The case of a late Mardi Gras

Well...As some of my friends are aware I'm not the best techinal person. So anyways I wanted to add a post last week about Mardi Gras, as Tuesday the 16th, was fat Tuesday and ended the Mardi Gras celebration. Anyways, I've had some camera calamities, but I'm working around that. Anyways most celebrate throughout the month and I'm happy to say that goodhousekeeping.com didn't make any Mardi Gras posts until later in the week. To add a little cajun flare to my menu last week, I fixed a Cajun Jambalaya with cajun sausage with fried okra and bread. Very, very
easy.

The Case of the "Perfect Brownie"

So the "as seen on T.V." Perfect Brownies really work. Here are a couple of pictures provided by a girlfriend who baked me some for Valentines! Thanks Andrea

The case of "Cherry Frosting".....

Ok, so I thought the cherry frosting would a simple task, but leave it up to me to make something that should be easy…hard.

In my married hometown of Dyersburg, TN we have a Christian rehabilitation facility for women called, Transitions. This is a wonderful place for women to go who need help getting their lives back on track with God and with society. This is run solely by donations. Amazing! Anyways, Tomorrow wi11 be there annual bake goods auction, which will raise several thousand dollars. My neighbor, a wonderful lady, is in charge of fundraising so I offered to make a cake. Usually an easy task for me. I had big plans.

I wanted to use a new chocolate cake recipe with cherry frosting. Well I didn’t start this endeavor until after church last night. So at 8:30 last night, my ambition began to wane as a long, hard day began to settle in. So as I went to Kroger and invited a few short cuts. One was the Pillsbury cake mix on sale for $0.99, devils food, by the way. Next I made the mistake of going without an ingredients list for my frosting. All I could remember was sour cream, so I thought well there has to be more to so I’ll get some cream cheese and make due with what I have. Yes I had to make due of course. I ended up mixing two different buttercream icing recipes and coming up with the “masterpiece” above. I’ll admit I’m ashamed to carry this to the bake sale, so I added a little decoration to the cake plate for “viewing
pleasure.”