December 30th was my 2nd wedding anniversary and we decided to wait until the weekend to celebrate. I try very hard to keep politics out of my foodblog, but I will say that even though terrible things are happening around us, we still felt we should celebrate our anniversary by making a nice meal. We have postponed birthdays and other special events over the years, but decided that we could have a comforting and quiet meal at home. We hope that the fighting will stop soon and that we can find some way to make peace with our neighbors.
The meal that we made had an unintentional color theme of brown. Brown is really not one of my favourite colors, but in this case, it was represented by one of my favourite meats that I rarely have a chance to eat, lamb. The supermarket near my home has been running a special on lamb for the past month and it is such a great deal that we decided to buy some. The butcher explained that a meat company has bought large quantities of lamb on the hoof and is marketing the meat both through selected supermarkets and directly to hotels and restaurants, making it possible for us to buy young lamb at a great price.
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Belated anniv Greetings Mr+Mrs BT.
Michelle your brown theme dinner looks very tasty.
May you and yours know many years of happiness and conjugal life. We’re going on 27 next may, sometimes hard to fathom.
Tough times in our beloved country, particularly the South. We hope and pray for end to hostilities and wish all our boys on duty health and speedy return to normalcy after the missile threat taken care of.
Sometimes I am sorry i am too old to be with them.
Mazal Tov again. Hope to see you guys soon.
Dov + fam
Congratulations on your anniversary. I’m happy that although you’re in the midst of insanity, you’re able to find a small amount of time to remember one another. We’re watching everything that’s happening in Gaza and feel so very sad that it just never ends. We share in mourning the loss of 4 soldiers and worry about the intensity both in Israel and abroad. Demonstrations abroad are frightening. I won’t go into the whole political discussion since I’m absolutely certain you know exactly what I mean.
I’m happy for you and Mr. B. that you took time off to cook and enjoy this scrumptious-looking dinner. My all your next anniversaries be marked with joy everywhere.
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