A Surprise Party and an All Important Pepper!

What a busy week this past week was for me and my boyfriend! I helped him plan and host a surprise birthday party for his mom. I spent many moments throughout the week looking at recipes, searching for recipes, and studying recipes.

I studied so many recipes that they all started to run together in my head! Here's an example of the recipes running together. I made a few different lists during the course of the week of things that needed to be purchased. I however, did wind up at the store once without the list I had made. Well, no biggie I have a decent memory when it comes to ingredient purchasing. So I just did the best I could and went in to do some of the shopping without a list. I remembered a certain kind of pepper that I needed for a dish I was making. There's many types of peppers out there if one goes and looks through the produce section. Fortunately, I was able to remember the specific name of the pepper I needed. I was so proud of myself! I even remembered I needed only 1. Over the years I've learned that when making a new recipe and shopping for the ingredients for the new recipe make sure you include the quantity on your shopping list. Otherwise you're standing in the middle of the grocery aisle in front of whatever ingredient dumbfounded because you aren't sure if you need 1 can or 2 cans.

After all dishes were made and the night had come to an end I looked over at the specially purchased pepper still sitting on the counter. What? Did I forget to put it in? Which dish was it supposed to go in? Did anything taste funny because it was lacking this all important pepper? Those were just some of the questions that rolled through my mind. By the time this afternoon rolled around I realized that pepper was for a different recipe that I chose not to use. That's just how many recipes I read through...I ended up purchasing a pepper that wasn't for any of the recipes I actually made. LOL!

I am happy to report that the surprise party went very well. My boyfriend's mom was very surprised! I know she will remember that party forever! We helped her make wonderfully fond memories last night. Truly special! A great time was had by all! Completely worth all our efforts!