Dad's Workbench: A Dad Blog

Let them eat cake

So we know what little Olivia likes to eat!
This was a gluten- free cake, almost like blackforest with out the gluten.
It was made with chocolate cake, Cool-whip and cherry pie filling.
Although it was very good I personally I like it with the gluten.

Garden Dinner

This year I wanted to plant a garden. I thought it would be healthier and save a little cash. I was wrong about saving money, we saved almost nothing. It was not worth the time and work but I still think it was much healthier.

For this dinner the other night, I picked our romaine lettuce, a tomato, Spanish onions, chives, a leek, and little red potatoes. We also buy farm beef so we also had some really nice steaks to cook up.

I made a salad with lettuce,  tomatoes, chives and shredded carrots. As a hot vegetable dish I cooked carrots in garlic butter but left them slightly crunchy and topped with chives. The potatoes were cooked with leeks and tossed in a bit of oil and salt. The steak was marinated over night with my own little concoction, then topped with satay-ed onions.

Next year I think I will forget the garden and use it for a playground. Although it was fun and exciting to see the results I think it is more work that I want to do next year. Maybe I will spend that time building a play house.

Fruit Cake

Today we went for lunch at a friends house. It was his birthday the other week so this was like a late celebration. Unfortunately he is allergic to things like cake so one of his sisters made this cool fruit basket in place of a cake. It was good and as you can see, my daughter loved it, she is asking for thirds.

I think I will have to learn to carve up one of these. It should be easy enough to do and looks really cool at the same time.