More Market Delights: 100 Days of Recipes, Day 48

It seems like it was JUST Day 47, and suddenly it's a week later, pots have been made, bisque fired, glazed, and as of earlier this evening, fired. Back to our regularly scheduled programming.

My beautiful Birthday Cake, made by my friend Lindsey - it's
got a bottom layer of dates and nuts, a layer of cashew creme,
and a top layer of strawberry cashew creme, with fruit and other edibles.

Birthday celebrations last week provided fun and delicious meals through the week, and hitting the Tailgate Market on my way to the studio for glazing on Saturday kept me stocked with goodies, even if I was too tired to do much with them.

Birthday dinner with friends at the newly opened Jargon,
someplace I will return to often!

Tonight after the firing, I had plans to cook up a nice piece of fish, but three 12-hour days in a row cast a strong vote for no cooking. Luckily, my bounty from the Market gave me a perfect and satisfying meal of lightly toasted levain, a schmear of mayo, beautiful cucumbers, radishes, and radish sprouts. 

Perfect light meal that tastes of late Spring.

A lovely taste of the season.

Some days, you eat cake! 100 Days of Recipes: Day 16

Some days, you have cake!

Birthday Girl!

Today at the studio, we celebrate our wonderful Operations Manager, Lindsey Mudge. We actually celebrate her every day: the amount of details she keeps up with on our behalf, the number of things she does behind the scenes, that we mostly don't even know about, but that keep us running smoothly - well I don't think it's an understatement to say they are innumerable! 

Princess Birthday Girl, enjoying having her cake and eating it, too!

So today, in her honor, we put the traditional "Happy Birthday" banner across her office, made her wear the "Birthday Tiara", sang (in four part harmony!) Happy Birthday to her, and feasted her with vittles from Homegrown restaurant. Our fearless leader Sarah is out of town, but she called in for the singing, and she arranged for a chocolate cake from Short Street Cakes that had us all giddy on sight. We capped off the celebration with a gift for Lindsey from Dobra Tea, her favorite after-yoga pit stop.

We drew on our Asheville community to help celebrate a valued member of our TVP community, and all of it reminds me how very blessed we are, all of us.