Birthday boy and Halloween

Birthday breakfast of champions

Today is the day my Kev was birthed and I am so thankful. Happy birthday my Kev!

I got up at 3:30 to pee and was up for a while. Kev also heard me up and woke and then he couldn't get back to sleep. He got on his phone and read for some time and when he finally did, thr alarm went off. he had to get up for his final PT appointment.

I was nicely sleeping when my phone buzzed just before 7:30. It was Amy across the street asking if I was ready to take their family Halloween photo. I knew I would be taking their pic but didn't realize it was that early, but of course it was. Their daughter had to get to school. So I jumped out of bed and threw on some clothes and ran over. Got home and made Kev some birthday coffee and got bacon in the oven. I had his eggs cooking when he got home around 8:45. He gobbled them down and had to get on a call. I finished mine and made a run to the grocery.

Yummy chicken Mahkni

Do you know that there are leaves all over my yard? Of course the damn front mailbox tree couldn't wait one single day before deciding to FINALLY drop leaves. Had to do it right after we spent four hours cleaning up. I did a little work and when Kev finished his two calls we first went to the leaf drop off to do a big leaf dump, got home, jumped in his smushed bumper car and drove it to the auto body fixer upper place. After we got the rental we decided to have Kev a birthday lunch at our fav Indian place, Curry-n-Kebob. I had the bowl of chicken Mahkni, identical to chicken tikka masala but with dark meat so it was a bit more flavorful. Still in the tomato cream sauce and oh so freaking tasty. This will be a great winter eating. Of course it came with a mountain of rice, 4 pieces of naan, an onion baji and pineapple chunks.

Cajun meatloaf with cheesy cauli and fresh berries

We got back and I started prepping for dinner. I made a berry salad and got it in the fridge. I cooked two cauliflowers and set it aside and we made another venture out to fill the fish tank water at Vitamin Cottage, picked up laundry and got Kev's growler filled at Liquid Mechanics. Birthday beer! Got back home and I folded and put up laundry, made the cheese sauce for the cauliflower and at 5:30 we started making the Cajun meatloaf. This was a new recipe and we substituted crushed pork rinds for breadcrumbs. We didn't use celery, bell pepper, jalapenos or brown sugar. We did use half an onion and reduced sugar ketchup along with garlic. We also did not make the glaze, to keep carbs down. it was delicious but didn't "loaf" too well. I think next time I'll add another couple eggs for binder. Dany and David joined us and all of us had seconds of both the meatloaf and the cheesy cauli. Dessert was the berry salad and I made a fresh whipped cream to go on top. We all handed out goodies to the trick-or-treaters and when D & D left, Yen and Mr J arrived. We visited until after 10 and hit the bed when they left. What a fun day.