4 posts tagged “birthday”

    My son has been saving his money and his birthday is in about a week or so. He will have enough to get one of these devices.

    I'm saying Wii because they are so popular right now, so many new and neat things are available for them, and they are so much more interactive than an XBox 360.

    The other half is saying XBox 360 because he likes the graphics better and my son could play his Xbox games on it (we're keeping the Xbox also so its not like the games are obsolete).

    Now, since my son is the age he is, I can easily steer him to one or the other. I'm just really liking the possibilities of Wii but we've never played either one.

I would LOVE any opinions on this!!!! Which is best in your mind?

1 pkg Angel Food Cake
1 pkg 3 ½ oz sugar free instant vanilla pudding
2 c. milk
1 8 oz carton cool whip
1 pint fresh strawberries, washed and hulled

Trim brown from cake. Tear cake into small pieces. Prepare pudding as directed using
skim milk. Fold in Cook Whip. Place 1/3 cake pieces into bowl. Top with 1/3 pudding
mixture, ½ strawberries (sliced), 1/3 cake pieces, 1/3 pudding mixture, then remaining
strawberry slices (saving one for garnish), remaining cake, and remaining pudding
mixture. Garnish with strawberry. Refrigerate for at least 4 hours before serving.

Honest, it was not my intent to have a blog solely of recipes. I mean, there ARE other things in life that are important....aren't there?
lol
Last night was DH's birthday so we went to my mothers where she and my grandmother had prepared a special dinner. I have come to the conclusion that vegetarians and health food nuts became that way due to lack of decent food being available. They would have never been that way had they lived in the south!
For a birthday dinner for six, the matriarchs prepared:

Slow cooked pork roast
Cooked carrots
Brussel sprouts in butter sauce
Homemade macaroni and cheese
Mashed potatoes (my grandmother makes THE BEST mashed potatoes)
Corn
Rolls
Strawberry punch bowl cake (DH's favorite birthday treat)
Green jello with pineapple in it (this was done specifically for me, i swear its my equivalent of caviar for some reason. I developed an addiction to it in the cafeteria back in my college days).

Whats bad is, as I'm typing this up I'm thinking in my head "I know there was more food than that, was that ALL we had?". Needless to say, there were leftovers galore, which my mother sent home with me. Honest to God, I won't have to cook this entire weekend.....

I saw these on another blog and decided to make them, here is the original link:

http://lucyzhang.vox.com/library/post/cake-truffles.html

They are simply divine and really much easier to make than I expected!
I did mine a little differently from hers (coz I'm always in a hurry!) so I'm going to post what I did here :)

Cake Truffles!
Confetti cake (made from mix, cooked according to directions on box. Hers were so pretty so I wanted mine                       to look the same, lol!)
Homemade buttercream icing (ONLY Half of that recipe!)
White almond bark

Cool cake and crumple it with your hands into a dishpan or large bowl. There is no need to be delicate here, we're just going to moosh it up later. Pour buttercream icing into the bowl and mix it well with your hands. The consistency will resemble uncooked cornbread dressing. Place contents in a large ziplock bag and cut the tip off. Pip onto a waxed paper lined cookie sheet in truffle shapes, approximately one to one and a half inch balls. Freeze until hard, several hours.

In microwave, melt almond bark according to package directions. Using two spoons, dip each truffle into the chocolate and coat well. Let dry on same wax lined cookie sheet. Store in freezer for longer term or on counter top to eat within the week.