Best Wednesday Ever :)

Bonjour mes amis!

I normally wouldn't blog this soon after such a long post on Sunday, but today was approximately the best Wednesday (weekend, according to my students) ever. It was a lovely blustery spring day (well, it was lovely except for the intermittent torrential downpours) - such a nice change from the freezing cold we've been used to! Almost all of the assistants are free on Wednesday afternoons (if not all day), so we decided yesterday that we'd all get together today and make cupcakes from scratch. We ended up drinking champagne and making cupcakes all afternoon, and it was delightful! We made 3 large batches, so we ended up with vanilla, chocolate, and carrot cake (we grated the carrots ourselves!) cupcakes - although we didn't have an actual cupcake pan, so they were mostly amorphous blobs... They tasted good, though!

We decided we needed some real food after all the sugar (we HAD to taste the batter and icing to make sure they were OK... and not poisoned!), so we also ended up cooking dinner all together. There was an incident with the pepper grinder, however, and our pasta had half a pepper shaker's worth of whole peppercorns in it.. We spent about 10 minutes over the stove picking them out of the sauce (they really burned the fingertips), but we all still had quite a collection on the edge of our plates when we were done!

I hope you all had equally lovely Wednesdays - keep loving life!