Archive for the ‘Food’ Category

An afternoon in the kitchen

One of my favorite parts of the weekend is when Chuck rolls up the sleeves of his dress shirt and works in the kitchen. There is something real sexy about a man in a kitchen!

What is it about cooking that draws people to the kitchen. As soon as the knives are pulled out and [...]

How to make an ALMOST amazing shoe cake

Step 1: Make 1 rectangular cake.

Step 2: Cool the cake and frost it.

Step 3: Bake 1 cake mix into three small loaf pans and put into freezer. The cakes are easier to maneuver when they’re frozen.

Step 4: Make Pudding. I used Butterscotch.

Step 5: Layer two small cakes with butterscotch between them.

Step 6: Use food coloring [...]

Every girl needs a new pair of shoes

I think I’ve mentioned before that Tammy and I exchange birthday cakes. I make her kids’ cakes and she makes my kids theirs. Tomorrow is a birthday party for Tammy’s 2 year old and I’m spending far too much time looking at pictures of cakes on flickr and any other picture sharing website I can [...]

We went international

I’m going to put the nanny phenomena aside for now because I wanted to write about the night Chuck just had at church. The activities committee planned an international food night and asked anyone who wanted to put together a table with food from a different country. Chuck was asked to make things from France, [...]