Food For Thought

Ok Go – White Knuckles

So there was this one time, when my nieces turned six, six, and four.  Yes, there are twins, but I feel like I’ve mentioned that before, so there’s no need to beat around that old bush.  On top of the graduation from Kindergarten (which was hilarious, and fantastic – there was multilingual singing!!) Alex and Abby, the twins, were inexplicably excited to start 1^st grade.  Abby, while playing with me one day over the summer, said to me, “I can’t wait to be 6! I get to go to school all day and even eat lunch there!!”

Enjoy the enthusiasm while it lasts – you’ll be in school for at least the next 12 years.

More exciting news – Mom and Dad have been doing Weight Watchers, both intentionally and otherwise since last October, and Mom is down nearly 40 pounds!!  In trying to keep said weight off, any chance she gets to throw a recipe at me and say, “make it healthy” she takes.  This time was no different.

Some people have birthday cakes that are traditional white or yellow cakes, with regular vanilla frosting – others have intensely chocolate cakes with fruit thrown in for some dimension and color – and other yet (this includes me) ask for a mixture of pudding and cookie crumbs playfully displayed in a large flower pot with gummy worms poking out the top.  I love Dirt Cake.  I wanted to take the traditional birthday cake, and make it healthier than the pounds of butter and sugar that tend to go into those fantastic once a year (yeah, right) little bundles of joy.  I also had to make sure to avoid nuts at all costs, the young’uns are allergic.
More after the Jump >>

Hey!!  It worked!!

Foodie Blog has a new home!!  I’ll be moving old recipes over here and **hopefully** adding some new ones when I get a chance.  I’m not going to promise anything, because we all know how that goes. (thatonetimewhenItriedNaBloPoMohahaoops)

Hooray!!  Stay tuned.   This excites me, almost to the point that I want to post now, but sleep is calling.