This is one of my favorite cakes to bake in the summertime. I’m not a huge fan of biscuit based shortcakes, but pairing berries with this deliciously, buttery, moist pound cake is one of the best ways, in my opinion, to sweeten up the summer.
This cake is pretty easy to throw together, and the beauty of it is, it can be made a day or two ahead of when you need it, or frozen for up to a couple of months, and it still tastes perfectly delicious when it’s time to eat.
I love this cake. My husband loves this cake. My children love this cake.
I’m guessing a lot of other people do too, and that’s how it got its name. It certainly is yummy, and it’s a pretty impressive dessert for being so simple to put together. It’s a great dessert for a crowd, or pot luck, because you can make it ahead of time and it actually tastes better the longer you let it hang out in the fridge!
Ah, Aaron’s birthday. It’s that one day a year, when I can look into my dear, sweet husband’s eyes and say, “You’re officially older than I am again. HA!”
And in turn, eight months from now, he’ll enjoy looking at his dear, sweet wife, and saying, “HA! You’re old like me!”
For Aaron’s birthday this year, I decided to throw the birthday cake idea out the window and make something more his speed. I’m a cake kind of person. I love chocolate, rich, cakey kind of desserts. Aaron? He’d much prefer a pie. Ultimately, he loves a good berry pie, so I knew that he’d probably really enjoy this free form raspberry and rhubarb crostata recipe that I’d been eyeing for a while.
I have a St. Patrick’s Day confession to make, and I hope I don’t offend any of my Irish friends. OK, here goes…
I really don’t like Soda Bread.
Soda Bread is a traditional Irish bread that usually makes an appearance or two this time of year. Break out the Irish spirit and Irish food, and Soda Bread will be there. It will be there, but I won’t eat it. It’s just not my thing. Maybe I just haven’t had good Soda Bread, but my experiences (and I’ve tried many) have left me unimpressed, and thirsty. It’s always so darn dry! Maybe it’s the reason so many people drink on St. Patrick’s Day!
Some things, you never outgrow. There’s just something about peanut butter and jelly that comforts, and takes me back to simpler times. It’s not often that I grab a PB&J for lunch now that I’m all grown up. It usually only happens when it’s “that time again” to run to the grocery store because we’re out of everything else. But, when I do have one, it’s always comforting.
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I’ve screwed up.
Despite the TV specials, newspaper articles, ad leakings, endless Brothers Harbaugh interviews and all of the Super Bowl stories that have taken over sports media this week, up until yesterday, I thought that the Super Bowl was NEXT weekend. Oops. It’s not. It’s this Sunday.
I’d meant to devote an entire week on the blog to Game Day Food. Obviously, that’s not going to happen now. I’ll make my brain lapse up to you in upcoming weeks. I promise!
I’ve already confessed to you all in the past that my cookbook collection is out of control. Well, it’s time for another confession. If the thought of finding cookbooks in four rooms of my house gives you the heebie jeebies and makes you think that calling the producers of “Hoarders” might be the next step, then whatever you do, DON’T think about my collection of cooking magazine back issues.
It’s worse.
I’ve kept every back issue of (almost) every cooking magazine I’ve subscribed to over the past eight years. That’s a lot of magazines, and a lot of closet space taken up.
Happy New Year’s Eve!
It’s amazing to think that in just a few short hours, it will be 2013. I JUST got used to writing 2012 on my checks, and now I’m going to have to start all over! This past year certainly did fly by.
I figure I’ll end Chew Nibble Nosh for 2012 on a sweet note, hoping it will inspire a wonderful year ahead for all of us. Also, I figured it might be a good fit since today is, for many people, “The Last Great Pig Out Day of the Holidays Before I Start my Diet”.
It’s that time of year again! It’s time for the Great Food Blogger Cookie Swap!! This is the second year I’ve participated in this fantastically fun baking phenomenon, that was the brainchild Lindsay from Love and Olive Oil and Julie from The Little Kitchen. Last year was a great success, so they decided to do it again for 2012. This year, 575 food bloggers from 8 different countries are participating! In a few days, I’ll be able to pass on a link to you which will link you up to all 575 recipes! One stop cookie recipe shopping!
Oh, the weather outside is…not so frightful. The fire? Not really so delightful. In fact, the weather is terribly un-Christmassy. Does Mother Nature know that it’s December? Does she have any idea that Christmas is just a few short weeks away? I know I probably sound like a big Scrooge to most of you, and those of you who live up north are rolling your eyes at me because you’re enjoying the warm weather you’ve had and think I’m crazy, but I’m having a very hard time getting into the Christmas spirit when I can still break a sweat just walking to my mailbox! Bah Humbug!