Errand day and food shopping

Now I know our lives are getting back to normal after the months of planning the HRC cvent; we are food shopping today for the week's menus. After weeks of eating at restaurants or take out every night, I'm looking foward to a couple nights this week of just cooking and eating at home.

On the menu: chili spiced pork loin in the slow cooker with roasted brussels sprouts for Tuesday; and Morrocan chicken stew with sweet potatoes and couscous for Thursday.

Also, planning my offering for the work holiday dessert party on Tuesday: classic profiteroles with vanilla creme and drizzled with chocolate. (Deb saved me from way out-doing myself with too many filling options. One perfect profiterole will be... perfect, she says. I almost always listen to what Deb says because she is always right!)

Another menu I'm tossing around: the Marketing Committee celebration party at our house next Sunday. This team did an amazing job on creating the marketing materials for the HRC dinner and I want to reward them. More to come...