{"id":7394,"date":"2019-01-28T16:40:20","date_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burnedatthesteak.com\/blog\/?p=7394"},"modified":"2019-01-28T16:53:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-28T16:53:54","slug":"a-carrot-cake-and-the-49th-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.burnedatthesteak.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/28\/a-carrot-cake-and-the-49th-birthday\/","title":{"rendered":"A Carrot Cake And The 49th Birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yep.\u00a0 It’s Hubs’s birthday.\u00a0 It was actually a few days ago, but everyone came over last night.\u00a0 On the actual day, we had Molly and Kip over (Hub’s sister and brother in law), and they came again last night.\u00a0 They just moved back here and we were excited to introduce them to our friends.\u00a0 I made sous vide london broil the actual birthday night.\u00a0 All fancy.<\/p>\n

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Last night, though, I made a conglomeration of stuff.\u00a0 Salad dressing chicken, slow roasted pork for some tortillas, beans and rice, macaroni salad, escabeche, greens beans in oven dried tomatoes, and a carrot cake.\u00a0 Lots of goodies to pick at.\u00a0 All easy dishes, but fan favorites.\u00a0 Especially me!\u00a0 Ok, fine.\u00a0 They’re MY favorites.\u00a0 We ate an entire gallon of escabeche and someone snagged the smaller jar off the counter.\u00a0 I’m looking at you Dawn!<\/p>\n

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Hubs initially requested coq au vin.\u00a0 Pfffttt.\u00a0 I did not want to go to the grocery store.\u00a0 His favorite flavor of cake is chocolate.\u00a0 So I made a carrot cake.\u00a0 I’m starting to see a theme here.\u00a0 Well at least there’s chicken in there!\u00a0 Besides, we’ve been doing a lot of fancy fussy food.\u00a0 It was time for food that makes you lick your fingers.<\/p>\n

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And who doesn’t like carrot cake?\u00a0 I make my own, thank you very much.\u00a0 Every year that I’ve done a chocolate cake from scratch for his birthday, it’s come out dry.\u00a0 Remember me?\u00a0 Terrible baker?\u00a0 Yeah.\u00a0 He chokes it down every year, bless his heart.\u00a0 This year I wanted to not feel dread.\u00a0 I wanted to hear people enjoying my confection rather than reassuring me that the cake is dry but delicious…..so carrot cake it is!<\/p>\n

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Last night we had the wild crowd over.\u00a0 Jessie and Joe, Amanda and Matt, Dawn and Rudy, and Molly and Kip.\u00a0 Woohooo!!!\u00a0 I love these people!\u00a0 I can wear my pajamas, everyone is relaxed, no one cares if there’s curse words, and we all love beer and wine.\u00a0 They even let me do paper plates!\u00a0 Pam and Sandy weathered the wild bunch and joined the raucous gathering and we were all so glad they did!<\/p>\n

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My Carrot Cake<\/h2>\n
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