Splenda's Applesauce Snacking Cake

Here's the recipe:

(The other day I replaced the applesauce with cranberries)

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp giner
1/2 cup reduced-calorie margarine
1/4 cup molasses
1/2 cup egg substitute
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup Splenda
1/2 cup unsweetened applesauce
350 F spray an 8x8 inch metal cake pan with cooking spray.
combine dry ingredients together, combine wet ingredients together then spread batter evenly into prepared pan and bake for 30 minutes.  Enjoy!

Happy Sober Birth Day Cookie!

What shall I do with this!?

Home made fudge frosting: 1 cube of butter, 1/2 a package of confectioner's sugar, 4 cubes of unsweetened chocolate, 1 can of condensed milk.

I've been a busy fat hobbit!

"What has it got in it's pocketses."

"Is it tasty?  Is it scrumptious?  Is it cruncheable?"

Well, the apron is after Brad & Evan's shopping bags.

Do I need more counter space?

"You think?"

LOL!

My next project will be an apron!

Oops that's what I get for leaving a project too long!

*sigh* I laughed, I guess I can use it this way, either side. Heh!

Banty Chick Pin Cushions and Potholderz

POTABLE, n.  Suitable for drinking:  Water is said to be potable; indeed, some declare it our natural beverage, although even they find it palatable only when suffering from the recurrent disorder know as thirst, for which it is a medicine.  Upon nothing has so great and diligent ingenuity been brought to bear in all ages and in all countries, except the most uncivilized, as upon the invention of substitutes for water.  To hold that this general aversion to that liquid has no basis in the preservative instinct of the race is to be unscientific--and without science we are as the snakes and toads.

Pineapple Upside-Down BIRTHDAY CAKE!

"who doesn't like Birth Day Cake!"

"HAPPY BIRTH  DAY"

"On the day that you were born, the angels got together--

and decided to create a dream come true.

So they sprinkled gold dust in your hair 

and golden star light in your eyes are..."

3-Step Lemon Cheese-cake Bars!

Literally! Easy-peasy-puddin' and pie!  The hard part is waiting for it to chill! (3 hours per recipe)
     I'm postin' my new potholderz too, they're gifts for Son's birthday's this month.  Oldest will be 24 and middle will be 22!  Any prospective fiances' out there?  Heh! Is it asking too much to be a Grandma?  If these Lemon Bars are as tasty as the batter was, maybe I will make them for their birthday brunch.  ;) <3<3

Waldorf Salad for Easter Brunch

Recipe:
Green sour apples, 5 or 6 chopped
     I used Granny Smith, 5
     and 2 fuji's
Celery 7 or 8 chopped stalks
Red seedless grapes or Raisins
     I used grapes cut in half
Walnuts chopped
1/2 cup real mayonaise
1 cup sugar depending on how much you make.

I also tried whipped topping and like the tangy taste of the mayo & sugar better, which is the true recipe anyway, and you can see the fruit.

My Grandma Willson used to make this with fried chicken, of course deviled-eggs and we also had potato-salad.  I never liked Waldorf Salad when I was a kid, (hate celery and walnuts and the apples were sour)  since blogging, I'm collecting our family recipes.

Adams' Curse

The fascination of what's difficult
Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent
Spontaneous joy and natural content
Out of my heart. There's something ails our colt
That must, as if it had not holy blood
Nor on Olympus leaped from cloud to cloud,
Shiver under the lash, strain, sweat and jolt
As though it dragged road-metal. My curse on plays
That have to be set up in fifty ways,
On the day's war with every knave and dolt,
Theatre business, management of men.
I swear before the dawn comes round again
I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt.

A Line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Better go down upon your marrow bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these...

Seamus Heaney

Happy Birthday Patricia 

March 30, 1940

Potholderz & Placemat

VANITY, n.  The tribute of a fool to the worth of the nearest ass.

They say that hens do cackle loudest when 

There's nothing vital in the eggs they've laid;

And there are hens, professing to have made 

A study of mankind, who say that men

Whose business 'tis to drive the tongue or pen

Make the most clamorous fanfaronade

O'er their most worthless work; and I'm afraid

They're not entirely different from the hen.

Lo! The drum-major in his coat of gold,

His blazing breeches and high-towering cap--

Imperiously pompous, grandly bold,

Grim, resolute, an awe-inspiring chap!

Who'd think this gorgeous creature's only virtue

Is that in battle he will never hurt you?

Hannibal Hunsiker.

Exempli gratia

Exempli gratia, mostly known in English-speaking countries by its abbreviation e.g., means for the sake of example in Latin. It's often confused with id est

Fudge For Bear-No they ddidn't!

Too much muscle--no, it's not!
WWW!XXX!iii!

IF STACEY DIDN'T SEE IT-DIDN'T HAPPEY!

Deviled Ham Dip or Spread

for chips or 'Finger sandwiches', appetizers.

Recipe;
2 Cups of minced ham, spam or salmon
3 Tbsp minced onion
1 tsp parsely
1 package cream cheese.  Cut the crusts off th ebread slices, layer with spread as many (3) slices of bread as you like.

Here is the Finger sandwiches with relish and without cream cheese.

Serenades

The Irish nightingale

Is a sedge-warbler,

A little bird with a big voice

Kicking up a racket all night.

Not what you'd expect 

From the musical nation.

I haven't even heard one--

Nor an owl, for that matter.

My serenades have been 

The broken voice of a crow

In a draught or a dream,

The wheeze of bats

Or the ack-ack

Of the tramp corncrake

Lost in a no man's land

Between combines and chemicals.

So fill the bottles, love,

Leave them inside their cots.

And if they do wake us, well,

So would the sedge-warbler.

Seamus Heaney 

Tea & Scones (Moist & Delicious!)

PANDI-Scones

Recipe:

400- 15 to 20 min.

2 cups of Flour
1/4 cup of Sugar
1 Tbsp Baking powder
Opt* Zest of one Lemon (Chris uses 3 lemons)
1/4 tsp salt
4 Tbsp Butter
2 Large Eggs
1/2 Cup heavy cream
3 Tbsp Lemon Yogurt. (I used raspberry greek kind)

http://coffeeworks.blogs.com/coffee_and_tea/2007/01/lemon_cream_sco.html

Spritz Cookies for Saint Patricks Day

Here is the recipe I used, and also the one I suggest to use.
First one:
1 1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter at room temperature
1 cup sugar
1/2 tsp salt
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1 tsp vanilla extract
4 cups all-purpose flour

Second Spritz cookie recipe:
1 cup (2 sticks) unsalted butter, softened
1 1/2 cups granulated sugar
1 egg
1 1/2 tsp clear vanilla extract
1/2 tsp no-color Almond extract
2 3/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 tsp baking powder
1 tsp salt.

Good Grips!

I even like the name!
Greenhouse (my apartment addiction)
Saint Patty's Day!

Applesauce Coffee Cake

Recipe:
1 1/3 cups unsifted all-purpose flour
1 cup sugar
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/2 tsp allspice
1/2 tsp nutmeg
1/3 cup cooking oil
1 egg
1 cup canned applesauce
1/2 cup chopped pitted dates
1/2 cup saisins
1/2 cup chopped nuts
pour into 12x8x2 in. MICROWAVEABLE dish which has been greased on bottom only.  Microwave at high 10 to 12 minutes. I  you don't have a microwaveable dish like me, bake at 350' for 10 to 15 min. then microwave till a toothpick comes out clean.  I used cream-cheese-butter frosting.

Tea and Shooters

Language, n.  The music with which we charm the serpents gaurding another's treasure.