Sleep Spent

Keith Olbermann forcefully tells it like it is on the issue of the death of Habeus Corpus.

Ladies and gentlemen, it’s things like this that make me so dearly love the Brits!

I miss England.

As the memories of London fade ever so slightly, I find myself down to two Wine Gums. It’s really beginning to sink in. I’ve been eating the candies one at a time for nearly a week now, and yet they’re about to be gone.

I’ll have to hit up Matt or Brian or Tanya for another box, or I may very well go crazy.

Mark asked me to post the recipe, and I see no reason not to share the wealth. So, without further ado, I present to you my mother’s time-honored recipe for:

Pumpkin Upside Down Cake

Filling

3 eggs

2 cans pumpkin (1 pound each)

1¼ cups sugar

1 can evaporated milk (12 or 13 oz)

2 tsp cinnamon

1 tsp nutmeg

½ tsp ginger

Topping

1 pkg yellow cake mix

¾ cup (1½ sticks) butter, melted

1 cup walnuts, chopped

Make filling; stir until well blended. Pour into ungreased 13″×9″×2″ baking dish. Sprinkle dry cake mix over filling. Drizzle melted butter over cake mix. Bake 30 minutes at 350 °F. Remove from oven; sprinkle nuts on top; return to oven and bake 30 minutes longer or until topping is golden brown.

I’ve also used pie plates instead of 13″×9″×2″ pan. Just adjust the amount of butter to accommodate.

(My apologies for this being in Imperial units. I figured it would be more exact and certainly less time-intensive for me to leave it that way. Might I direct you to Google?)

It really must be Thanksgiving; my parents sent me fixins for my mom’s world famous Pumpkin Upside Down Cake!

Other interesting culinary adventures include the preparation of a science experiment for my presentation on cholera today. (It involved a glass jar, some diluted apple juice and some grilled sausages. ’Nuff said.) Suffice it to say, I’ve been spending plenty of time in the kitchen of late.

Thank you mom and dad!

How many times have you needed help with your potatoes, only to be left helpless? I myself cannot count the number of times; it is more of an ongoing drought of potato help.

So it was with great joy that I discovered that there really WAS help out there for me and my potato woes. Someone cares!

PotatoHelp.com (or PotatoeHelp.com if you’re Dan Quayle) has all the right responses to your potato queries.

PotatoHelp.com, my potatoes thank you.