Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Zaguan Bakery

There's a Latin eatery place in downtown Dallas that I love to go to!  They have great pastries and have a few outside tables so we've brought our dog Ranger down here with us before.  We recently went there for breakfast/brunch for a Saturday morning adventure. 

Hubby got the Latin Crepes which was delicious!  I highly recommend this one.  The only "downfall" if you don't expect it is that it's a very rich dish.










I got the Hallaca which was good to but a heavy dish due to all the corn meal it was wrapped in.










We both shared the cherry pastel which I did not get a picture of.  They heated it up for us which made it all the more delicious. 

The other highlight to this eatery is the location.  There are always very interesting people to people watch in this part of town.  The morning we ate here there was a table full of people dressed up in old medieval outfits.  They look like they just got off of work which didn't make much sense to me since it was like 10am!  Either way, it made for an interesting morning for me!

Zaguan Bakery
2604 Oak Lawn Avenue
Dallas, TX 75219
http://www.zaguanbakery.com/

Birthdey

Not long after JD's bday was my bday.  I have officially turned 33!  I got a few surprises sent to me on my birthday.  See the delicious Edible Arrangements sent from Kim and the beautiful hydrangea plant sent to me from GG!  Both helped make my day all the more better!  Thanks ladies!





JD 1 Month Birthdey

My little man, JD, turned 1 month on 10/13/12.  My parents and sisters came up to help celebrate.  Here's a link to some details on the 1 month celebration:
http://www.babycenter.com.sg/baby/traditions/chinese-full-moon-celebration/

For the most part, we just have food and a small "ceremony" where you essentially in a nutshell wish good luck and prosperity to the infant.

Here is a picture of the food from the event.  There is fresh fruit, mini eggrolls, stir-fry noodles, stir-fry vegetables dish, black bean fish, crab rangoon, and 2 different asian desserts.









I made carrot cake cupcakes as well:







Finally, here are 2 pictures of JD at 1 month; one with a oneies on and one as the lil naked boy!
 
 

Tuesday, October 9, 2012

Nutella-Filled Banana Muffins

My hubby wanted to do something nice for the cafeteria staff at his school.  This is great b/c it gives me a chance to bake and food!  Since I'm on maternity leave, I don't have my normal go-to staff to give extra baked goodies too.  I'm sure they miss this as well!

I decided to make nutella-filled banana muffins... so healthy but not really! 














Here's a link to the recipe if you're interested in making it too:
http://bakeat350.blogspot.com/2012/04/nutella-filled-banana-muffins.html

Final Progression Pics

I was finally able to update my "belly progression pictures" to include the last picture taken before I had to delivery the little guy (JD).


It's amazing to see the progression.  I can tell ya I was getting pretty miserable with the sheer size of this thing towards the end.  No telling how big JD woulda been if he went to a full 40 weeks!

Thursday, October 4, 2012

Fall Season

Fall officially arrived last week.

When I think of the Fall, I think pumpkins and ginger and holidays and cooler weather and Pumpkin Spice Lattes!

To honor the arrival of Fall, I made pumpkin cupcakes with cinnamon creme cheese frosting!  Some were filled with the frosting as well as just topped with it.  Everything tastes better with cream cheese frosting!

 

Back Again

Hello, it's been almost a month now!

I guess I brought it upon myself b/c last post on 9/10, I said I was bored.  Well, little man showed up and was born on 9/13!  I'm not bored anymore!

So, I've been home for 3 weeks now.  We have a pseudo schedule... I guess as well as you can with a 3 week old.  He's been doing pretty good at night, i.e. just waking up twice.  I guess I'm lucky that I've always functioned in life with what many people would consider minimal amounts of sleep (~6 hrs) so I've been managing with getting up around 1am and again at 4am to feed him.  It is still very tiring to just sleep 2 or so hours and have to get back up again.

All well worth it at the end.  He's so stinking cute!  How do you get mad or stay mad! 


 
I am taking a picture a day of him so if you would like the link to this Picassa picture book, message me so I can send you the link!