This past weekend was family day and we had a lovely weekend. Our weekend consisted of Chinese food for dinner Saturday with Byron's parents and sister. Sunday afternoon we had a visit with my parents and sister and on Monday afternoon my Goddaughter (Hugo's Godmother) came over for a visit. We spent lots of time with family and ended our weekend with a wonderful dinner prepared by our personal chef ... my wonderful husband.
For our Family Day dinner Byron prepared Beef Bourguignon.
First Byron fried the bacon in the Dutch Oven.
I believe he then used the bacon fat to brown the meat and then sauteed the vegetables.
And then the fire occurred ... Byron added the cognac and lit it on fire. I must admit, it caught me a bit off guard. I wasn't expecting the flames to be so high, and as a result, I didn't snap a photo of the entire flame. I was too concerned with the fire that was going on directly under our microwave range.
The flames were almost reaching the microwave {insert panic face}
Thickening up the Beef Bourguignon
The delicious end product served on toasted garlic bread
The recipe is from foodnetwork.com - Beef Bourguignon, if you want to give it a try. I know Byron made a couple changes -- he didn't use mushrooms, he used fresh onion instead of frozen onion. I am not sure what other changes he made. [If you would like to know what exactly he did, let me know and I will try to get him to reveal his secret method]. It turned out really good and was very tasty. Byron had it the next day for lunch and said it is not good as left overs.
I can't believe that two years ago (on family day weekend 2011), we found out we were expecting a little miracle who would change our life forever and make us a family of three ... our little man Hugo. Where have the last two years gone? We are so blessed to have such an amazing family!
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