Special Food Days

[sakon76]

Thus far this year I've managed to remember and keep Pancake Day, Pi Day (my first time ever making chicken pot pie, which turned out well, though the Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Pie needed a little more baking than it got), and today, St. Patrick's Day. Which menu involves corned beef, potatoes, and carrots in the crockpot, a small head of cabbage to be cooked right before dinner, and a loaf of Cheddar and Herb Soda Bread just now out of the oven. This bread was kind of fun - I went out into the garden and took snippets of most of the herbs I've got going (thyme, oregano, dill, chives, and rosemary, though I skipped the mint) and chopped them up fine with some lavender. We'll see this evening how it tastes.

And, amusingly, we took handprints of the baby last night with the non-toxic ink pad. We managed to get most of the ink off his hands afterwards with baby wipes. But we couldn't get the stuff under his nails. So he currently looks like he has a Marilyn Manson French manicure. :)