Happy Long Weekend!

I am extremely sleepy right now. It's my fault though! We invited a lady from church to our house for lunch today (we invited a few weeks ago) and I left it to the last minute to prepare food and clean! Yesterday first thing in the morning we went to the city so I could find a dress for Steph's wedding next weekend (also, left to the last minute). I did however, choose and purchase a dress within 20 minutes. Then Paul asked me if he could "quickly look at the Ted Baker shirts". 1.5 hours and about 7 shirts later we had lunch then went home.

I had about 3 hours to start cleaning (house was a huge mess) then it was time to race over to a dinner date with my good friend Anna I did dentistry with. Two pizzas, deep fried seafood, eye fillet, salted caramel and snickers gelato and a bottle of shiraz - I'll be honest, I consumed the bottle minus 2 glasses (boys were driving, Anna didn't want any, I didn't want to waste it!)... basically we had a good ol' time and it was suddenly 11PM!

Lucky for me there's a 24 hour Coles not far from home. I decided to prepare French-Canadian comfort food (mainly for Paul) and attempted two of his favourite dishes - tourtière and sugar pie. So my night (12:30am at this point) was spent massaging shortcrust dough, stirring, vacuuming, stirring, chopping, peeling... I finally got to nap from 4:30-6am (with Teddy curled up against me of course). Then it was time to roll out my rested pastry. And bake my risen bread dough.

Anyhow, lunch was a success! I am proud to say that no gagging occurred at the dining table :)

I almost forgot about my baguette so it's a tad darker than normal

Trying to get creative with excess pastry on the tourtière

I roasted the veggies whole then Paul
chopped them up for me

Sugar pie with walnuts

I felt all warm and fuzzy when Paul took a slow bite and
said he felt like he was back in Tadoussac :)
(the city where we got married - northeast of Montréal)