Homemade Lasagna

One of my most favorite pastimes has become eating with friends.  There's just something so genuine and heartfelt about spending an evening together, chatting and enjoying good food together.  Our friends Matt & Jessica are AMAZING cooks! (more on that in the next post hopefully...yes I know I'm so behind on things...)  They always invite us over and serve the most delicious homemade meals!  So I decided to try and actually cook something from scratch myself! Aric & I went to one of the new "organic" grocery stores in town and stocked up on all the best ingredients to make some homemade lasagna.  This particular night as I whipped up some lasagna he was outside working on one of his projects in the garage!  We invited Matt & Jessica over to critique my work (haha) and enjoyed a beautiful night sitting on the patio eating and drinking wine!  Perfect night indeed!

Looking back through the pictures from this night just makes me happy.  And SO so thankful. For friends. For our home. My kitchen, Aric's handyman work...so many things.  Life is crazy right now. I mean when is it not, really.  But my head has been spinning lately with a million to-do's and not nearly enough time! So even just taking a few minutes for myself to post this little blog was good for the soul. I'm really tempted to go take some pictures of the house with the Christmas decor up...(even though it's not completely ready)...but maybe I'll go ahead and wait so you get the full effect!

I still have to blog about our cooking class!!!!! (eek!)

Happy happy!

xoxo

-casey

October Cooking Class!

We've talked about having a cooking class for a few months now.  Cooking is Matt & Jessica's favorite thing to do together. (unlike most people I know) And we just thought it would be such a cool experience to get a few couples together and enjoy a fun date night where we all cooked together, learned some new stuff and then enjoyed a great meal!  It was definitely a night to remember and I can't wait until we do it again!! 

The guys learned to make a drink called an "old fashioned" and everyone got to take home a shot measuring cup and those wooden muddlers!

Here they are makin' those drinks!

Now we are right into the cooking... I believe we were all trying to correctly mix the aioli for our homemade dressing for our wedge salads!

a salad never tasted so good!! We made the sun dried tomatoes, croutons and dressing ourselves!

Next, Matt taught the guys how to properly butcher a chicken!

I guess I kind of stopped taking pictures there, but we also made the dredge and fried the chicken, and made the most delicious and creamy garlic mashed potatoes!  And then Jessica had made some of her famous chocolate chip cookie dough that we baked up for dessert!

The best kind of night!

Such a fun group!