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I Live With Hungry People,

so, I make pound cake.

This is the easiest cake EVER. If you like pound cake, you will love this. Trust me.

I’m making it tomorrow. The beauty is that it’ll work for breakfast too.

Pound Cake

3 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/4 cups sugar
3 sticks butter, softened
1/2 C + 1T. milk
5 large eggs
2 t. flavoring of choice (vanilla, almond, lemon — or a mixture)

Preheat your oven to 325. Butter and flour a tube or Bundt pan. Place the ingredients in your standing mixer bowl in the order they are listed. (Note: It is really necessary that you make this in a standing mixer.) Beat at low speed 1 minute. Scrape down sides. Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top of the batter. Bake at 325 for 1 hour and 30 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes on a rack. Invert the cake on to the rack and remove the pan. Cool it completely.

This is great with ice cream or a berry sauce.

Happy Friday, y’all!

I Live With Hungry People,

so, I make pound cake.

This is the easiest cake EVER. If you like pound cake, you will love this. Trust me.

I’m making it tomorrow. The beauty is that it’ll work for breakfast too.

Pound Cake

3 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/4 cups sugar
3 sticks butter, softened
1/2 C + 1T. milk
5 large eggs
2 t. flavoring of choice (vanilla, almond, lemon — or a mixture)

Preheat your oven to 325. Butter and flour a tube or Bundt pan. Place the ingredients in your standing mixer bowl in the order they are listed. (Note: It is really necessary that you make this in a standing mixer.) Beat at low speed 1 minute. Scrape down sides. Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top of the batter. Bake at 325 for 1 hour and 30 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes on a rack. Invert the cake on to the rack and remove the pan. Cool it completely.

This is great with ice cream or a berry sauce.

Happy Friday, y’all!

I Live With Hungry People,

so, I make pound cake.

This is the easiest cake EVER. If you like pound cake, you will love this. Trust me.

I’m making it tomorrow. The beauty is that it’ll work for breakfast too.

Pound Cake

3 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/4 cups sugar
3 sticks butter, softened
1/2 C + 1T. milk
5 large eggs
2 t. flavoring of choice (vanilla, almond, lemon — or a mixture)

Preheat your oven to 325. Butter and flour a tube or Bundt pan. Place the ingredients in your standing mixer bowl in the order they are listed. (Note: It is really necessary that you make this in a standing mixer.) Beat at low speed 1 minute. Scrape down sides. Beat at medium speed for 2 minutes. Pour the batter into the prepared pan and smooth the top of the batter. Bake at 325 for 1 hour and 30 minutes or until a tester comes out clean. Cool in the pan for 10 minutes on a rack. Invert the cake on to the rack and remove the pan. Cool it completely.

This is great with ice cream or a berry sauce.

Happy Friday, y’all!

Yesterday

I saw something awesome.

I was standing in my living room, waiting for J to get himself ready to sing something that we could put on Wacktopia when some motion across the street caught my attention.

Everything was either white or gray out there since we have all this snow and it was overcast, too. So, when a red-tailed hawk dive bombed a red bud tree that just happened to be full of robins it colored up the world significantly when tens of birds exploded out of the tree in near unison, their red breasts suddenly visible. Poor hawk. He got all the neighborhood birds riled up. On a quiet day, suddenly birds were noisily flying everywhere as the hawk, who had landed hard on the icy snow took a moment to fold his wings and take flight for the solitude of a nearby oak.

I think he was embarrassed, maybe. I know that he was disappointed.

Happy snowy Thursday, y’all!

Yesterday

I saw something awesome.

I was standing in my living room, waiting for J to get himself ready to sing something that we could put on Wacktopia when some motion across the street caught my attention.

Everything was either white or gray out there since we have all this snow and it was overcast, too. So, when a red-tailed hawk dive bombed a red bud tree that just happened to be full of robins it colored up the world significantly when tens of birds exploded out of the tree in near unison, their red breasts suddenly visible. Poor hawk. He got all the neighborhood birds riled up. On a quiet day, suddenly birds were noisily flying everywhere as the hawk, who had landed hard on the icy snow took a moment to fold his wings and take flight for the solitude of a nearby oak.

