Happy Birthday, @GB!
May you never cease growing beautifully, living wisely, and loving faithfully!
From your BoD family!
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Happy Birthday, @GB!
May you never cease growing beautifully, living wisely, and loving faithfully!
From your BoD family!
Comments are closed.
Happy Birthday dearest @Growing Beautifully! May God continue to bless you with good health, peace of mind and heart. 🥳 🎂 🎈
It’s always beautiful to hang out with you here in our blog. Sending you 🤗 and kisses 😘.
Happy birthday, @GB!!! 🥳🤗💗
Hi @pkml3 and @agdr I was just trying to get here to thank you all for remembering my birthday. It’s actually my daughter’s birthday today and mine tomorrow.
I had trouble with an error message when trying to come here.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-dat5HhQl2XPDDqRdGK2HfQAzzAsuPv7/view?usp=sharing
I hope this post works!
I’d like you all to know that having a Birthday became so much more fun because of BOD and all of you!!!
Cheers!
🥂 @GB! Happy Birthday to your dearest daughter too! 🎂🎈🥳
Thanks @agdr03 and @pandamilktea!!!
Yes, my youngest has finally hit age 21 and so now I’ve got a household of people who are formally adults!!! I’m very thankful to God, family and friends, my country and everything in my life. I am truly fortunate because I’ve been given so much. Thanks be to God, the main Giver!!
Much love to all!
@GB Birthdays are important. May today bring you a lot of happiness and enjoyment – and cake.
Thanks @Juriel! Yes, celebrating life is important.
I just expressed my wish that my kids would take a family photo with me for my birthday, and guess what, the eldest is concerned that her hair isn’t nice and so won’t do it!!! When will they actually grow up?
Have a great weekend!
@GrowingBeautifully, Hope you had a wonderful birthday and have a great year. It is a joy to celebrate birthdays. They are our milestones and our celebrations of life. From your BOD posts I can see your life has been well lived. May you have many more birthdays filled with good friends, family food and the good health to enjoy them….
Happy days to both the birthday girls! @GrowingBeautifully, may you and your youngest both have fun marking the start of another lap around the sun. I’m wishing the year to come will bring you two much to celebrate.
@GB Unnie, happiest of birthdays to you and your daughter! @Cleo and I posted our greetings on the Yumi’s Cells open thread.
Reading you here in BoD and sharing thoughts/ideas with you on life and drama are such a pleasure! Thanks for the “bitch-hood”. 💗💗💗
We’ll celebrate more during Goblin rewatch so you can blow your cake candles 🎂 and make your wishes come true! God bless.
Happy birthday GB 🎂🎂🎂🎉🎉🎉🎉🎊🎊🎊 have a marvelous day💕💕💕
My dear BOD Friends, @OAL, @Welmaris, @Janey, @Cleo, @Miracle23,
Thank you so much for your lovely wishes!!! You’re all making my day(s) brighter and happier than they are already. 🙂 Being with you ‘bitches’ gives so much more to look forward to each day, week, month and year.
Yes, @Janey, I’ll be buying the cake(s) myself LOL and blowing out the candles virtually while my daughter blows them out physically.
We’re planning to have one of our fave barbeque foods, Satay, with lots of thick peanut gravy, too. So it’s going to be cake and Satay (not necessarily at the same time!) for our celebration.
Happy birthday @GB! 🎂🎉. Have a great day!
Thanks @nrllee! Have a great weekend and read you on the Goblin thread when you can get to watch the episode!
Happy birthday @GB, may you be surrounded by all things beautiful always.
Happy Birthday @GrowingBeautifully (GB). Wish you a wonderful day and year!! 🎁💐🎁💐🎁💐🍰🍰🍰🍰🍰🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🎊🎂 🎉 🎈🎈🎈🎈. Don’t worry about the photos and stuff – you can memorize all their faces and the happiness you see in them. Pat yourself for a job well done and enjoy your birthday.
Thank you @Feifei and @angelwingssf
It’s certainly a beautiful day that’s surrounding me over here. Bright sun, fluffy clouds and some wind to reduce the heat.
Good advice @angelwingssf, however I believe the ‘kid’ may come around whatever her hair condition LOL.
May you have lots of years ahead, and all of them happy ones! 😀
Happy Birthday, dear @Growing Beautifully and to your daughter as well. May this year be especially wonderful for both of you. 💐
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Happy birthday, @GB! May you have a wonderful day and a fantastic new year in your life, full of joy and good luck (and great kdramas, of course😛)💐💐💐
Many thanks my dear @FGB, @Fern, @Phoenix. Your wishes are working!! LOL.
It’s been a good birthday eve, had good food, a nice outing to shop, and I’m having a nice cool bubble tea. The weather held up well, with winds blowing away the rain clouds so that we didn’t even need to take our umbrellas out. A very blessed day!!
@ GB Happy Birthday!!
