Hard to believe it, George turned 49 on April 2. I'll tell you a secret to always feeling young: marry a guy 11 years older than you! Even so, I always say he has more energy than me anyday, and looks pretty darn good too.We celebrated his special day over two days (actually, going into his dad's birthday on April 3) because there was just too.much.food to be eaten. On The Day he came home from school/work with half a Key Lime Pie from Florida that a fellow teacher had brought him. So naturally, we all had to have a piece of that right away. Never mind the banana cake I'd just taken from the oven. That evening, we sat the kids in front of the electronic babysitter with the just-released on DVD "Alvin and the Chipmunks" in the player and homemade pizza on their plates. And we took off for a date! The first in oh, how many months? At least six.
First "I" took George (he paid) out to McCann's, a newish pub in town for a beer. Our neighbor Chris is the brewer at the pub and we've been wanting to get there for months. After a plate of french fries, a sample platter of 2 oz. beers and one 16 ouncer later (beer all on George's part; I had a Pepsi), we were ready to eat. So then we went to Asian House, a hole-in-the-wall restaurant I'd recently discovered out with the neighbor ladies. More food! There we shared the Mieng Lao platter and fried tofu with black bean sauce. Yum! This place is very authentic with none of the usual Chinese restaurant "funny stuff" like MSG.
Did we have room for the banana cake after that? No way! So, we ate that yesterday after dinner. It was possibly even better the next day! The recipe is from the Fannie Farmer Cookbook, the staple cookbook in our house.
I made it, really I did!
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