It's Beautiful!

I apologize for my nonsensicalness last night. I was sleepy. Today was wonderful. I have two friends and they are amazing. Quality over quantity any day. So I have spent pretty much all day with these suckers.

Stake Conference was this morning. So for the non-Mormons out there it is where a bunch of congregations get together and have a big meeting. The last speaker started his talk and, holy shock and amazement, the talk was on chastity and marriage. The talk went on for 45 minutes and we got really annoyed and left 5 minutes early. Marilyn brought up a great point when we were leaving. So in the Mormon faith we are taught not to have sex before marriage and not to do anything that will bring on the feelings that come along with that. Now our parents and all the people who tend to teach this got married at about 21 and have no idea how hard this is being say, 30. It just isn't effective now to tell us not to do these things, because

insert Marilyn rant: "we are pissed that the dumb girls who got married at 20 get to satisfy their base, human urges, and we don't. Really they should just tell us that they have no idea what it must be like to deny your desire to be close to someone, but it must be shitty, so we are freaking sorry about that, but it's the rules. Seriously, I want to keep the commandments, I just want them to realize that it's insanely difficult to do. I also don't want to hear any more about how it's the special bond between two people, because married people are doing the same thing I would do with the random guy I met at a party--satisfying their need to be with someone. Not that marriage isn't special, but let's call sex what it is. And don't even get me started on the boner remorse Mormon guys feel after they make out with a girl and then can't handle their feelings because no one taught them what to do when their naughty bits react, so clearly the logical thing is to run like she's the she-devil incarnate of Potiphar's Wife.  This, of course, make us feel like shit, because now we are the Mormon version of a one night stand. Seriously, can someone tell these guys that it's totally normal to get turned on while making out with me and that they don't need to repent just because of a little boner (I may be making assumptions on the little part)."

And back to Mesh: The Book of Mormon musical has a great song for this called "Turn it off." Effective, cause that doesn't screw you up.

As you can see Marilyn and Keri had a rough week so, we all got together to do dinner. It was beautiful. Such a weekend called for making the caprese Naan, Balsamic Vinegar marinated chicken, couscous, and the BBC version of Pride and Prejudice.  Jesus even approved of our ingredient selection.

I have had this request from Marilyn for quite sometime to make this recipe for salted caramel chocolate cake. So that happened. The rest of dinner was amazing as well, but dessert was the best.

Dinner:

First thing we did was to prepare the chicken.
In a 2 quart dish combine:

Balsamic vinegar
Vinegar
Salt
Honey
Lemon Juice
Garlic

Just stir it all together, most of it will be the Balsamic Vinegar. Marinate that chicken and refrigerate for at least 30 min.

While that was refrigerating we started the cake, dearest, loveliest cake. After a talk about chastity it's about as sexy as we were going to get.

The first thing the recipe has us make is the frosting. This frosting just consisted of 2 ingredients. 1lb of chopped up bittersweet chocolate and 2 cups of heavy cream. Best recipe ever.

Sexy apron, thanks Mom, makes me look real good chopping that chocolate

boil heavy cream and pour over the chocolate, stir.

This is what is turns into

Then you do good things and make some salted caramel.

So beautiful and bubbly

add butter, it's done, let cool

Then you start to actually make the cake. Good times.

Look how pretty the ingredients look

Follow the recipe, then it looks like this

We may or may not have made extra caramel to drizzle on top. This stuff is also comparable to the Starbucks carmel and deserves to be stored and enjoyed at all walks of life.

After the cake was finished we made the rest of the dinner. To finish the chicken we cooked it in the a pan with a little olive oil. While it was cooking I sprinkled the chicken with sesame seeds. 

Dinner was served with some sparkling cider. Good stuff. 

Overall, here is what I learned today. It is really hard to be a single 30 year old Mormon. My friends are amazing. My dogs are good for snuggles. If you squeeze Harold he growls. 

As far as the single thing goes. I just hope to find someone I can share my daily life with who cares about what really happens to me and who will just spoon with me whenever I need it. Until I find that, I'm content to be single even though it is hard.

Suck it.