate, or caramel) to top it with, along with a variety
cheesecake. Knowing that, PJ had brought a Riesling wine for
dessert, and we let the younger kids have a small glass with
their dessert, and I had one as well, so we could all toast his
birth.
Being 29, I thought a spanking was probably not in line (though
I have suggested he needed one a couple of times the past year).
There was much protest (mostly from Jake and Ryan), until I
suggested they go ahead and try. The matter dropped at that
point.
Zyngaru - I generally prefer my steak between medium-well and
medium, depending on the cut.
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Re: May 2018 - Birthday Weeks
By: Jack Date: May 31, 2018, 4:01 am
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It's going to be a very long day today, so, of course, I woke
early and couldn't get back to sleep.
I did look at my schedule for today, and it's not as bad as I
thought. Kenny got with some of his big brothers last night,
and they set up a menu for this next week. I gave it a glance
and approved it. Noah and Ryan are going to do the shopping for
me this morning. That means I'm free when I get through with
classes today, so I should be able to get home and take a nap
before having to leave.
We're going to be switching to our summer schedule soon, which
means meals will be a lot different anyway, and so will grocery
shopping.
Parker's birthday is Saturday and Leif's is Sunday. Both of
them are too old for their dad to organize and run a party for
them, so my busy-ness won't be a huge problem.
Speaking of parties, there will be two for BCA graduates on
Saturday night - one in the school gymnasium and one at the
Family Center. I have businesses co-sponsoring both events (and
similar ones for BHS the night before), so I get to have a quiet
house. Well, quiet on Saturday night. While Ethan was okay
going places, Bruce worries a bit about avoiding alcohol and
weed, so he asked if we could have a small get together here.
Ethan is actually happy with that, because it's going to be a
fairly limited guest list made up mostly of geeks and nerds, and
I find I'm okay with that.
For his birthday, Parker will be having lunch with his mom.
There's some sci-fi/action movie coming out this week (Ugrade)
which is rated R. Since Parker is pretty much the youngest of
his school mates, he's going to celebrate turning old enough to
see it without Dad by seeing it without Dad. I've bought gift
certificates so they can go out to eat first, see the movie,
then stop for ice cream or something afterwards.
At Noah's suggestion, his family meal will be a fancy brunch
Sunday morning.
Sunday afternoon, Leif is going to have a pool party. He wanted
to have some friends stay overnight, taking over the theater and
game room, so we finally decided to just do burgers and dawgs
for his birthday dinner, rather than doing one of our more
formal (and fancy) occasions.
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Re: May 2018 - Birthday Weeks
By: kalico Date: May 31, 2018, 10:18 am
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I bet it’s nice having the older boys back so they can help out
and dad might be able to chill a bit... lol
Safe travels and enjoy!
Hugs kal
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