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While I fussed around with a new plum cake recipe (second in a week) we forged the cupboard for snacks. Friday night.
Anyway I found a plum upside-down cake for a spring-form pan and had visions of making the perfect crimson spiral sunburst of glazed, sliced plums on top. That took a lot of fooling around and supper got overlooked. But I sliced and sized and assorted until I had everything fitting to my satisfaction.
I wanted my cake to be a little taller than the last effort so I increased the batter by a third and adjusted the baking time.
It came out so pretty that I took a picture for you all and will ask DH to put it in my pix tomorrow morning to share.
What fun I had! Now the only thing missing approval is how it tastes but I'm letting it sit overnight to "age." Willpower.
On top of the cashews I had earlier I am eating a bowl of huge, juicy green grapes and a sliced Persian yellow melon and that's my evening meal tonight.
We are having our 9 plus year old great granddaughter spend the night with us. Her parents are going out of town, and our daughter will have the baby sitting duties, but she too is out of town just today. We are taking Abby to dinner; her favorite is Mexican and we have a very good little Mexican restaurant close. Of course she won't even get here until after her soccer tournament which means a pretty late dinner. By the time we get home it may be bed time. If not for her, for her great grandma.
I actually got a compliment about my chili con carne yesterday Beef, onion, garden chilies, spices.
Mashed potatoes with garlic chives, green cabbage, grilled chicken, mixed green salad, sippin' bourbon and a cookie. I came across an old favorite Southern Living Tea Cookies. not sweet, a perfect crunchy little bite.
I'm going to try my hand at what I'm calling Totally Faux Pho.
My friend gave me two cans of Pho broth, which I may have to stretch with chicken broth or water. I have some cheap boneless steak I'm going to cut into thin strips, fresh holy basil, garlic chives, and daikon greens from neighborhood farm. Mushrooms from the store. I will separately prepare my thin rice noodles and serve them with the soup. Wish me luck, I'm not sure what I'm doing here..
Tonight it's homemade Italian subs. For dessert I am baking spice cupcakes with cream cheese frosting.
I am not that good at baking. Hopefully these go smoothly. Luckily my husband is home to supervise me! He is a thousand times better at baking.
ground up a chuck roast to make a meatloaf out of for tonight, plus corn on the cob (the farmer said that next week is the end of corn for the season here) and okra.
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Beef, onion, garden chilies, spices.
