Still Here. Honest.

 

Happy September!

The suffocating heat and humidity appear to be on the way out, Halloween decorations are going up, and it's almost my birthday.

I baked these Smoked Pistachio Shortbreads for Matt last night, which he loves. 

Hope you're all doing as well as you can manage.  Can't really ask for more, can we?

Apples? We don't need no stinkin' apples!

Forget the shiny red apple as a teacher gift.

For Alex's preschool teacher's birthday, we gave cake.

I call it 'The Turtle Cake', for what I hope are obvious reasons.

Two (square) layers of a seriously dense chocohlate cake, smothered in dulce de leche and chopped pecans, and then finished off with a heavy drizzle of dark chocolate.

Happy birthday, indeed.