Don't read this post if you're hungry

A birthday tradition in our home is that you, as the birthday person, gets to pick whatever you want for your birthday dinner, and I will make it for you. Of the three recipients of this tradition, Justin is by far the one that gets the most out of it. Every year (at least for the last three) he asks for the same meal...

barbecue ribs (with my homemade barbecue sauce)
We all swoon over this. The ribs are awesome, and I LOVE LOVE LOVE my homemade barbecue
sauce. Maybe someday I'll share the recipe, but I don't really want it all over the Internet.
Who knows? Maybe it will win me a prize someday. It's THAT good.
with homemade macaroni and cheese.


He usually asks for a cookie cake in lieu of a regular birthday cake, but this year he stepped it up a bit with a pizza cookie (because "pizookie" is apparently a trademarked word).

Pizza cookie: Half-baked chocolate chip cookie served hot with
vanilla ice cream and drizzles of chocolate syrup and caramel.
I am beat! Lots of kitchen time on this one - but it's worth it because he's such a good kid.
Justin with the lacrosse stick, with friends Alex and Haley
PS - his (14th) birthday is actually tomorrow (Monday, July 25th) but ain't no way I coulda done all this cooking on a workday!

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