April Happenin's

Hey hey hey! Yes, TWO posts in a day! Ha ha! You are so lucky. Just call me magnanimous.
So...APRIL. LOTS of fun and exciting times! First of all, Tuima came home from French Cooking school in Boston. PARTY TIME! Here's a couple of pics from our "Jane Party". A Jane party includes LOTS of tasty food with incredibly nerdy conversations. We stopped by a FABULOUS little restaurant in Provo called the Nicolitalia Pizzeria. Ha ha. I thought it was Italian, but turns out, it's a Boston-themed restaurant. You know, just in case she was missing Boston in the few days she'd been away. Here's a few pics of us and the amount of napkins we used per person/dish.
Tuima's neat singular napkin...

Ere used a few more than that...

 

And Andy?...Well, he used a few more than that. 

Ok, ok. In Andy's case it wasn't his fault. The napkin holder made it REALLY difficult to pull out napkins. The rest of the night was spent laughing and watching the brilliant Joss Whedon's Buffy. 

Of course, with Easter fast approaching the only thing to do was make as many Easter themed treats as possible, as it only comes around once a year. Tuima came up with a fabulous idea: Sheep cake pops! Just you wait:

I hope Tuima wasn't too appalled that we just used a cake mix!

 Toss in a block of cream cheese and mix it all up and until it gets to be about the same consistency as Play-Doh. Yum yum!

Tuima's fabulous sister volunteered her talents and helped give our little sheepies their pretzel legs. 

A quick stint in the refrigerator and they were ready to stand on their own little feet. A lovely white chocolate bath and and a little coconut dusting and these guys are ready to go!

Here's our little flock, complete with the black sheep of the family.

 Now, our Easter eggs weren't such a hit, but they tasted just fine.

The three of us got together that weekend and made more tasty Easter treats! This was just the beginning of a lovely, LOVELY evening and began innocently enough...I mean, what harm could BAKING do?

                                   

(FEEL the creativity power! Ere FREE HANDED that bunny!)

                               

And from there? An inevitable flour fight.

I didn't even escape unscathed. Le sigh...

Now...as was mentioned before, Jane is currently being all cool and attending a fancy-schamncy cooking school in Boston. While there she gets to mingle with all sorts of amazing people. One of her colleagues is an incredibly amazing world-traveler foodie who just about freaked when he heard she was from Provo. He made the claim that the best restaurant he'd ever eaten at was in Provo, UT called Communal. Of course we HAD to check it out. And WOW. Wow wow wow. A little hipstery for my taste, but INCREDIBLY tasty and WORTH the price. We were able to sit at the bar and watch the cooks at work. Tuima was in Heaven of course watching these guys sling sauces around, braise pork loin, sprinkle spices over steaming dishes, and duck and weave around the kitchen like a tornado on steroids. The idea of Communal is to have each person order a different dish and then share with your party. We started off with a fennel tart garnished with tomato jam, creamy Gouda, and grilled spring onions. The next dish included roasted sweet potatoes and molasses glazed apple and THEN the main dish...the main dish consisted of the most absolute, hands-down, flavorful pork belly in the world.
THE. WORLD, people.
Next stop of the evening was Sparks. A dry bar/lounge. I'd give it 3.5 stars. The service wasn't that great, but it's a fun place to hang out with friends. They've got a pretty nice selection of virgin drinks. Definitely on the sweet side. It was a nice way to top of our savory dinner.

Last stop of the evening was The Cabin. (SO FUN!) Of course, we came prepared. LOTS of chocolate!

The flour fight was only the beginning. Tuima taught us the basics of boxing and Ere showed us some pretty awesome Tae-Kwon Do moves as well.

We finished out the evening doing what we do best. LOTS of creativity!Writing and drawing and talking. Thanks ladies for such an awesome time! Let's do it again soon!