Q's 30th Birthday

Since we have to attend a friend's wedding on Q's birthday, we celebrated a little in advance. On Friday, I left work a little bit earlier and went on a "tiger hunt". You must wonder what exactly I was hunting for. I wasn't hunting for a stuffed animal tiger nor hunting for a zoo to take Q to see a tiger. I was hunting for an ice-cream flavour named "tiger"- orange and black liquorice. You can imagine orange blended with stripes of black liquorice makes a tiger fur pattern. Q has told me a long time ago that "tiger" is his favourite flavour of ice-cream. I always paid extra attention when I went to the supermarkets but never had any success of finding it. My theory is that it must be a weird flavour that nobody likes and ice-cream manufacturers eventually got rid of this unprofitable product. I went to Safeway, Superstore, Save-On and finally found it at IGA by our home. To kick it up another notch, I grabbed a Duncan Hine's Devils Food cake mix and AAA Angus Prime Rib steaks with Asparagus for a nice romantic homemade birthday dinner. I then rushed home as fast as I could and baked the cake. I might be a good cook, but never good at baking. My cookies are known as "hocky pucks" and my muffins often turned out as small cupcakes. I gave up on baking about 10 years ago. But, for my dear husband, I thought nothing could go wrong because Q likes EVERYTHING I make. He always gave me lots of praise even when I didn't like the dish I made myself. After putting the cake in the oven, I quickly made a birthday card for him and prepare the steaks and asparagus for the grill. Although Q had to BBQ the steaks (because I had no idea how to operate our BBQ), the romantic backyard dinner went well with tiger ice-cream chocolate cake for dessert.

Here are some photos: