Summer Solstice Cake

Arriving in Florida I was reminded that it is just about the dead middle of summer. We were out of things to do for the day so decided to make a Summer Solstice Cake. It took three boxes of cake mix, three containers of icing, a variety of candy and an hour of carefully mixing food colors to get an acceptable variety of colors for the icing artist palettes. Five hours later we were left with a cake the size of an entire refrigerator shelf and wondering whose kids we were going to call to eat the damn thing.

Fried Green...Bananas

1. Use the green ones or else your going to end up with fried banana pudding. Slice in short or long strokes. These are short. Long would be the other way down the banana. Do I really need to explain that?

2. Soak in water with a dash of salt for 10 minutes

3. Drop in a heated pan of oil and cook until they look the same color of McDonald's french fries.

4. Let them cool! Don't be a pig. Good with ketchup; bad for the complexion.