Four years

Today was our four year wedding anniversary, and while we agreed not to do gifts this year, I still brainstormed a bit to come up with the perfect Ben Meal for dinner.

I started with this:

I am now master of the bacon weave.

Which turned into this:

The infamous bacon placemat.

And was topped with this:

Bacon-wrapped steak and chunky steak fries (he's not a baked/mashed kind of guy).

Lest you think it was all carbs and meat, there were tomatoes on hand:

And a shitload of sliced mozzarella, but that's beside the point.

My dear friend Jaime recommended that I give these Gooey Chocolate Cakes a try for dessert, swearing that even someone as legendarily baking-challenged as I am would be able to make them. I was stoked when they came out looking so pretty:

I just dropped a few plain chocolate chips on the tops, since I was too lazy to finely chop the chocolate. 
This kind of wishy washy attitude towards baking instructions just might be the root of my problems...

But when I cut it open for the gooey center money shot - cue the "wah wah waaaaaaaah" trombone:

The half-assed focus here could use a little "wah wah waaaaaaaah" of it's own.

Australian muffin tins are more shallow than American ones and I ended up making nine cakes instead of six. Since I hadn't reduced the baking time to adjust for that, my gooey centers were just regular cakey centers. Oh well. They still tasted good, especially with caramel ice cream and frozen raspberries!

Yup, I still love this photo.

Happy anniversary, hon. I love you.