No real time to post. We had an interesting week of birthdays, deaths, Urgent Care visits(my ankle again) and trying not to melt. I dug this cake up out of my archives(which after I post this, there is nothing left in the archives...yikes). I was most interested in this cake because you have to boil the oranges and lemon for an hour. Not something I do on a regular basis. Also if you make this, make sure you have enough almond meal. I didn't pay attention to how much it needed(luckily I had enough) and it wiped me out of my whole bag. What you get in return is a lovely citrus scented cake that is crispy on the outside and super moist on the inside. The recipe calls for melting apricot jam and glazing the cake when done, I didn't do that. Just plain old whipped cream and some lemon zest did the job quite nicely. I promise to get a real post up sometime this week. Till then, have a great week and keep cool. Orange Almond Cakes unsalted butter, for greasing 2 oranges 1 … [Read more...]

The calender has turned over a new year but that is not the big turnover in my life. Hockey. Yes, that is right, you thought you had escaped hockey talk now that Summer was here, but no. My favorite player became an unrestricted free agent. What does that mean? That means he gets to pick whatever team he wants to go to that offers him the best deal...starting July 1st. I knew he would not remain a Buffalo Sabre and had actually braced myself that he would be a rumored Montreal Canadian(Ivonne and I were not in favor of this)...rumored so much that I signed up to take the second session of conversational French this Summer. Over half of the broadcast for Montreal are of course in French. And well, after having 10 years of Spanish in school, my French is down right horrible and not recognizable as the French language. Yes, everything was all set in my mind...and then I read TSN.com. My beloved player, Daniel Briere, is now a Philadelphia Flyer. Ugh. What? This was so not where I was … [Read more...]