Ruffle Cake

Growing up my Grandma always made the same cake every year for her birthday. An angel food cake with whipped cream frosting tinted mint green. It wasn't my favorite, not sweet enough. A fact I think I was more than vocal about on several occasions.

 

This weekend I made a cake with mint green frosting for my mother's birthday. I used a butter cream not whipped cream - I still partial to the sweeter frostings. As my family and I sat around the table enjoying our desert we reminisced about Grandma's mint green cake. I would love to be able to try it one more time. I know I would like it now and I would love to be able to tell her that.  

 

 

 

A New Year

Happy New Year!!

I had this big elaborate post all planned out with highlights and photos of the past year. But then I thought every one does that so I'll just skip it this year. (mainly it's January 2nd and I ran out of time, Shh)

Instead I'll share this photo with you.

We went to my big sista's house New Year's Eve and celebrated together by cooking good food and drink good wine. Neither of us has ever made lobster but we thought we would give it a go. AMAZING. It my fist time ever eating it, I've been missing out. It was yummy in my tummy.  

Mr. B manned the grill with his good arm. (That story deserves it's own post. I'll tell you tomorrow!) He made us steak so we could have a surf and turf thing going on.

It was a nice evening in. We stayed to watch the ball drop in Time Square and some horrible lip singing. Then took ourselves home to bed.