A Dash of Love

 "The most indispensable ingredient of all good home cooking : love for those you are cooking for."  

                            -Sophia Loren

MJ came over for RD's birthday today.  RD had planned out what they were going to cook and bake for dinner.  We were going to have fettuccine carbonara and coffee cloud.

MJ brought flowers (and the "00" flour for the pasta).  

MyGirl and I sat on the stools behind the counter and took front row seats to watch the two of them make pasta from scratch, make coffee cloud, then prepare the carbonara sauce. 

Dinner was served at 7PM.  The kransky followed at 7:20PM because we forgot to cook them while the sauce was being prepared.

We all enjoyed the company and the food.

Thanks for coming over, MJ!

Beautiful fettuccine nests waiting to get cooked.

Flowers on the foreground.

You can see what was left of the coffee cloud (on the left)

and the flour (on the right).

We had one happy birthday boy.