Posts Tagged ‘dessert’
Overload Warning
Cyndie and I finally got around to accomplishing a dinner date we had talked about way back at the beginning of the month, around the time of her birthday. Now my birthday has come and gone, and last night we made it down to our nearby fine dining destination restaurant, Shady Grove, to celebrate.
Despite my usual habit of choosing fish, I found myself entranced by a choice of the bison ribeye, instead. I wasn’t disappointed.
It being a special occasion, we allowed for a little indulgence after the meal.
Warning! Warning! Sugar overload ahead!
Chocolate, caramel, sea salt —chilled. I had two bites more than I deserved, and we brought a third of it home. I think I can hear it calling out to be eaten for breakfast this morning.
Who am I to argue?
Yesterday, I enjoyed a perfect execution of a plan to finish mowing the lawn in the narrow window of time between work and our dinner reservation. That makes up for the last time I had high hopes of squeaking in the mowing, when the spring broke just before I left for a week of vacation.
Despite the consecutive days of rain that fell at home while I was away, Cyndie enlisted the help of Mary and Tim, my sister and brother-in-law, to finally knock down the crop of lawn grass in the days before I got home. Picking up where they left off, starting late Wednesday after work and finishing last night, I completed the whole property again, with the exception of the arena space.
Today, we head for the lake for the weekend, leaving Jackie to care for animals at home. With the Independence Day holiday landing in the middle of the following week, the annual Wildwood 4th-of-July games have been moved ahead to this weekend.
It’ll be Bats vs. Mice in a no-holds-barred battle of strength, cunning, stamina, and good humor in the field beside the lodge.
To heck with the sugar overload, I’m gonna have dessert for breakfast this morning. I’ll use the rush to get mentally prepared for the weekend events looming on our horizon.
Warning! Warning! Hyperactive blissed-out old man ahead.
Bring on the shoe kick!
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Killer Cake
Last week we celebrated George’s birthday with a dinner at our place. After serving an incredible dinner, Cyndie announced she made an ice cream cake for dessert. That was news to me. I didn’t know anything about it. She’d never made one for me on any of my birthdays before. And ice cream is my favorite.
It was amazing. Absolutely amazing.
Never mind my goal to eat a healthy daily percentage of sugar, this monstrosity was probably a week’s worth in every bite. It was worth every excessive gram.
It’s a simple recipe. Just use Oreo crumbles and homemade dark chocolate hot fudge for a base.
Add a layer of cookie dough ice cream.
Top that with caramel.
Then add a layer of dark chocolate zanzibar ice cream.
Follow that with a layer of pecans and more of the hot fudge.
Next comes coffee java chip ice cream (for George and Cyndie’s portion / more cookie dough ice cream on my 1/3rd).
Finish that layer with Oreo cookie halves and chocolate toffee crunch that hardens when frozen.
Freeze good and hard and you have an extravaganza of spectacular flavors.
I am forever grateful for the occasion of George’s birthday this year. It has added a feature to Cyndie’s culinary creations that I never knew existed.
Oh my.
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