with Mary Anne Mohanraj
Today is Kevin’s birthday (observed). He was on a plane for most of his actual birthday.
Dinner (not pictured) was a porterhouse steak from Carnivore Oak Park with roasted new potatoes. Dessert: spiced pumpkin cake with brown butter frosting.
Still a little too harried to bake from scratch (Kev comes back today, yay!), but I’ve found a banana bread mix I really like (yes, I know those are pumpkins, but I have multiple pretty pumpkin molds, no banana molds (haven’t found any pretty ones), and a habitual excess of bananas in our freezer), and that makes it easy. Miss Jones mix (link in comments). Zinnias by neighbor Sera Sera.
Impromptu Labor Day brunch with girlfriends. Carollina brought peach cake and Nara Nayar brought some of her amazing dahlias. Going to try to dry them today.
I did omelette bar, mostly because I had a lot of leftovers to use up.
Options:
Worked pretty well — I just made them one at a time, and since there were just a few of us, no one had to wait very long.
Also feeling autumnal enough that I made some of the apple-cheddar crescent rolls I usually make in the fall. Those aren’t fancy — just Pillsbury crescent, with an apple sliced in eighths, and a little cheese, bake 15 minutes. I’m entering the season of autumn baking — next week, I’m going to start cooking for the fall Patreon boxes.
I may have gone a little overboard with Saturday night’s taco bar.
