Bad Weather ~ Baking with Booze

Weather was nasty. School was canceled.  It's was a perfect excuse to bake a cake for dinner.  We woke up to ice, sleet, slush, then pouring down rain on a layer of half melted ice....then in the evening 55 mph winds.  We may have lost a pillow to the back porch swing (should have run out and collected them, but forgot about them).  It's too dark and early to tell.  When the sun is up, I'll go take a looksee.
 

I dug out my old, hand-me-down cake pan, and baked a maple-rum pound cake with maple-rum glaze.  It was a new recipe that had been floating around the kitchen.  I believe I tore it out of a King Flour magazine.

The results?

Everyone liked it, but I thought it was a bit dry.  Hubby loved it.  Of course he would.  It was the first cake to bake for a few months, ha ha!
 

Dinner prep was easy, as the day was filled with laundry load after laundry load.  I pulled some delicious stuffed green peppers, some corn frozen off the cob, and some sweet potatoes. 

Tip:  When I cook this corn (the only kind I like, ha ha!) I never add water.  It makes it's own water, and I just add salt.  When I freeze food, I leave salt out, because I always salt/pepper when I cook.

Random moment;  email is becoming a thing of the past for my nearby friends.  I don't get emails back anymore.  I'm guessing other social media has taken over their lives.   And in other instances email wins over a phone call.  

The weather is warming up today - up to the 50's by evening.  No need to fire up the wood stove today.  Sort of nice for once, but it is very wet, muddy and messy out there.  I guess that's better than a sheet of ice.