what's cooking wednesay - the birthday edition

So I was already to post my what's cooking wednesday post last night, right after I finished watching Glee, which was awesome. All Madonna episode... genius! So one minute I'm on the couch watching them sing the hell out of Like a Virgin. The next minute it's many hours later and I've got a crick in my neck from the way I fell asleep on that dang couch. Oh and I missed Parenthood, my secret boyfriend Peter Krause will not be happy that I stood him up. I must be getting old!

True story.. I am getting old... er. Today is my birthday. To celebrate I cooked myself a birthday feast. Now before you go giving Mike a hard time about that. I really wanted to cook dinner. Since Weight Watchers came into our lives there's a lot of foods that no longer pass our lips. I decided to live it up on my birthday and make my favourite things to eat...

Stuffed Mushrooms - oh my goodness I love these so much. So does everyone else because there was none left by the end of dinner. I'm not going to lie to you either, there was only four of us eating them. Everyone was nice enough to let me have the last one.

Macaroni and cheese - hands down the best mac and cheese recipe I've ever had! I mean any mac n cheese is pretty great in my books, but this is just yummy. Do yourself a favour though and load it into a roast pan and "bake" it on your barbecue, with indirect heat of course. It just adds this nice subtle smokiness to it. So yummy!

We rounded out the meal with chicken burgers, Grandma Linda's yummy mandarin orange salad and chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting.

So after four months of healthy eating, that's what I was craving. I planned it great too, very little in the leftover category.




What is What's Cooking Wednesday and how can I play?

What's cooking Wednesday was born out of a desire to get out of that what's for dinner rut. Playing is easy, on Wednesday post a recipe that has been tried and tested by you and then pop over here and add your name to the Mr. Linky. When entering your name also add the name of the recipe in brackets and make sure you link to your What's Cooking Wednesday post and not just your blog's front page. *All front page links will be deleted!* Don't make me be a jerk. And don't forget to link back here, the home of What's Cooking Wednesday.

So for example I would write Shan (Speedy Chicken Stir Fry) in the name section. For the URL section I would post this: http://shanrev.blogspot.com/2007/10/whats-cooking-wednesday-speedy-chicken.html

I'll let you in on a little secret, my WCW recipes are almost never made on a Wednesday. So feel free to cook and photograph whenever you have time and join us posting on Wednesday