TONY'S FAVORITE ITALIAN CREAM CAKE

TONY'S FAVORITE ITALIAN CREAM CAKE

1 C   margarine

2 C   sugar

2 C   all purpose flour

1/4 t salt

1 t    baking soda

1 C  buttermilk

5      eggs, separated

1 C  coconut

1 C  pecans

1 1/2 t vanilla

1/2 t almond extract

Grease and flour 13 x 9 inch baking pan.

Cream margarine and sugar.  Beat in egg yolks, one at a time.  Mix flour and salt in separate bowl.  Add soda to buttermilk.  Add flour mixture alternately with buttermilk mixture, beating after each addition.  Beat egg whites until they form a peak, set aside.  Add coconut, pecans, vanilla, and almond extract.  Mix well.  Fold egg whites into batter.

Pour into 9 x 13" baking pan, well greased and floured.

Bake in preheated oven at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes, or until toothpick inserted into center comes out clean.  Let cool 10 minutes on rack before removing from pan.

Frost with cream cheese frosting.

CREAM CHEESE FROSTING
 

8 oz cream cheese, softened at room temperature

1/2 C (1 stick) softened margarine

1 t vanilla

1 box powdered sugar (3 1/2 Cups)

Cream margarine and cream cheese together,  Beat in powdered sugar.  Add vanilla.  Beat to spreading consistency.

Remember that this is a homemade cake.  I tell everyone that I bake all the fat and calories out of it.

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CVS PHARMACY JUNE 9, 2012

CVS PHARMACY   JUNE 9, 2012

   I need to say, before I get too far into my latest experience with CVS Pharmacy, that I am not happy being forced to use this pharmacy exclusively by our new insurance.  Go Obama! 

   So, I went to pick up our refills today on routine medicines.  I had dropped off a new script yesterday, so I decided to just pick up all the scripts together.  I arrived and was given the scripts and asked to sign for them.  As I always do, I checked them before leaving.  I asked where the new script was.  That started the clerk scrambling.  She didn't know where it was.  I explained that I had brought the doctor's prescription in yesterday and told them I would pick it up today. 

   I also noticed I was given a medication that was not ordered.  I separated that med. from the ones I was supposed to have while the clerk continued to look for the new med.

   In a little while, the clerk came to me, looking through the medicines I had signed for.  She reached and took the medication I had separated, saying I had been given the wrong medicine.  Well, imagine that!  Do I look like a pharmacist who works at CVS?  No, but I am an informed consumer.

   The Pharmacist on shift tried to cover up the mistake.  Here is why it is such a big deal:  Maybe I would have been allergic to the medication that was initially filled.  Maybe I was so uninformed that I did not know that was the wrong med. and took it.  Maybe the wrong med. was a diabetes medicine that would have lowered my normal blood sugar, leaving me in a coma.  Maybe the wrong med. would have been an antihypertension med that would have dropped my blood pressure and sent me into hypovolemic shock.  The possibilities are many.

   All I have to say is that if you are forced to use CVS Pharmacy, please pay attention to what they are doing to you.

What are your thoughts?

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WASHING DISHES

WASHING DISHES

   It was getting late in the day and the dishes were piled up in the kitchen.  Not a lot of dishes, just a couple of big dishes.  I needed to wash them by hand.  I am tired of washing dishes.  Housework is not my cup of tea.  I have washed, dried clothes, folded them, and put them away.  And dishes...I have washed enough dishes to fill the great state of Mississippi with them.  I didn't want to wash the dishes and I said so.  Of course he never tells me I have to do anything.  He just said, "Don't wash them if you don't want to."

   Then I thought of a friend of mine who would probably give a lot to be physically able to stand at the sink and wash dishes.  That made me feel small complaining about the task.  My friend turns 30 years old this year.  I can't remember a time when she could bathe herself.  She has been carried to the toilet since I can remember, and I've known her since she was in middle school.   And I want to complain about washing the dishes.

   I have a loved one in prison, also.  I'll bet he would love to complain about something as trivial as washing dishes whenever he decides to get up and do it.  That is a life I cannot imagine living.  Sometimes we make choices that are not the best and there are consequences we did not consider.

   Forgiveness is like that, you know.  Someone does something to us that hurts us.  Sometimes they don't even know we take offense at them, since they meant nothing by their actions or words.  But we harbor resentment and hatred toward them. 

   I have recently been brought to my knees about someone that I haven't given a second thought about.  She lied about me years ago and tried to destroy my relationship with my S.O. (Significant Other).  He knew she had lied, because what she said about me was so far from my normal behavior.  So she failed at her mission.  But I had written her off without even forgiving her.  Do you know how much it costs me to forgive her?  You're right!  I don't have to spend one penny on it.  I can forgive her for nothing.  Jesus forgave me for all the sins I have committed, am committing, and will ever commit.  How can I not forgive her?

   By the way, I washed the dishes.  I will wake up to a clean kitchen in the morning, and a clear conscience, too.

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BLACKBERRY COBBLER

   As I started to post this recipe, I looked back to see if I had posted my recipe for pie crust.  Oops!  I didn't see it.  So, I will post my pie crust recipe, that can be used for any pie, also:

BLACKBERRY COBBLER

CRUST

2/3 C and 2 T. shortening

2     C               flour

1     t                 salt

1/8  C               sugar

3 - 5 T              cold water

Mix dry ingredients together.  Add shortening and cut with pastry cutter until mixture resembles coarse meal.  Add cold water until moist clumps form.  Gather dough into ball, flatten into disk.  Divide dough in half and roll pie crust on lightly floured surface to 15 inch round.  Transfer into baking dish.

FILLING

16 oz (1 lb) blackberries--i used frozen

2/3 C sugar

1 T corn starch

dash salt

1 T butter

To make filling, mix berries with sugar, corn starch and salt.  Spoon onto pie crust.  Dot with butter.  Roll other half crust into 15 inch round, place on top of  berries.  Bake at 400 degrees for 55 minutes.  Dot top of crust with butter and sprinkle with cinnamon and sugar mixture 10 minutes before dish is done.



Let me know if you baked this.  It just melted in my mouth.

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