okay, maybe this week with the diet...

Oh, lordy... the south beach diet definitely did not start this weekend.  My husband made dinner last night.  The recipes were from the Balthazar cookbook.  Now I know it wasn't from the site, but if you love to cook and collect cookbooks, it's almost as good as our Tried & True (but not quite) and one of our favorites!  Roasted root vegetables, garlic mashed potatoes, and a beef roast so tender I cut it with my butter knife.    For dessert we had Mudslide ice cream...  chocolate heaven. One of our friends is a sommeiler, and contributed 2 bottles of French wine: Domain le Conte des Floris  Coteaux du Languedoc & Clos la Coutale Cahors.  The Cahors was excellent, almost black in color, very rich and perfect with red meat.

My little carb baby is back.  Pasta and bread made it to the mouth... everything else went on the floor.  So many of you have requested that I post a picture of my little guy... okay, maybe not, but here's my current favorite picture him.