Hello! Mom

Here is my mom with her spring garden.

 

Rustic Carrot Cake with Cream Cheese Frosting

I have my own special cake recipe that yields 'fine crumbs', but I thought I will give a try with this recipe from one of my favorite Alton Brown's cooking books.     The crumb turned out coarser than mine; it is moist and the taste of carrots and spices were appreciated joyfully. 
I used several different size spring form cake pan with parchment paper, so I can share some with my families.

 Cream cheese frosting.

 I had to put raisins in my carrot cake.     It goes so well with carrots.

Moorish Chicken and Pine Nuts Pie

This is my first Moorish Chicken and Pine Nuts Pie.     I am quite pleased with the tasty results of mixing raisins, spices, and pine nuts with shredded roasted chicken breasts enveloped in home made puff pastry.     The recipe calls for raw chicken pieces.     I roasted the organic whole chicken with whole Dijon mustard stuffed between the breast and skin + salt & pepper.    Then finger shredded chicken breast.    I vacuum packaged the rest and freeze them for other use.