Many, many thanks to those of you who posted your favorites to Crock Pot Wednesday. I will be around to thank you soon. Please know how much I appreciate you and your interested in this little blog event. Come again very soon:)
You may have seen this before, but it bears watching again. I laughed until I had tears rolling down my cheeks. Jeanne Robertson’s humor is fantastic, but her truths in this piece are right on! You’ll just have to watch it for yourself because I don’t want to give it away. Hubby watched it and even he had to agree. Take the time to watch it. It will brighten your day, I promise.
Okay. Have you finished watching it? If so, you can continue reading.
While I have never quite experienced the same result with Hubby as she did with Left Brain, I can so relate! I also have lots of experience when it comes to the “taking of the food” when someone has “passed.” In the South, we do funerals up fine. No one will ever starve to death at a funeral (pun intended) in the South.
There will be every conceivable kind of casserole and dessert that can be made whenever the duty calls for us to feed the family of the deceased. It’s how we mourn. It’s how we say goodbye to the dearly departed. We eat until we feel like we ourselves are heading to the Pearly Gates. Our grandmothers did it and so we carry on the tradition. We may not wear hats or white gloves anymore, but we definitely make our green bean casseroles and our pound cakes.
So in honor of all things Southern Belle, here’s one of my favorite “take it to the funeral” pound cakes. I hope you won’t wait around until someone dies to give it a try though. It’s terrifically good.
ONE-STEP POUND CAKE
2 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon soda
1 teaspoon grated lemon peel
1 teaspoon vanilla
1 cup butter, softened
1 cup sour cream (or pineapple, peach or orange yogurt)
3 eggs
Glaze:
1 cups powdered sugar
2 tablespoons lemon juice
In a large mixer bowl, combine all ingredients except Glaze; blend at low speed. Beat at medium speed for three minutes, scraping bowl occasionally. Pour batter into greased and floured 10-inch tube or Bundt pan. Bake at 325 degrees for 60-65 minutes until top springs back when touched lightly in center. Cool 15 minutes; remove from pan. Cool completely. Drizzle with Glaze.
I’ve had this recipe FOREVER it seems. It comes from a Pillsbury Bake-Off cookbook from the 20th Bake-Off. I would tell you the name of it, but (alas1) the cover is missing and the pages are hanging on with one staple. Have one of those?
Trust me. You should take this to the next “passing” (or reviving for that matter) in your “hood.”
I would have made one for you so you could join me for coffee…not for your passing, of course…except that I have been “under the weather” and thought I really was “passing” myself at times this week. No piggy flu but the next worstest feeling I am POSITIVE!
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Thanks for sharing. I’ve heard the audio of that before, but it’s even better when you can see her. Hubby’s degrees must be in engineering. I know because I’m married to one.
Deb, thanks for my best laugh of the day. I will confess to being a LB; my mother used to say, “Book smart, life dumb.” Now, I don’t think I’d have been THAT dumb, but several advanced degrees haven’t kept me from doing something just as silly. Love the recipe for pound cake, too. I thought only Italians got out their pots when someone (eyes downcast) passed.
Looks like a great recipe for pound cake….now if it only wouldn’t put pounds onto my hips! LOL
I enjoy your blog. Thanks for stopping by mine. I’ve started a MckLinky for “Gifts In A Jar” that you might like to add to.
Have a great day and weekend!
Robin
I wiping the tears from my eyes and my stomach hurts from laughing!!! MY HUSBAND IS EXACTLY THE SAME WAY!!!
My girls 14,12,10 watched it with me and we all were laughing so hard!! Thank you so much for sharing. I’ m doing my award you gave me today!!! I’m so sorry that isn’t up yet…I had a crazy week. Long story but suffice to say, “a crazy week”!! By the way I LOVE YOUR BLOG!!! I come every day!!! I’m so excited I met you!!
Deb @ Frugal Living And Having Fun!!!
As a fellow Arkansas [now transplanted], I’m so tickled to have found your blog! I’ll be reading through all your posts.
I thought I’d fall out of my chair while watching the video of Jeanne! 🙂 Can’t stop giggling over her tales of Left Brain! And, yes, I do identify with food=funerals – I come from a long heritage of women who serve in that manner.
I loved the video and the cake. Thanks for sharing both of them with us. Have a great day.
That was too funny! I have never heard of her! Thanks!
Deb, I enjoyed that session again aand my husband is sorta like that, expect he adds his own things to the list and is gone for hours.
The pound cake sounds wonderful.
Have a great weekend.
Barbara
I’ve never made pound cake and I don’t know why. Sounds wonderful. And I agree…..don’t let a man go alone to the grocery store.
Sam
Thanks so much for posting the Krazy Kitchen Halloween party here. I hope you’ll play along! I’m sorry I haven’t been participating in your crock pot meme, life has been getting in the way of blogging lately. I promise I’ll be back sooner or later 🙂
So sorry you have not been feeling well! Thanks for sharing the video – it is truly hilarious and I have shared it on my blog today as well. TOO funny!
I hope to join in Crock Pot Wednesday this week!
Yummy this recipe sounds really good. Debbie thank you for sending me an invite to your blog and to participate Crock Pot Wednesday. This will be my first week to give it a go!! Colie @ colieskitchen.com
I’ll have to get my crock pot warmed up to send you an entry soon for Crock Pot Wednesday.
You asked about the Cook the Books Foodie Book Club and whether we had a place for all the roundups of books we’ve selected to see what we’ve read and cooked up in the last year, and I’m working on building an archives page. In the meantime, you can go either keep scrolling back to our old posts or type in the word “roundup” in the search box on our blog. We’ve had a lot of fun with this and I look forward to having you join us!
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