No time for blogging today, but I did want to get the latest bluebonnet pic from Central Texas up! Once again, our correspondent Suz has come through with photos!!! What a gal! She took these photos close to her house. Next week there should be kazillions more!!
Just keeping it real…a shot of a working kitchen. Yeah, I’m that messy. Bottom layer of birthday cake stacked, filled, trimmed and ready for first coat of icing…pics on the cabinets, Bose warming up with fav music for the dayBB’s breakfast STILL waiting for him and no, that’s not booze behind the pancake, it’s REAL maple syrup, just in case you’re wondering…it’s 11:00 btw, components for cake standing at the ready w/sad excuse for a horse guarding the whole mess. That means I’m cheating people. Yes, cheating with a plastic horse. I know, I know. So not cool. Maybe next time?!!!!! The birthday girl is loving it, so far. But she’s VERY easy to please!!! That’s a good thing!!! More later. 
What is the pliers for?
Good luck with everything.
I use the pliers to get a good, clean cut on my wooden dowels that I use to support the cake tiers…also toothpicks that hold that sad little fondant horse together. Thanks!!
This is as much construction as it is cooking!
lunch break…yep, I often think I should’ve taken some engineering classes at college! Ha! That’s a laugh. #toomuchmath
Bluebonnets around us are in full bloom!
Pictures!!!! I want pictures!!
Sure looks like a bottle of Crown behind that pancake!! Hope you didn’t spike BB’s syrup!!
ahh, and how would YOU know Miz Suz?!! He finally ate his pancakes and SYRUP for lunch!
There’s a subliminal message reflected in your oven door.
I don’t know..looks like a ghost to me! LOL!!
I’m getting hungry just looking at this! Buttermilk pancakes with real syrup, followed by a slice of cake?! A coffee lovers dream breakfast!
LOL. Now that’s what you call a healthy breakfast?! Funny thing is…I was raised on Log Cabin syrup and had NO idea what real syrup was. Until a former pastor and his wife visited from NY and brought us maple syrup that their church member in had made. Wow,was that better!! Much!
Now that’s what I call a working kitchen. Aaaand a work in progress. Love that the man’s pancakes are still sitting there. How can he function out on the farm without brekkie?
Are your bluebonnets what we here call lupins? They look awfully the same.
Truth be told, it was for his second breakfast…think “hobbits”!
When he gets up at 5, he gets a big bowl and puts into it:
Total cereal
Shredded wheat cereal
Regular oatmeal ( not quick!)
Strawberries, blueberries, raisins, frozen peaches or apricots from last year’s crop
Cake scraps if there are any (re: what I trim off the tops and sides of the cakes)
And lots of milk!
That sets while he reads his Bible, makes his To Do list for the day. Then he eatsthe conglomeration right before he takes off for the feedlot. Icck!
Then around 9 each morning, he pops in for a couple of eggs, sausage, raisin bread, pancakes…whatever I’ve been inspired to cook that particular day.
Yes, bluebonnets are lupines, lupinus texensis! Ours are shorter with smaller “bonnets”.
Do you ever use real flowers as cake decorations?
I do, mainly on wedding cakes. Mostly roses, some lilies, stock, etc. They have to be washed thoroughly tho and dried if they going on a cake. But the are wonderful to spice up a cake!