The new year started off with making burnt basque cheesecake! Well, Shelle and Alec made it while I read webnovels in the background lol. Since we had a lot of baking matcha, they decided to turn it into a matcha burnt basque cheesecake. Alec also made a blueberry compote to go with it, and it was AMAZING!
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The parents also came up to celebrate new year’s and mom’s birthday, so they got to witness Luna’s first time eating solids. She took baby oatmeal pretty well!
That weekend, I drove down to Alec’s house, and we went to Reynolds Nature Preserve for a hike on Saturday morning. We did two laps, since it was pretty short. The lake was pretty!
Then, we went to Quickly for bubble tea and snacks afterwards because treat yoself! :D
Afterwards, we went back home and started preparing for the pizza party later that night! For Christmas, Alec had asked for a lot of pizza making stuff so that he could make homemade pizzas like we used to at his parents house. Now, he finally had everything to throw a pizza party with some of his friends!
It was great! There were lots of different types of pizzas made because we made it bring-your-own-toppings, so there were a lot of variations lol. This was the topping station at the beginning before everyone came. Soon, it became crowded with toppings, and I forgot to take a pic lol.
Here’s my margherita (with a twist) pizza lol.
There were leftover dough, so Alec ended up making a super deep dish pizza a few days later lmao. It was THICK.
Two weeks later, Alec and I drove down to Warner Robins to celebrate his goddaughter’s 2nd birthday. We were actually pretty late, but that was fine, because there were so many kids there to celebrate with her lol.
Because we were planning on being in town that day, I called up Krista to see if they were free that night for dinner, since we hadn’t seen each other in a while. They were free, so we drove straight to their house after the party was over!
It was great catching up with them. Because we weren’t hungry yet, and because it was Tet, Chinese New Years, we went to two Asian grocery stores in town to see if they had any mooncakes. They didn’t, so we got a lot of snacks instead lol.
We ended up deciding on Five Guys for dinner, but made our orders to go because there was a large church bus full of high schoolers who basically took up the entire dining area by the time we ordered. That was a great idea anyway, because we basically spent the entire night just talking and catching up and talking about our family issues. It was a super long therapy session/podcast lmao.
I think Alec and I left their house around 1am. It was a difficult drive back home since it was an hour and a half drive. We definitely felt old because Alec and I had to switch drivers halfway through the ride because he was getting too sleepy to drive. Made me remember the times when we drove home after midnight in college and how we were totally fine the next day. Not anymore lol!
However, the next day was a baking day! Alec wanted to make ube and sweet potato mochi now that he found ube extract at the Asian store yesterday. He also wanted to make milk bread and this other fried ube glutinous rice thing that his mom used to make every Chinese New Year.
Everything turned out okay! There was a lot of experimenting and sampling in the end lol. The fried mochi ended up looking like a Korean pancake lol. We mixed it up and had some with mozzarella filling and others with only black sesame seeds on the outside. The sesame ones turned out a bit bland, but it wasn’t bad.
The milk bread turned out really nice! It smelt so good baking in the oven!
The next weekend, my parents came up to visit one last time before they went on vacation. They were going to Vietnam, Thailand, and Hong Kong with some of their friends for 5-6 weeks, so they wanted to get their Luna cuddles in again before they left lol.
Alec and I also went to our college friend’s baby shower that Saturday. It was really nice! Apparently, it was held at the place they originally wanted to have their wedding at but didn’t because of the pandemic. Since they couldn’t get their deposit back, they decided to have their baby shower there instead lol.
All in all, January was a busy month, especially compared to February! I’ll get more into that soon lol.
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