Baseball Cake

I made this cake for Jim's birthday tomorrow. Here's my recipe for a delicious easy frosting:

White Chocolate Cream Cheese Frosting

1 stick butter (softened)
1 8 oz. pkg cream cheese (softened)
1 box confectioners sugar (sifted)
6 oz. white chocolate chips (melted) (1/2 bag)
1 tsp vanilla
Beat well, spread on cooled cake, keep refrigerated.

Square Foot Pizza Garden

Here's the garden- can your see the red cherry tomatoes? Our scarecrow fell down again and is now in rehab. I just put up this new trellis for him to lean on. He's getting a name on Friday:
Rasputin
Sweet Pea or
Clarence.

"To See or Not To See"

"Human Nature"
A film by Charlie Kaufman ("Being John Malkovich")
"To see"
I liked it.

Here's what it's about:
A hairy woman, a scientist who teaches etiquette ( to mice), a fake French woman, an ape-man and revenge.
Piqued your interest?
See it.
Then tell me what it's about.

Pork in Lettuce Cups

I finally tried making stuffed lettuce cups - the kind you have as an appetizer at PF Changs.
Here's my recipe:

1 small package cellophane noodles
1 lb. ground pork
1 celery rib, diced
1 can water chestnuts, chopped
1 14 oz can baby corn, chopped
2 scallions, chopped
1 tsp crushed garlic
1 T minced ginger
1 T soy sauce
1 tsp sugar
2 T ground bean sauce
2 T fish sauce (nam pla)
juice of 1 lime
1 T sesame oil
1/2 tsp sriracha

Soak cellophane noodles in boiling water. Saute pork in wok, add celery, water chestnuts, corn, scallions. Cook about 2 minutes, add garlic and ginger and saute another minute. Scoop noodles from water - add to wok, don't worry about adding some water as well. Finally, add soy, sugar, bean sauce, fish sauce, lime juice, sesame oil and sriracha and cook till heated. Serve warm or at room temperature in lettuce cups. I used iceberg lettuce which proved to have leaves which were too big. The crunchiness was nice but I think butter lettuce leaves might be more manageable.

Yum-mee!!

True Words About Google

"One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."

-Eleanor Roosevelt