I know, I know...I already posted about Livestrong Day, but it's my blog and I can do what I want...so there! :) When we were in a bit of stress I tried to make life a little better for my hubby. He loves yellow cake with chocolate frosting. Unfortunately, he likes box cake and frosting from a can(vomit). I do, on his birthday make him cake from a box but I just can not do the frosting. Which he is now fine with because he likes mine better(thank God). But he wasn't getting box cake this time. So I baked two types of cake, one he would eat and one I would want to eat. I made an apple cinnamon with caramel frosting for me and a banana chocolate frosting one for him. One recipe two ways. Then I noticed...hey, it's yellow. I could do another Livestrong post, so I will. Again, I can not point out how great I think this event is. Not only is my mother a cancer survivor, so are my 2 aunts, my mother-in-law and many of my mom's friends. Sadly my mom's best friend died a little over a year … [Read more...]
Round Three….
Well it was a good hockey weekend all around. Both the Sabres and my hockey team won. The Sabres advance on to the Easter Conference Finals to face their nemesis the Ottawa Senators. I have two days not to stress and then it all starts up again. As for my own team we won the tournament...I have a little medal and a whole lot of aches, pains and bruises to show for it. I comforted my pain with some pain killers and strawberry shortcake...a winning combination :) When I was little, my poor mom would always try to get the family to eat strawberry shortcake her way...with biscuits. But we would have nothing of it. We wanted those little round sponge cakes that they always sold by the strawberries themselves. So she would serve both kinds. It was not until we went visiting relatives that I had my first biscuit shortcake. It was at my aunt's house. When I heard she was making shortcake I was very excited...and then she put the biscuit out. Ugh. It was in front of me now so I had no choice … [Read more...]
Death By Hockey
Hockey is trying to kill me two ways. First off the Sabres are trying to kill me by giving me a heart attack. They allowed the Rangers to tie up the series 2-2(bastards) and tonight they waited until 7 seconds left in the game to score to force it to overtime...and then winning in overtime. So not good for my heart. The other way hockey is killing me is my own fault. I am in a tournament this weekend. There is nothing like a hockey tournament to remind me how fat, lazy and old I am. Ugh. Why do I willingly pay to play a whole bunch of games over just a couple of game? A glutten for punishment no doubt. At least we have won our first two games. I showed you that wonderful cider walnut bread that I love so much but I also needed to find a bread that my husband would eat too. He is a Wonder bread man...yuck. So I had to find a bread that was more white flour than wheat flour as to trick him into eating better bread. The trick worked however :) He gladly ate this bread and never even … [Read more...]
Come what MAY….
May. It used to be one of my favorite months. That was when I was a teacher. For May is the last month of school in Arizona. No matter how much you loved your teaching job, every teacher by this time was more than ready for the Summer to start. So now that I don't teach school anymore, May simply means Summer is coming...and well if you are new to my blog and didn't read last Summer you don't know...I hate Summer. I am a Fall/Winter gal through and through. I don't crave the warmth, the bugs, the crowds of people mass exiting on the highway each Friday and most importantly the food(I am allergic to a lot of Summer produce). As I flipped the calender page over I let out a sad little sigh, knowing that I will have to wait around until September for my beloved Fall to come. I rarely bake bread in the Summer. Though our Summer in the Pacific North West are very mild compared to Arizona, we don't have air conditioning(most residential places don't) and so it can become quite unpleasant. So … [Read more...]
