YUMMMMM!

Coconut Birthday Cake with 7 minute frosting....made by my sweet Megan...the baker.

I love coconut and my family knows it. I can't wait for Thanksgiving and my mom's coconut cream pie. So, a coconut cake for my birthday was a real treat....and it was a made from scratch....just like my mom used to make...a scratch cake with 7 minute frosting......what a flash back. Megan told me that she needed unsweetened coconut milk for the cake recipe and couldn't find any in the store....so she made it herself. She was so ingenious she went to the Internet and Alton Brown from Food Network told how to make coconut milk at home......it must have been right, the cake was delicious! She also said the making 7 minute frosting for the first time was a real experience....it made her nervous, but when I told her it was the frosting we would use for our graham cracker villages she was calmer, and knew that she was making it right.

YUMMMMM! Just thinking about it I want another piece!

I have set a goal of eating at new restaurants when we go out....not the same old boring. Last week we went to 'Em's' in SLC. It is behind the conference center....It was very good.

Tonight I am looking for something fun for the whole family to enjoy. We are still celebrating my Birthday......a year ago for my birthday was the first time Laurie went out with us as a family..... I am so glad that she is a part of us now.....any way where to eat tonight....we need fast and fun because they also want to go to a movie. I will have to check out the reviews to decide. I love discovering new to me.....I hope it turns out to be a yum!

MCC

Monday's Mumblings

Good weekend....very relaxing and selfish...doing what I wanted to do.
Monday is here and with it SNOW! It is still winter here so I guess that it is okay.
Elder N. Call asked for some snow photos to be sent his way... he didn't say why, but it is summer in the land of the Kiwi's. Elder N. Call is on to his second Aussie companion....They don't know snow, maybe the photos are for his 'snow free' companions. This whole no snow thing got me to thinking again about snow, I love it, and I love all the varieties of weather we experience right here in good old Utah. I understand from Megan that here in Bountiful we didn't even get any snow today...now Layton and Ogden, they got some pretty heavy duty snow...school should have been canceled according to her.
I was telling Elder N. Call that our lives are pretty much the same from week to week... I don't want to become boring and get into any dull ruts...I am going to have to work on changing things up a little more.
This weekend we ate at a completely random restaurant...we were driving and spotted "The Blue Plate Diner" in SLC...Hayden remembered that it was featured on Diners Drive Ins and Dives on the Food network, so we stopped there for dinner...it was decent....their specialty is breakfast and Mexican food...the traditional "blue Plate" fare wasn't bad however. After dinner we were driving north on 15th East in SLC and spotted a few more restaurants that we will have to try out. Change, change,chhaange....
What is with the economy? What happened to just plugging along and doing your best? Living within your means wasn't in most folks vocabulary and now they are asking for a government bail out.....biggest problem with this, is that the governments money, is my money and quite frankly I am not happy with who they are presently giving hand outs to....the wealthy big wigs....I don't mind helping out those who truly are in need, but if you have a mansion and a private jet you need to sell a few of your pricey assets and join the ranks of those living in the real world. Speaking of the bail out/stimulus money....why don't I get a break for paying my mortgage, and other bills and living within my means? Why is it that only the idiots (Richie Rich and Orval Overspend) are getting government help? I will have to cast my Vote differently next election and get try to get someone elected who has a clue on how to wisely spend the peoples money.
I think my mumblings are going to start to be murmurings so I had better quit while I'm a head.
New week, new plans, new resolve....just do it & do it better than before!
MCC