You have no idea how I enjoy and appreciate your beautiful comments here. May you have a great day and a marvelous year full of happiness.
@ GB Happy Birthday!!
You have no idea how I enjoy and appreciate your beautiful comments here. May you have a great day and a marvelous year full of happiness.
Thanks so much @Kuroshio! What a nice thing to say. It makes me want all the more to make more comments LOL. Have a great weekend and now join us for the party!!
As @Janey said above, we posted our wishes on the Yumi’s Cells thread
@GB Unnie, I do hope your full Bday weekend is lovely so far! <3
It's a pleasure being your twin in the never ending analysis in #DAYS and in so many more… <3
@Cleo Yes, it was so much fun getting both your and my transcriptions up on the same scenes. Similar and yet different views. So interesting.
Happy birthday @GB. Enjoy your day with friends and family.
Thanks @Carolina! I’m having a good weekend, indeed. We missed you at yesterday’s rewatch party. 🙂
@GB Happy birthday!!! It is always lovely to read your comments. 😊 Hope you have a wonderful day. Eat lots of yummy food and watch a good episode!
Thank you very kindly @Viva. What a sweet thing to say. Yes, I’m munching on Cappuccino chocs and Blackforest cake now LOL.
@GB so glad you had a great bday weekend!! I woke up too late on Saturday. Going to jump in this coming week.
Belated birthday wishes, @GB unnie! 🥳 Hope you had lots of cake (love love loveeee blackforest cake ❤️) and chocolates! Wish you a very prosperous year ahead, one filled with good health and happiness 🙂
Thank you @dashman1010. I had a great weekend. I’m getting more cake next week. It’s my son’s birthday and there’ll be his fave choc cake. And for lunch, there’ll possibly be lots of black pepper chicken. Between my daughter’s and son’s birthday, I kind of avoid getting yet another cake. LOL.
Hi dear GB!!
I’m sorry for reading this too late.. 😥
Happy belated birthday for you and your daughter..
May you & your family’s days always filled with blessing, health and happiness 🍀🌷🍀🌷
Wow and your son’s birthday in the next week.. what a great month to eating lots of cakee!
P.S : oh I miss the discussion with you and the rest of bod members, hopefully I could join you all in the near future 🤌🏼
Hello there @moonstar512!! I’ve missed you! Thanks for your lovely wishes. Yes, I’ll happily eat lots of cake.
Whenever you’re freer, do come back and chat with us! Take care!
Hi there, @moonstar512. Just drop in any of the open threads like the “what are you watching?” thread to tell us you’re alive and kicking. 😂 Hope all’s well in your corner of the world.
Black pepper chicken? Is that the same as black pepper steak? 😋 Yummy.
You probably guessed by now that I’m a minimalist cook. 🙂
@pkml3 You can’t be more minimalist than me! For one thing, I’m gonna buy that chicken pre-cooked LOL. But really, I prefer to make do with what’s in the kitchen and with as few ingredients as possible. I go for the simplest recipes I can find among all the recipes of the same dish.
I do not roast my own whole chickens (my oven gave up on me!) but here’s a recipe for the kind of chicken that we like to have now and then. https://recipesaresimple.com/recipe/whole-black-pepper-chicken-roast/
And here’s one from South Asia which sounds easier and something I could do.
http://picturetherecipe.com/recipes/oven-roasted-black-pepper-chicken/
If you try either or both of them, let me know what you think. Cheers!
@Growing Beautifully, I have everything I need for either of those recipes except for the fresh chicken and ginger. Both recipes sound DELICIOUS. Many thanks. I’ll have a go on Sunday.
@GB, the last line of the intro to the second recipe sounds like @Packmule3 could have written it!
Haha, @Welmaris! Did you read the whole article? I just looked at the ingredients.
Catch you later.
@Packmule3, I was skimming through the verbiage on my mobile phone when what seemed a familiar turn of phrase caught my attention: “If you’re icky about the skin too… well then I’m sorry, move on there’s nothing for you here… we can’t be friends 😉.”
😂 Too funny, @Welmaris!! You made me look again and read the WHOLE article. Previously, I only scanned the ingredients because I was going to wing the prep and the cooking.
Admittedly, I WAS going to substitute chicken breast for chicken thighs because I don’t like chicken bones and skin, just like what she wrote. 😂😂
However, unlike some lurkers/readers on here, I wasn’t going to write a screed on her blog and argue with her about the fat and cholesterol in chicken thighs vs breasts. Those are her arteries, not mine. Her business, not mine. Her recipe, not mine. (Besides, I’ve plenty of bad cholesterol from steak. 🥩)
I just took the elements that I liked (and I’m thankful that it’s doable) and skipped the rest. Take it or leave it, like I always say. 🙂
I’m thinking of combining the two recipes: using the spices from the second on a whole roast chicken as in the first recipe. I can’t wait.
