Ah, to be 15 again�
10:34 p.m.
Today I made a Rombauer Special. For those of you unfamiliar with this term, you can find it in The Joy of Cooking and it is none other than a chocolate cake. The interesting thing is that the eggs are separated and the beaten whites folded into the batter, thus creating a lighter, more delicate cake, even considering that I used bread flour instead of the softer cake flour called for. It was a success, frosted of course with chocolate butter icing, also from the same cookbook. You just can�t beat the classics.
Buddy Boy was very appreciative, albeit a little chocolate-caked out, considering that his fellow cast members in the highschool play also f�ted him with chocolate cake today. We took him to a Moroccan restaurant for supper, his request, where he enjoyed the chicken brochettes while we vegetarians had to make do with a blander selection. The Sand Rose would not have been my first choice, but it was Buddy Boy�s birthday, after all.
At home afterwards we did the cake and candles thing, he opened his presents and seemed well pleased with them: books, a guitar strap for his electric guitar, boxer shorts, guitar picks, Simpson� T-shirts and a cheque from Grandma and Grandpa for $25. The boy did all right. Then we headed downstairs to watch What�s the Worst that Could Happen? with Danny Devito, which was actually very funny.
Okay, he didn�t get what he really wanted, which was a certain computer game that we need a faster processor to play on, and he knew he wasn�t getting it, but a boy can dream, right?
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