food dishes and heat dishes

and yes i am one of those girls who blogs about food.  in fact, a couple of weekends ago when tanner and i were having one of our recently common "what should brighton do with her life" conversations, we decided i should do something with food since food seems to be my passion at least when i am eating.  anyway, tanner is officially a grown-up.  he is officially a 9-5er, officially a commuter {which i guess he has been that for a while now}, and he is officially for the first time ever not being paid hourly {go tanner!}  tonight, to celebrate his adultness, we went out to pizzeria 712, our very favorite place to eat in this whole world so far.  it may even be worth traveling all the way to utah for and definitely worth making the short trip to orem.

and of course i instagrammed {@britejoan}...and i do have to admit i'm feel a little bit like a social networking crazy person right now blogging my instagrammed photos all in one night...

it was the best mac&cheese, the best caprese and the best butternut squash pizza. is your mouth watering yet??

now we are back at home - i should be grading and planning for tomorrow, but instead i'm blogging and watching 30 rock on netflix in the glory of the heat dish on our couch.  and yes, it is unfortunately and fortunately that time of year again when the air in our house begins to cost $8 a day - thank you electric heating! but really, we love you heat dish.

22!

my dad always tells me, "some people eat to live, some people live to eat - brighton, you live to eat."  so for my birthday, tanner and i made sure to stop at a few of my favorite restaurants.  we went to communal for brunch where i had a delicious tomato and spinach quiche, culver's butterburger and root beer for a mid-day snack {which is actually an iowa favorite that just opened in utah last monday, my life is complete!}, and pizzeria 712 for dinner where we splurged and had an appetizer, two pizzas and dessert.  oh, and the night before we went to takashi in salt lake for sushi with tanner's family.

other events included...

opening presents in bed

browsing anthropologie at the gateway

 birthday cake at elizabeth's

and arrested development till the

early hours of the morning 

{why was this show cancelled?

i am obsessed!}

all in all it was a wonderful birthday so thank you to everyone for all the texts, phone calls, facebook posts {and especially thanks to tanner} for making me feel so special.

Ganache-like Truffles

I didn't know truffles were so easy to make.

3/4 C. Whipping Cream

2 Tbs Butter

8 oz Semi-Sweet Chocolate (chopped)

Chop the chocolate (or blend it like I did), boil the whipping cream, pour over the chocolate and let stand about 5 minutes, whisk till smooth, let cool till it hardens, and then scoop and roll into balls, dip in cocoa powder and let cool again.  

They do get a little bit messy though, I wish I had a picture of Erica's hands afterward.