Hmm well!

Will make appointments today to see optometrist and dentist, though I should make appt at dentist for spouse too. I have a tooth that's been slowly chipping away (in the back) and it needs a crown, but even with 'blue chip' insurance I have to pay $180 out, well, better than loosing a tooth I suppose.

And I've really needed new eyeglasses for four years.

I also need a new kitchen sink, and a new stove, and brakes fixed on car. Never ends.

This puts off buying Nemuri goods, ne?

Laundry day and grocery day too, so I should peruse some fic before kids get up for school.

Hope you have a great Tuesday!

Do you guys want a tutorial

On making the cake? I took pics as I worked. I can also show the other cakes I've made.

We Miss You Jane

Jane Russell, one of my favorite movie stars from the 50's, from Bemiji Minnesota, passed away at age 89 beautiful, brainy, witty, a talented singer with a statuesque curvy figure, best remembered for the films The Outlaw and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Russell

National Pancake Day

and also National Peanut Butter Lover's Day.

PEANUT BUTTER PANCAKES

1 cup all-purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons granulated sugar
1 egg
1 cup milk
1/2 cup creamy peanut butter, melted in microwave
2 tablespoons oil

destructions
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Cake Decorating Tips and working with Modeling Chocolate

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1. When baking a cake from a mix, instead of adding oil, melt vegetable shortening, allow to cool and mix in with cake, this will give the cake a denser texture, so it won't rip apart when you go to frost.

2. Freeze a cake before decorating. This helps when you go to level off a cake, taking off the domes produced in baking.

3. Cakes can be stored in freezer with frosting either a crumb coat or fully frosted, allow buttercream to set first. Wrap frosted or unfrosted cakes in plastic wrap, then in tinfoil, sealing edges.

4. Thawing a cake only takes about 15 min - 1/2 hour at most. Leave in wrappings until you are ready to decorate.

5. Do not freeze cakes covered in fondant.

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Weather With You

One of my fave singer songwriters, Neil Finn (Crowded House, Split Endz, Finn Brothers)