Just One Reason Marriage Is the Best

Today I am grateful for my husband.  I am grateful that when I "grew up" I did not have a time on my own but instead went directly from living with my mom to living with Matt.  When things seem like they suck at least there is always one person there who loves me and supports me and thinks I'm awesome no matter what.

Flowers

I love flowers.  And I love taking pictures of flowers.  Hopefully my neighbors don't mind me stalking their gardens...

These ones are from a bouquet Matt gave me for my birthday:

Making Italian Bread

Last night our dinner was so delicious that Matt said I should blog about it.

We had Pasta Fagioli Soup.  It is pretty good, but pretty light; you need to eat something else with it.  I was thinking some good Italian bread would be the perfect side.  In my renewed efforts to live within my means I decided to make some instead of just buying a loaf.  I've watched my mom make bread before (thank you Mummis!  I definitely relied on your teaching while making the bread), but I have never made any of my own, so I searched online for the most simple, basic Italian bread recipe I could find.  This is the recipe I ended up picking.  It calls for bread flour, but I didn't want to buy that, so i just used regluar all-purpose flour.  The only thing I ended up needing to buy was a 40¢ packet of yeast.

Making the bread was nice; a much more calm and enjoyable experience than any other time I've made something for the first time.  At dinner we dipped it in a concoction of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, and ground pepper.  It was delicious!



All that was left of our 12-inch loaf after dinner.