LOL @Welmaris …. I agree about sounding like @pkml3.
😂 😃 😋 Ladies, I’m so chuffed that you’re so enthusiastic about the roasted pepper chicken recipes. Yes, they sound do-able (especially the 2nd one) even to me and I’m so excited about @Fern combining the spices of the 2 recipes. Actually, I do believe they will taste great, combined. Do let us know here how it goes if you do roast your chicken ala @Fern, LOL. 😂 😃 😋
Kalimera Ladies!
@GB Unnie, I will try these recipes and I will tell you my thoughts! 🙂
@Packmule3, may I suggest we have a thread where we share recipes?
I find this so very interesting, along with your comments, of course!
@packmule3, please set up a shared recipe thread. It is such a good idea. And just think of the authentic international fare we’d be sharing. Like world peace through food.
Will do when I get home, @Old American Lady. I’m out for lunch at a Vietnamese place. 🙂 It’s packed! I’m waiting for my fried clams for starters and rice vermicelli with pork and shrimp, and an egg roll. Yesterday, when @GB mentioned cilantro, I knew I had to go to Vietnamese today.
@pkml3 Oh no! Now I want to eat Vietnamese too! Not a good idea at 1am in the morning!!!
@packmule3,I love Vietnamese food. In the winter there’s nothing like pho to warm you up. My local place gets a lot of Korean golfers who come for food in lettuce wraps. I also like the flavor of lon grass. Anyway, your lunch sounds great-Bon Appetit.
@Growing Beautifully, I got the chicken and the ginger-garlic paste and made the first recipe of Black Pepper Chicken. I chose that one because bunging a whole chicken in the oven is almost stress-free – the grocery prints the exact time and temperature for the weight of each one on the wrapper. I added a little bit of Worcestershire sauce from the 2nd recipe just for interest. I got the ultimate compliment from my younger (fussy) daughter; she asked when I would cook it again.
Many thanks!
My dear @Fern, I’m delighted that your chicken ala recipe with added Worstershire Sauce went down a treat! Now I’m taking notes on how to tweak and add interest to roast chicken. 🙂
Late to the party, but thanks, @GB for the roasted pepper chicken recipes! 🙂 I just learned how to cook last year (facepalm) so new recipes and creative ways to set off the smoke alarm (lol) are always welcome. There’s a rotisserie about a 10-minute walk away from my place that serves really good black pepper chicken (<3 ), so yay, I'm excited to try make my own. (operative word: try. LOL.) I already know how to make Korean fried chicken (the easy / cheat version) and oven-baked barbecue chicken, but I tried making pineapple chicken once and it was a complete fail. So my chicken batting average is roughly 67%. 🙂
On Vietnamese food, apart from pho, I also love Vietnamese summer rolls. Funnily enough, I think I'm one of those who are genetically unable to tolerate cilantro. And vermicelli! I wonder if they're from the same plant family.
Hi @pandamilktea LOL you’re funny! You’re welcome. Best part is that I hardly cook myself, but I like recipes! 😉
Thanks for the chicken ideas! Now that we are able to eat out in groups of up to 5 (same household people only) I might go grab some Korean Fried Chicken with the family. 🙂
@Growing Beautifully, it’s funny but when I buy cut-up chicken at the supermarkets here, they are always without skin. If I want skin to rub spices onto, I have to buy a whole chicken. One think I used to like to make when I lived in the states was a garlic-rosemary chicken. It involved putting slivers of garlic under the skin and sticking rosemary in as well. Many people like this for lamb, too. With a drizzle of olive oil on top, right? 4 ingredients, including the meat.
Another very simple thing to do with chicken, whole or in bits, is criss-cross it with streaky smoked or unsmoked bacon. It adds a lot of flavour to the sauce as well and the fat can be removed. This is a popular thing to do with chicken or the Christmas turkey in England and simple as can be.
My family really likes chicken. I’m always looking for reasonable simple recipes, too. I really like Spanish chicken, sort of a baked dish flavoured with diced or sliced chorizo and capsicum peppers. Last night I made Jamaican-style jerk chicken for the first time. Not for those who prefer mild flavours. Now I’m hungry and must stop…😋
@Fern
Thank you for so many great ideas on how to roast chicken easily. I’d like to try the garlic and rosemary (over here, rosemary is not commonly used, I feel) recipe and of course the one with bacon. My family likes chicken too, one of the few things that everyone will eat. For anything else, there’s always 1 person who won’t like that meat or vegetable. It’s such a hassle to satisfy everyone! 😉
@Growing Beautifully, I can empathise with trying to please everyone. Sometimes I just give up and don’t make things that my husband and I would like. Of course, then comes the day after the children have supper elsewhere and say, ‘We had (chicken Fajitas, paella, Thai curry – whatever) and it was so good!’ 🤦♀️🤦♂️🤷♀️ I just don’t say anything but cook it after about a week so we can all enjoy it.