Bedhogs and blueberries......

Ola Ya'll,




Well, Remember that my spouse was sick? Last night in the middle of the night I realized that I had caught it too. (and I didn't even do anything fun to catch it, just breathing his damn air ) bleah!




He's still sick as well AND working from home for the last 2 days. (can we say oh the Joy?)





My style is cramped and even if I wasn't sick ,it's too cold to go any where.







This bunny is cramping my style too. Note keyboard directly behind relaxed cat.








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Blueberry Coffee Cake Recipe

Cooking Light published this in their book, Five Star Recipes--The Best of 10 Years, and their staff voted this as one of their top five recipes from the first 10 years. It is very, very good, either for breakfast, brunch, or as dessert, warm out of the oven with a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

by GaylaJ

1¼ hours | 15 min prep

SERVES 10

• 1/4 cup stick margarine, softened (I used real butter)
• 1/2 (8 ounce) package fat free cream cheese
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 egg
• 1 cup all-purpose flour
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1/4 teaspoon salt
• 1 teaspoon vanilla extract
• 2 cups huckleberries or blueberries (fresh or frozen, unthawed(I used blueberries)
• 2 tablespoons sugar
• 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1. Beat margarine and cream cheese at medium speed of an electric mixer until creamy; gradually 1 cup sugar, beating well. Add egg, and beat well.
2. Combine flour, baking powder, and salt; stir into margarine mixture. Stir in vanilla, then fold in berries.
3. Pour batter into a 9-inch round cake pan coated with cooking spray (I also lined bottom with parchment).
4. Combine 2 tablespoons sugar and cinnamon; sprinkle over batter.
5. Bake at 350F for 1 hour; cool on a wire rack.
6. 
   

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Last night I decided to make this cake .It looked easy and I had all the ingredients. About 10 minutes after I put it in the oven I asked hubby "What's that smell? Do you smell something burning?"



We're too sick to really smell much. But I knew I smelled something burning. I opened the oven and the entire kitchen filled with smoke. What do I see ? My blueberry cake ,black as tar . The stupid oven had been on broil. (I didn't even know it had a broiler!)






Mmmmm, black goodness. Uh, NOT!


I scraped the top off ,re-sprinkled it with the cinnamon /sugar mix and threw it back in the oven (now set on bake)











Amazingly ,it came out thinner but with no harm done.



I thought it was pretty damn yummy.
My expressive husband said "It's ok"









Any Brits or expats care to tell me :Why does my oven have that fan and how do I turn the fan off?



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Still life called :Bed hogs







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You may have noticed that picture over on the right that says "Secret post club" If you click on it ,it will tell you all the details. The short version is :It is a bloggy gift exchange. Once a month you send a blogger any little gift ,and some random blogger sends one to you.The idea came from

Notes from Lapland

She will let you know who to send a gift to and she'll notify the blogger who's sending one to you.
This morning I received my first random gift. Woo hoo!





I got this Thai cookbook from Geriatric Mummy.




Thanks Geriatric Mummy! I'll be making the hottest thing in there as soon as my pepper wimp husband goes out of town. :)

http://musingsofageriatricmummy.blogspot.com/


Any bloggers can join. It looks like it's going to be a fun way to break up the winter doldrums.

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How we all feel about winter about now.



Have a happy Saturday peeps!


If you're snowed in ,what do you do to entertain yourself?





P.s. Apparently the ex-husband is going to be ok.