Out with NY&C.

For those of you that have not heard or have heard through the grapevine. I have officially left NY&C. I am still teaching and looking at several other opportunities but i have left the clothing retailer and the crazy it brings to my life. My last day was last sat. Stay tooned for what is up a head only God knows what he is going to do with me!

First Bike ride !!

For Christmas David got me a new bike and on Tuesday March 29th it was so beautiful and warm we went out for a first ride of the season! Just a short 8 mile round trip! ( yes my bottom was sore but it was soooo worth it.)

F is for Ferlito's

 This is a great little italian restaurant right around the corner from out place! We could even bike to it. Just a fun restaurant with great good, we ordered a salad before our pizza and it was huge we almost cancelled the pizza!

But we didn't and were we glad it was just as good as the salad leftovers for breakfast!!!

Guinness Cake with Bailey's Buttercream

• 
  

Ingredients

• 1 1/2stick butter
• 3/4cup unsweetened cocoa powder
• 1cup Guinness Extra Stout
• 1Tbsp vanilla extract
• 1 1/2cup sugar
• 1 1/4cup all-purpose flour
• 1tsp baking soda
• 2 eggs

For the buttercream

• 3sticks butter(unsalted), softened
• 1lb powdered sugar, sifted
• 2-4Tbsp Bailey's, as needed

Instructions

1. Preheat the oven to 350F.
2. In a small saucepan, melt butter and whisk together with Guinness, vanilla extract and cocoa. Remove from heat.
3. While the Guinness mixture is cooling, grease and line 2 eight inch cake pans with parchment paper. Next, whisk together the dry ingredients (sugar, flour, baking soda). Pour the Guinness mixture onto the dry ingredients, then whisk in the 2 eggs.
4. When the batter is shiny and smooth, pour evenly into two prepared cake pans.
5. Bake for 30-35 minutes, or until a skewer comes out clean.
6. Meanwhile, make the buttercream by whipping together the softened butter and sugar in a standing mixer, then adding just enough Bailey's to get it loose and fluffy. They key to white frosting is to whip it a long time—the longer you whip it, the whiter it will become. I whipped this for 5-10 minutes. I only needed 3 tablespoons Bailey's.
7. Once the cakes are done baking, cool completely.
8. After they've cooled, assemble the cake (leveling the layers with a serrated knife, if needed). First, add the frosting for the middle layer. I used about 1/3 of the buttercream.
9. Top with second layer. Wiggle them around until they line up just right. Next we'll do a crumb coat. This is optional, but highly recommended, so you don't get brown crumbs in your white frosting. Here's how it works. Coat top and sides with another 1/3 of the frosting mixture.
10. Spread it all over, nice and thin. Refrigerate to set it. At this point, you can refrigerate the cake overnight.
11. Once the crumb coat is firm to the touch, add the final 1/3 of the frosting to the cake—top first, then sides. Spread it around evenly. When you're done, slice and serve with an extra cod Guinness.

Source:

Recipe Copyright Sasha Martin, Global Table Adventure. For personal or educational use only.

Davids Birthday

Well we are just starting to celebrate David's birthday. Its not till the 30th but we celebrated with his mom on Easter sunday and Eric and Sarah on Monday night. To keep the tradition going i made him a cake of his choice. Any guess on what he picked???  Guinness Chocolate Cake! yes and it was sooo goood.

Ok so it is decided that i do need to take a cake decorating class but it was good! that's more important than looks right!

Bad Restaurant

So i wasn't going to blog this experience but David said since all its only fair since we have so many good experiences we need to share the bad one's too.

So here it is.
Saturday night we both officially started our week of vacation. So we thought we would treat and eat out, we tried a new restaurant to us but one that a guy from David's work had talked great things about!
Sabbys is the name of the restaurant.
We sat down and waited, and waited and waited till our waitress came and asked us what we wanted to drink we both asked for water, and then the waiting continued.

Pretty much if your weren't ordering alchole then they were really wanting to serve you.

(This is mine it was good.)

When the food did come David's fries were cold and gross and his cheeseburger was to hot to eat...yes even with the bun.

During the wait. why not take pictures.

To say the lease David said we won't be back.

oh and did i mention they didn't have a desert menu either!!!!

so sorry

apparently i need to change the text coloring. opps so in honor of st patties day why not go green too!!