What a rare moment. I am up at 7:30 a.m. on a Saturday and can’t fall back to asleep. Which is weird because my favorite thing about waking up early when I don’t need to is that sweet realization that I have more slumber time right around the corner! Grrr. Might as well squeeze in the blog entry for the month before March passes me by. Random early-morning thoughts:

Breakfast of Champions: Oatmeal + Brown Sugar + Crumbled Bacon

I was able to twist Lynn’s arm to receive her very generous permission to post her award-winning Almond Cake recipe! I was going to wait until I found the time to make the cake myself so that I could post some snazzy moody pictures along with the recipe but obviously that hasn’t happened. And where has January gone!???! To remind you, this was the cake that won Lynn first place in our First Annual Holiday Bake-Off and the coveted iPod Shuffle.. lucky girl. Can you smell my envy?

My Pandora station is still stuck on Mariah Carey Christmas because I want Christmas to stick around just a little bit longer. I’m aiming to leave the lights up, put off the white elephant gift exchange until the new year and soak up the holidays for a bit longer!

Plus, the real meaning of Christmas..

Last night Basil and I realized we had a free and quiet Friday night tonight… no plans, no obligations, no work to catch up on… *?blink?* …. What the heck should we do? The soon-to-be-found, somewhat-obvious answer of course was: what else but Endless Shrimp at Red Lobster!? Now, this may not sound that exciting to you, but whenever that commercial comes on TV announcing this fine limited-time offer, Basil yells out, “ooooh yeah!!” and I know that our next date night is going to be about filling our faces with endless rounds of 4-5 different preparations of our little shellfish friends.

We had our 2nd Annual LWF Oysterfest at Drakes Beach this weekend and as with all our outings, the food was FABULOUS. Thanks to everyone who pitched in to make this another memorable event and for adding to the smorgasbord of goodness that kept us happily eating all day long!

Not the most refined dish but trust me, it’s fantastic. A Trader Joe’s Recipe.

Lucky for me, my fabulous friend Irene creates and caters these morsels of perfection for parties. I jumped at the first chance I could find to order a batch of these heavenly goodies, so I and a group of very lucky ladies will be feasting on rhubarb cupcakes with strawberry frosting at Jenn’s Baby Shower come this August 1.