Cooking & Baking

I saute onion, garlic and celery in butter, add herbs and white wine, and then shrimp and serve over spaghetti. Garlic bread is my downfall, but we're having that too. Salad is one my mom would make - canned asparagus spears on a bed of lettuce, with a sliced hard boiled egg on top, then a ribbon of mayonnaise mixed with lemon juice, then a sprinkle of paprika. Dessert is brownies with a Symphony candy bar mixed in, the kind with almonds and toffee, and I had some leftover chocolate buttercream in the freezer so used that. Wine is a German Silvaner, produced just a few kilometers from where I lived in Germany in the 70s. Too rich and extravagant, but it's my birthday supper.