I've seen recipes for sooking apples on the grill just like that, paperdol. Takes maybe an hour, maybe half that? Depends how cut up they are, I think.
Love msbelle's story of mac's height. Just love.
Everybody plays each other. That's all anybody ever does. We play parts.
Saffron ,'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
-t - Sep 30, 2007 5:24:26 pm PDT #4091 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Matt the Bruins fan - Sep 30, 2007 5:24:54 pm PDT #4092 of 10001
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Brothers & Sisters:
While Kitty was wearing that dress she should have asked the talking mice that come with it to grab that guy's camera phone.
DavidS - Sep 30, 2007 5:31:30 pm PDT #4093 of 10001
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
So on my way driving over to collect JZ at church and go to Matilda's birthday party at her Papou's house, I was going over the cake in my head.
Why did it fall apart? I was focused on the icing, doing two different kinds. Butterscotch for the interior layer and Chocolate on top. But I'd just done Emmett's cake last week and it held together pretty well. Slight breakage but not the total mudslide I had with Matilda's cake. But the recipe was so easy - I just used a mix. Some water, some vegetable oil. I stirred it up and poured out the batter.
And then I realized, all those extra eggs I bought but didn't use.
Yep, cakes made without eggs will not hold.
El Estupido!
When JZ saw the cake she started laughing uncontrollably. Then since she had to carry it in her lap, she'd look down periodically and laugh at the world's most pathetic yet highly chocolatey & butterscotchy cake. She didn't snicker. These were full on belly laughs.
She did that about five times.
And then again when we took it out of the refrigerator to serve. Except that time her dad joined in.
But you know what? Matilda loved it. So there.
It did taste good. Since the bottom layer was so egg-starved it just soaked up all the butterscotch. It was like some fantastically ugly looking British trifle, but with ice cream to make up for the missing richness it tasted good.
They took several pictures of it just to make sure it was immortalized forever.
Matilda received many excruciatingly beautiful and cute items of clothing, none of which will fit her for about six months.
She was in a good mood through the whole proceeding (as is her tendency) and Emmett kept her well entertained.
JenP - Sep 30, 2007 5:37:12 pm PDT #4094 of 10001
Hee. Sounds like a ton of fun, Hec and JZ. Happies to Matilda (I think I'm a little late... but still in time for the party!) Were they digital pictures? Because I really think you should share.
brenda m - Sep 30, 2007 5:46:05 pm PDT #4095 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
Dying to see that cake. I have a few caketastrophes under my belt too, so I can sympathize. And it sounds delish.
Will we get to see chocolate-covered Matilda too?
Kat - Sep 30, 2007 5:54:09 pm PDT #4096 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
oops. at least it tasted good!
Phone call from my mom today was so cute. She was going on and on about how much she missed Noah and how she was going to have to come out and to see him. Then she said, "If you want him to come visit for a long time, I'll fly right out and bring him home with me and you won't have to worry about childcare."
Um. Mom. you live in OHIO. I'm not sure how I feel about you taking my child 2000 miles away. Then I thought of RSV season and day care and considered a month of time with gram and gramp as not such a bad thing in January....
Liese S. - Sep 30, 2007 5:57:43 pm PDT #4097 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Aww! I think it's a total grandmother's prerogative to offer to take their grandchildren. I'm pretty sure my mom offered to keep my sis' kids when they went back to Africa...for three years. Hee. With a toddler and a kindergartener I'm sure she would have regretted that one pretty promptly, but the grandmotherly instinct to keep them close to her was pretty heartfelt.
(Edited to pointedly ignore the giant freakish crab and also to say...
Liese, I think you're approaching non profit wrong.
Yeah, this is possible.)
Kat - Sep 30, 2007 6:00:44 pm PDT #4098 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
But Liese, what if I took her up on that offer. Don't get me wrong. I love Noah to pieces and think he's an adorable and easy going baby (which might be a big giant lie, though his occupational therapist agreed with me!) but he's so much work!
Then again my parents are retired. So who knows. He could be their full time job.
Kat - Sep 30, 2007 6:01:44 pm PDT #4099 of 10001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
HOLY CRAP! I forgot to mention. This week, K was inflating the tire on her motorcycle. I sat on the bike with Noah (while it was stationary, but idling) and put his feet on the gas tank while I held him. Little man's face lit up and he made ooooh face. So cute.
Liese S. - Sep 30, 2007 6:18:03 pm PDT #4100 of 10001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Aww. So cute! Little man's future!
I think it would be perfectly all right, if certainly difficult, for all parties involved if you took her up on the offer. Your mom has been out to visit and I'm pretty sure she's got a good idea of how much work he is. Filtered through grandmother lenses, of course.