Easter Dinner Etc.

Would I honestly rather have been doing something else tonight? Probably not actually. I went to a meeting, had a nice conversation with someone afterwards, and now I am cooking Easter dinner. I really like to cook, but I don't do it much because I get home so late and it seems like such a big mess to make - for one person. I find cooking much more enjoyable when I am cooking for someone else. Anyway, for Easter dinner, I am making a citrus chicken (chicken simmered in a sauce made of vegetables and citrus fruit, honey, garlic and chicken broth - with a little tomato paste and flour to thicken it), steamed asparagus with lemon and augratin potatoes. I think it is going to be good. Now, if only I had made dessert. I do have jelly beans though, courtesy of the restaurant I ate at last night. The Easter bunny never came, sadly.

Also - as some of you know - I had a breast cancer scare last Tuesday. Unfortunately, I still haven't emotionally recovered from this. My doctor found a lump in my left breast (so not the one I had cancer in) - turns out it's nothing. Lumpy breast tissue. Imagine going back into work and having to explain to your almost all male colleagues that everything is okay - your breast tissue is just lumpy. I've pretty much gotten over that I guess - my co-workers are more like my family than my family. The head of my group - who has been just amazing through all of this - is more fatherly than my own father. He's told me a few times since Tuesday how scared he was for me and how concerned he was when he heard what was going on. You know what is interesting - I've learned a lot from the people I work with about what it means to be supportive - much more than I have learned from my own fammily.

Anyway - my trip to Germany to see my brother, sister-in-law and nephew is going to work out after all. I was a little worried that my employer wasn't going to be happy about the timing - but like always - things work out.

Back again - I ate my dinner. Next time, I will modify the sauce a bit - and I found the whole thing just a little bit labor intensive. The thing I find disappointing is that one hour, and about 15 dishes later, I am done eating it in less than 10 minutes. Not to mention that I am still not satisfied - all I really want is some chocolate. But - I ate my last Moonstruck truffle this afternoon - I couldn't wait! I highly recommend Moonstruck for truffles if you ever need to order some chocolate for anyone - it's the best chocolate I've ever had. Next year, or maybe for my birthday coming up in May, or maybe just because - I might mail myself some. Check out the new spring collection. Or the truffle collection. This place also makes the best mocha and hot chocolate I've ever had. My friend Pam can attest to this - she and Marco like the chocolate shake so much that she has been known to transport them back to Ann Arbor in a cooler.