there are no calories if you only dream it

Jenn wrote: This [Mac n Cheese] pie recipe came to me in a dream. Looks good to me. Kind of reminds me of one of Giada's recipes for spaghetti pie (Baked Angel Hair with Eggplant). I tried it once with spaghetti squash.  Took forever to bake!

Anyway my own latest food-in-a-dream was something I "saw" and my analytical mind started trying to figure out how it was made, and wonder how it could be cut without crumbling, even though I was still asleep. First, do you know what a Chocolate Lattice is? Now imagine a cake made in a simple bundt pan, no ridges, crowns, tiers, etc. Cut it in half to make two layers. Frost it, also frost the bottom.  Don't worry about it, this is a thought exercise. Now cut it into about eight slices, add frosting between them, and reassemble it into a cake shape. So far so good? Now, magically, replace all the frosting with chocolate lattices, and make the cake itself disappear.  So we have a sort of cage divided into cells, all made of latticed chocolate. That is what I saw.  How would you make it? And how would you cut and serve it? ... surprise me on my birthday

anniv-PI-sary

Happy Pi Day again

Not much to show for a year having gone by.  Ate in some new places, read some more books.
The trip to Cape Charles (in Virginia's "Eastern Shore") was nice (but a long drive).

I still plan to (ie, I had hoped I would have already)
- upgrade to a smart phone
- buy bowling shoes
- post here more often
- discover that I have a few readers

Here are some of the newer eateries (at least for me) that I recommend
CJ Chan at Wilmington & Irving, here in Dayton
Common Grounds coffee shop in Fayetteville, AR
Thai D in Marion, IL

New games, etc
Rory's Story Cubes


ok, go eat some pie

R