B grilled it outside in the middle of February. It didn't look like he was TOO cold. We also had roasted potatoes with rosemary and a salad with baked pears and ginger vinagrette. It was yummy. My contribution was carrot cake. I do not think it was the most successful carrot cake I've ever made, but it was (and continues to be) good. We've been eating it two meals a day (breakfast and dessert.) I also drank a small glass of wine and then Spawn got hiccups (probably unrelated, because he/she gets them all the time when I eat. I think it must be the pressure of the food pushing down. I thought it was funny anyway.)
Yesterday we celebrated my Dad's birthday (Grampy PF) and there was gluten free carrot cake. I mention this for comparison. I will now proceed to analyze the two cakes. I put coconut in my cake. In retrospect, I think that was a mistake. Coconut is kind of stringy and I do not like it much. Grammy's carrot cake had raisins. I will not call that a mistake, because apparently Grampy approved the raisins. It was his birthday cake, so he has that right. However, I do not like raisins in my carrot cake. My cake was very moist (due to the massive amounts of sugar perhaps?) and Grammy's was more fluffy. Grammy's frosting was better. The gluten-free status of the cake is really of no relevance at all, because Grammy's gluten free cakes are as good as regular cakes. The final conclusion is that, in my opinion, the carrot cake ideal lies somewhere between these two cakes. More research and experimentation is necessary.
That is all. Thank you for your attention.
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Well hey, there's me over there under Flickr photos! Hee.
Anyway, this post reminds me that I wanted to ask you for your mom's email address, because she is an awesome gluten-free baker and I now have motivation/inspiration to become one as well. My new boy has celiac, and he also likes cake.
So if you think she'd be willing to share recipes and whatnot, I'd love to talk to her!
(The new furniture is pretty. :) )
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