Celebrate we will, cause life is short but sweet for certain...

Today is my Mom's 51st birthday, and in celebration, I decided to cook her an amazing meal because food is absolutely the way to her heart.  The late, great Julie Child once said "You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food, from fresh ingredients."

Today's menu consisted of a spinach and mango salad with homemade mango vinaigrette, grilled chicken breast in a citrus marinade with a side dish of Israeli couscous with asparagus, sugar snap peas, and peas in a lemon garlic sauce.  For dessert, red velvet cupcakes with vanilla cream icing (Magnolia Bakery's recipe).

As promised, here are photos :o) (Recipes will come when I figure out how to put a recipe tab in this blog)