meat and potatoes

whenever we celebrate bryan, we celebrate the food he loves.

our 2010 father's day feast featured filet mignon with goat cheese and a balsamic reduction (full disclosure: the reduction did not make it), lemon-basil baby new potatoes, iceberg wedges with pancetta and creamy gorgonzola dressing:

and spicy chocolate milkshakes for dessert:

all recipes are courtesy of my celebrity super-crush, giada.

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a word to the wise: do NOT feed toddlers gorgonzola. between the cheese and the potato skins, summer spent so much of dinner gagging that we eventually just fed her a pint of strawberries.

but maybe that was her scheme all along. clever girl.