Michael wrote:

> Good morning, all! I hope everybody is doing well on
> this beautiful Sunday morning. Snow on the ground
> here and very cold, but the sun is shining. Thanks
> to Jill and Wayne for the praline suggestions. I
> stirred the pralines pretty constantly when it was
> boiling, and although the family thinks they're fine,
> I think they're a bit on the grainy side, just as
> suggested.
> I'm baking a HUGE cake right now.

I remember cake... Saw Giana L. make stuffed shells on TV last week,
sounded like a fun shape of food and I always wind up breaking the
lasagna shells. The filling uses a little mint which sounds weird to me,
but I tasted the filling and the mint lends a perky little freshness or
something. Course I didn't have any pancetta (and too far to drive to
the specialty market) so I used bacon. Pork is good. And fresh basil &
mint is gone for a month or two so I used half as much dried. Chocolate
mint was all I had. The flat leafed parsley is pretty hardy; I went out
and cut some. The daffodils are poking up already. I'll assemble all the
stuff and refrigerate it until Ol'Whiskerface wakes up. Hope this stuff
tastes as good as it looks after substituting half the ingredients out.
Bottle of New Mexico red wine with. I mentioned I was waiting for New
Mexico to produce a red wine I like - they said NM has been producing
wine for 400 years. A sip of wine helps the foot slide down easier.
Edrena