I just got back from buying cards to send out for Easter. I realized how much I miss receiving mail from my grandma. She used to send me a card every month and on holidays. Since she got her last heart attack, she is no longer writing and her recovery is not as we were expecting. She is not driving; giving up her car was a very difficult thing for her, since she was a "social butterfly," and always managed to take her friends who couldn't drive to appointments, gatherings, or to church.
We try to send her cards to cheer her up and call as much as we can since we don't live near her. I hope she will get a laugh from the Easter card she will be receiving on Friday.
Since Easter is around the corner, do you have any special recipes? I am trying to bake a coffee cake. This is my Aunt's recipe and I would like to share it with you.
You will need the following:
1. 9X13 in Pan
3/4 grease the pan with spam oil (I use butter)
1 cup brown sugar
1 cup of white sugar
2.5 cups of sifted flour
1 teaspoon of salt, 1 tablespoon of nutmeg
Take out 3/4 cup of mix for toppings (the brown sugar, white sugar, salt, nutmeg)
1 egg
2 teaspoons of Baking powder
Stir the ingredients together well and add one cup of milk
Bake 350 degrees for 1/2 hr. to 45 minutes.
I started my fifth class yesterday, I need to start drinking coffee to keep me awake reading the textbooks because they are as dry as tumbleweeds. However, I don't like coffee by itself, so I thought that having a piece of cake with it will make everything just perfect.
As they say, " a full stomach makes a happy heart"
P.S. If you have easy recipes for marination, please pass them along. I can make pastas, salads, sandwiches, casseroles, but I can use some help in polishing my marination skills
