The View from a Drawbridge

Tag: cake

  • What to Cook When You Hate to Cook, Recipe 14: Birthday Cake Light

    An alternative to a heavy cake covered in thick, cloying frosting.

  • The Curse of Too Much Cake

    What a curse, to lack gratitude.

  • What to Cook When You Hate to Cook. Recipe 9: Watergate Cake

    A unique and easy cake to bake.

  • Lord Knows I Try

    First of all, I should know better than to go grocery shopping when I’m hungry. I never know what I’ll come home with. It’s like I’ve been lobotomized and my brain doesn’t know what my left hand is doing. Anything could wind up in that cart. This weekend it was Tie-Dye Cake Mix. “The GROOVIEST…

  • The Birthday Chair

    It’s funny sometimes how you entirely forget things that used to loom so large in your life. When I was very small, my mother used to have this delightful tradition on our birthdays. She would allow us to sit at the head of the table in a tall backed chair which she had decorated with…

  • Crossing Paths with Myself

    Today I drove through a part of the city that I hadn’t been to in years. 25 years ago I went there every day for work. So today I could almost see myself walking into my old office. And there was my old car in its parking space. And there I was, sitting at the…