Giada’s birthday party was nice, just family. We were about an hour late on the food because we make panko fried green beans and asparagus. While they tasted great they took forever because we had to do them in batches. My cake looked fantastic but mixed reviews on taste. I thought it was ok. Giada just wanted the icing. Brad made his Gumbo but due to the red tide it didn’t have any oysters. We tried to substitute crab legs – they were great and everyone got messy pulling them out of the Gumbo and cracking them for the meat but it got shell in the gumbo – so mixed success there as well. But All in All pretty good.