Chocolate covered WHAT?!

Chocolate covered bacon cross section
Originally uploaded by gtrwndr87

Sometimes you just have to do it.

You know it's bad. Naughty. Wrong, even. But you still need to know.

Can bacon really be eaten with chocolate? I'm here to tell you it can.

It started with a birthday party for a beloved who adores, as you can imagine, bacon. Because who among us does not, really? Even the vegetarians out there secretly love bacon. They munch on it back-alley-styles. I'm not naive; I know it happens.

But they've never been brave enough for this. As soon as Amie suggested it, I knew I was in. My place.

Planning

My grandmother's wedding rings
Originally uploaded by winged photography

I guess I expected my wedding to be different.

I'm not a bridezilla. I haven't been thinking about this since I was seven.

I thought: we have a small budget, surely there must come a lower number of silly details that can go wrong.

No chance. Smaller budgets mean that people work harder to figure out how they can get a piece of it and loosen that budget up. I guess there are those women who will shrug and lay down the cash. I'm not one of them.

Food just makes it all better

Roast butternut squash ravioli and red pepper coulis
Originally uploaded by chatirygirl

I have had a very good food weekend.

Check this out:

FRIDAY:
Homemade Thai red curry (veggie) over mixed grain rice

SATURDAY:
Pad Kee Mao (Drunken noodles)

SUNDAY:
Breakfast - Pancakes with homemade banana caramel sauce

Lunch - Grilled goat cheese and pear sandwich

Dinner - Homemade squash (OK, pumpkin from my parents' garden, but close enough) and goat cheese ravioli with homemade tomato sauce (inspired by recent restaurant meals this week).

Sometimes I'm just that good

I don't know what happens sometimes. But sometimes I'm on fire.

It seems like it has a lot to do with productivity or at least perceived productivity. But check out this weekend of ass-kicking: