I mentioned that I recently made cheesecake bars for my mom (and me) for work. This was a recipe I ran across a number of weeks ago in the coupon section of the paper, accompanying a coupon for Hershey's brand pudding mixes and Jolly Rancher gelatins. These bars mixed gelatin and cheesecake. Originally I was going to make them for my birthday, ( Read more... )

The cold seems to be diminishing, thankfully. I've been weaning myself off the cold meds, though I ended up taking some last night because I woke up after only an hour thanks to a coughing fit. My appetite is coming back, too, which is good and bad; I never mind losing a couple pounds due to sickness-induced lack of eating. Granted, my parents ( Read more... )

(Because if the day before something is the eve, then the day after must be ( Read more... )

As of eight o'clock this morning, I am officially old plus two ( Read more... )

( Food--Cake )

I am highly amused by benchilada's roll call. If you've never perused his journal, you should. If you've perused and never commented, do so now. Although approximately half of you actually *know* him, so this is probably unnecessary. But you should say Hi anyway ( Read more... )

Today is my mom's birthday. She turned 52. As tends to be tradition, we went out to eat. And, just like her 50th, she had something to drink. Mom's not quite like me--she will imbibe every so often--but it doesn't take much for her to get a buzz. Tonight she got an espresso martini (though the receipt said mudslide martini-?) and drank maybe ( Read more... )