Recreating Paris, and other yummy treats

Cory finally came home on Thursday, after two weeks in Russia and one cancelled flight. To celebrate his homecoming, I planned a dinner to recreate our trip to Paris. We started with homemade french bread and brie. I'm really enjoying making bread, and it's super easy with my Kitchen Aid, and oh so tasty. For the main course I made lamb curry; I realize curry is not french, but we had a lot of lamb there and Cory had a curry dish he really liked. The lamb was delicious and tender and I can't wait to cook with it more! I finally tried out our kitchen torch on the creme brulee I made for dessert. We had creme brulee in Paris just about every night and we love it! It was much easier than I thought it would be to make and it turned out delicious! All of this was, of course, accompanied by some French wine. Bon appetit!

My good friend Beth had surgery a few weeks ago, and in my opinion, nothing says recovery like food :) So I made some chai tea latte cupcakes and some vanilla fro yo for her! I also gave some cupcakes to my other chai-loving-friends, Jaime and Lisa.

Last week I went to Alicia's for dinner and brough some macerated berries with cool whip for a yummy healthy dessert. What do do with leftover berries that are getting mushy? Why, make a mini berry crisp of course! And then eat the whole thing yourself. Not that I did that. Maybe.