Cooking Spree

My friend/labmate had her baby Saturday afternoon (yay!), so E and I spent several hours on Sunday cooking up a storm so our friend and her husband won't have to worry about feeding themselves for their first few days home. The new mama doesn't really care for vegetables (in fact, "voluntarily" increased produce consumption was the tell tale sign that she was pregnant!), so we tried to sneak or mix them in as much as possible. :)

We started with muffins - pumpkin chocolate chip:


Then we made several dinners.

Lasagna:

Chicken pot pie:
Shepherd's pie:

Finally we made the cutest little bitty birthday cake, because I think you should have a birthday cake for your actual birth, not just the anniversary of your birth. We made a classic yellow cake with a chocolate buttercream frosting. In retrospect a chocolate ganache would have been better, but that didn't seem very baby-birthday-cake-ish at the time. Being a dork, I also insisted that we get a 0 numeral candle for it as well. Yeah, yeah, the baby can't eat cake yet, but her mama can, so she'll "eat" it by proxy. :P

Being practical, we made enough so that we could have some of everything for ourselves too. I'm sure I'll appreciate all the ready-made meals when I'm super busy at school all week. And we ate most of the delicious chicken pot pie last night in front of an episode of Eureka. :)