Little Victories

I have a sweet tooth, but cake is an exceptional weakness for me.

I think it started when I was a child when my mother never bought me a cake for my birthday; we always had a pie instead. She claimed that nobody liked cake, so we went with pie. I liked it, and couldn't understand why I was denied this on my birthday. Nowadays I grab one whenever everyone's outta the house for a while. (I'm greedy sometimes, and don't always like to share when it comes to cake.)

 

I apologize for the major thread hijack. This touched a nerve.

Do not get me started
on my mother baking pretty much ONLY peanut butter cookies
because that's what my father liked.
--'Something smells great, Mom baked cookies! What? Peanut fucking butter cookies AGAIN?'--.

To be fair to mom, a very complicated two faced person, she baked pies & cakes. And I should be thankful I had a father who took care of his family...the best he could in his limited cognitive capacity way.

I now have an addictive sweet tooth. For relative ease to make (homemade), apple pie with fresh apples & reduced sugar, esp over the sweet gooey apple pies most stores make*. For very complicated to make (homemade), carrot cake made the old fashioned way, meaning each of the three cakes is glazed in butter & sugar glaze.

* Sam's Club does an apple pie that is much better than the standard store made apple pie. It's not my wife's homemade, but not bad.

 

I will likely start a thread about desserts in the Food Table this weekend.

And just to bring the thread back on-topic, I still have cake!!!

 

I miss leafy green vegetables. They cause kidney stones, so I cannot have them at all. There are days when I would kill for a salad.

Copious amounts of cake help ease the pain, however.

 

Eat carrot cake, it qualifies as health food .

I actually have relatives who used to turn down carrot cakes because of the carrots .

 

I want this in August!!

 

Make sure you have plenty of ice cream because

that piece of cake will be very dry by August.

 

Bold of you to assume it's still around.

This pretty much happened last week to the last slice:

 

You seriously think I didn't know that bit of cake was a goner? I have a major sweet tooth.

I should probably monitor my sugar-blood level.