Inez's Birthday Bash!!

It's Inez's first birthday!

For her present, along with a new hide she can actually fit in, I built her a patio.

The Inez Memorial Birthday Patio: (This took eight hours, and still needs a little more, but I was having heatstroke...)

Then I made a fancy dinner- fish tortillas!

I got the recipe from a local winery. The sauce features a Florida native grape wine.

While dinner was cooking, Inez went out to inspect her new patio.

Here she is checking out the arbor, which has been sunk into the ground and planted with Confederate Jasmine.

I bought a few Gerber Daisies, but there will be a lot more planting.

Dinner is finally ready! It was _so_ good, it tasted like it came from a fancy restaurant. I ate it outside at the arbor.

For desert, I have a $36 half bottle of ice wine. I'm kind of scared- it's the most expensive bottle I've ever bought, and I was saving it for a special occasion.

Inez- she's such a good girl! She had a little present for me, too!

Thanks for looking,

Nanci

That's a wonderful Birthday!

Confederate jasmine. That's funny. Out here it's called Star jasmine. Great choice, smells wonderful!

That looks like my kind of Mexican! MMMMMM! You mind sharing the recipe? I'm sure I can work up a substitute for the Florida wine.

That's one spoiled and lucky snake.

Fish Tortillas in Cream Sauce

(I'd try substituting a Moscato d'Asti, maybe. Sweet and fruity.)

For Fish Tortillas:

6 large center-cut pieces White Fish fillet
2 tablespoons butter, softened
1 shallot, finely chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper

For Sauce:
1 cup San Sebastian Rosa
2 tablespoons butter
2 tablespoons flour
1 cup heavy cream
2 teaspoons finely grated fresh lemon zest
1/4 teaspoon black pepper

Make sauce: Heat butter in a 2-quart heavy saucepan over moderately low heat until foam subsides. Add flour and cook, whisking, 2 minutes. Add Rosa in a slow stream, whisking, then bring to a boil. Reduce heat and simmer, whisking occasionally, 5 minutes. Stir in cream, zest, pepper, then remove from heat.

Assemble Tortillas: Put oven rack in middle position and preheat oven to 425°F. Butter a 13- by 9-inch or other 3-quart baking dish and spread half of sauce in dish. Stir together butter (2 tablespoons), shallot, salt, and pepper and spread 1 teaspoon on top of each Fish fillet.
Put 1 Tortilla on a work surface, then place 1 fish fillet, buttered side down, in center and fold tortilla around fish, leaving ends open. Transfer to baking dish, arranging, seam side down, in sauce. Make 5 more tortillas with remaining fish in same manner, arranging in baking dish. Spoon remaining sauce over the top. Bake until fish is just cooked through and sauce is bubbling, 15 to 20 minutes. Serve with a glass of San Sebastian Rosa.

Inez is a very nice looking birthday girl and she is getting pretty big. You did a great job on that patio Nanci. The Tort Fort is looking incredible.
Happy Birthday Inez!
Jay & PJ

Inez is a purty gal.

What a great Birthday! You did a wonderful job, on the patio, too!

The last photo ... :laugh:

Wow, Happy belated birthday Inez! Looks like you sure enjoyed the patio! lol...

I have to agree, the patio and fort look great! And what a great party for Inez - though, it looks like you forgot her birthday mouse! lol


Jenn

She gets her birthday mouse tonight. She's having a little mouse-eating party with Choco, Maizey, Addy and Lila. Jake is blue, and Zee is on mating season hunger strike.

Nanci

Nanci said:

She gets her birthday mouse tonight. She's having a little mouse-eating party with Choco, Maizey, Addy and Lila. Jake is blue, and Zee is on mating season hunger strike.

Nanci

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Cool! Don't forget to post pics of her blowing out the candle! :crazy02:


Jenn

Thanks for the recipe, Nanci. Somehow I missed it, and then I was just thinking about it and searched for it and there it was. Yum!

I just finished the last leftovers of it last night- except for one serving I froze. It's equally good, if not better, the next day. I was thinking, you could probably use any moscato.

Nanci