Thursday, June 3, 2010

Y-Town in the news

NPR's "All Things Considered" had a piece on Youngstown tonight.

Also, there's this...

http://www.inc.com/magazine/20100501/semper-youngstown.html

Recipe: Rum Cake

I made coconut rum cake last night. Yummers!

Rum Cake

Preheat oven to 325 F

1 yellow or white cake mix
1 container of vanilla pudding
4 eggs
.5 cup cold milk
.5 cup rum

1 cup pecans or walnuts, chopped

Mix cake ingredients (except for the nuts -- pour the nuts into the bottom of either a bundt cake pan or a tube pan). Pour the batter into the pan, over the nuts. Cook for ~1 hour (Obviously a bit less if your oven runs hot). Remove when done and let the cake cool a bit.

For the glaze:

1 stick of butter
.25 cup water
1 cup of sugar
.5 cup rum (or up to 1 cup , to taste)

In a saucepan, melt the butter. When that's melted, add the water and the sugar, and boil for 5 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, stir in the rum. Then you pour the glaze on the cake as it sits in the pan.

Once it soaks up the glaze, then carefully remove the cake, and voila!

Heh

I just wrote perhaps my most sarcastic comment on SALON, ever. It's the first comment in the article "My Baby Is Too Boring To Blog About." I'd link to it, but SALON seems to be bogging, or my computer's bogging. Not sure which. Anyway, it had to be said!

Italian Proverb

What won't kill you, will feed you.