Something Saturdays (10/27/18)

Hihihi guys!!! I'm in a super good mood because this week has been quite lovely. Last weekend I loved having the entire time with my boys. Saturday we ran a few errands and ended up checking out a new bakery near-ish us that just opened up which I was cautiously excited about: Studio Bakery. NO CAUTION NEEDED. I lovelovelove it. It's a beautiful, modern, airy space and half of it is just an open area where you can see the 2 owners (one is the pastry chef, the other the decorator) at work. Both the owners are SO nice and sweet. And everything is made fresh with real and oftentimes local ingredients. In other words, everything I'm about. They also gushed about how cute James is so that's always a win, lol. I got their Chocolate Mousse Bombe and Michael got their fruit tart, and we shared a chocolate eclair. The chocolate bombe is pure chocolatey PERFECTION. Every bit of it is high quality and the texture and taste are amazing. Michael really loved the tart and the eclair was nice (but honestly compared to the other two's amazingness it's hard to focus on it). I actually returned again yesterday and got a chocolate peanut butter cupcake, another chocolate bombe, and a personal cherry pie for Michael. The cupcake was insane-the frosting is so peanut buttery and the cake was light and chocolatey. Michael doesn't even care for cupcakes but he went gaga over the bite he had. And he love love loved the pie. Look...suffice it to say...we're obsessed. I'm so happy. 

Other than that I just spent quality time with the boys last weekend, and mostly did the same with James this week. I did attempt to do some cleaning on Tuesday but...it didn't go well. My little man lost his marbles at the fact that he wasn't allowed in the bathroom with me while I cleaned. So, that's my situation. Otherwise, though, he was just so happy and affectionate and I love the little cutie. I did work Thursday but that's the only day this week I work! I have this weekend off so I can fully enjoy the festivities of my little buddy's 1st Halloween! Wish us luck!

5 Ingredient Butter Roasted Tomato Sauce

My Italian husband is, understandably, quite picky about sauce. But it's led to a hunt for the creation of his version of sauce perfection. I know one of his chief complaints about my sauces in the past has been that they weren't thick enough, so when I saw this method for roasting tomato sauce to achieve that thick texture as if it had simmered for hours on the stove but actually was just in the oven for a bit, I knew I needed to try it!

And the results were YUM. This is actually my favorite sauce that I've made, thus far. It's admittedly still not quite Michael's perfection but he did really like it and oh my word the texture is dreamy and the flavor is just the perfect amount of garlic and richness. A total must-try!

Something Saturdays (10/20/18)

Hi guys! How's fall treating you? I'm not loving it, as per usual, I hate the cold and pretty much all of it BUT I am liking it much more than normal thanks to the sweet baby James! Last weekend we went with friends to a pumpkin patch (which also had a bunch of animals to see and pet and feed and a bunch of other stuff to see and explore) and we all had so much fun! It was the first time we've ever done something like that with James and it was great. At first he just stared at everything with wide eyes, taking it all in (typical for him) and then once we were in the big box of corn kernels (I don't know why, it was super fun though!) he warmed up and then had a great time! He was just so cute to watch, and then at the end we sat him down by the pumpkins and he picked one-and he loved it! He was so happy to have it and kept calling it a "ball" hehe. Tuesday he had another big day because Michael's brother and sister-in-law were briefly in town with their dog (the latter James had not met yet) and we went to dinner at their dad's house and it was really nice but funny to watch James and Millie (aforementioned pupper) meet. He was really wary at first and even cried when she got too close but then during dinner somehow she endeared herself to him because he ended up feeding her out of his hand (on purpose!) and giggling. The rest of the week was pretty typical stuff, just loving spending time with him. I had to work Thursday and Friday but I'm so happy because I have the whole weekend off! Yay!