Simple Addition

What do you get when you combine giant, ripe strawberries

{strawberries, large ones}

with luscious dark chocolate?....

{super delicious dark chocolate chips}

A whole lot of yum!

{yumminess}

However, when you happen to accidentally drop yummy dark chocolate chips on very nasty gross carpet, nothing yummy happens. You just lose the chocolate chips in the splotchy sea of brown.

I'm sorry to show you, but here is my notoriously known carpet. Let's play a game. Can you spot the chocolate chip?

Any luck?

How about now?

Can you see it yet?

Psyche

It's snowing.... and sunny. That's what happens when you think Spring is here.

In honor of the weather's schizophrenia, I'm eating chocolate and if you'd like to join me, I suggest you make Chocolate Buttermilk Cake. Why? Because it's easy, delicious, and chocolate. Take that weather.




Chocolate Buttermilk Cake
from Lion House Lite Recipes

1 2/3 cups flour
1 cup sugar
1/3 cup cocoa
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cup nonfat buttermilk
1/4 cup water
1/3 cup vegetable oil
1 teaspoon vanilla

Preheat oven to 375° F. Coat a 9-inch round cake pan with nonstick cooking spray; set aside. In a large bowl, sift together flour, sugar, cocoa, baking soda, and salt. Make a well in center of mixture. Blend buttermilk, water, oil, and vanilla. Pour into well in dry ingredients, stirring until smooth. Pour into prepared cake pan and bake for 20 minutes or until a wooden toothpick inserted in center comes out clean. Cool completely in pan.

Spring...Finally!

Isn't it lovely?! I know, officially, the first day of spring was about a month ago, but it was snowing then and trees were showing no signs of flowering or even life.

Now, the trees are heavily laden and practically bursting in blazes of blossoms and I couldn't be more glad to see it. I brought some branches into my house-I just couldn't resist.


Maybe you'll agree with me though that this year is going by fast. Very fast. April is already almost over and I haven't even made pretzels!! Yeah, pretzels!! Wouldn't ya know April is not only American Cancer Society Month and National STDs Education and Awareness month, it's also National Soft Pretzel Month. You could take a baking break and twist up some homemade soft pretzels using either this recipe, or this one, or take the less involved route and pick up a ready-to-heat-and-eat box of Super Pretzels!

{photo credit: google}

Any way you go, just try to get it in before April ends. It will be more fun that way. I'll bet they'll taste better too...

Wohoo!

This past Wednesday was my 6th chemo treatment, which means....I only have two more left! Thank goodness too because it's getting to be pretty tough.
The quick update:
1. I'm on new nausea medication since I finally started to feel like a cancer patient and couldn't eat or move after my 5th treatment. So far this medicine seems to work :)
2. I STILL have hair! Cross your fingers for me....I have nightmares that it's going to fall out after my last chemo treatment or something.
3. The best news of all...since my cancer has stopped, yes STOPPED growing and the tumors are starting to shrink I have approximately 2 1/2 months left until I can be a normal person all over again.

Other things that are looking up...
My cousin Rhett is organizing a 5k run and 1 mile walk for his Eagle Scout Project. The proceeds are going to go towards payment for all this nasty cancer treatment I've been getting. Check out the blog and sign up if you're feeling up for it. If you're not in Utah, my Mama is organizing a little something in Ohio. If you're interested, contact her or leave me a comment.