So last Saturday being the first official day of spring break and the day of the OV all out St. Patrick's Day parade called for some serious food celebration. After parading in the rain and consuming unhealthy amounts of corned beef and cabbage my might-as-well-be-sister Stacie, Gramma and I were engaged in a healthy debate over the identity of the "mystery Gaither" when Stacie stumbled across this recipe for Irish soda bread that we HAD to make right then.

It was pretty amazing, slightly sweet and worked really well with some butter and apple cinnamon jelly to counter the sourness of my morning grapefruit half for the rest of the week.

After a fun filled week of churchyness, ignoring homework, chillin with my peeps and all around settling in to life at home the weekend rolled around bringing with it the depression of an impending return to school. To combat this I invited over the boyfriend for Food! What else could I do really? A moments pause to reflect on my roomie's comment that He could be a leprechaun:

And then we cooked, yes I actually put him to work in the kitchen. After teaching him how to make tacos from a box I figured he could handle Steak, fresh baby spinach and Twice baked potatoes which were amazing. I love twice baked potatoes because you can style them to fit your taste and what you have in your fridge at the time. We used some sharp cheddar cheese, broccoli, sour cream, bacon bits, mild pearl onion, chives and butter, but guess who forgot the salt? Yup, I'm guilty of the cardinal potato sin, so sue me. But they were still pretty:

Then came the ultimate most amazing thing I cooked all week. DONUT BREAD PUDDING!!! "oh heck yeah dude!" (copyright: Monster) A special thanks has to go out here to our 'Windex pastor' affectionately known as Mama for suggesting this little Paula Dean gem (although I used the Michael Chiarello version with my own twist like who has heavy cream? So I just used milk, it didn't change anything).

Then on Sunday Levi barbecued chicken on the grill and I got to lay around in the grass and relax with his dog Cali and enjoy life a little. Now its back to textbooks and caf food until summer.