Brett made me an awesome birthday dinner on Thursday. All week he had been asking me what I wanted for my birthday dinner. Since it was a weeknight and we have kids, it made the answer very simple:
"Not a restaurant because that's more work for me to bring food for Pierce and keep the kids happy while we wait for our food. Not some fancy complicated meal that you have to cook and I have to watch the kids by myself all night then sit by myself while you do dishes. Nothing that I have to cook myself."
That left me with one option: something that requires no cooking and no dishes... A French-style meal of just cheese, bread, salad and wine. Perfect!
So, Brett got 7 different cheeses from Southern Season and had the cheese monger arrange them from mildest to strongest. He also paired the cheeses with wine (red for the milder ones and white for the more pungent ones). And he sort of broke the rules by preparing escargots. But all he had to do was stuff the shells and heat them, so it wasn't too much cooking. And they were wonderful.
Dinner was awesome, but I was so stuffed after we (almost) finished all the cheeses that I was actually disappointed when he told me he had dessert! Wow!
Thanks for an awesome birthday dinner, Brett. It matched all my criteria - not in a restaurant, no cooking and (almost) no dishes.
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