My Birthday: A Recap in Photos

So...I was gonna share a recipe with you guys today. Really, I was.

But...I'm tired.

I had a super fun/super busy birthday.

And today I've got an audition and some stuff to get done, because tomorrow and Friday I'm filming an episode of True Crime, and Saturday I have to work. So instead, you guys get to see some pictures of my birthday!!

Yay...!...?...!

Big, Thick, and Chewy Chocolate Chip Cookies (Formerly Levain Copycat)

Let me tell you about a magical place, a mystical, wondrous place, right here in New York City, but that I have never been to: Levain Bakery. They are known for their HUGE and outrageously amazing cookies (particularly their Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookie). I have not yet had the pleasure of eating one, but I've heard plenty-and have seen quite a few copy cat recipes. So, to bide my time until I can have the real thing, I decided to try one.

Failure

Well, folks, one of the saddest things that can happen while cooking happened today. I tried a new recipe (for "Chicken alla Milanese"), and it was not good. It tasted extremely strongly of parsley and it just was a disappointment and a failure. And worse, it was a waste. I wasted food, time, and money. To try to at least get something out of it, I scraped the parsley mixture off the chicken breasts and will save them to try to put the chicken in something else (such as making a Campbell's Select Chicken Noodle soup more chicken-y, like I ended up doing for my lunch). It's times like this I really can't wait until Michael moves here, because even if he doesn't like it, he'll eat it anyway. Anyone else have recipe failure happen to them? Sucks, huh?