Pot & Cover

its actually the day before Madi's 6th bday. we're at Nana & Papa's house with the whole family...but missing Papa who's on the road. I think Madi had a great day...she's so precious and we had lots of good fun. I made a chocolate cake per her request...with a hint of mint and Mikey & Amanda ordered pizza for all. Uncle Erich got lots of decorations and Nana supplied lots of presents as always...you can always count on Nana for lots of presents! Chocolate Cake with Mint Cream Cheese frosting...box devils food cake mix...Duncan Hines, with Sprinkles Cream Cheese frosting with added melted chocolate and mint extract....decorations per sisa. Happy Birthday Madison!

2.3.10 Stuffed Pork Chops...mushrooms, cheese (not sure what kind), bacon...roasted taters, & mushrooms 2.11.10...snow day! all gone!...I think we had chix?  not sure cause it was so good there was very little evidence!  Scott made a mushroom, carmelized cream sauce that was delicious...and sliced roasted tater "chips" Toffee!  for Valentines...never had a chance for Christmas, so I made heart day toffee & heart suckers...so cute..and DELICIOUS! given as gifts to our loved ones for Valentines 2.14.10  Happy Valentines Day...Mac N Cheese & Cake! my army of ingredients...cheese, broccoli, chix, bacon, mushrooms, pasta, cream, butter, bread crumbs & freshly ground pepper & nutmeg lots of leftovers for lunches! yellow cake w choc cream cheese frosting with mini choc chips YUM!..the guys at work got the rest of this...oh I wish I had some now!  This was a wonderful Valentines day...Napoli's the night before...and the whole day together today. 2.17...

its our 17th anniversary of the day scott asked me to marry him...in the sierra nevada mountains, by a stream...he sang to me and the rest is history. on our first wedding anniversary, we went out to the lake in Texarkana, stayed in a trailer on the lake, with all the dogs and fished...trot-lined for catfish, specifically, with jerry, scott's daddy. he had all the lines strung and baited so all we had to do was go out and get the fish...so fun, then we had a huge fish fry with all of jerry's huge family...the baby of 11 kids...so tonight in honor of that trip, scott made fried catfish, hushpuppies, fries and a yellow cake with chocolate cream cheese frosting....and i really must go work out again tomorrow! Cake: Make a box yellow cake, duncan hines is my favorite and frost it with this: 8 oz cream cheese, softened 4oz butter (1/2 stick) softened 4 cups sifted powdered sugar 1/8 tsp salt 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 cup cocoa powder (or a few oz melted, cooled dark chocolate, like ghirrad...