
Birthday Cake No. 2 And A Shout-Out To Mary Miller Wherever You Are!
So like I said in my last post – I made Nico TWO cakes for his birthday. The second one was this carrot cake. Very basic – most basic. No raisins. No currants. No pineapple.

So like I said in my last post – I made Nico TWO cakes for his birthday. The second one was this carrot cake. Very basic – most basic. No raisins. No currants. No pineapple.

It was Nico’s birthday and he came home from San Francisco to celebrate with his folks. They (Pablo and Mary) invited us to celebrate with them. I said I’d make the cake (I love making cake) and so I did.

So, like I said, we were in Oregon, at Susy’s and Barry’s place on the Rogue River and they have this fabulous garden and I mean that – it’s truly fabulous and abundant and absolutely full of

It’s a fishing term – “the Salmon are running.” I think that’s what they were doing when we were in Oregon. On the night that I cooked dinner I asked Barry if he could get the freshest, wildest

We just got back from a vacation to Oregon. Wow. It was perfect and I’m telling you – those Oregonians

My big brother Eric is in town from Portland, Oregon – with his wife Annie and two of his three children. Also, my other brother-from-another-mother (my brother’s BFF), Danny is in town