use real butter

Tonight we met with Tom, Kellie, Bondy, and Madge for dinner at Full Moon Grill. We picked tonight because it is Dining Out for Life night. Several hundred restaurants in the Denver-Boulder area participated this evening by sponsoring this event for Project Angel Heart. The restaurants pledged that 25% of their food bills today would go to support Project Angel Heart which provides healthy meals to men, women, and children living with AIDS/HIV, cancer, and other life-threatening illnesses. The food was great as usual (although Jeremy’s lobster gnocchi appetizer was a tad salty). Everyone loved their food and we had a great time catching up on Ned politics, gross-out stories from Madge’s medical training, gross-out stories of mercy killing furry dying animals, and arguing over who exactly is considered a gen-Xer.

At last, I have figured out the right amount of time to bake my crème brûlée to achieve that creamy texture. Even Jeremy loves this dessert despite the fact it has no chocolate – that is saying something!

The inlaws arrived yesterday afternoon and I met with Jeremy and his rents at L’Absinthe (we let his parents choose). I ordered the bouillabaisse for dinner and had the bread pudding for dessert.