You just forgot to factor in the extra rise that you add to things Angela. ;-)

LOL and thank you kindly.

Oh Martha!

Martha, Martha, Martha.

Ever I saw you as "Her Royal Highness of House-wifery"... my "Majestic Matriarch of Meal Preparation", a veritable "Sultana of Sustenance", an "Empress of All Things Edible".... heck... the very "Dominatrix of Domesticity"!!!

How could she have failed me so? Woe is me!!!

But wait. Could this failure of a recipe been printed as a simple test of my faith?

Oh Martha!!! I should NEVER have doubted you.

Can you find it in your heart to forgive your humble servant?

Angela, please accept my appologeees:
I read this bit

The rhubarb in my garden is growing phenomenally well this year, due to

Then my brain jumped into strange mode and had you disposing of the evidence of some unspeakable act by burying it under the rhubarb patch, which prompted the growth spurt......

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Bob Smith
Member of Seti PIPPS (Pluto is a Planet Protest Society)
Somewhere in the (un)known Universe?

...Then my brain jumped into strange mode and had you disposing of the evidence of some unspeakable act by burying it under the rhubarb patch, which prompted the growth spurt......

I believe all s@h posters, even the most irritating ones (of which, thankfully, there are darn few!), are present and accounted for...

Pardon?!

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Darn you, Martha Stewart!!!

The rhubarb in my garden is growing phenomenally well this year, due to the oddly alternating rain showers and periods of warm weather that we've been having out here this spring. I felt like baking this afternoon and decided to surprise Eric with an upside-down rhubarb cake. I found a good sounding recipe by Martha Stewart on-line.

The recipe called for a 9 inch cake pan with 2 inch sides, which I used.

The cake rose well above the pan sides, there is a layer of melted butter now burnt to the bottom of my oven and my kitchen smells like smoke.

I have a 10 inch cake pan with 2 inch sides. Why didn't Martha tell me to use that pan?

Always line the bottom of your oven with aluminum foil.

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~Sue~

Always line the bottom of your oven with aluminum foil.

Good point, Sue.

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Always line the bottom of your oven with aluminum foil.

Good point, Sue.

Gordon, you got me to looking up what your egg was. Looks tasty.
Proper Scotch Egg

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I just got back from The Irish Rover, which is as authentic an Irish pub as you'll ever get in Kentucky. The owners are from over there, and they've been serving some scrumptious Guinness and Scotch eggs since 1994.

I had my Guinness, and ordered a Scotch egg to go. Just got home. Here's a picture before I've sliced it:

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Eric enjoys drinking Guinness. I enjoy that freaky thing about Guinness in a glass.... the bubbles go down!!!

It's like a beer milkshake. I love it.

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If you want to try another recipe for that rhubarb there's one you might find interesting in the Washington Post.

Beans

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Sweden admits their meatballs are made from a Turkish Recipe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43960739

Sweden admits their meatballs are made from a Turkish Recipe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-trending-43960739

LOL:)
Yes. They do eat meat balls in Turkey.
And in Sweden perhaps even before Swedes knew what Turkey is.
Like in every country that I have been too.
In Italy and France they eat Frikadeller.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frikadeller
In the US hamburger, just different shape and size.

There are millions of recipes for meat balls in the world.
However cabbage rools are perhaps inspired by the Turk cuisine and maybe brought here by King Karl XXII of Sweden.
They resembles like stuffed vine leaves.

Speaking of Turkey, I wish we had a doner kebab shop here in town. Like the ones with the rotating hunk of meat over a spit.

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No kebabs? Strange. Here I think all places that serve pizza also serve kebab.
btw. In the Middle East they have Smörgåsbord like we have as well.
It's called Meze. Only difference between them is that Meze is vegetarian and our have meat dishes.

After talking about our mutual inabilities to cook, my brother and I came up with this recipe one night..

Espresso Pancakes

1/2 carafe of cold coffee
Flour
Baking powder (opt.)

- Preheat a lightly oiled skillet until a drop of water skitters across the surface.
- Pour flour into bowl.
- If desired, add 1/2 spoonful of baking powder and stir in lightly.
- Add enough coffee to form a thick batter. If thinner pancakes are desired add more coffee to make a thinner batter.
- Pour batter into skillet and cook until browned on one side. Flip once and continue cooking until done.
- Serve and eat quickly with remaining coffee (microwaved if desired).

And if this style of cooking is to your taste, you might also like kasha varnishkes

Just had a nice cabbage meal. It was wrapped in crescent roll dough. The crescent roll is like a pie shell around the steamed cabbage, mozzarella cheese, onion and seasoned ground beef filling.

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