And Now, A Word From My Mother.

There are 5 things in life you cannot recover.


A stone...after it's thrown. 


A word...after it is said. 


An occasion...after it's missed. 


Time...after it's gone. 


A person...after they die.


Life is short. Break the rules. Forgive quickly. Kiss slowly. Love truly. 


Laugh uncontrollably; And never regret anything that made you smile, Enjoy Life!!! 




Okay, so I actually stole it from her facebook page, which means she stole it from somebody else.  But it's still a good one.  


Speaking of recovery, here's a story about cake:

So say you have been asked to bake a cake for your friend's husband's birthday.  A chocolate peanut butter cake, to be exact.  As usual, you start baking way too late at night, which means it's too early in the morning by the time you get around to frosting it.  

The ganache doesn't drip over the peanut butter frosting in the most artistic way, so you decide to coat the whole thing in ganache.  Now, at this point you are really tired, and you are starting to think crazy things.  Like, perhaps you should try to write on the cake.  Nevermind the fact that, at your best, you have horrible hand writing.  Nope, you just go for it.  And guess what?  It looks awful.  

You try to correct it and it looks worse.  You accidentally bump the ganache when you put it in the box, now it looks even worse.  You give up, throw in the towel and go to bed.  Who cares what the handwriting looks like anyway?  It will still taste good. 




Except, you wake up a few hours later to the realization that this cake wasn't just for the husband.  it's for his friend's birthday, too.  There's no way to add another name to the cake.  Time for plan B. 

You scrape off the name, and start to panic.  Can you pour ganache over ganache?  You'd probably still see the indentations of the letters on the cake.  What to do?  

Pile it high with shaved chocolate...

...And then send your husband to the gas station down the street to buy out their supply of peanut butter cups.  

Problem solved.  You're feeling like you may just have recovered from your own cake wreck.

Now, get your game face on, because it's time to make a batch of marshmallows and bake a tres leches cake.  

(They totally become health food if you package them in a salad container)