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cake and anniversaries
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ptor and my third wedding anniversary today (well, yesterday now). catzen babysat tonight so we could have a dinner out by ourselves. It was quite nice. I had a very nice risotto that included asparagus, carrots, zucchini and mushrooms. ptor had the gnocchi which was excellent as always. After dinner we took a short sunset walk out at Coyote Hills and spotted a dear and too many mosquitoes. I baked a cake for us today and it turned out well. I used this recipe for Wacky Cake and was pleased with it, partly because it was damned quick to put together. My bigger accomplishment was that I made my own frosting for the first time ever. I am kind of embarassed now that I know how damed easy it is to make a buttercream frosting. I just have never baked all that much so I didn't really know. Anyhow, I was very pleased with how the frosting came out but I should have checked the yield as I wound up with enough for 2-3 cakes so now I have a conatiner full of extra frosting. It was fun to see the ingredients go from a motley mess that I was sure was going to fail to something that suddenly looked and tasted that real frosting. Anyhow, we all had cake after we got home from dinner and S. was a huge fan. In fact, he is a little obsessed by cake right now.
It was a nice and quiet anniversary. Three years ago we had just gotten married and spent the night in a hotel in Jack London Square and would be soon off to Alaska for our honeymoon. Two years ago I was really damned pregnant and we went to Half Moon Bay for the weekend. On the night of our anniversary we saw Savion Glover perform in the city then we went out to dinner at Il Fornaio. Last year we were in Oregon with S. in tow and we spent the day at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland then drove to Eugene for the night where we had a wonderful dinner out and I has some of the best fresh pasta of my life. It has been a wonderful and crazy three years and I am very, very happy.
ptor and my third wedding anniversary today (well, yesterday now). catzen babysat tonight so we could have a dinner out by ourselves. It was quite nice. I had a very nice risotto that included asparagus, carrots, zucchini and mushrooms. ptor had the gnocchi which was excellent as always. After dinner we took a short sunset walk out at Coyote Hills and spotted a dear and too many mosquitoes. I baked a cake for us today and it turned out well. I used this recipe for Wacky Cake and was pleased with it, partly because it was damned quick to put together. My bigger accomplishment was that I made my own frosting for the first time ever. I am kind of embarassed now that I know how damed easy it is to make a buttercream frosting. I just have never baked all that much so I didn't really know. Anyhow, I was very pleased with how the frosting came out but I should have checked the yield as I wound up with enough for 2-3 cakes so now I have a conatiner full of extra frosting. It was fun to see the ingredients go from a motley mess that I was sure was going to fail to something that suddenly looked and tasted that real frosting. Anyhow, we all had cake after we got home from dinner and S. was a huge fan. In fact, he is a little obsessed by cake right now.It was a nice and quiet anniversary. Three years ago we had just gotten married and spent the night in a hotel in Jack London Square and would be soon off to Alaska for our honeymoon. Two years ago I was really damned pregnant and we went to Half Moon Bay for the weekend. On the night of our anniversary we saw Savion Glover perform in the city then we went out to dinner at Il Fornaio. Last year we were in Oregon with S. in tow and we spent the day at the International Rose Test Garden in Portland then drove to Eugene for the night where we had a wonderful dinner out and I has some of the best fresh pasta of my life. It has been a wonderful and crazy three years and I am very, very happy.
