OMG! Two freaking days!!!


<snoopy dance>

I have the most awesomest friend. She and her hubby watch our cats and feed them so they don't die from starvation. Not that they would die...because we have self feeding dry cat food feeders....but three of our cats are like canned food junkies. Seriously. We started the canned cat food as a treat many years ago.....like 28 yrs ago....and it's blossomed into their meals, not a snack. How fucked up is that? Not my fault. All blame can be placed on Jeff. <looking at him as I type> Bastard. He spoiled them! He's like the GodofSpoilingAnimals. That should be all in caps.
Yeah.

So of course the 'animals' love him more. It's totally unfair. I'M THE ANIMAL LOVER. I'M THE ONE THAT WANTS AND ACCUMULATED THE ANIMALS.  


But I'm the disciplinarian. Isn't that usually "Mom's' role anyway? At least in the States it is. Mom works a job, comes home, cleans the house, feeds the family, cleans up, puts the kids to bed, does the laundry, sets and cancels appointments with cable dudes, the gas and electric company, the furnace fixer, the electricians, the bankers, the doctors, takes a day off to take the kids to the doctor, helps them with the homework.....oh.....wait. I don't have kids. Scratch all that. Or maybe not.

We have pizza on the way. And wings. Wing Ho. Me. Notsomuchapizzaeater. That's for the GodofSpoilingAnimals.
I really need to do a bpal review don't I?


The Knave of Hearts

Yum! Foodie!

Clear in color with maybe the barest hint of a yellow.

This is scrumptious and I want to drink it.

Cinnamon. It's like a wildy decadent muffin that's sprinkled with cinnamon and butter. It's quite heady. Like it's bite-able. Kinda feel some strawberry too? Zucchini and banana bread-ish.
Want a good zucchini bread recipe? I have one that makes it's own sweet crust on top that cracks and slightly hardens and there's no need for a frosting. It's so good! I like zucchini bread better than banana bread.

3 eggs
1 cup oil-like veggie or canola
2 cups sugar
3 tsp vanilla extract-real is better!
3 cups flour
1 tsp salt
1 tsp baking soda
3 tsp cinnamon
1/4 tsp baking powder
1/2 to 1 cup chopped nuts (optional-pecan, black walnut etc)
 2 cups grated zucchini



Beat the 3 eggs until foamy
Add: The oil, sugar and 3 tsp vanilla.

Then add: The flour, baking soda, salt, cinnamon and baking powder.

Nuts?    Possibly.


I mean add now. 

snort

Now add the zucchini. Fold it in. Don't over process it, or beat. Hold the temptation!! If you fold it, it'll take more turns of the spoon. But slow, easy turns. I don't mean that this recipe takes more mixing to make it good. I mean if you fold nicely, the batter will accept more turning that doesn't subtract from the flavor. Only inhances it. Be nice. That's what I tell Stark. He (and Ava) stalk the cat Mojo. Ava also bites the back of Stark's legs if he's happy and bouncing around.  She's a mean ditch. Justifiably so. Being a bad ass dog queen has it's perks.

Bake 325 degrees for 1 hour.

It will develop this crust over the top that's sweet, chunky and crunchy, yet moist, chewy and perfectly sinky.

That means your teeth moosh down on the flaky top crust into the light and crumbly yet spicy inside. Cinnamon-y.


Like this Knave of Hearts


A perfect scent for next Christmas time.

Here's some other scents this has. To me.

Apple
Lemon
  What's the description? On this the White Rabbit blew three blasts on the trumpet, and then unrolled the parchment scroll, and read as follows:--

'The Queen of Hearts, she made some tarts,
All on a summer day:
The Knave of Hearts, he stole those tarts,
And took them quite away!'

Crushed roses and blackcurrant tarts.


Oh wow. That sounds familiar. have I reviewed this before?

White rabbit.

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small,
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all.
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall.

And if you go chasing rabbits
And you know you're going to fall,
Tell 'em a hookah smoking caterpillar
Has given you the call.
Call Alice
When she was just small.

When the men on the chessboard
Get up and tell you where to go
And you've just had some kind of mushroom
And your mind is moving low.
Go ask Alice
I think she'll know.
When logic and proportion
Have fallen sloppy dead,
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's "off with her head!"
Remember what the dormouse said:
"Feed your head. Feed your head. Feed your head"