I think he was embarrassed, maybe. I know that he was disappointed.

Happy snowy Thursday, y’all!

Yesterday

I saw something awesome.

I was standing in my living room, waiting for J to get himself ready to sing something that we could put on Wacktopia when some motion across the street caught my attention.

Everything was either white or gray out there since we have all this snow and it was overcast, too. So, when a red-tailed hawk dive bombed a red bud tree that just happened to be full of robins it colored up the world significantly when tens of birds exploded out of the tree in near unison, their red breasts suddenly visible. Poor hawk. He got all the neighborhood birds riled up. On a quiet day, suddenly birds were noisily flying everywhere as the hawk, who had landed hard on the icy snow took a moment to fold his wings and take flight for the solitude of a nearby oak.

I think he was embarrassed, maybe. I know that he was disappointed.

Happy snowy Thursday, y’all!

Instead of Cooking

today like I did all yesterday, I made a little something instead.

This was a fun, short project that I did just with materials I had here. I plan to do something similar with a t-shirt that I love that acquired a tiny bleach stain (how I don’t know, since I don’t even clean with bleach) in a most unfortunate area.

It is a reverse applique t-shirt like fellow Alabamian, Natalie Chanin, teaches in her book, The Alabama Stitch Book.

This was a first try.

I think it turned out well. I might even keep it if it fit me better. The thing is, I’m melted and poured into this medium gap t-shirt. (I think it was mis-sized.) At any rate, it had been packed away for the last few years because it is small and it is a weird, flat apricot color. That might not be a problem for those who tan, but you know that ain’t me.

So, if that size and color sound good to you drop me an email and I’ll send it to you. It might even hang together in the wash.

You never know.

Happy Wednesday, y’all!

Instead of Cooking

today like I did all yesterday, I made a little something instead.

This was a fun, short project that I did just with materials I had here. I plan to do something similar with a t-shirt that I love that acquired a tiny bleach stain (how I don’t know, since I don’t even clean with bleach) in a most unfortunate area.

It is a reverse applique t-shirt like fellow Alabamian, Natalie Chanin, teaches in her book, The Alabama Stitch Book.

This was a first try.

I think it turned out well. I might even keep it if it fit me better. The thing is, I’m melted and poured into this medium gap t-shirt. (I think it was mis-sized.) At any rate, it had been packed away for the last few years because it is small and it is a weird, flat apricot color. That might not be a problem for those who tan, but you know that ain’t me.

So, if that size and color sound good to you drop me an email and I’ll send it to you. It might even hang together in the wash.

You never know.

Happy Wednesday, y’all!

Instead of Cooking

today like I did all yesterday, I made a little something instead.

This was a fun, short project that I did just with materials I had here. I plan to do something similar with a t-shirt that I love that acquired a tiny bleach stain (how I don’t know, since I don’t even clean with bleach) in a most unfortunate area.

It is a reverse applique t-shirt like fellow Alabamian, Natalie Chanin, teaches in her book, The Alabama Stitch Book.

This was a first try.

I think it turned out well. I might even keep it if it fit me better. The thing is, I’m melted and poured into this medium gap t-shirt. (I think it was mis-sized.) At any rate, it had been packed away for the last few years because it is small and it is a weird, flat apricot color. That might not be a problem for those who tan, but you know that ain’t me.

So, if that size and color sound good to you drop me an email and I’ll send it to you. It might even hang together in the wash.

You never know.

Happy Wednesday, y’all!

Bluegrass Music

is a lovely thing. It’s also something that I find myself in the mood for listening to today.

We have ice pellets, y’all, and I don’t like it. This morning I’ve already made browned butter chocolate chip cookies, fried chicken, a double batch of cheddar cheese biscuits, fried up some sausage, cooked bacon — and I’m not done, yet. But I do have quite a messy looking kitchen and so I’m going to listen to some music and get it looking better before I cook some more.

These guys, Trampled By Turtles will be on my listening list, for sure. HearYa calls them a “unique brand of raucous bluegrass” and do they ever nail it.

There is a review of the band on HearYa with a mp3 if you like the song.