Happy Birthday Abigail!

When we were in Portland we enjoyed going to Pho' Van in Northeast Portland. The Pho' (rhymes with duh) was one of Abigail's all time favorites. It's a seemingly simple soup of rice noodles and beef broth with your choice of different kinds of meat. You could doctor it up with sprouts, basil, lime, red chili sauce or hosin sauce if you so desire. Yummmy. Since moving to Alley Bammy we haven't had any due to the lack of Vietnamese restaurants. Brian and I decided it would be a nifty treat to make for Abigail's birthday dinner. We did a portion of our shopping online because some of the ingredients were not available here in the wiregrass. It took the online shopping and a special order from the Winn Dixie but we got everything we needed to make our Pho'...

6lbs of marrow bones.


Some of our online purchase.


Charred onions and ginger.


Other miscellaneous odds and ends.


Beef.


After hours of simmering and straining.


We've got Pho'!


And this face made it the best Pho' we've ever had!


Other random pictures I wanted to share.

Brian got me these for my birthday. I love that it's October and they are still blooming!




This one was for Mother's Day...the flower not the stink bug.


The mighty Korduroy.