October is a big birthday month around the Gray place, and Thursday it was Kim's turn to be the birthday boy.

I made the traditional Gray family favorite jelly cake (the sweetest rot-your-teeth concoction known to mankind!) and cooked up a big country dinner which 12 of us shared together.

When I asked Kim what he wanted for his birthday dinner, he said it didn't matter as long as it involved potatoes.  So potatoes he got...along with baked chicken, dumplings, homemade rolls, and corn.